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Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and p…
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
The Jibo Research Platform is an in-the-field deployable Social Robotics experimentation and data collection infrastructure. Built upon the…
Today’s indoor sensing systems face a fundamental tradeoff: cameras provide rich visual detail but raise privacy concerns, while tradition…
LLMs are being set loose in complex, real-world environments involving sequential decision-making and tool use. Often, this involves making…
Environments built for people are increasingly operated by a new class of economic actors: LLM-powered software agents making decisions on …
The fidelity with which neural networks can now generate content such as music presents a scientific opportunity: these systems appear to h…
The web is littered with images, once created for human consumption and now increasingly interpreted by agents using vision-language models…
Have you ever wondered what a friend would do if she was in your decision-making situation? Or thought about where a family membe…
Organology: Real-Time Biometrics x Sound Synthesis October 19th @ 8:00 PMMIT Media Lab 3rd Floor AtriumWhat role does the body pl…
Neural audio synthesis methods now allow specifying ideas in natural language. However, these methods produce results that cannot be easily…
Learning robust audio representations currently demands extensive datasets of real-world sound recordings. By applying artificial transfor…
Think about how a delayed shipment, a cancelled flight, or a glitchy app can disrupt your week. Now scale that up: a virus like COVID-19 co…
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…
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…
By establishing correlations between sleep parameters and wellbeing indicators, our project hopes to further understanding of fluctuations …
Facemasks are used to reduce exposure to viruses and other environmental hazards such as air pollution, and integrating wearable electronic…
What if devices could see through walls, boxes, and clutter?We’ve developed mmNorm, a new technology that creates 3D models of objects—even…
Protecting biodiversity with acoustic and visual sensing.The South American Bombus dahlbomii is one of the largest bee species in the world…
How do you image a city that doesn't exist? DeepScope is a novel platform for interactive, real-time, and setup-less urban design visu…
With computation, it's easy to create systems that have a vast number of variations, but it's sometimes difficult to explore those systems.…
Mobility Choices is used to predict transportation mode choices of students at the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) within the Guadalajara …
As AI evolves beyond screen assistants and into dimensional applications, decentralization emerges as the critical factor for unlocking i…
There are currently UROP openings for this project. AttentivU is a neural AI platform for wireless non-invasive sensing of pers…
Would you train for a tennis match in chaotic outdoor conditions from day one, or would you first perfect your fundamentals in a controlled…
The acquisition of training data is crucial for machine learning applications. Data markets can increase the supply of data, particularly i…
Spoken language is an information-rich medium that combines words with various paralinguistic information such as emotion and prosody. In d…
This project is supported by the Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health (J-Clinic), the National Institutes of Healt…
A massive audit of 1800+ AI text datasets, tracing their provenance and composition from origin to creation.The race to train language mode…
App Inventor is an intuitive, visual programming environment that allows everyone, even those with no prior coding experience, to build ful…
The SNAPSHOT study seeks to measure Sleep, Networks, Affect, Performance, Stress, and Health using Objective Techniques. It is an NIH-funde…
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Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make t…
AbstractAs conversational agents powered by large language models become more human-like, users are starting to view them as companions rat…
Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical MonitoringWe present an ap…
Recognizing and interpreting group behaviors is much more challenging than that of individual behaviors. Firstly, the system must perform w…
Press: - MIT News: Using reflections to see the world from new points of view- TechXplore, EuropaPress, La Nacion …
Parents often select schools by relying on subjective assessments shared by other parents—which are increasingly becoming available on scho…
OverviewPAL is a wearable platform for personalized, context-aware, and always-present user change. PAL has mult…
Can robots find and grasp hidden objects?Robots are not capable of handling tasks as simple as restocking grocery store shelves as th…
Voice-user interfaces (VUIs), such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, are increasingly becoming present in domestic environments. Us…
In this work, we introduce FedML, an open research library and benchmark that facilitates the development of new 'federated learning algori…
dementAI is an open-source platform for modeling risk stratification of Alzheimer's dementia using spontaneous speech through a …
We propose an improved private count-mean-sketch data structure and show its applicability to differentially private contact trac…
Split Learning: Distributed deep learning without sharing raw data Project Page: https://splitlearning.github.io/Abstract: C…
We present a stochastic scheme for splitting the client data into privatized shares that are transmitted to the server in such settings. Th…
Predicting Urban Performance through Behavioral Patterns in Temporal Telecom DataThis study explores a novel method to analyze diverse beha…
Algorithmic FairnessSociety increasingly relies on machine learning models for automated decision making. Yet, efficiency gains from automa…
The Mediated Atmosphere project envisions a smart office that is capable of dynamically transforming itself to enhance occupants' work expe…
How do we raise conscientious consumers and designers of AI?Children today live in the age of artificial intelligence. On average, US child…
Could a social robot collaboratively exchange stories with children as a peer and help improve their linguistic and storytelling skills? We…
INSPIRE: Intelligence Never Seeks Perfection, Instead Requires Effort.Stories help us expand our sense of what's possible: by hearing from …
MoCho (short for "Mobility Choices") is a CityScope module focused on mobility choices and societal impacts. This tool helps pred…
This project aims to improve the prediction accuracy of wellbeing (stress, mood, and health levels) using temporal machine learning models.…
The Electome: Where AI meets political journalismThe Electome project is a machine-driven mapping and analysis of public sphere content and…
The well-known "small-world" phenomenon indicates that an individual can be connected with any other in the world through a limited number …
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…
How something is presented can be as important as the message itself.In the age of political polarization and election meddling, it is of v…
Technological advances in the past decade have allowed us to take a close look at the proteomes of living organisms. As a result, more than…
Object Classification through Scattering Media with Deep LearningA method for classifying objects hidden behind a scattering layer wit…
An Urban Decision-Support System Augmented by Artificial IntelligenceThe decision-making process in urban design and urban planning is outd…
The Storytelling project uses machine-based analytics to identify the qualities of engaging and marketable media. By developing models with…
Realtime detection of social cues in children’s voicesIn everyday conversation, people use what are known as backchannels to signal to some…
ShapeBlocks is a play analytics observatory that tracks, remembers, and aids players in building traditional LEGO-style structures. As play…
Consider each of our individual voices as a flashlight to illuminate how we project ourselves in society and how much sonic space we give o…