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Space Enabled

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

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Study shows online school reviews reflect school demographics more than effectiveness

Language analysis reveals possible reinforcement of race- and income-based achievement gap.

via MIT News · March 3, 2021
in Social Machines · MIT Center for Constructive Communication
#kids #learning #machine learning +2 more
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Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative

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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities

#robotics #design #social networks +64 more
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MIT Space Policy Compendium

Read the new MIT Space Policy Compendium led by Dava Newman with co-authors including Ariel Ekblaw and Danielle Wood.

March 1, 2021
in Space Exploration Initiative · Space Enabled
#environment #politics #space +2 more
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Affective Computing

Advance human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion

#robotics #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +39 more
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Career Girls Role Models: Jaleesa Trapp

Jaleesa Trapp talks about her career path, how technology encodes the values of its designers, and the importance of play.

via Career Girls · Oct. 21, 2020
in Lifelong Kindergarten
#kids #learning #computer science +3 more
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ML Learning

ML Learning

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Open Ocean

Open Ocean

#robotics #virtual reality #art +31 more
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Why this deep-sea explorer thinks diversity is so important for science

To oceanographer Katy Croff Bell, the seas’ uncharted depths are full of opportunities to engage women and people of color in science.

via National Geographic · Nov. 5, 2020
in Open Ocean
#environment #ocean #water +2 more
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Community Biotechnology

Community Biotechnology

#design #human-computer interaction #art +22 more
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +23 more
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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 #social networks +63 more
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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change

#robotics #design #social networks +52 more
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PAL: Project on Affinities + Language

The Project on Affinities and Language (PAL) is designed to help us understand what happens in a child’s brain when they engage with thei...

in Affective Computing
Kristy Johnson
#learning #neurobiology #language learning +3 more
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Embracing neurodiversity to better understand autism

Using personalized, naturalistic experiments, the Gabrieli lab is pioneering new approaches to neurodevelopmental differences.

via MIT McGovern Institute · March 2, 2020
in Affective Computing
#learning #neurobiology #affective computing +1 more
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Black engineers see both pride and exclusion in the return of human spaceflight

Like too many science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, the aerospace sector in the US is populated mainly by white people.

via Quartz · June 10, 2020
in Space Enabled
#design #space #community +3 more
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Foster innovation, ethical tech with diverse teams

Civic Media head Ethan Zuckerman and others discuss how increasing team diversity can improve outcomes.

via The Wall Street Journal · Jan. 13, 2020
in Civic Media
#ethics #community #technology +2 more
Article Research

Neurodiverse curiosity, with Kristy Johnson

“To really understand curiosity, we need new metrics, or new ways of thinking, or both."

via Choose to Be Curious · Dec. 11, 2019
in ML Learning · Affective Computing
#learning #neurobiology #diversity
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How to foster innovation in your workplace

Here are proven thought starters for creating a business culture that nurtures disruptive change

via Fast Company · Nov. 26, 2019
in City Science
#social networks #technology #industry +1 more
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Opinion | The fast-evolving ethical conundrums of biotechnology

Our capacity to re-engineer the biological world raises questions that need answers before it gets too late

via Livemint · Nov. 11, 2019
in Community Biotechnology
#learning #privacy #community +2 more
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The Clubhouse Network

The Clubhouse provides a creative and safe out-of-school learning environment where young people from underserved communities around the ...

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Mitchel Resnick · Natalie Rusk +6 more
#human-computer interaction #learning #technology +2 more
Article Research

Jaleesa Trapp shakes things up in the classroom and in computing

The PhD student and former high school teacher aims to study the ways young people of color interact with technology.

via MIT News · Nov. 14, 2019
in Lifelong Kindergarten
#human-computer interaction #learning #technology +2 more
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The Root 100 2019

The Root 100 is our annual list of the most influential African Americans, ages 25 to 45.

via The Root · Nov. 1, 2019
in Civic Media
#social change #diversity
Publication Research

An interpretable approach for social network formation among heterogeneous agents

Yuan, Yuan, Ahmad Alabdulkareem, and Alex Pentland. "An interpretable approach for social network formation among heterogeneous agents." Nature Communications 9.1 (2018): 4704.

Article, Nov. 2018
in Human Dynamics
#social networks #trade #diversity
Article Research

Rosalind Picard: Affective Computing, Emotion, Privacy, and Health | Artificial Intelligence Podcast

In an interview with MIT research scientist Lex Fridman, Rosalind Picard discusses affective computing, privacy, diversity in tech, and more

via Artificial Intelligence podcast at MIT · June 17, 2019
in Affective Computing
#artificial intelligence #privacy #affective computing +1 more

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