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We support computer scientists and engineers from the the Middle East to create technologies for refugee learners The Refugee Learni...
The OpenAg™ Personal Food Computer is a tabletop-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology platform that uses robotic systems ...
The Mediated Atmospheres project envisions a smart office that is capable of dynamically transforming itself to enhance occupants' work e...
This initiative is designing and disseminating new tools and pedagogies for introducing “non-prescriptive” ways of learning about ethical...
The Moral Machine is a platform for gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by machine intelligence, such as self-driving c...
As part of its broader work around learning, this project is exploring both individualized and community-based models for promoting empat...
Despite of gazillions of leadership programs across university campuses and organizations, we increasingly live in an era of leadership d...
Multimodal textile sensate media as an expressive and deformable musical interfaceIn the area of intelligent textiles, we are exploring a...
Object Classification through Scattering Media with Deep LearningA method for classifying objects hidden behind a scattering layer w...
Real-time collaborative self-expression in virtual reality.
Conversations between two individuals—whether between doctor and patient, mental health therapist and client, or between two people roman...
Bringing together a diverse group of stakeholders, this pilot examines the intersection between AI and inclusion, and explores the ways i...
BayesDB is open-source AI software that lets any programmer answer data analysis questions in seconds or minutes with a level of rigor th...
Unconventional mixing of research fields introduces a new method to study human behavior using social robots.
Social robots take an active role in the inference process by producing social cues to elicit nonverbal responses from children to better...
Can tattoos embrace technology in order to make the skin interactive?The DermalAbyss project is the result of a collaboration between MIT...
Given the cross-border impact of AI and related technologies, what are appropriate and workable governance mechanisms that can operate at...
The VerifAI project aims to build the technical and legal foundations necessary to establish a due process framework for auditing a...
We are developing methods of controlling the genetic and cellular composition of microbial communities in the gut. Stably colonized micro...
Responsive Science is a way of conducting research that invites openness and community involvement from the earliest stages of each proje...
While there are a number of literacy technology solutions developed for individuals, the role of social—or networked—literacy learning is...
The CivilServant project supports online communities to run their own experiments on the effects of moderation practices on antisocial be...
Recent rapid advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning have raised many questions about the regulatory and governance...
We introduce MetaQNN, a meta-modeling algorithm based on reinforcement learning to automatically generate high-performing CNN architectur...
Computer vision uncovers predictors of physical urban change
DuoSkin is a fabrication process that enables anyone to create customized functional devices that can be attached directly to the skin. U...
Social Mirror is a web application that helps Twitter users interactively explore the politically-active parts of their social network. ...
We believe that tough global health problems require an innovation pipeline. We must bring together the people and providers facing healt...
Computation photography applied to imaging the middle ear for infections.
SPRING is a custom-built hardware and software platform for children with neuro-differences. The system automates data acquisition, optim...
Technological advances in the past decade have allowed us to take a close look at the proteomes of living organisms. As a result, more th...
Opinion aggregation on social media uses various mechanisms, such as "Likes" or thumbs-up/-down, which handle a single item at a time. I...
We present AnimaStage: a hands-on animated craft platform based on an actuated stage. Utilizing a pin-based shape display, users can anim...
Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the US and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang...
The Open Leadership Camp (OLC) is a new type of professional development program for senior leaders of nonprofit and public sector organi...
Supporting self-expression through story telling and story remixing.StoryBlocks is a mobile application where children can create stories...
The spread of malicious or accidental misinformation in social media, especially in time-sensitive situations such as real-world emergenc...
Light enables our visual perception. It is the most common medium for displaying digital information. Light regulates our circadian rhyth...
Tree is a virtual experience that transforms you into a rainforest tree. With your arms as branches and body as the trunk, you experience...
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 ...
Creating long-term interpersonal interaction and shared experiences with social robots. Many of our current projects explore the use of s...
Climate change is going to alter the environments that we depend on in myriad ways. We're using data to identify and quantify these poten...
Lower-extremity amputation surgery has not seen significant change since the Civil War. This research is focused on the development of no...
The Internet has unleashed the capacity for planetary-scale collective problem solving (also known as crowdsourcing). However, the very o...
The Honest Crowds project addresses shortcomings of traditional survey techniques in the modern information and big data age. Web survey ...
As advances in robotics and artificial intelligence revive concerns about the impact of automation on jobs, a question looms: How will au...
The Huggable is a new type of robotic companion for health care, education, and social communication applications. The Huggable is much m...
Early literacy plays an important role in a child's future. However, the reality is that over 57 million children have no access to a sch...
The process by which children learn native languages is markedly different from the process of learning a second, or non-native, language...
Tega is a new robot platform designed to support long-term, in-home interactions with children, with applications in early-literacy educa...
We developed a concept of transformative appetite, where edible 2D films made of common food materials (protein, cellulose or starch) can...
The Andorra Living Lab project combines different research topics (Tourism, Innovation, Energy & Environment, Mobility, Dynamic urban...
The initiative, working with George Church, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, and Kevin Esvelt, head of the Sculpting Evol...
Amoeba Wall: A context aware wall system: Amoetecture is a set of amoeba-like dynamic spatial elements, including transformable floo...
The Reality Editor is a web browser for the physical world: Point your phone or tablet at a physical object and an interface pops up with...
Is it possible to experience being another life form? Created by Yedan Qian (Umeå Institute of Design) and Xin LIU from Fluid I...
Have you ever wondered what would a friend do if she was in your decision-making situation? Or thought about where a family member might ...
Leveraging the power of platforms, big data, and advanced analytics for species protection and the public good in a privacy-preserving, s...
Cells’ biomechanical responses to external stimuli have been intensively studied but rarely implemented into devices that interact w...
Ant-Based Modeling explores the possibility of implementing agent-based modeling with living ants and external stimuli such as ...
Mission Wildlife is a research collaboration between San Diego Zoo Global and the MIT Center for Civic Media to explore the pot...
The Tidmarsh project is interested in the documentation of ecological processes to understand their spatial and temporal evolution. Its c...
Doppelmarsh is a cross-reality sensor data browser built for experimenting with presence and multimodal sensory experiences. Built on evo...
We introduce a family of fragile electronic musical instruments designed to be “played” through the act of destruction. Each Fragile Inst...
The reproductive organs of the female body have long been a site of contention, where opposing ideologies in religion, politics, and cult...
The Lightning Network is the leading solution for extending digital currencies to global scale, starting with Bitcoin. Lit is an op...
We introduce Zensei, an implicit sensing system that leverages bio-sensing, signal processing, and machine learning to classify uninstrum...