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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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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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Affective Computing

Advancing wellbeing using new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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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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Healthy Blockchain

Achieving a safe privacy-preserving information sharing environment for individualized care using blockchain-based technology in multiple...
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
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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. "Personalized Machine Learning for Robot Perception of Affect and Engagement in Autism Therapy," Pre-print on arXiv. Feb 2018.
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CityMatrix

CityMatrix - An Urban Decision Support System Augmented by Artificial IntelligenceThesis CitationZhang, Yan. “CityMatrix – An Urban Decis...
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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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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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Importance of Sleep Data in Predicting Next-Day Stress, Happiness, and Health in College Students

Taylor, S., Jaques, N., Nosakhare, E., Sano, A., Klerman, E., and Picard, R. "Importance of Sleep Data in Predicting Next-Day Stress, Happiness, and Health in College Students," Sleep2017, June 2017.
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Fluid Interfaces

Inventing the next-generation mobile device—highly personalized, wearable, and immersive—to support our unique needs and goals
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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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SNAPSHOT Study

The SNAPSHOT study seeks to measure Sleep, Networks, Affect, Performance, Stress, and Health using Objective Techniques. It is an NIH-fun...
Article Research

Machine behavior needs to be an academic discipline

We cannot certify that an AI agent is ethical by looking at its source code.
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Open Ocean

Open Ocean
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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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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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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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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change
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Open Agriculture (OpenAg)

Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
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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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Impact Award for Media Lab work at 2018 Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI)

"A model of textual affect sensing using real-world knowledge," a 2003 paper by Fluid Interfaces alum Hugo Liu and former ...
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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...
Thesis Research

CityMatrix - An Urban Decision Support System Augmented by Artificial Intelligence

Zhang, Yan. “CityMatrix – An Urban Decision Support System Augmented by Artificial Intelligence.” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017.
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The Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence

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Scalable Cooperation

Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
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RoboChain: A Secure Data-Sharing Framework for Human-Robot Interaction
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Gender Shades

The Gender Shades project pilots an intersectional approach to inclusive product testing for AI.Algorithmic Bias PersistsGender Shades is...
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Advancing Wellbeing

Advancing Wellbeing
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Even when spotting gender, current face recognition tech works better for white dudes

A new review of face recognition software found that, when identifying gender, the software is most accurate for men with light skin...
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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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Joy Buolamwini: How does facial recognition software see skin color?
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Why facial recognition software has trouble recognizing people of color
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Study finds gender and skin-type bias in commercial artificial-intelligence systems

Examination of facial-analysis software shows error rate of 0.8 percent for light-skinned men, 34.7 percent for dark-skinned women.
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Facial recognition software is biased towards white men, researcher finds

New research out of MIT’s Media Lab is underscoring what other experts have reported or at least suspected before: facial recognition tec...
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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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Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence

Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
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AI is working to make moviegoers more emotional

An AI algorithm can predict which parts of a film will generate the greatest emotional responses in audiences.
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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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Human-Robot Trust

Unconventional mixing of research fields introduces a new method to study human behavior using social robots.
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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.
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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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Viral Communications

Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
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MIT trained an AI to tug at your heartstrings (and purse strings)

Researchers want to know what images make us feel more attached to other people. They call their project “Deep Empathy.”
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Molecular Machines

Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
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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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Shelley: Human-AI Collaborated Horror Stories

Project website: shelley.ai Human-AI collaborated stories: stories.shelley.ai Follow @shelley_ai to collaborate ...
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Teaching an AI about empathy — and learning about ourselves

At UNICEF Innovation, we’re supporting our partners to help build models that give us a better understanding of empathy. We hear in the n...
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"El robot que escribe libros de terror" Oppenheimer Presenta # 1741

Research scientist Manuel Cebrian discusses Shelley with CNN en Español host Andrés Oppenheimer. 
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AI is learning how to make you cry at the movies

New research can predict how plots, images, and music affect your emotions while watching a movie.
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AI in storytelling: Machines as cocreators

Computers don’t cry during sad stories, but they can tell when we will.
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A team of MIT scientists taught an AI to get emotional over movies

Artificial intelligence (AI) may not be ready to write the next blockbuster movie, but a team of AI researchers from the Massachuset...
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge
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What countries' constitutions reveal about how societies evolve

Timing can be everything when it comes to successfully expanding constitutional rights. Now, a study looking at how constitutions around ...
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Deep Empathy

What would your city look like after a disaster? Deep Empathy is a collaboration between the Scalable Coope...
Article Research

AI and the future of work

At EmTech 2017, Iyad Rahwan discusses how can we anticipate and respond to major disruptions from artificial intelligence, the web, and s...
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AI and the future of work, Q&A with Iyad Rahwan and Elizabeth Woyke

At EmTech 2017, Iyad Rahwan discussed artificial intelligence, urbanization, and the future of work with MIT Technology Review senior edi...
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Big problems, big data solutions

At EmTech 2017, Deb Roy discusses how insights gained from big data and machine learning can help us monitor the social impact of new tec...
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Gobo

Take control of your social feed.Gobo is a social media aggregator with filters you control. You can use Gobo to control what’s edited ou...
Article Research

An artificial intelligence bot writes stories of the macabre

“Shelley” is an artificial intelligence bot who writes stories inspired by a subreddit of aspiring horror writers.
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MIT researchers trained an AI to write horror stories based on 140,000 Reddit posts

Sometimes the scariest place to be is your own mind. Or Reddit at night.Shelley is an AI program that generates the beginnings of horror ...
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Think AI is scary already? This software writes its own horror stories

Shelley's artificial neural network takes turns with humans in collaborative storytelling.
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MIT researchers bring a horror fiction-writing robot named Shelley to life

With its increasingly humanlike design, artificial intelligence gives many people the creeps—though usually not intentionally. But a new ...
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These horror stories created by artificial intelligence are the stuff of nightmares

An artificial intelligence is creating worlds where possessed dolls and other creatures chase after frightened, helpless h...
Article Research

Can artificial intelligence learn to scare us?

With Shelley, the world’s first artificial intelligence-human horror story collaboration, MIT researchers aim for goosebumps.
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Can AI learn to scare us? With Shelley, MIT researchers aim for goosebumps

Introducing Shelley: the world’s first AI-human horror story collaboration
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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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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 (...
Publication Research

Tuning Recurrent Neural Networks with Reinforcement Learning

Jaquesn, N., Gu, S., Turner, R., and Eck, D. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) workshop, Toulon, France, April 2017
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Visible Communities

Vast regions of the world are unmapped by com­mercial services, and communities living there are digitally invisible. Visible Communities...
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