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Project Research

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Clinical Development: A Translational Perspective

Technical summary: Future of clinical development is on the verge of a major transformation due to convergence of large new digital data ...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah · Francis Kendall
#computer vision #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +11 more
Project Research

Research Area | Application, Interpretability and Clinical Translation of Deep Learning Algorithms for Medical Images

Research in our laboratory reduces dependence on specialized medical imaging devices, biological and chemical processes and creates new p...

in Health 0.0
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #health +8 more
Project Research

Deep Learning to Develop and Analyze Computational Hematoxylin and Eosin Staining of Tissue Images for Digital Biopsies

Staining of tissues sections using chemical and biological dyes has been used for over a century for visualizing various tissue types and...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #bioengineering +8 more
Project Research

Automated End-to-End Deep Learning Framework for Classification and Tumor Localization from Native Non-stained Pathology Images

This study reports an end-to-end deep learning framework for virtual H&E staining, automatic classification, and localization of pros...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #bioengineering +3 more
Project Research

Detect DeepFakes: How to counteract misinformation created by AI

How do you spot a DeepFake? How good are DeepFake videos? How well can ordinary people tell the difference between a video manipulated by...

Matthew Groh · Ziv Epstein +1 more
#artificial intelligence #human-machine interaction #social science +1 more
Project Research

AlterEgo

AlterEgo is a  non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with mach...

in Fluid Interfaces
Arnav Kapur · Eric Wadkins +1 more
#design #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +8 more
Project Research

RF-Grasp: Robotic Grasping of Hidden Objects

 Can robots find and grasp hidden objects?Robots are not capable of handling tasks as simple as restocking grocery store shelves as ...

in Signal Kinetics
Tara Boroushaki · Junshan Leng +2 more
#robotics #computer vision #artificial intelligence +4 more
Project Research

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...

in Human Dynamics
Hossein Rahnama
#artificial intelligence #data #social science +3 more
Project Research

Cyber Joe: AI Mentor for MIT Media Lab Students of 2050

This video interview is a part of Media Lab X.0: Anthology of Tomorrows.In 2020, first-year PhD students at the MIT Media Lab were t...

Pat Pataranutaporn · Nikhil Singh +3 more
#artificial intelligence #learning
Project Research

FedML: A Research Library and Benchmark for Federated Machine Learning

In this work, we introduce FedML, an open research library and benchmark that facilitates the development of new 'federated learning algo...

in Camera Culture
Praneeth Vepakomma · Abhishek Singh +1 more
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #health +2 more
Project Research

iNonymize: Empathetic Anonymity in Tele-Mental Health Using AI Generated Avatars

This project was selected to represent MIT at the Microsoft Design Expo 2020 on ‘Healthier Futures.’ iNonymizeA tele-mental health p...

in Fluid Interfaces
Joanne Leong · Pat Pataranutaporn +1 more
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #communications +3 more
Project Research

Curriculum: Power + AI

Check out the project site here. The pursuit of justice in AI requires more than just tweaking the numbers. It requires us to “study up”...

Chelsea Barabas
#artificial intelligence #civic technology
Project Research

Judicial Risk Assessment

In this speculative project, we "flipped the script" on a widespread narrative regarding the use of algorithmic risk assessment for crimi...

in Civic Media
Chelsea Barabas
#artificial intelligence
Project Research

dementAI

 dementAI is an open-source platform for modeling risk stratification of Alzheimer's dementia using spontaneous speech through ...

Utkarsh Sarawgi · Pattie Maes
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #health +5 more
Project Research

DAMS: Differentially Private Sketching Data Structures

We propose an improved private count-mean-sketch data structure and show its applicability to differentially private contact tr...

in Camera Culture
Praneeth Vepakomma
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #data +6 more
Project Research

Research Area | Emergent Neural Networks to Redesign Clinical Testing of Medicines and Learning from Real World Evidence

Real World Data (RWD) and Real World Evidence (RWE) are playing an increasing role in healthcare decisions to support innovative use of E...

in Health 0.0
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #health +8 more
Project Research

Self-Learning AI Model Learns from Patient Data to Design Novel Clinical Trials

Technical summaryUnstructured learning problems without well-defined rewards are unsuitable for current reinforcement learning (RL) appro...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #bioengineering +8 more
Project Research

