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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Viral Communications

Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
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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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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change
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Open Agriculture (OpenAg)

Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
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Knowledge Futures

Knowledge Futures
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Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)

Digital Currency Initiative
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Open Ocean

Open Ocean
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Dormio: Interfacing with Dreams to Augment Human Creativity

Sleep is a forgotten country of the mind: A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a third of our ...
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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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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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City Science Lab Hamburg

Read more about this project hereMIT City Science is working with Hafencity University to develop CityScope for the neighborhood of Rothe...
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CityScope Riyadh

We recently led a workshop in Saudi Arabia, with staff from the Riyadh Development Authority, to test a new version of our CityScope plat...
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Cognimates: collaborative creative learning with embodied intelligent agents

Cognimates is a platform where parents and children (7-10 years old) participate in creative programming activities in which they l...
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GSK Places Initiative

This project is part of a parallel research endeavor with GSK Manufacturing. By simulating how scientists at the Upper Providence site in...
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GSK Manufacturing Initiative

This project is the first of two projects in collaboration with GSK. We are developing a computational simulation that allows a human use...
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GeoBits

This is an open source geo spatial exploration tool. Using various public APIs including Open Street Map and the United States Census, we...
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"Bits and Bricks" Wins Best Demo Award at IEEE Future Technologies Conference

Ira Winder and the Tactile Matrix won the award for best demonstration at the IEEE Future Technologies Conference.
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Singapore Pedestrian Accessibility

This project focused on pedestrian accessibility in collaboration with Singapore Centre for Liveable Cities. Researchers and planners cam...
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MIT Libraries Host Grand Challenges Summit

Experts in information science and scholarly communication convene at MIT to set research agenda.
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GUI3D

GUI3D Template is a generic implementation of the GUI components that anyone might want for a 3D simulation in Processing 3. Compone...
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Tactile Matrix

Tangible interactive matrix for real-time computation and 3D projection mappingThe Tactile Matrix is a system for an illuminated, machine...
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CityScope PlayGround: MIT East Campus

This project depicts the design, deployment and operation of a Tangible Regulation Platform, a physical-technological apparatus made for ...
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Andorra | Dynamic Urban Planning

View the main City Science Andorra project profile.Research in dynamic tools, mix users (citizens, workers) amenities, services, and land...
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CityScope Boston BRT

The Mobility Futures Collaborative in the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) and the Changing Places grou...
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Last Mile Logistics

Developed by Ira Winder with the MIT Centre for Transportation and Logistics, the model seeks to use real population data and create a si...
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Open Source Estrogen

Biomolecules to biopolitics: hormones with institutional biopower! Open Source Estrogen combines do-it-yourself science, body and gender ...
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Open Leadership Camp

The Open Leadership Camp (OLC) is a new type of professional development program for senior leaders of nonprofit and public sector organi...
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Lit: A Lightning Network Node

The Lightning Network is the leading solution for extending digital currencies to global scale, starting with Bitcoin.  Lit is an op...
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Open Badges: A Low-Cost Toolkit for Measuring Team Communication and Dynamics

Lederman, O., Calacci, D., MacMullen, A., Fehder, D. C., Murray, F. E., & Pentland, A. ". (2016). Open Badges: A Low-Cost Toolkit for Measuring Team Communication and Dynamics, 2016 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation , Washington DC, USA, June 28-July 1, 2016.
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Blockchain Certificates

Blockchain Certificates is a set of tools, software, and strategies to store and manage digital credentials. Certificates are registered ...
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Unhangout

Unhangout is an open source platform for running large-scale, participant-driven events online.Each event has a landing page, which we ca...
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The High-Tech Future of Farming

Caleb Harper is interviewed at the 2016 Aspen Ideas Festival.
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Open Gender Tracker

Open Gender Tracker is a suite of open-source tools and APIs that make it easy for newsrooms and media monitors to collect metrics and ga...
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