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Project Research

Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)

Since the Bank of England first raised the concept of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in its 2015 research agenda, the subject has...

in Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)
Neha Narula · Robleh Ali
#banking and finance #economy #blockchain
Project Research

Decentralized Web

Between 1989 and 2015, the World Wide Web transformed from an esoteric system for publishing technical notes to a basic infrastructure of...

in Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)
Chelsea Barabas · Neha Narula
#blockchain
Project Research

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...

in City Science
Alex Berke · Kent Larson
#open source #politics #security +1 more
Project Research

BASIC: Blockchained Agent-based Simulator for Cities

Autonomous vehicles (AVs), drones, and other types of robots will revolutionize our way of traveling and understanding urban space. In or...

in City Science · Human Dynamics
Arnaud Grignard · Eduardo Castello Ferrer +3 more
#urban planning #blockchain #autonomous vehicles
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

Humanized Cryptoassets

This project delivers a series of Github-signal based metrics that would be useful to both the layman and investor, helping look beyond t...

in Viral Communications
Oceane Boulais
#cryptocurrency #blockchain
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

Secure Sharing of Wildlife Data

Leveraging the power of platforms, big data, and advanced analytics for species protection and the public good in a privacy-preserving, s...

in Human Dynamics
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland · Remo Frey
#ecology #networks #privacy +5 more

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