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Space Enabled

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

Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
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Migratable AI

We live in a world of personified conversational assistants (agents). We interact with these agents in our daily lives such as smart spea...
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DISSECT: Disentangled Simultaneous Explanationsvia Concept Traversals

One of the principal benefits of counterfactual explanations is allowing users to explore "what-if" scenarios through what does not and c...
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UncNet: Modeling uncertainty in deep learning for inherently subjective tasks

Automatic emotion recognition has become a well-established machine learning task in recent years. The sensitive and subjective nature of...
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Learning via Social Awareness: Improving sketch representations with facial feedback

In the quest towards general artificial intelligence (AI), researchers have explored developing loss functions that act as intrinsic moti...
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Personalized Machine Learning for Future Health

​The view on Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) diagnosis has shifted towards a more dynamic process in which clinical and pathological markers evo...
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Improving RNN Sequence Generation with RL

This project investigates a general method for improving the structure and quality of sequences generated by a recurrent neural network (...
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Behavioral Indications of Depression Severity

In collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital, we are conducting a clinical trial exploring objective methods for assessing depres...
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Predicting Bonding in Conversations

We show that using thin slices (< 1 minute) of facial expression and body language data, we can train a deep neural network to predict...
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Personalized Machine Learning for Autism Therapy

EngageME: Personalized machine learning and humanoid robots for measuring affect and engagement of children with autismEngageME is a proj...
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Predicting students' wellbeing from physiology, phone, mobility, and behavioral data

The goal of this project is to apply machine learning methods to model the wellbeing of MIT undergraduate students. Extensive data is obt...
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Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art
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Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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Signal Kinetics

Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
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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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Research Area | Application, Interpretability and Clinical Translation of Deep Learning Algorithms for Medical Images

Research studies led by Dr. Shah in his laboratory have created new paradigms for using low-cost images captured using simple optica...
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Health 0.0

Health 0.0
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge
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Viral Communications

Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
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Voice Privacy Preservation

Spoken language is an information-rich medium that combines words with various information about emotions, feelings, and excitation throu...
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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Detect DeepFakes: How to counteract misinformation created by AI

Check out our publications in PNAS, a workshop at IJCAI, and pre-print on arXiv. How do you spot a DeepFake? How good are DeepF...
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Are You Better Than a Machine at Spotting a Deepfake?

New research shows that detecting digital fakes generated by machine learning might be a job best done with humans still in the loop.
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Tangible Media

Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
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MIT Center for Constructive Communication

MIT Center for Constructive Communication
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RAISE

RAISE
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The Big Conversation - Machine Yearning

Cynthia Breazeal is featured in The Big Conversation: Machine Yearning, part of a conversation series running at the Sundance Film Festival.
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A guide to cyberarts: From bots to glitch, an annotated glossary for an age of augmented reality

Check out this list of cyberart projects compiled by The Boston Globe, which includes work by alum Alexander Reben and Prof. Ekene Ijeoma.
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Deploying machine learning to improve mental health

MIT scientist Rosalind Picard collaborates with clinicians to develop tools for mental health care delivery.
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MAS.S64. Real-world Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence and Genome Editing Technologies

MAS.S64 Real-world Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence and Genome Editing Technologies - Fall 2020 Online CourseWhen: Tuesdays, 3-...
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Could humanlike behavior make smart devices more engaging? MIT researchers think so

A new study by researchers from the Personal Robots group and collaborators assesses how families interact with voice-user interfaces.
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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Clinical Development: A Translational Perspective

Technical summary: Future of clinical development is on the verge of a major transformation due to convergence of large new digital data ...
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
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Opera of the Future

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
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“Hey, Alexa! Are you trustworthy?”

