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Community Biotechnology

Community Biotechnology Initiative
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Strangers, Voices & Society

As part of its broader work around learning, this project is exploring both individualized and community-based models for promoting empat...
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Ethics and Empathy Learning

This initiative is designing and disseminating new tools and pedagogies for introducing “non-prescriptive” ways of learning about ethical...
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Transformative Leadership

Despite of gazillions of leadership programs across university campuses and organizations, we increasingly live in an era of leadership d...
Article Research

Defining(?) Disobedience

Our winners reflect the hopes that led to the award in the first place. Drs Hanna-Attisha and Edwards are scientists who became activists
Publication Research

Wrist sensor reveals sympathetic hyperactivity and hypoventilation before probable SUDEP

Rosalind W. Picard, ScD, Matteo Migliorini, PhD, Chiara Caborni, MSc, Francesco Onorati, PhD, Giulia Regalia, PhD, Daniel Friedman, MD, Orrin Devinsky, MD Neurology; published ahead of print July 12, 2017, doi:10.1212/WNL.0000000000004208: 1526-632X
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Daisy drive: a local, open, and community-responsive approach to solving ecological problems

Pursue modular "daisy drive" platforms with the potential to safely, efficiently, and reversibly edit local sub-populations of organisms
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DoppelMarsh
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FabricKeyboard

Multimodal textile sensate media as an expressive and deformable musical interfaceIn the area of intelligent textiles, we are exploring a...
Post Research

Learn more: Emerging Worlds

Learn more about the Emerging Worlds special interest group: http://mitemergingworlds.com/INNOVATING FOR BILLIONS At the MIT Me...
Publication Research

Personal Food Computer: A new device for controlled-environment agriculture

Eduardo Castello Ferrer, Jake Rye, Gordon Brander, Tim Savas, Douglas Chambers, Hildreth England, Caleb Harper, “Personal Food Computer: A new device for controlled-environment agriculture” arXiv Prepr. arXiv1706.05104, 2017.
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Expansion Pathology

Enlarging clinical samples for imaging to understand the building blocks of pathologies with nanoscale precision
Publication Research

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Calibration Invariant Imaging

Object Classification through Scattering Media with Deep LearningA method for classifying objects hidden behind a scattering layer w...
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Social Machines

Understanding and empowering human networks
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CocoVerse: A Playground for Cocreation and Communication in Virtual Reality

Real-time collaborative self-expression in virtual reality. 
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Refugee Learning Accelerator

We support computer scientists and engineers from the the Middle East to create technologies for refugee learners The Refugee Learni...
Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
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Lensing: Cardiolinguistics for Atypical Angina

Conversations between two individuals—whether between doctor and patient, mental health therapist and client, or between two people roman...
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AI and Inclusion

Bringing together a diverse group of stakeholders, this pilot examines the intersection between AI and inclusion, and explores the ways i...
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BayesDB

BayesDB is open-source AI software that lets any programmer answer data analysis questions in seconds or minutes with a level of rigor th...
Article Research

Computer vision shows how Brooklyn streets really are changing

Using computer vision to examine Google Street View, the researchers analyzed how streets and blocks have changed in five American cities.
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Mit Media Lab Uses Machine Learning to Analyze How Neighborhoods Improve

Tested with five American cities, Streetchange quantifies the physical improvement or deterioration of neighborhoods.
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Why Neighborhoods Get Better: Research Provides Insights That May Surprise You

A recently published paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) looks at factors that predict neighborhood change.
Job Research

Junior Designer, Scratch
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Object classification through scattering media with deep learning on time resolved measurement

Guy Satat, Matthew Tancik, Otkrist Gupta, Barmak Heshmat, and Ramesh Raskar, "Object classification through scattering media with deep learning on time resolved measurement," Opt. Express 25, 17466-17479 (2017)
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OpenAg Advisors and Sponsors

OpenAg is privileged to have a variety of individuals and organizations who advise and support our efforts. A PDF version is available fo...
Article Research