Project Us

“Us” aims to help people develop their sense of empathy. It uses machine learning to analyze interlocutors’ signals (e.g., tone of voice,...

in Fluid Interfaces
Camilo Rojas · Gaurav Patekar +1 more
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #wearable computing +1 more
Project Research

Helping Emergency Care Physicians Diagnose Sepsis and Bacterial Infections with Machine Learning and Vision

General overview:Sepsis, a life-threatening complication of bacterial infection, leads to millions of worldwide deaths requires significa...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#computer vision #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +7 more
Project Research

AI Methods for Rapid Automated Staining and Destaining of Tissue Biopsies in Hospitals

General OverviewStaining of tissues sections using chemical and biological dyes has been used for over a century for visualizing various ...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#artificial intelligence #health #pharmaceuticals +7 more
Project Research

Machine Learning from Biomarker Signatures and Correlation to Systemic Health Conditions

Imaging fluorescent disease biomarkers in tissues and skin is a non-invasive method to screen for health conditions. We report an automat...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #health +3 more
Project Research

Digital Clinical Trials with Novel Machine Learning and AI Architectures

Dr. Shah was an invited speaker and a contributor at The National Cancer Policy Forum developed workshop series at the The National Acade...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#artificial intelligence #synthetic biology #machine learning +5 more
Project Research

Theme | Mobility On-Demand

Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and...

in City Science
Abhishek Agarwal · Kent Larson +8 more
#robotics #design #artificial intelligence +11 more
Project Research

Dormio: Interfacing with Dreams

InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a th...

in Civic Media · Fluid Interfaces · Personal Robots
Adam Haar Horowitz · Ishaan Grover +4 more
#human-computer interaction #art #artificial intelligence +15 more
Project Research

PAL: a wearable on-device deep learning platform for personalized, context-aware, and closed-loop real-time support

OverviewPAL is a  wearable platform for personalized, context-aware, and always-present user change.  PAL has mu...

in Fluid Interfaces
Mina Khan · Glenn Fernandes +3 more
#artificial intelligence #health #sensors +4 more
Project Research

Gobo

Your social media. Your rules.Gobo is an experiment, not a startup. We’re building it to change the conversation on social media and imag...

in Civic Media · Center for Civic Media
Belen Saldias Fuentes · Dennis Jen +5 more
#artificial intelligence #civic media #civic technology +2 more
Project Research

Using Shadows to See Behind Objects

The full text of our paper is available here.Sometimes the thing that we want to see is hidden behind something else. A neighboring vehi...

in Camera Culture
Connor Henley · Tomohiro Maeda +2 more
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #augmented reality +2 more
Project Research

Safe Paths

Papers from SafePaths: https://github.com/PrivateKit/PrivacyDocumentsSafe Paths is an MIT-led, free, open source technology tha...

in Camera Culture · Sculpting Evolution
Ramesh Raskar · Alex 'Sandy' Pentland +1 more
#artificial intelligence #communications #data +7 more
Project Research

Splintering with distributions: A stochastic decoy scheme for private computation

We present a stochastic scheme for splitting the client data into privatized shares that are transmitted to the server in such settings. ...

in Camera Culture
Ramesh Raskar · Praneeth Vepakomma
#artificial intelligence #privacy #security +1 more
Project Research

SkipNorm

Skip Norm is a new and flexible building block for Deep Learning that serves as a skip connection and normalization block simultaneously....

in Fluid Interfaces
Neo (Mostafa) Mohsenvand
#artificial intelligence #cognition
Project Research

Agonist-antagonist Myoneural Interface (AMI)

Humans can accurately sense the position, speed, and torque of their limbs, even with their eyes shut. This sense, known as proprioceptio...

in Biomechatronics · Center for Extreme Bionics
Roman Stolyarov · Matthew Carney +13 more
#robotics #artificial intelligence #bioengineering +15 more
Project Research

parkinsAI

Appropriate and adaptive treatment plans are challenging in Parkinson’s disease for several reasons.  parkinsAI models drug response...

in Fluid Interfaces
Utkarsh Sarawgi · Pattie Maes
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #health +3 more
Project Research

Migratable AI

We live in a world of personified conversational assistants (agents). We interact with these agents in our daily lives such as smart spea...

in Personal Robots
Ravi Tejwani · Sooyeon Jeong +2 more
#robotics #artificial intelligence #machine learning +1 more
Project Research

Algorithmic Justice League

www.ajl.orgAn unseen force is rising—helping to determine who is hired, granted a loan, or even how long someone spends in prison. This f...

