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Signal Kinetics

Extending human and computer abilities in sensing, communication, and actuation through signals and networks
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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If You Ever Read An Article on Online Voting: Make It This One

"Out of those approximately 17,000 articles, I profoundly enjoyed and learned from this one, written by Alex Berke, MIT Media Lab."
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Crypto Voting + US Elections: Reality and Science Fiction

This is a two-part project. One part is about reality. The other part is science fiction. Both are about mobile, blockchain, and cryptogr...
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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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CivicLink

Major political campaigns and nonprofit organizations use bespoke systems to organize, inform, and solicit members. These top-down system...
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Corporate surveillance of the commons + Amazon Ring

As of August 2019, Ring has active partnerships with over 400 law enforcement agencies across the US. These partnerships allow law enforc...
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Ring’s hidden data let us map Amazon's sprawling home surveillance network

By Dell Cameron and Dhruv MehrotraAs reporters raced this summer to bring new details of Ring’s law enforcement contracts ...
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The Tradeoff Between the Utility and Risk of Location Data and Implications for Public Good

Berke, Alex, Calacci, Dan, Larson, Kent, Pentland, Alex (Sandy), "The Tradeoff Between the Utility and Risk of Location Data and Implications for Public Good," arXiv.org, 2019.
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Secure and secret cooperation of robotic swarms by using Merkle trees

Castello Ferrer, E., Hardjono, T., Pentland, Alex ('Sandy'). (2019, April 22). Secure and secret cooperation of robotic swarms by using Merkle trees. Retrieved from https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.09266
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Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)

Digital Currency Initiative
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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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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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Urban Swarms

Modern cities have to respond to the growing demands of more efficient and sustainable urban development, as well as an increased quality...
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Managing Byzantine Robots via Blockchain Technology in a Swarm Robotics Collective Decision Making Scenario

Volker Strobel, Eduardo Castelló Ferrer, and Marco Dorigo. 2018. Managing Byzantine Robots via Blockchain Technology in a Swarm Robotics Collective Decision Making Scenario. In Proc. of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2018), Stockholm, Sweden, July 10–15, 2018, IFAAMAS
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The blockchain: a new framework for robotic swarm systems

Castelló Ferrer E. (2019) The Blockchain: A New Framework for Robotic Swarm Systems. In: Arai K., Bhatia R., Kapoor S. (eds) Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2018. FTC 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 881. Springer, Cham
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RFind: Extreme localization for billions of items

Presenting RFind, a new technology that allows us to locate almost any object with extreme accuracy by transforming low-cost, battery-fre...
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Living Mobile

Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions
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Responsible disclosure in the era of cryptocurrencies

My experience disclosing a critical Bitcoin Cash vulnerability
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Reducing the risk of catastrophic cryptocurrency bugs

Projects should take steps to ensure that responsible disclosure is the easiest, safest and most lucrative response.
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Intrepid

Every 98 seconds, a person in the United States is sexually abused. Every 16 hours, a woman in the United States is murdered by her ...
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In an engineering paper, bunnie Huang and Ed Snowden describe a malware-resistant hardware Iphone privacy overlay

In July 2016, Andrew "bunnie" Huang and Edward Snowden presented their research on journalist-friendly mobile surveillance resistance at ...
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A Malicious Activity Detection System Utilizing Predictive Modeling in Complex Environments

Almaatouq, Abdullah, et al. "A malicious activity detection system utilizing predictive modeling in complex environments." 2014 IEEE 11th Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC). IEEE, 2014. APA