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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Signal Kinetics

Extending human and computer abilities in sensing, communication, and actuation through signals and networks
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Theme | CityScope

City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning c...
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Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art
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BioEssence

A wearable olfactory display that monitors cardio-respiratory information with the aspiration to support mental wellbeing.BioEssence is a...
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Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative
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Scratch

Scratch is a programming language and online community that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, games, and animations—a...
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TESSERAE: Self-Assembling Space Architecture

Overview: How will we build the coming generations of Space Architecture—the modules, space ships, and space stations that will ensc...
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Introducing Scratch 3.0

The new version of the popular free coding platform builds on a robust community of kid coders.
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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High power bionic joints for dynamic gait actions

The design of next-generation bionic ankles and knees aims to improve bionic actuators on all metrics: range of motion, power density, ba...
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Beyond the Cradle

Beyond the Cradle
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Affective Computing

Advance human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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MIT creates battery-free sensor for deep-sea and extraterrestrial exploration

An underwater internet of things monitoring the effects of climate change or sampling waters on distant planets
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Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
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Detecting patients’ pain levels via their brain signals

System could help with diagnosing and treating noncommunicative patients.
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Health 0.0

Health 0.0
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Camera Culture

Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
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A battery-free sensor for underwater exploration

Submerged system uses the vibration of “piezoelectric” materials to generate power and send and receive data.
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge
Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
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Personal Robots

Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better
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ML Learning

ML Learning
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Machine learning algorithms for classification of microcirculation images from septic and non-septic patients

Perikumar Javia, Rana A, Shapiro NI, Shah P. IEEE Xplore, Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (2018) (Conference acceptance rate: 14%). DOI: 10.1109/ICMLA.2018.00097
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Computational histological staining and destaining of prostate core biopsy RGB images with generative adversarial neural networks

Aman Rana, Yauney G, Lowe A, Shah P. IEEE Xplore, Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (2018) (Conference acceptance rate: 14%). DOI: 10.1109/ICMLA.2018.00133
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Research Area | Novel Ethical, Secure and Explainable Artificial Intelligence based Digital Medicines and Treatments

We have described validation of novel machine learning architectures for designing faster, safer, and more efficacious digital medicines ...
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Battery-Free Subsea Internet-of-Things

We present Piezo-Acoustic Backscatter (PAB), the first technology that enables backscatter networking in underwater environments. PAB rel...
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Algorithmic Justice League

www.ajlunited.orgAn unseen force is rising—helping to determine who is hired, granted a loan, or even how long someone spends in prison. ...
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Scalable Cooperation

Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
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[bike] swarm

As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers...
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Social Physics of Unemployment

Earlier studies proved that behavior is highly shaped and constrained by one's social networks, and demonstrated ways in which individual...
Article Research

It's OK that Amazon will (likely) get the .amazon domain

Ito shares his thoughts on the difficulty of making the right decisions in the face of what, to the public, appears to be obviously wrong.
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The Tradeoff Between the Utility and Risk of Location Data and Implications for Public Good

Berke, Alex, Calacci, Dan, Larson, Kent, Pentland, Alex (Sandy), "The Tradeoff Between the Utility and Risk of Location Data and Implications for Public Good," arXiv.org, 2019.
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3Q: Hal Abelson on empowering kids through mobile technology

Through MIT App Inventor, Abelson aims to show children how they can use technology to shape their world.
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Mechatronic Systems

Mechanical, electrical, and dynamic control systems recreate biological behavior with synthetic hardware.

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Efficient lensless imaging with a femto-pixel

Lensless imaging with compressive ultrafast sensingTraditional cameras require a lens and a mega-pixel sensor to capture images. The lens...
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RoboChain: A secure data-sharing framework for human-robot interaction

A learning framework for secure, decentralized, computationally efficient data and model sharing among multiple robot units installed at...
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Recurrent neural network in context-free next-location prediction

Location prediction is a critical building block in many location-based services and transportation management. This project explores the...
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Blockchain: A new framework for robotic swarm systems

Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make...
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Defacto: Decentralized crowdsourced news verification system

Despite recent efforts, current fact-checking organizations cannot keep up with the amount of information that is produced and spread thr...
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Enlightened: Broaden Your Views

Media filter bubbles sacrifice shared reality amongst US citizens. We aim to burst these echo chambers by presenting short, automatically...
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TurboTrack: 3D backscatter localization for fine-grained robotics

TurboTrack is a 3D localization system for fine-grained robotic tasks, with unique capability to localize backscatter nodes with sub-cent...
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When the Robot Doesn’t See Dark Skin