Ethan Zuckerman · Joy Buolamwini
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #civic media +11 more
Project Research

How to Train Your Robot

How to Train Your Robot Companion is a curriculum for students in 5-8th grade to explore artificial intelligence and ethics. In this cour...

in Personal Robots
Blakeley H. Payne · Safinah Arshad Ali +3 more
#artificial intelligence #kids #learning +3 more
Project Research

Theme | Assistive Technology

Today’s assistive communication devices are far from perfect. Using state of the art small, wearable sensors and powerful machine learnin...

in Fluid Interfaces · Affective Computing
Pattie Maes · Utkarsh Sarawgi +3 more
#design #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +4 more
Project Research

Cognition-Driven Audio Summarization

As we move towards an increasingly IoT-enabled ecosystem, we find that it is easier than ever before to capture vast amounts of audio dat...

in Responsive Environments
Ishwarya Ananthabhotla · David Ramsay
#artificial intelligence #music #technology
Project Research

Scratch

Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ...

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Mitchel Resnick · Natalie Rusk +30 more
#robotics #design #art +14 more
Project Research

Modeling Auditory Memory

When we form memories, not everything that we perceive is noticed; not everything that we notice is remembered. Humans are excellent at ...

in Responsive Environments
Ishwarya Ananthabhotla · David Ramsay
#artificial intelligence #augmented reality #cognition +4 more
Project Research

Theme | CityScope

City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning c...

in City Science
Markus Elkatsha · Kent Larson +7 more
#design #computer vision #human-computer interaction +20 more
Project Research

Affective Robotic Ring

An affective robotic ring which allows users to interact with multiple robots using finger gestures.- Runs on Robotic Operating System (R...

in Personal Robots
M.S. Suryateja Jammalamadaka · Manushaqe Muco +1 more
#robotics #artificial intelligence #sensors +2 more
Project Research

AI + Data Privacy Activities for K-9 Students

Policymakers, practitioners, and researchers are grappling with some herculean questions regarding kids' safety online. Homemade sli...

in Personal Robots
Stephanie Nguyen · Daniella DiPaola +1 more
#artificial intelligence #data #kids +4 more
Project Research

Creative AI: A curriculum around creativity, generative AI, and ethics

As the presence of artificial intelligence expands significantly in children’s lives of learning and play, it is critical that students l...

in Personal Robots
Safinah Arshad Ali · Daniella DiPaola +1 more
#artificial intelligence #kids #learning +2 more
Project Research

Doodle Bot - Creative AI learning

Doodle Bot is a robot-based creative AI learning platform for high school students. It consists of an introduction to robotics, hardware,...

in Personal Robots
Cynthia Breazeal · Safinah Arshad Ali
#artificial intelligence #kids #learning +2 more
Project Research

Robot Mindset and Curiosity

Young Learner's Companion Developing robots' growth mindset and pro-curious behavior and fostering the same in young learners via lo...

in Personal Robots
Hae Won Park · Safinah Arshad Ali +2 more
#artificial intelligence #kids #learning +4 more
Project Research

The Deep Image of the City

How do you image a city that doesn't exist? DeepScope is a novel platform for interactive, real-time, and setup-less urban design vi...

in City Science
Ariel Noyman · Kent Larson
#design #human-computer interaction #architecture +4 more
Project Research

AI + Ethics Curriculum for Middle School

How do we raise conscientious consumers and designers of AI?Children today live in the age of artificial intelligence. On average, US chi...

in Personal Robots
Daniella DiPaola · Blakeley H. Payne +1 more
#design #artificial intelligence #gaming +6 more
Project Research

Vespers III

Vespers is a collection of masks exploring what it means to design (with) life. From the relic of the death mask to a contemporary living...

in Mediated Matter
Neri Oxman · Christoph Bader +4 more
#design #art #artificial intelligence +5 more
Project Research

Personalized Robot Storytelling Companion

Could a social robot collaboratively exchange stories with children as a peer and help improve their linguistic and storytelling skills? ...

in Personal Robots
Hae Won Park · Xiajie (Brayden) Zhang +9 more
#robotics #artificial intelligence #human-machine interaction +10 more
Project Research

Jibo Social Robotic Research Platform

The Jibo Research Platform is an in-the-field deployable Social Robotics experimentation and data collection infrastructure. Built upon t...

