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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RoboChain Project Figures
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Electronic Publishing

How to distill meaning from complex everyday experiences.
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Shooting Low or High: Do Countries Benefit from Entering Unrelated Activities?

Pinheiro, Flávio L., et al. "Shooting Low or High: Do Countries Benefit from Entering Unrelated Activities?" arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.05352 (2018).
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Local Wealth Redistribution Promotes Cooperation in Multiagent Systems

Pinheiro, F. L., Santos, F. (2018). Local Wealth Redistribution Promotes Cooperation in Multiagent Systems, forthcoming Proc. of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2018)
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The International Affiliation Network of YouTube Trends

Platt, E. L., Bhargava, R., & Zuckerman, E. (2015). The International Affiliation Network of YouTube Trends.
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Detecting reciprocity at a global scale

Frank, M. R., Obradovich, N., Sun, L., Woon, W. L., LeVeck, B. L., & Rahwan, I. (2018). Detecting reciprocity at a global scale. Science Advances, 4(1), eaao5348.
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Collaborative Scientific Publishing: A New Research Ecosystem

Travis Rich, MIT PhD Thesis, 2017
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Mapping Higher Education Option Space

The mismatch between the supply of graduates’ skills and the needs of the labor market has become increasingly obvious and problematic over…
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Price of complexity in financial networks

Stefano Battiston, Guido Caldarelli, Robert May, Tarik Roukny, Joseph E. Stiglitz (Proceedings of the National Academy of Science - PNAS)
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Do countries benefit from jumping into unrelated varieties?

It is well established that countries, regions and institutions tend to develop towards related activities. This implies that, for instance…
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Playful Systems

Designing systems that become experiences to transcend utility and usability
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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, sca…
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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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Bootstrap percolation on spatial networks

Gao, J., Zhou, T., & Hu, Y. (2015). Bootstrap percolation on spatial networks. Scientific Reports, 5: 14662.
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Critical size of ego communication networks

Wang, Q., Gao, J., Zhou, T., Hu, Z., & Tian, H. (2016). Critical size of ego communication networks. EPL (Europhysics Letters), 114(5), 58004.
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Evaluating user reputation in online rating systems via an iterative group-based ranking method

Gao, J., Zhou, T. Evaluating user reputation in online rating systems via an iterative group-based ranking method. arXiv: 1509.00594.
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Group-based ranking method for online rating systems with spamming attacks

Gao, J., Dong, Y. W., Shang, M. S., Cai, S. M., & Zhou, T. (2015). Group-based ranking method for online rating systems with spamming attacks. EPL (Europhysics Letters), 110(2), 28003.
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Modeling Human Ad Hoc Coordination

Krafft, Peter M., Chris L. Baker, Alex "Sandy" Pentland, and Joshua B. Tenenbaum. (2016). Modeling Human Ad Hoc Coordination. The Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
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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
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The City Browser: Utilizing Massive Call Data to Infer City Mobility Dynamics

Alhasoun, Fahad, et al. "The City Browser: Utilizing Massive Call Data to Infer City Mobility Dynamics." 3rd International Workshop on Urban Computing (UrbComp 2014). UrbComp: New York, NY. 2014.
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The Role of Reciprocity and Directionality of Friendship Ties in Promoting Behavioral Change

Almaatouq, A., Radaelli, L., Pentland, A. and Shmueli, E., 2016 The Role of Reciprocity and Directionality of Friendship Ties in Promoting Behavioral Change Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling, pp.33-41
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Are You Your Friends’ Friend? Poor Perception of Friendship Ties Limits the Ability to Promote Behavioral Change

Almaatouq, A., Radaelli, L., Pentland, A., & Shmueli, E. (2016). Are You Your Friends’ Friend? Poor Perception of Friendship Ties Limits the Ability to Promote Behavioral Change. PloS one, 11(3), e0151588. 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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How scalable global networks are changing our media, our communities, and our businesses.
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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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How computational tools help to capture, visualize, and analyze human experiences.
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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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Spatial Imaging
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How artists and engineers can refigure technology for the full range of human experience.
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Visible Language Workshop
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Nanoscale Sensing

How to detect the activity of biological molecules with micro- and nanofabricated devices.
How storytelling form can be best achieved using new computational approaches for the creator and user of media such as video, cinema, and photography.
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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 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.
Center for Future Banking
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Friendship Reciprocity and Behavioral Change

When we analyzed self-reported relationship surveys from several experiments around the world (from human subjects, not hobbits!), we found…
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What We Watch

More than a billion people a month visit YouTube to watch videos. Sometimes, those billion people watch the same video. What We Watch is a …
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DbDb

DbDb (pronounced DubDub) is a collaborative, visually based analysis and simulation platform. We promote open distribution of experimental …
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Comm.unity

Comm.unity is a platform that implements a wireless, device-to-device information system that bypasses the need for any centralized servers…
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