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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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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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Machine Learning Algorithms for Classification of Microcirculation Images from Septic and Non-Septic Patients

IEEE Xplore, Proceedings of 2018 17th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (Conference acceptance rate: 14%)
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Computational Histological Staining and Destaining of Prostate Core Biopsy RGB Images with Generative Adversarial Neural Networks

IEEE Xplore, Proceedings of 2018 17th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (Conference acceptance rate: 14%)
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Food Server

The OpenAg™ Food Server is a shipping container-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology that can be built to utilize hydropo...
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Open Agriculture (OpenAg)

Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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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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Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
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Health 0.0

Health 0.0
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Advancing Wellbeing

Advancing Wellbeing
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Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence

Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
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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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Open Ocean

Open Ocean
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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RFIQ: Food quality and safety detection using wireless stickers

​We have developed a wireless system that leverages the inexpensive RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to sense potent...
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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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Research Area | Artificial Intelligence for Drug Discovery and Clinical Trials

In our published research findings we describe validation of novel machine learning architectures, with automated learning and prediction...
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Research Area | Unorthodox Machine Learning Solutions for Cancer, Oral, and Infectious Diseases

Our published research findings listed below describe new paradigms for low-cost biomarker imaging and clinical diagnoses by obviating th...
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Viral Communications

Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
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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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Build a Personal Food Computer

OpenAg is committed to changing the way the world thinks about farming and food—and we need your help! As an open source project, we beli...
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
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Scalable Cooperation

Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
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Affective Computing

Advancing wellbeing by using new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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Personal Food Computer

The OpenAg™ Personal Food Computer is a tabletop-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology platform that uses robotic systems ...
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge
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Pathways

Our social networks influence our sense of what's possible: we can't aspire to be cancer researchers, activists, or artificial intelligen...
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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change
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Artificial Listener with Social Intelligence

A social robot modifies its behavior to change what you think about it!
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A Voting-Based System for Ethical Decision Making

The problem of ethical decision making presents  a grand challenge for modern AI research. Arguably the main obstacle to automating ...
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Artificial Intelligence for Drug Discovery and Clinical Trials

Pharmaceutical clinical development is on the verge of a major revolution due to the convergence of large new data sources, the computing...
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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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Calibration Invariant Imaging

Object Classification through Scattering Media with Deep LearningA method for classifying objects hidden behind a scattering layer w...
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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 evol...
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SMART^2 OPAL

Privacy-preserving mHealth application using Open Algorithm (OPAL) architecture to address urgent care challenges in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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OPEN TrialChain

In this project, we are motivated to address clinical trials issues using Blockchain technology. We propose, OPEN TrialChain, a privacy-p...
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Healthy Blockchain

Achieving a safe privacy-preserving information sharing environment for individualized care using blockchain-based technology in multiple...
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Active Fairness in Algorithmic Decision Making

Algorithmic FairnessSociety increasingly relies on machine learning models for automated decision making. Yet, efficiency gains from auto...
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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 ...
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Human-Robot Trust

Unconventional mixing of research fields introduces a new method to study human behavior using social robots.
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HyperCubes: Learning computational concepts in Augmented Reality

HyperCubes is an augmented reality platform to help children understand computational concepts drawn from their physical surroundings, fr...
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Panorama

An interface for smashing filter bubbles, Panorama is built to allow open, transparent, and collaborative exploration of news from a...
Archived
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Active Fairness in Algorithmic Decision Making

Noriega-Campero, A., Bakker, M., Garcia-Bulle, B., & Pentland, A. (2018). Active Fairness in Algorithmic Decision Making. arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.00031.
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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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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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Molecular Machines

Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
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Personalized Machine Learning for Robot Perception of Affect and Engagement in Autism Therapy

Rudovic, O., Lee, J., Dai, M., Schuller, B. , Picard, R. W., " Personalized machine learning for robot perception of affect and engagement in autism therapy," Science Robotics, June 2018.
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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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Artificial intelligence model “learns” from patient data to make cancer treatment less toxic

Machine-learning system determines the fewest, smallest doses that could still shrink brain tumors.
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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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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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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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CultureNet: A Deep Learning Approach for Engagement Intensity Estimation from Face Images of Children with Autism

Rudovic, O., Utsumi, Y., Lee, J., Hernandez, J., Castello Ferrer, E., Schuller, B., Picard, R. "CultureNet: A Deep Learning Approach for Engagement Intensity Estimation from Face Images of Children with Autism." IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2018).
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The Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence

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Helping computers perceive human emotions

Personalized machine-learning models capture subtle variations in facial expressions to better gauge how we feel
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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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DeepMoji

Emotional content is an important part of language. There are many use cases now showing that natural language processing is becoming an ...
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Mediated Atmosphere

Smart office uses biosensors and machine learning to optimize individual work environments
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Mediated Atmosphere

The Mediated Atmosphere project envisions a smart office that is capable of dynamically transforming itself to enhance occupants' work ex...
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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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Personalized “deep learning” equips robots for autism therapy

Machine learning network offers personalized estimates of children’s behavior.
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Embracing a Future with Autonomous and Intelligent Systems

Announcing the Global Council on Extended Intelligence
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The Story Learning Machine

The Storytelling project uses machine-based analytics to identify the qualities of engaging and marketable media. By developing models wi...
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A Mixture of Personalized Experts for Human Affect Estimation

Feffer, M., Rudovic, O., Picard, R. "A Mixture of Personalized Experts for Human Affect Estimation." The 14th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining (MLDM). July 2018.
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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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Learning via social awareness: improving sketch representations with facial feedback

Jaques, N., Engel, J., Ha, D., Bertsch, F., Picard, R., and Eck, D. "Learning via social awareness: improving sketch representations with facial feedback." International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) Workshop, Vancouver, Canada, April 2018.
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Personalized Robot Storytelling Companion

Could a social robot collaboratively exchange stories with children as a peer and help improve their linguistic and storytelling skills? ...
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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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Reversed Urbanism

Predicting Urban Performance through Behavioral Patterns in Temporal Telecom DataThis study explores a novel method to analyze diverse be...