in Personal Robots
Jon Ferguson · Hae Won Park +2 more
#artificial intelligence #kids #learning +2 more
Project Research

Tega: A New Social Robot Platform

Tega is a new robot platform designed to support long-term, in-home interactions with children, with applications in early-literacy educa...

in Personal Robots
Cynthia Breazeal · Hae Won Park +3 more
#robotics #artificial intelligence #kids +3 more
Project Research

Paper Dreams

Paper Dreams explores how human creativity can be supported by artificial intelligence.Prior research on AI and creativity has primarily ...

in Fluid Interfaces
Guillermo Bernal
#design #art #artificial intelligence +8 more
Project Research

Algorithmic Decision Making and Governance in the Age of AI

Trying to catch up to a rapidly advancing technology, government agencies, industry, and academia are looking for guidance and best pract...

in Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
#artificial intelligence #government
Project Research

Lensing: Cardiolinguistics for Atypical Angina

Conversations between two individuals—whether between doctor and patient, mental health therapist and client, or between two people roman...

in Advancing Wellbeing · Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
Rosalind W. Picard · Karthik Dinakar
#artificial intelligence #health #machine learning +3 more
Project Research

Evolving Media on the Internet

Songs released on music streaming services are static, never changing after their initial release. Evolving Media proposes a content...

in Opera of the Future
Charles Holbrow
#artificial intelligence #music #technology
Project Research

CivilServant: User-led randomized trials online

The CivilServant project supports online communities to run their own experiments on the effects of moderation practices on antisocial be...

in Civic Media · Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
J Nathan Matias · Ethan Zuckerman
#artificial intelligence #civic media #civic technology +3 more
Project Research

The Electome: Measuring responsiveness in the 2016 election

The Electome: Where AI meets political journalismThe Electome project is a machine-driven mapping and analysis of public sphere content a...

in Social Machines
Deb Roy · Russell Stevens +8 more
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #data +6 more
Project Research

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...

in Affective Computing
Natasha Jaques · Rosalind W. Picard
#artificial intelligence #machine learning #affective computing
Project Research

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...

in Human Dynamics
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland · Ognjen (Oggi) Rudovic +1 more
#robotics #artificial intelligence #data +10 more
Project Research

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...

in Human Dynamics
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland · Eduardo Castello Ferrer
#robotics #artificial intelligence #data +12 more
Project Research

City Symphonies: Massive musical collaboration

The City Symphony project by the Opera of the Future group brings creative musical participation to everyone while encouraging collaborat...

in Opera of the Future
Tod Machover · Akito Oshiro van Troyer +7 more
#design #art #artificial intelligence +5 more
Project Research

Tools to investigate societal impacts of robots and AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) agents in an embodied form, such as Jibo, Amazon Alexa, and Google Home, are increasingly becoming part of o...

in Personal Robots
Anastasia Ostrowski · Hae Won Park +1 more
#design #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +3 more
Project Research

Health sensing using wireless signals

Today’s health sensors (which monitor breathing, heartbeats, steps, etc.) require their users to wear them on their bodies. In contrast, ...

in Signal Kinetics
Fadel Adib
#artificial intelligence #bioengineering #health +1 more
Project Research

Common sense for artificial intelligence

ConceptNet, or Open Mind Common Sense, is a long-standing project designed to help computers understand the meanings of words that people...

in Object-Based Media
#artificial intelligence #natural language processing #data science
Project Research

Conversational Characters: AI agents for entertainment

We want to create immersive, personalized, and scalable digital experiences. In order to do that, we need to fundamentally rethink the wa...

in Object-Based Media
#artificial intelligence #entertainment #gaming +4 more
Project Research

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...

in Personal Robots
Stefania Druga · Cynthia Breazeal
#robotics #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +7 more
Project Research

Urban Swarms

Modern cities have to respond to the growing demands of more efficient and sustainable urban development, as well as an increased quality...

in Human Dynamics
Kent Larson · Alex 'Sandy' Pentland +3 more
#robotics #artificial intelligence #data +10 more
Project Research

RFIQ: Food quality and safety detection using wireless stickers

​We have developed a wireless system that leverages the inexpensive RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to sense potent...

in Signal Kinetics
Fadel Adib · Unsoo Ha +2 more
#artificial intelligence #food #health +8 more
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