The more social behaviors a voice-user interface exhibits, the more likely people are to trust it, engage with it, and think it competent.
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Research Area | Emergent Neural Networks to Redesign Clinical Testing of Medicines and Learning from Real World Evidence

Research studies led by Dr. Shah, in collaboration with the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA),  have develo...
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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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Self-Learning AI Model Learns from Patient Data to Design Novel Clinical Trials

Technical summaryUnstructured learning problems without well-defined rewards are unsuitable for current reinforcement learning (RL) appro...
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The promise and pitfalls of artificial intelligence explored at TEDxMIT event

MIT scientists discuss the future of AI with applications across many sectors, as a tool that can be both beneficial and harmful.
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Multi-task Learning for Predicting Health, Stress, and Happiness

Jaques, N., Taylor, S., Nosakhare, E., Sano, A., Picard, R. In Proc. NIPS Workshop on ML in Health, Barcelona, Spain, December 2016. **BEST PAPER AWARD**
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Personalized Multitask Learning for Predicting Tomorrow's Mood, Stress, and Health

Taylor, S.*, Jaques, N.*, Nosakhare, E., Sano, A. and Picard, R., "Personalized Multitask Learning for Predicting Tomorrow's Mood, Stress, and Health," in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, vol. PP, no. 99, pp. 1-1. doi: 10.1109/TAFFC.2017.2784832 *Both authors contributed equally. WINNER: BEST OF COLLECTION
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Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
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Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
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Molecular Machines

Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
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Future Sketches

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
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School Reviews

Parents often select schools by relying on subjective assessments shared by other parents—which are increasingly becoming available on sc...
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Experiments in Deepfakes: Creativity, Computation and Criticism

SynopsisThe class will cover a wide range of perspectives on deepfakes, from their historical ancestors through their philosophical under...
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EV Charge Point Operators Gain a New Tool for Siting Decisions

Jamie Schiel and Rohan Puri, who met in the Camera Culture group, talk to MIT Startup Exchange about their startup, Stable Auto.
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Neil Gaikwad recognized by MIT and University of Chicago

Named Human Rights & Technology Fellow by MIT Center for International Studies, and a Rising Star by UChicago Center for Data & Computing.
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Image2Reverb: Cross-Modal Reverb Impulse Response Synthesis

Image2Reverb: Cross-Modal Reverb Impulse Response Synthesis. Nikhil Singh, Jeff Mentch, Jerry Ng, Matthew Beveridge, Iddo Drori; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021, pp. 286-295
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Saving seaweed with machine learning

Charlene Xia is a Media Lab alum now pursuing a PhD in MIT Mechanical Engineering, combining her passions for food and sustainability.
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Open Ocean

Open Ocean
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A dispatch and routing platform to improve deliveries

Wise Systems has grown from an MIT class project to a company helping multinationals improve last-mile logistics.
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Commalla: Communication for All

​Interested in learning more about the Commalla project?  Fill out this form! 
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ELSA: Empathy learning, socially-aware agents

What is ELSA?ELSA is an AI-powered chatbot that acts as an empathetic companion, encouraging users to talk about their day through a form...
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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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Robotic Grasping of Fully-Occluded Objects using RF Perception

Boroushaki, Tara, et al. "Robotic Grasping of Fully-Occluded Objects using RF Perception." IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021).
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City Science Lab @ Andorra

Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally ...
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India's first AI art solo opens in Kolkata

In this new show, AI artist Harshit Agrawal uses machine intelligence to talk about social justice and empathy.
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Big Ocean, Big Data

More ocean data has been collected in the last two years than in all previous years combined, and we are on a path to continue to break t...
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TuringBox: Democratizing the study of AI

TuringBox is a platform that makes it easier for social and behavioral scientists to study Artificial Intelligence algorithms. ...
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Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence

Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
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RetroGAN

Retrofitting is a technique used to move word vectors closer together or further apart in their space to reflect their relationships in a...
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BayesDB

BayesDB is open-source AI software that lets any programmer answer data analysis questions in seconds or minutes with a level of rigor th...
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A robot that finds your lost stuff and more AI-enabled gadgets to come

The WSJ covers research from the Signal Kinetics group and other labs, universities, and companies working on AI-enabled devices.