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EngageME: Machine Learning for Autism Therapy

Personalized machine learning and humanoid robots for measuring affect and engagement of children with autismEngageME is a project aimed ...
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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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Open Ocean

Open Ocean
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Embracing a Future with Autonomous and Intelligent Systems

Announcing the Global Council on Extended Intelligence
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge
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Scalable Cooperation

Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Affective Computing

Advancing wellbeing by using new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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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" .
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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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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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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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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change
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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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Open Agriculture (OpenAg)

Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
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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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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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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
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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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Fluid Interfaces

Wearable and immersive systems for cognitive enhancement and personal growth
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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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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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Health 0.0

Health 0.0
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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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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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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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Healthy Blockchain

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

Realtime detection of social cues in children’s voicesIn everyday conversation, people use what are known as backchannels to signal to so...
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Predicting Trust Between People

Machine learning model outperforms human judgementOur computational trust model is capable of predicting—above human accuracy—the degree ...
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Norman

We present Norman, world's first psychopath AI. Norman was inspired by the fact that the data used to teach a machine learning algorithm ...
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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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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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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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Artificial Intelligence for Drug Discovery and Clinical Trials

Phase 3 clinical trial outcomes used to evaluate new drugs, therapies and vaccines are among the most complex experiments performed in me...
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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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SNAPSHOT Study

The SNAPSHOT study seeks to measure Sleep, Networks, Affect, Performance, Stress, and Health using Objective Techniques. It is an NIH-fun...
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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. "Convolutional Neural Network for Combined Classification of Fluorescent Biomarkers and Expert Annotations using White Light Images." 2017 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. "Automated segmentation of gingival diseases from oral images." 2017 IEEE Healthcare Innovations and Point of Care Technologies (HI-POCT). IEEE. 2017. DOI: 10.1109/HIC.2017.8227605
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RoboChain: A Secure Data-Sharing Framework for Human-Robot Interaction

Eduardo Castello Ferrer, Ognjen Rudovic, Thomas Hardjono, Alex Pentland, “RoboChain: A Secure Data-Sharing Framework for Human-Robot Interaction” eTELEMED 2018.
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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...
Article Research

Machines now know how to terrorise humans

The Shelley Project studies how to produce horror stories as a result of collaboration between humans and artificial intelligence.
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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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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...
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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...
Center for Civic Media
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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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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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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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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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...
Post Research

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 ...
Course Research

The Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence

Course information
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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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Joy Buolamwini: How does facial recognition software see skin color?
Article Research

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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Human-Robot Trust

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

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.