A.I. systems are shaped by the priorities and prejudices…of the people who design them, a phenomenon that I refer to as "the coded gaze."
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Announcing the 2019 LEGO Papert Fellows

The LEGO Papert Fellowships support three graduate students working at the intersection of creativity, play, learning, and new technology.
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How an MIT research group turned computer code into a modern design medium

Bauhaus meets binary: an oral history of the Visible Language Workshop.
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Cognimates: Collaborative creative learning with embodied intelligent agents

Cognimates is a platform where parents and children (7-10 years old) participate in creative programming activities in which they l...
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Robots track moving objects with unprecedented precision

System uses RFID tags to home in on targets; could benefit robotic manufacturing, collaborative drones, and other applications.
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The Science of AI Research

We must proactively tackle the economic, social, and societal implications that accompany the widespread deployment of AI technology. In ...
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Lighting the path

Luminaries in computing and cognition discuss their journeys and share their insights.
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Women built the tech industry. Then they were pushed out.

Now activists are working to bring women, and feminism, back to Silicon Valley.
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Mediated Matter

Designing for, with, and by nature
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Actionable Auditing: Coordinated bias disclosure study

Algorithmic auditing has emerged as a key strategy to expose systematic biases embedded in software platforms, yet scholarship on the imp...
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Introducing Scratch 3.0: Expanding the creative possibilities of coding

The next generation of Scratch expands how, what, and where kids can create with code.
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Playfully code your way into 2019 with the launch of Scratch 3

Ollie Bray from the LEGO Foundation explains how Scratch supports the five characteristics of play that lead to deeper learning.
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Mitch Resnick: The next generation of Scratch teaches more than coding

Much has changed since we introduced the first generation of our Scratch programming language and online community, back in 2007.
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Helping Emergency Care Physicians Diagnose Sepsis and Bacterial Infections with Machine Learning and Vision

General overview:Sepsis, a life-threatening complication of bacterial infection, leads to millions of worldwide deaths requires significa...
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AI Methods for Rapid Automated Staining and Destaining of Tissue Biopsies in Hospitals

General OverviewStaining of tissues sections using chemical and biological dyes has been used for over a century for visualizing various ...
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Code Next

Code Next : Cultural Resonation
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BioEssence: A Wearable Olfactory Display that Monitors Cardio-Respiratory Information to Support Mental Wellbeing

Amores, J., Hernandez, J., Dementyev, A., Wang, X., Maes, P. "BioEssence: A Wearable Olfactory Display that Monitors Cardio-respiratory Information to Support Mental Wellbeing," Proceedings of the International Conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Honolulu, Hawaii, July 2018
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Scratch Online Community

Launched in 2007, the Scratch Online Community enables children, primarily between the ages of 8 and 16, to share interactive media such ...
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CityMatrix

An Urban Decision-Support System Augmented by Artificial IntelligenceThe decision-making process in urban design and urban planning is ou...
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Design Fiction

Sparking discussion about the social, cultural, and ethical implications of emerging technologies through design and storytelling
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Real-time Machine Learning Prediction of an Agent-Based Model for Urban Decision-making (Extended Abstract)

Yan Zhang, Arnaud Grignard, Kevin Lyons, Alexander Aubuchon, and Kent Larson. 2018. Real-time Machine Learning Prediction of an Agent-Based Model for Urban Decision-making (Extended Abstract). In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS '18). International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Richland, SC, 2171-2173.
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CityScope Andorra: A Multi-level Interactive and Tangible Agent-based Visualization

Arnaud Grignard, Núria Macià, Luis Alonso Pastor, Ariel Noyman, Yan Zhang, and Kent Larson. 2018. CityScope Andorra: A Multi-level Interactive and Tangible Agent-based Visualization. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS '18). International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Richland, SC, 1939-1940.
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Lessons from the Middle Earth: Why I’m Still Here

Here is my secret to staying in computer science: first, have great perseverance. Second, have great friends.
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Gender Shades

The Gender Shades project pilots an intersectional approach to inclusive product testing for AI.Algorithmic Bias PersistsGender Shades is...
Center for Civic Media
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If you’re a darker-skinned woman, this is how often facial-recognition software decides you’re a man

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...
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Even when spotting gender, current face recognition tech works better for white dudes

A new review of face recognition software found that, when identifying gender, the software is most accurate for men with light skin...
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Study finds gender and skin-type bias in commercial artificial-intelligence systems

Examination of facial-analysis software shows error rate of 0.8 percent for light-skinned men, 34.7 percent for dark-skinned women.