Kinect Scans of T. Rex Skull Shed Light on Mysterious Holes

When a group of forensic dentistry experts set out in 2016 to investigate what may have caused some peculiar holes in a T. rex jaw, they ...
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Human-Robot Trust

Unconventional mixing of research fields introduces a new method to study human behavior using social robots.
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Interactive Inference of Mental States

Social robots take an active role in the inference process by producing social cues to elicit nonverbal responses from children to better...
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DermalAbyss: Possibilities of Biosensors as a Tattooed Interface

Can tattoos embrace technology in order to make the skin interactive?The DermalAbyss project is the result of a collaboration between MIT...
Post Research

Probing into the Skin’s Abyss

Updates on the DermalAbyss project
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Montessori Was the Original Personalized Learning. Now, 100 Years Later, Wildflower Is Reinventing the Model

For a classroom of a dozen 3- through 6-year-olds, things are surprisingly quiet inside Wildflower Montessori. The most audible sounds, t...
Article Research

Why do some neighborhoods improve?

Researchers have used machine learning to quantify the physical improvement or deterioration of neighborhoods in five American cities.
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Scalable Cooperation

Reimagining the way society organizes, cooperates, and governs itself
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Machines to Banish Disability

MIT’s Center for Extreme Bionics has an ambitious goal: nothing short of ending disability.
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Playful Systems

Designing systems that become experiences to transcend utility and usability
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AI and Global Governance

Given the cross-border impact of AI and related technologies, what are appropriate and workable governance mechanisms that can operate at...
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VerifAI

 The VerifAI project aims to build the technical and legal foundations necessary to establish a due process framework for auditing a...
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Data and Diversity

Creative Ethics of Cognitive Intelligence at Cannes Lions
Course Research

MAS.S60 (2-0-7): Human Machine Symbiosis

TAs: Judith Amores, Xin Liu, Arnav Kapur & Oscar Rosellosymbiosis-TA@media.mit.eduAbout 10 years ago a major milestone in the history...
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Engineering Microbial Ecosystems

We are developing methods of controlling the genetic and cellular composition of microbial communities in the gut. Stably colonized micro...
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Fluid Interfaces

Integrating digital interfaces more naturally into our physical lives, enabling insight, inspiration, and interpersonal connections
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Escape from the Horror of 2017 by Becoming a Tree

Nest caterpillars in your arms, and watch the days pass.
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Responsive Science

Responsive Science is a way of conducting research that invites openness and community involvement from the earliest stages of each proje...
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Playful Words

While there are a number of literacy technology solutions developed for individuals, the role of social—or networked—literacy learning is...
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Forbidden research: challenging norms to create positive change.

Disobedience for social good.
Publication Research

Translational Motion Tracking of Leg Joints for Enhanced Prediction of Walking Tasks

Stolyarov, R. M., Burnett, G., & Herr, H. (2017). Translational Motion Tracking of Leg Joints for Enhanced Prediction of Walking Tasks. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 1-1. doi:10.1109/tbme.2017.2718528
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How Air Pollution Is Being Turned Into Ink

Anirudh Sharma was at a conference in India when he noticed black particles accumulating on his white shirt.
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MIT Media Lab to participate in new $27 million initiative on ethics and governance in AI

Bridging the gap between the humanities, the social sciences, and computing by addressing the global challenges of artificial intelligence.
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CivilServant: User-Led Randomized Trials Online

The CivilServant project supports online communities to run their own experiments on the effects of moderation practices on antisocial be...
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Society-in-the-Loop

Recent rapid advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning have raised many questions about the regulatory and governance...
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Architecture Selection for Deep Neural Networks

We introduce MetaQNN, a meta-modeling algorithm based on reinforcement learning to automatically generate high-performing CNN architectur...
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Streetchange

Computer vision uncovers predictors of physical urban change

Thesis Research

Governing Human and Machine Behavior in an Experimenting Society

Matias, J. N. (2017). Governing Human and Machine Behavior in an Experimenting Society (Thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology.