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Looking beyond smart cities
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Advancing Wellbeing
Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Advancing wellbeing by using new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Transforming data into knowledge
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