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The rise of data privacy breaches and a look into policies that address these challenges
Let’s Talk Privacy explores how the implementation of privacy and data governance policies might impact a variety of fields.Project Let’s...
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Space Exploration Initiative
Digital Currency Initiative
Looking beyond smart cities
Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Designing systems for cognitive enhancement
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and...
A consortium established last year to develop a rating to measure how well satellites comply with space sustainability guidelines expects to
Neha Narula joined experts discussing the privacy and security concerns around China's digital currency.
This is a two-part project. One part is about reality. The other part is science fiction. Both are about mobile, blockchain, and cryptogr...
US elections have become more “unstable,” sometimes swinging in the opposite direction from the greater electorate’s preferences.
Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
Major political campaigns and nonprofit organizations use bespoke systems to organize, inform, and solicit members. These top-down system...
We already have all the tools we need to fix climate change. We just need to use them.
The first MIT Computational Law report features an essay by Sandy Pentland, head of the Human Dynamics group.
Paper Dreams explores how human creativity can be supported by artificial intelligence.Prior research on AI and creativity has primarily ...
The relationship between news content and its presentation has been a long-studied problem in the communications domain. Often, chan...
Neha Narula and Gary Gensler joined other experts to explore the potential impacts of digital currencies on national and global security.
Neha Narula and Gary Gensler participated in a simulated “digital currency war” at Harvard’s Belfer Center.
To help the region catch up, students organize summit to bring Latin policymakers and researchers to MIT.
Congratulations to Joy Buolamwini and Amanda Nguyen for being recognized in the "Advocates" category.
The RadioTalk corpus includes speech recognition transcripts sampled from talk radio broadcasts in the United States between October of 2...
Political science doctoral student Clara Vandeweerdt studies how identity shapes beliefs on complex political topics such as climate change.
Commending a formidable variety of international change-makers driving digital transformation in government.
Opinion: The push to ban unwanted “dark patterns” from apps and sites may also take away certain features users want.
Cindy Sherman Bishop developed a new method for image analysis to analyze the spring 2019 abortion legislation and related news coverage.
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
“Can a man know the truth and tell it to the greatest number and still be misunderstood? Can one man be of the many and still be known?” ...
Media Cloud is a platform for studying media ecosystems. By tracking millions of stories published online, the system allows researchers ...
CE 2.0
Creating technology for social change
Community Biotechnology
Transforming data into knowledge
Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better
The Association of Internet Researchers has recognized alum Erhardt Graeff, now an assistant professor of social and computer science at ...
Civic technology should empower us as citizens. But despite its breadth as a field, civic technology often takes its lead from Silicon Va...
Advancing Wellbeing
How to build intelligent music systems out of interacting audio-processing agents.
Opera of the Future head Tod Machover talks to Korea JoongAng Daily about “Symphony for the Koreas.”
Symphony for the Koreas will be the latest installment of the celebrated City Symphony series. Over the next few years, Tod Machover and ...
Opera of the Future head Tod Machover reflects on the recent peace workshop and concert on Jeju Island
Ethan Zuckerman speaks at a gathering of Senators and Representatives who came to MIT for an Aspen Institute event in May, 2019.
We must, however, make changes in the way we fund potential solutions so that it supports a diversity of disciplines and approaches.
For decades, the International Space Station (ISS) has operated as a bastion of international cooperation and a unique testbed for microg...
Earlier studies proved that behavior is highly shaped and constrained by one's social networks, and demonstrated ways in which individual...
Joi Ito calls for responsible stewardship of the commons beyond our planet.
Ito shares his thoughts on the difficulty of making the right decisions in the face of what, to the public, appears to be obviously wrong.
Ethan Zuckerman reflects on a year of research with collaborators to determine how the French media landscape differs from that of the US.
Bias by us envisions a future of media diversity by understanding the bias of today.Our work seeks to understand how the US media ec...
The Electome: Where AI meets political journalismThe Electome project is a machine-driven mapping and analysis of public sphere content a...
Civic Entertainment is a project based at the Center for Civic Media that explores the intersection of civic engagement with film, televi...
Researchers say new facilities in space should be available to scientists from any country.
A bold idea to replace politicians
Liberals and conservatives alike love—and fear—the idea of giving free money to everyone. But we have to try it anyway.
Social Mirror is a web application that helps Twitter users interactively explore the politically active parts of their social network. ...
This 2018 AI and Governance Assembly project, EqualAIs, was a multifaceted investigation into the technical, policy and societal question...
MIT Technology Review Article featuring LSM research