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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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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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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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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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MIT Center for Constructive Communication

MIT Center for Constructive Communication
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Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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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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Commalla: Communication for All

​Interested in learning more about the Commalla project?  Fill out this form! 
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Open Ocean

Open Ocean
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Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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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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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.
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Research Area | Emergent Neural Networks to Redesign Clinical Testing of Medicines and Learning from Real World Evidence

Real World Data (RWD) and Real World Evidence (RWE) are playing an increasing role in healthcare decisions to support innovative use of E...
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Research Area | Application, Interpretability and Clinical Translation of Deep Learning Algorithms for Medical Images

Research in our laboratory reduces dependence on specialized medical imaging devices, biological and chemical processes and creates new p...
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Health 0.0

Health 0.0
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PAL: a wearable on-device deep learning platform for personalized, context-aware, and closed-loop real-time support

OverviewPAL is a  wearable platform for personalized, context-aware, and always-present user change.  PAL has mu...
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Privacy-Preserving Depressive Symptoms Estimation

The goal of this project is to develop techniques to remove identifying information from wearable and phone data to protect patients’ pri...
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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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Scaling Science: Using Data to Find “Hidden Gem” Research

The current system of scientific recognition and funding has significant bias towards work published in the top few percent of journ...
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parkinsAI

Appropriate and adaptive treatment plans are challenging in Parkinson’s disease for several reasons.  parkinsAI models drug response...
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Diverse data selection via combinatorial quasi-concavity of distance covariance: A polynomial time global minimax algorithm

Diverse data selection via combinatorial quasi-concavity of distance covariance: A polynomial time global minimax algorithm, Praneeth Vepakomma, Yulia Kempner
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FedML: A Research Library and Benchmark for Federated Machine Learning

Chaoyang He, Songze Li, Jinhyun So, Mi Zhang, Xiao Zeng, Hongyi Wang, Xiaoyang Wang, Praneeth Vepakomma, Abhishek Singh, Hang Qiu, Xinghua Zhu, Jianzong Wang, Li Shen, Peilin Zhao, Yan Kang, Yang Liu, Ramesh Raskar, Qiang Yang, Murali Annavaram and Salman Avestimehr. "FedML: A Research Library and Benchmark for Federated Machine Learning." NeurIPS-SpicyFL 2020. (Baidu Best Paper Award)
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Future Sketches

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
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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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Data-driven Humanitarian Mapping, KDD 2020

Neil Gaikwad from the Space Enabled research group is co-organizing the KDD Workshop on Humanitarian Mapping.
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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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RF-Grasp: Robotic Grasping of Hidden Objects

 Can robots find and grasp hidden objects?Robots are not capable of handling tasks as simple as restocking grocery store shelves as ...
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Supercomputers help researchers speed drug discovery for Covid-19

An MIT research team is using supercomputers to help develop a drug to treat the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
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Augmented Eternity and Swappable Identities

Have you ever wondered what a friend would do if she was in your decision-making situation? Or thought about where a family mem...
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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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Study shows online school reviews reflect school demographics more than effectiveness

Language analysis reveals possible reinforcement of race- and income-based achievement gap.
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FedML: A Research Library and Benchmark for Federated Machine Learning

In this work, we introduce FedML, an open research library and benchmark that facilitates the development of new 'federated learning algo...
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dementAI

 dementAI is an open-source platform for modeling risk stratification of Alzheimer's dementia using spontaneous speech through ...
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SeqCLR: Self-supervised learning of features for time-series data

Interpreting human electroencephalogram (EEG) is a challenging task and requires years of medical training. We present a framework for le...
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DAMS: Differentially Private Sketching Data Structures

We propose an improved private count-mean-sketch data structure and show its applicability to differentially private contact tr...
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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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Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Center for Civic Media
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Convolutional neural network for combined classification of fluorescent biomarkers and expert annotations using white light images

G. Yauney, K. Angelino, D. A. Edlund, P. Shah. IEEE 17th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (2017). DOI: 10.1109/BIBE.2017.00-37
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Automated segmentation of gingival diseases from oral images

A. Rana, G. Yauney, L. C. Wong, O. Gupta, A. Muftu, P. Shah. IEEE Healthcare Innovations and Point of Care Technologies (HI-POCT). IEEE (2017). DOI: 10.1109/HIC.2017.8227605
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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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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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Machine Learning from Biomarker Signatures and Correlation to Systemic Health Conditions

Imaging fluorescent disease biomarkers in tissues and skin is a non-invasive method to screen for health conditions. We report an automat...
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Machine Learning and Automated Segmentation of Oral Diseases Using Biomarker Images

We report a novel method that processes biomarker images collected at the point of care and uses machine learning algorithms to provide a...
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Machine Learning for Combined Classification of Fluorescent Biomarkers and Expert Annotations Using White Light Images

Biomarker imaging provides non-invasive indicators of disease and is used by human experts to augment disease diagnosis. It is, however, ...
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Digital Clinical Trials with Novel Machine Learning and AI Architectures

Dr. Shah was an invited speaker and a contributor at The National Cancer Policy Forum developed workshop series at the The National Acade...
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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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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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Personalized Modeling of Real-World Vocalizations from Nonverbal Individuals

Narain, J.*, Johnson, K.T.*, Ferguson, C., O’Brien, A., Talkar, T., Zhang, Y., Wofford, P., Quatieri, T., Picard, R.W.,Maes, P., "Personalized Modeling of Real-World Vocalizations from Nonverbal Individuals," Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), Utrecht, Netherlands, October 2020. (*Co-first authors/Equal contribution)
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Theme | Mobility On-Demand

Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and...
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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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Gobo

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...
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Viral Communications

Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
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Split Learning: Distributed and collaborative learning

Split Learning: Distributed deep learning without sharing raw data Project Page: https://splitlearning.github.io/Abstract: ...