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Exploring new forms of social justice through art
Sparking discussion about the social, cultural, and ethical implications of emerging technologies through design and storytelling
Joy Buolamwini talks to Frontline about bias in AI, and what can be done about it.
Looking beyond smart cities
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Commending a formidable variety of international change-makers driving digital transformation in government.
PlusMinus
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning c...
Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and...
Is the placement of bike-share docks equitable?This interactive map explores the question visually.The map shows the addition of bike-sha...
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Creating technology for social change
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Transforming data into knowledge
Your social media. Your rules.Gobo is an experiment, not a startup. We’re building it to change the conversation on social media and imag...
The Association of Internet Researchers has recognized alum Erhardt Graeff, now an assistant professor of social and computer science at ...
Civic technology should empower us as citizens. But despite its breadth as a field, civic technology often takes its lead from Silicon Va...
www.ajlunited.orgAn unseen force is rising—helping to determine who is hired, granted a loan, or even how long someone spends in prison. ...
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Major political campaigns and nonprofit organizations use bespoke systems to organize, inform, and solicit members. These top-down system...
Let's play: Waste at MIT is a game about trash; it’s also a game about understanding civic infrastructure. This project explores the use ...
Read more about this project hereMIT City Science is working with HafenCity University to develop CityScope for the neighborhood of Rothe...
The CivilServant project supports online communities to run their own experiments on the effects of moderation practices on antisocial be...
A web browser extension that reveals less well-known aspects of corporate public behavior such as environmental respect and political bia...
Many people think their vote doesn't count—that a single vote would not change an election's outcome—and they stay home on Election Day. ...
LinkedOut aims to define and build solutions to facilitate societal reentry for formerly incarcerated individuals.In collaboration with t...
This project depicts the design, deployment and operation of a Tangible Regulation Platform, a physical-technological apparatus made for ...
Joy Buolamwini talks to the AP about her work on algorithmic bias.
An open letter asking Amazon to stop selling Rekognition to law enforcement agencies.
More than three dozen AI researchers have signed an open letter asking Amazon to stop selling Rekognition to law enforcement agencies.
Visiting professor Esteban Moro talks to Next City about the Atlas of Inequality.
Esteban Moro talks to WBUR about the Human Dynamics group's Atlas of Inequality.
Segregation is hurting our societies and especially our cities. But economic inequality isn't just limited to neighborhoods. The restaura...
These maps show “place inequality"—or why people of different income levels are at different coffee shops.
MIT Media Lab’s new interactive “Atlas of Inequality” shows that “segregation is not just about where you live, but what you do."
Joy Buolamwini’s essay is featured in the Optimists issue of Time, guest-edited by Ava DuVernay.
Algorithmic auditing has emerged as a key strategy to expose systematic biases embedded in software platforms, yet scholarship on the imp...
So far Amazon’s frontline defense against advocates and academics has been: Researchers are setting the search parameters incorrectly.
Amazon’s system had more difficulty identifying the gender of female and darker-skinned faces than similar services from IBM and Microsoft.
An NYC exhibit imagines driverless buses and mobile medical units resembling Popemobiles.
The technology could revolutionize policing, medicine, even agriculture—but its applications can easily be weaponized.
MIT Media Lab professor Ramesh Raskar talks about how his high-tech inventions and initiatives can help solve real-world problems.
An Urban Decision-Support System Augmented by Artificial IntelligenceThe decision-making process in urban design and urban planning is ou...
Hiawatha Bray reports on the unrest bubbling up in the tech industry.
Cities need to work to ensure that AR makes the leap from “cool experience,” to a technology that improves residents’ lives.
An Alternative Autonomous Revolution System design for emerging urban contexts and societal aspirationsThe Persuasive Electric Vehic...
Graeff, Erhardt (2018). Evaluating Civic Technology Design for Citizen Empowerment. PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mission Wildlife is a research collaboration between San Diego Zoo Global and the MIT Center for Civic Media to explore the pot...
The Gender Shades project pilots an intersectional approach to inclusive product testing for AI.Algorithmic Bias PersistsGender Shades is...
Action Path is a mobile app to help people learn about and engage with issues in their community. The app uses push notifications tied to...
In September 2014, 150 parents, engineers, designers, and healthcare practitioners gathered at the MIT Media Lab for the "Make the Breast...
All people are created equal, but in the eyes of the algorithm, not all faces are just yet.A new study from MIT and Microsoft r...
A new review of face recognition software found that, when identifying gender, the software is most accurate for men with light skin...
Examination of facial-analysis software shows error rate of 0.8 percent for light-skinned men, 34.7 percent for dark-skinned women.
New research out of MIT’s Media Lab is underscoring what other experts have reported or at least suspected before: facial recognition tec...
POWERSTRUCTURES : the urban form of regulations, Noyman, Ariel, Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2015.; Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.; Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-236).
Ho, P. H., Miller, G. A., Wang M. Y., Haleftiras, N., Zuckerman, E. 2017. Mission Wildlife: An Augmented Reality Approach to Engaging People About Threats to Endangered Species at a Zoo. In proceedings of Unobtrusive User Experiences with Technology in Nature (NatureCHI'17) at the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI'17).
Biomolecules to biopolitics: hormones with institutional biopower! Open Source Estrogen combines do-it-yourself science, body and gender ...
Facebook volunteers and work-at-home moms might be making city planning decisions, thanks to AI research conducted by MIT scientists. Res...
Using computer vision to examine Google Street View, the researchers analyzed how streets and blocks have changed in five American cities.
Tested with five American cities, Streetchange quantifies the physical improvement or deterioration of neighborhoods.
A recently published paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) looks at factors that predict neighborhood change.
Researchers have used machine learning to quantify the physical improvement or deterioration of neighborhoods in five American cities.
Computer vision uncovers predictors of physical urban change
Joy Buolamwini's TED Talk