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The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financia…
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
CoCo is a new live co-creative learning platform designed to empower educators to support young people in both physical and remote set…
OctoStudio is available for free at octostudio.orgOctoStudio is a free creative coding app that lets you create animations, games, and…
Say hello to FutureYou!Imagine stepping into a time machine and having a conversation with your future self. What would you ask? What unex…
On September 21st, 2024, we concluded a year-long collaboration with GRAMMY-winning keyboardist Jordan Rudess, culminating in a sold-out pe…
We introduce the Generic Pan Tilt, an open-source, two-axis motion control platform designed for use in entertainment, art, and research. …
This project seeks to explore and further develop the concept of "Symbiotic Virtuosity," where artificial intelligence (AI) and human music…
What if devices could see through walls, boxes, and clutter?We’ve developed mmNorm, a new technology that creates 3D models of objects—even…
Would you train for a tennis match in chaotic outdoor conditions from day one, or would you first perfect your fundamentals in a controlled…
Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ow…
Can we build a battery-free underwater GPS? While underwater localization is a long-studied problem, we seek to bring it to batt…
zkTax is a zero-knowledge tax disclosure system that allows individuals to make provable claims about select information in their tax retur…
2D Spintronic and Neuromorphic Devices for Sustainable Artificial Intelligence
A massive audit of 1800+ AI text datasets, tracing their provenance and composition from origin to creation.The race to train language mode…
FuseBot is a robotic system that can efficiently find and retrieve both RFID tagged and untagged target objects in line-of-sight, non-line-…
Have you ever needed a single-line font rather than an outline of a typeface? For instance in the use of digital fabrication processes such…
What would it be like if we could see our movement? Illuminate (2023, Chelsi Alise Cocking) is an interactive art installation in whic…
This project hosts a few experiments of 2D visualization of 3D moving processes. All of the experiments relate to repeating, machine…
FrameGrabber is a simple, browser-based tool that lets the user upload an animation and convert it to a grid of stills.
Future Sketches installed a group exhibition as part of Zach Lieberman's Future Sketches / Code Poems show at Artechouse, which opened duri…
By Chelsi Cocking and Manaswi MishraCode Cypher, hosted by CAST Visiting Artist and Grammy-winning rapper Lupe Fiasco and Pr…
Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make t…
Can computer graphics algorithms be taught through drawing?In this prototypical activity book, we present the steps of four computer graphi…
AbstractAs conversational agents powered by large language models become more human-like, users are starting to view them as companions rat…
In this new adjacent implementation of Photorythms as an interactive art installation, members of the public are invited to sit in front o…
Photorythms: a computational art-based inquiry of portrait photographyPhotorythms investigates whether computational methods such as facial…
The Clubhouse provides a creative and safe out-of-school learning environment where young people from underserved communities around the wo…
Overview: How will we build the coming generations of Space Architecture—the modules, space ships, and space stations that will enscon…
Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical MonitoringWe present an ap…
More than 95% of the ocean has never been observed by humans, even though the ocean plays the largest role in the world's climate system, h…
Dreaming through Code Designing creative learning workshops for local organizations committed to introducing technology to kids in a n…
Press: - MIT News: Using reflections to see the world from new points of view- TechXplore, EuropaPress, La Nacion …
Launched in 2007, the Scratch Online Community enables children, primarily between the ages of 8 and 16, to share interactive media such as…
Facilitating opportunities for non-dominant youth to learn how to use technology as a tool to engage civically and create positive change i…
There is a continuous and ubiquitous collection of precise, timestamped, geolocation data from apps and devices, being amassed by private f…
By Hila Mor, Yu Tianyu, Ken Nakagaki, Benjamin Harvey Miller, Yichen Jia, Hiroshi IshiiThe Venous Materials project envisions a new way to …
The design of next-generation bionic ankles and knees aims to improve bionic actuators on all metrics: range of motion, power density, band…
Mechanical, electrical, and dynamic control systems recreate biological behavior with synthetic hardware.
We present Piezo-Acoustic Backscatter (PAB), the first technology that enables backscatter networking in underwater environments. PAB relie…
As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers, …
Papers from SafePaths: https://github.com/PrivateKit/PrivacyDocumentsSafe Paths is an MIT-led, free, open source technology that …
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 for…
SpeechBlocks is a medium that allows children (4-5 years old) to engage in open-ended play with writing. They can build arbitrary compositi…
Governments and researchers around the world are implementing digital contact tracing solutions to stem the spread of infectious disease, n…
Earlier studies proved that behavior is highly shaped and constrained by one's social networks, and demonstrated ways in which individuals …
Lensless imaging with compressive ultrafast sensingTraditional cameras require a lens and a mega-pixel sensor to capture images. The lens f…
A learning framework for secure, decentralized, computationally efficient data and model sharing among multiple robot units installed at m…
Location prediction is a critical building block in many location-based services and transportation management. This project explores the i…
TurboTrack is a 3D localization system for fine-grained robotic tasks, with unique capability to localize backscatter nodes with sub-centim…
Cognimates is a platform where parents and children (7-10 years old) participate in creative programming activities in which they lea…
Modern cities have to respond to the growing demands of more efficient and sustainable urban development, as well as an increased quality o…
An Urban Decision-Support System Augmented by Artificial IntelligenceThe decision-making process in urban design and urban planning is outd…
Rethinking photography optics in the time dimensionWhat if we could design optics in time instead of space?
Leveraging the power of platforms, big data, and advanced analytics for species protection and the public good in a privacy-preserving, sca…
Our Personal Research Projects group is dedicated to the closure of the digital and educational divides and gaps as they effect the underse…