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Camera Culture

Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection

#computer vision #artificial intelligence #bioengineering +18 more
Accepting Applicants
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities

#design #computer vision #architecture +23 more
Accepting Applicants
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Project Research

Intrepid

Every 98 seconds, a person in the United States is sexually abused. Every 16 hours, a woman in the United States is murdered by her ...

in Living Mobile
Manisha Mohan · Ethan Zuckerman +1 more
#consumer electronics #developing countries #human-machine interaction +3 more
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks

#design #architecture #artificial intelligence +24 more
Accepting Applicants
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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space

#civic technology #developing countries #environment +4 more
Accepting Applicants
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Open Ocean

Open Ocean

#robotics #virtual reality #art +17 more
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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change

#design #computer vision #artificial intelligence +34 more
Accepting Applicants
How software can act as an assistant to the user rather than a tool, by learning from interaction and by proactively anticipating the user's
#robotics #architecture #art +20 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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Archived
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Electronic Publishing

How to distill meaning from complex everyday experiences.

#robotics #architecture #art +14 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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Human Dynamics

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

#robotics #design #artificial intelligence +43 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge

#virtual reality #computer vision #artificial intelligence +23 more
Accepting Applicants
Project Research

City Science Andorra

Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally ...

in City Science
Kent Larson · Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor +9 more
#design #architecture #data +9 more
Future Storytelling
#robotics #architecture #art +20 more
Hundred Dollar Laptop
#architecture #consumer electronics #developing countries +5 more
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Project Research

1:1 Laptops: Learning with the Hundred-Dollar Laptop

Suppose that one could put a connected, portable computer into the hands of all the children of the world who lack access to the kind of ...

Michail Bletsas · David P. Cavallo +2 more
#robotics #developing countries #kids +1 more
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Center for Mobile Learning
#consumer electronics #developing countries #economy +2 more
Archived
Project Research

Collective Learning in China's Regional Economic Development

Industrial development is the process by which economies learn how to produce new products and services. But how do economies learn? And ...

Jian Gao · Bogang Jun +1 more
#developing countries #economy #learning +2 more
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Publication Research

Collective Learning in China's Regional Economic Development

Jian Gao, Bogang Jun, Alex Pentland, Tao Zhou, and Cesar A. Hidalgo. Collective Learning in China's Regional Economic Development. arXiv:1703.01369, 2017.

Article, March 2017
in Collective Learning
#developing countries #economy #learning
Article Research

Can technology help teach literacy in poor communities?

This article originally appeared in the MIT News. Visit the link for more details.For the past four years, researchers at MIT, Tufts Univ...

via MIT News · April 26, 2016
in Personal Robots
#robotics #developing countries #kids +1 more
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CE 2.0

CE 2.0

#robotics #architecture #art +20 more
Center for Civic Media
Ethan Zuckerman
#robotics #design #computer vision +39 more
Consumer Electronics Laboratory
#robotics #architecture #art +20 more
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Communications Futures Program
Andrew Lippman
#robotics #architecture #art +20 more
How people and objects can tell tales of their experience and learn from others as they navigate through the vast media fabric made up of intertwining storied threads.
#robotics #architecture #art +17 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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How to build characters that have the everyday common sense, the ability to learn, and the sense of empathy that one finds in animals such as dogs.
#robotics #architecture #art +13 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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Archived
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eRationality

How we can understand human behavior (rationality, semi-rationality, bounded rationality, and just plain irrationality) in day-to-day behaviors, and in particular in electronic environments.

#robotics #architecture #art +16 more
Not Accepting Applicants
How to give computers human-like intuition so they can better understand us.
#robotics #architecture #art +20 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
How to engage diverse audiences in creating their own technology by situating computation in new contexts and building tools to democratize engineering.
#robotics #architecture #art +20 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
How to enhance understanding, enable creativity, and ease our interactions with the technological environment.
#robotics #architecture #art +15 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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Archived
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Grassroots Invention

How to engineer and disseminate powerful, low-cost design and fabrication technologies at a grassroots level.

#robotics #architecture #art +13 more
Not Accepting Applicants
How various phenomena of mind emerge from the interactions among many kinds of highly evolved brain mechanisms.
#robotics #architecture #art +16 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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Archived
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Future of Learning

How to redefine and expand the conceptual framework and language of learning by creating new technologies and spheres of practice.

#robotics #architecture #art +16 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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New Media Medicine

How radical new collaborations will catalyze a revolution in health.

#robotics #architecture #art +20 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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Research
Physics and Media

How to bring the programmability of the digital world to the physical world.

#robotics #architecture #art +16 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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Research
Things That Think
#robotics #architecture #art +20 more
How to create better online environments and interfaces for human communication.
#robotics #architecture #art +18 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Next Billion Network
#consumer electronics #developing countries #economy +2 more
Archived
How to improve mobility with higher-quality and lower-power-consumption display technology.
#robotics #architecture #art +11 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
How buildings and cities can become more intelligently responsive to the needs and desires of their inhabitants.
#robotics #architecture #art +18 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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Archived
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Music, Mind and Machine

How to build intelligent music systems out of interacting audio-processing agents.

#robotics #architecture #art +17 more
Not Accepting Applicants
How artists and engineers can refigure technology for the full range of human experience.
#robotics #architecture #art +19 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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SIMPLICITY
#robotics #architecture #art +16 more
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Digital Nations
#art #consumer electronics #developing countries +2 more
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Nanoscale Sensing

How to detect the activity of biological molecules with micro- and nanofabricated devices.

#robotics #architecture #art +14 more
Not Accepting Applicants
How to design machines that use what we do, where we are, and how we feel to add to our social, educational, and functional success.
#robotics #architecture #art +17 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
How to give computers "common sense"�the ability to think about the everyday world as people do.
#robotics #art #artificial intelligence +10 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
How simplifying the basic tools for digital expression will lead to a new creative digital economy. For more Physical Language Workshop projects, see Henry Holtzman.
#robotics #architecture #art +16 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
NEXT
#robotics #art #artificial intelligence +14 more
Archived
How to create seamless and pervasive connections between our physical environments and information resources.
#robotics #architecture #art +20 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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Archived
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quanta

How we can construct information technology and intelligence from the fundamental building blocks of physical media: atoms and molecules.

#robotics #architecture #art +14 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Center for Future Banking
#robotics #architecture #art +20 more
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Digital Life
#robotics #architecture #art +20 more
Archived
e-markets
#robotics #cognition #consumer electronics +5 more
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