This project is working on understanding and implementing privacy preserving payments in CBDC. After surveying privacy techniques from cryp…
Funded by a National Science Foundation EAGER GrantOpenCBDC raised the bar for CBDC performance and viability. In this subsequent work, we …
Programmability is one of the most touted benefits of tokenized systems, and there are billions of dollars locked up in smart contracts in …
Privacy and ProgrammabilityCollaboration with the Bank of Canada, began in January 2022This research will focus on exploring the technical …
In 2016, a research paper by Carlsten et. al proposed a specific type of mining attack that could occur once block subsidies disappear call…
Bitcoin Core's internal Random Number Generator (RNG) continuously seeds itself from many different sources of entropy including the operat…
US financial institutions are subject to accounting rules and leverage regulations that require an agent to record the gross assets of a re…
The SNAPSHOT study seeks to measure Sleep, Networks, Affect, Performance, Stress, and Health using Objective Techniques. It is an NIH-funde…
Fostering students' interests in learning is considered to have many positive downstream effects. Large language models have opened up new …
Fostering students’ interest in learning has many positive downstream effects. It can make students more persistent and impact student…
CoCo is a new live co-creative learning platform designed to empower educators to support young people in both physical and remote set…
Enhancing Apple Vision Pro headset with brain sensing capabilities via non-invasive brain sensing (Electroencephalography - EEG)…
Find out more about the new version of the system, "The Thinking Cap 2.0" here.Peoples' mindsets, meaning their beliefs about their own int…
Very few research works featuring AR and Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) systems considered integrating cognitive state of the user in their…
When imagining human life in space, how will we express our humanity and creativity in an alien environment? Can the art we make both refle…
Ancestral Storytelling: Movement + Memory embodies motion capture techniques for an interactive and immersive movement and sonic healing pe…
We are working to design healing socio-digital interventions with and for youth who have experienced traumatic events in their homes, e.g.…
In a series of design workshops, the HRI Equitable Design framework from previous work (see Ostrowski et al. 2022) was expanded to a worksh…
The research on Community-based Social Innovation focuses on the reshaping of urban spaces by human social behavior, incorporating an analy…
Society is experiencing a growing challenge of mental health and wellbeing. This year, 32.3% of U.S. adults or over 100 million individuals…
For those with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), the ability to understand, name, or recognize the sensations signifying different emotional …
Current methods to assess depression and select appropriate treatments have many limitations and need improvement. Diagnosis is usually bas…
People have to remember an ever-expanding volume of information. To help with this, we developed Memoro, a wearable and audio-based person…
Mobility Choices is used to predict transportation mode choices of students at the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) within the Guadalajara …
Tod Machover’s first opera (he has now composed many more groundbreaking ones) was VALIS, and it made history when it premiered for the 10t…
In the CityScope platform, we leverage humanized Agent-Based Models (h-ABMs) to elevate urban simulation to new heights of realism and comp…
A lightweight research platform to develop autonomous technology Designed to transform bicycle-sharing systems into an on-demand mobil…
Projects related to the theme of how digital systems may support attention, memory, and learning.
Our research group designs various hardware and software platforms that can be used to do scientific experiments or implement a particular …
Advances in machine learning have recently enabled the synthesis of text, images, audio and video data, in what is referred to as Generativ…
We develop systems that support health and wellbeing, with a special focus on mental health. We design, study and apply technologies s…
COVID-19 pandemic served as a catalyst for reimagining urban spaces and emphasized the need for walkable, life-work balanced coummunities.&…
The advent of large language models suggests rethinking how Agent-Based Models (ABMs) are designed, making it possible to simulate human so…
Electrical stimulation has long been used in medicine to induce phosphenes, or visual sensations, in patients with visual impairments. Rece…
Project DescriptionIn an era where news evolves at breakneck speed, Next Week Tonight offers a novel approach to news consumption and proje…
The Generative Land Use project aims to revolutionize urban planning by developing a cutting-edge algorithm that generates the ideal land u…
Integrating quantum computing into urban design presents a groundbreaking approach to city planning and modeling. By harnessing the unique …
Humanizing Agent-Based Models (h-ABM) emerges as a pioneering technique to simulate real-world behaviors, aiming to seamlessly bridge …
We explore how AI-systems can effectively assist human reasoning processes by building and evaluating combined human+AI information process…
In collaboration with NTT DATAEvery human culture has developed practices and rituals associated with remembering those who have died. We a…
Elderly individuals with cognitive impairment (e.g., dementia and Alzheimer's disease) have increasing difficulty with prospective memory a…
Critical thinking is an essential human skill. Despite the importance of critical thinking, research reveals that our reasoning ability suf…
AbstractDespite significant historical progress, discrimination and social stigma continue to impact the lives of LGBTQIA+ individuals. The…
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …
Es un sistema de simulación y visualización urbana que permite configurar escenarios de intervenciones y así evaluar las posibles repercusi…
Could we substitute cars by shared autonomous lightweight vehicles for food delivery? We have developed an agent-based simulation model tha…
How will gene drive systems evolve once released into the wild? Can they be reliably overwritten and blocked by immunizing reversal drives?…
As computing blends into everyday environments, powerful opportunities open up for social connection. How can we leverage technology to enh…
This project was produced as part of the 2021 Snap Creative Challenge, focused on "The Future of Co-located Social AR."Wem…
Perceptual illusions have the power to change our abilities and behaviours. Prior research in virtual reality (VR) has shown that transport…
An Alternative Autonomous Revolution System design for emerging urban contexts and societal aspirationsThe Persuasive Electric Vehicle…
This work was presented at the ACM CHI 2023 conference. By Joanne Leong, Florian Perteneder, Muhender Raj Rajvee, and…
Whispers Of The Mountain is a sensor system mounted on snow skis. The system allows for crowdsourcing environmental data of mou…
Revolutionizing the future of fluid-based robotics using charge-injection electrohydrodynamic fiber pumps. This work is in collaboration wi…
“Us” aims to help people develop their sense of empathy. It uses machine learning to analyze interlocutors’ signals (e.g., choice of words,…
The South American Bombus dahlbomii is one of the largest bee species in the world. It can grow up to 1.6 inches long and, because of its s…