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e-markets
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Future Storytelling
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Consumer Electronics Laboratory
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Deep Urban Interaction

Analyze and visualize urban interaction with computer vision and deep neural net. 
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Intrepid

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 ro…
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Electronic Publishing

How to distill meaning from complex everyday experiences.
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1:1 Laptops: Learning with the Hundred-Dollar Laptop

Suppose that one could put a connected, portable computer into the hands of all the children of the world who lack access to the kind of ed…
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Collective Learning in China's Regional Economic Development

Industrial development is the process by which economies learn how to produce new products and services. But how do economies learn? And wh…
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Publication Research

Collective Learning in China's Regional Economic Development

Jian Gao, Bogang Jun, Alex Pentland, Tao Zhou, and Cesar A. Hidalgo. Collective Learning in China's Regional Economic Development. arXiv:1703.01369, 2017.
Article Research

Can technology help teach literacy in poor communities?

This article originally appeared in the MIT News. Visit the link for more details.For the past four years, researchers at MIT, Tufts Univer…
How people and objects can tell tales of their experience and learn from others as they navigate through the vast media fabric made up of intertwining storied threads.
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eRationality

How we can understand human behavior (rationality, semi-rationality, bounded rationality, and just plain irrationality) in day-to-day behaviors, and in particular in electronic environments.
How to give computers human-like intuition so they can better understand us.
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How to engage diverse audiences in creating their own technology by situating computation in new contexts and building tools to democratize engineering.
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How to enhance understanding, enable creativity, and ease our interactions with the technological environment.
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Grassroots Invention

How to engineer and disseminate powerful, low-cost design and fabrication technologies at a grassroots level.
How various phenomena of mind emerge from the interactions among many kinds of highly evolved brain mechanisms.
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Future of Learning

How to redefine and expand the conceptual framework and language of learning by creating new technologies and spheres of practice.
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Physics and Media

How to bring the programmability of the digital world to the physical world.

How to create better online environments and interfaces for human communication.
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Next Billion Network
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How to improve mobility with higher-quality and lower-power-consumption display technology.
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How artists and engineers can refigure technology for the full range of human experience.
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SIMPLICITY
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Digital Nations
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Nanoscale Sensing

How to detect the activity of biological molecules with micro- and nanofabricated devices.
How to design machines that use what we do, where we are, and how we feel to add to our social, educational, and functional success.
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How to give computers "common sense"�the ability to think about the everyday world as people do.
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How simplifying the basic tools for digital expression will lead to a new creative digital economy. For more Physical Language Workshop projects, see Henry Holtzman.
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NEXT
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How to create seamless and pervasive connections between our physical environments and information resources.
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quanta

How we can construct information technology and intelligence from the fundamental building blocks of physical media: atoms and molecules.
Center for Future Banking
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CATRA: Mapping of Cataract Opacities Through an Interactive Approach

We introduce a novel interactive method to assess cataracts in the human eye by crafting an optical solution that measures the perceptual i…
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