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The 'Atlas of Inequality' maps micro-level segregation

MIT Media Lab’s new interactive “Atlas of Inequality” shows that “segregation is not just about where you live, but what you do."
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How different types of knowledge impact the growth of new firms

Study explores the micromechanisms underlying regional economic diversification.
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Unpacking the polarization of workplace skills
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Skillscape: How skills affect your job trajectory, and their implications for automation by AI

This blog post summarizes the key findings of our new paper Unpacking the polarization of workplace skills published in Science Advances by…
How software can act as an assistant to the user rather than a tool, by learning from interaction and by proactively anticipating the user's
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Optimal diversification strategies in the networks of related products and of related research areas

Alshamsi A, Pinheiro FL, & Hidalgo CA. "Optimal diversification strategies in the networks of related products and of related research areas." Nature Communications (2018) 9:1328. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03740-9.
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Mobile Communication Signatures of Unemployment

Almaatouq, A., Prieto-Castrillo, F. and Pentland, A., 2016, November. Mobile Communication Signatures of Unemployment. In International Conference on Social Informatics (pp. 407-418). Springer International Publishing.
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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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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.
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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.
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Has the German reunification strengthened Germany’s national research system? Dynamics of the triple helix of scientific co-authorship

Yi, S. G., & Jun, B. (2016). Has the German reunification strengthened Germany's national innovation system? Triple helix dynamics of Germany's innovation system (No. 15-2016). Hohenheim Discussion Papers in Business, Economics and Social Sciences.
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The legacy of Friedrich List: the Korean history of industrialization

Jun, Bogang, Alexander Gerybadze, and Tai-Yoo Kim. The legacy of Friedrich List: The expansive reproduction system and the Korean history of industrialization. No. 02-2016. Hohenheim Discussion Papers in Business, Economics and Social Sciences, 2016.
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Financial Hurdles for Human Capital Accumulation: Revisiting the Galor-Zeira Model

Jun, Bogang, and Won-Sik Hwang. "Financial Hurdles for Human Capital Accumulation: Revisiting the Galor-Zeira Model." (2012).
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A Neo-Schumpeterian perspective on the analytical macroeconomic framework: The expanded reproduction system

Jun, Bogang, and Tai-Yoo Kim. A neo-Schumpeterian perspective on the analytical macroeconomic framework: The expanded reproduction system. No. 11-2015. Hohenheim Discussion Papers in Business, Economics and Social Sciences, 2015.
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Complex Systems and a Computational Social Science Perspective on the Labor Market

Almaatouq, A. (2016). Complex Systems and a Computational Social Science Perspective on the Labor Market. arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.08562. Chicago
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 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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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.
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