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Indistinguishable From… Magic as Interface, Technology, and Tradition

When Aleister Crowley defined magic as “the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will,” he might as easily have be…
MAS.S65 · with Daniel Novy, Gregory Borenstein, Marco Tempest
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Infinity-by-Nine

We are expanding the home-video viewing experience by generating imagery to extend the TV screen and give the impression that the scene wra…
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Bottles and Boxes: Packaging with sensors

We have added inexpensive, low-power, wireless sensors to product packages to detect user interactions with products. Thus, a bottle can re…
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Advancements in Holography Usher In Sci-Fi-Inspired Devices

“We’ve already lost control of the term hologram, and we have George Lucas to thank!”
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Complex Economic Activities Concentrate in Large Cities

Balland, P., Jara-Figueroa, C., Petralia, S.G. et al. Complex Economic Activities Concentrate in Large Cities. Nature Human Behavior (2020) doi:10.1038/s41562-019-0803-3
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Finding the blank spots in big data

Artists and designers are working to address a major problem for marginalized communities in the data economy.
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Media Lab to MoMA: A Complicated Reality of Dreams Coming True

This is a story of dreams coming true in roundabout ways. How things inside are often not at all what they appear to be on the outside.
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Teachers, the robots are coming. But that's not a bad thing

Can robots help teachers improve classroom learning?
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Beyond Bias: Contextualizing “ethical AI” within the history of exploitation and innovation in medical research

"It’s time for us to move beyond 'bias' as the anchor point for our efforts to build ethical and fair algorithms."
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DermalAbyss: Possibilities of Biosensors as a Tattooed Interface

Can tattoos embrace technology in order to make the skin interactive?The DermalAbyss project was the result of a collaboration between MIT …
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Proof of Patience

To help prevent the mindless sharing of content and promote the sharing of thoughtful content, a socially acceptable “stamp of approval” wa…
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Tech companies tried to help us spend less time on our phones. It didn’t work.

Ethan Zuckerman and other experts contextualize the real risks of the mobile internet.
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16 art exhibits worth leaving the house for this winter

WBUR’s picks for winter art exhibits around the Boston area include director’s fellow Christine Sun Kim’s “Off the Charts.”
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Jibo Social Robotic Research Platform

The Jibo Research Platform is an in-the-field deployable Social Robotics experimentation and data collection infrastructure. Built upon the…
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The Rise of Social Robots: How AI can help us flourish

"I don’t think that AI will have fulfilled its full potential unless it can help us unlock human potential.”
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Tega: A New Social Robot Platform

Tega is a new robot platform designed to support long-term, in-home interactions with children, with applications in early-literacy educati…
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Ring’s hidden data let us map Amazon's sprawling home surveillance network

By Dell Cameron and Dhruv MehrotraAs reporters raced this summer to bring new details of Ring’s law enforcement contracts to…
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Patterns of interaction predict social role in online learning

Sun, Huaiyi Cici, Dan Calacci, and Alex Sandy Pentland. "Patterns of Interaction Predict Social Role in Online Learning."
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Cynthia Breazeal elected as a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

The AAAI Fellows program recognizes individuals who have made significant, sustained contributions to the field of artificial intelligence.
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New CRISPR tool opens up more of the genome for editing

Enzyme can target almost half of the genome’s “zipcodes” and could enable editing of many more disease-specific mutations
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Play this bingo game with your kids to teach them about AI

Designed at MIT and tested by kids ages 9 through 14, it shows how exposing kids to technology fosters their interest in STEM.
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Bringing artificial intelligence and MIT to middle school classrooms

MIT researchers and collaborators have developed an open-source curriculum to teach young students about ethics and artificial intelligence.
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HOL-DEEP-SENSE

The Hol-Deep-Sense project (funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant) aims at holistic machine perception of …
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Women in Engineering: An interview with Canan Dagdeviren

"Our device-driven research is directly inspired by the diseases of our family members and dear friends...indirectly by humanity at large."
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Social Capital Accounting

To better understand and improve the quality of our lives, there has been a need for measuring non-economic capital such as social capital …
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IDK: An Interaction Development Kit to design interactions for lightweight autonomous vehicles

[1] Solomon et al., 2007. Summary for Policymakers. In: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA. [2] USEPA. (April 2012). Inventory of U.S Greenhouse gas emissions and sinks: 1990-2016, Figure 3-5.
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Ask a Curator: Paola Antonelli

Paola Antonelli talks about the forthcoming exhibition on the work of architect and designer Neri Oxman.
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How to solve climate change and make life more awesome

We already have all the tools we need to fix climate change. We just need to use them.
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Service deployment simulation for light-weight, mixed-use autonomous fleets

Forecasting the supply of fleets to meet emerging travel demands and service needs in citiesThe availability of vehicles is a critical fact…
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Rosalind Picard elected to the National Academy of Engineering

Rosalind Picard elected to the NAE for her contributions to affective and wearable computing.
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Lotuscent: Targeted memory reactivation for wellbeing using scent and VR biofeedback

​The lotus flower is an ancient symbol that has been associated with spiritual awakening or enlightenment.In yoga and meditation, the lotus…
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Discovering You: Engineering Your World - Hae Won Park

Labber Hae Won Park talks to NBC News Learn about how social robots can help children develop language skills.
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Circuit Stickers

Circuit Stickers is a toolkit for crafting electronics using flexible and sticky electronic pieces. These stickers are created by printing …
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Twitter and Facebook want to shift power to users. Or do they?

DCI head Neha Narula offers perspective on the draw of decentralization.
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A pioneer of wearable technology explains how it can connect instead of divide us

Human Dynamics head Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland discusses the necessity of social connections.
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Aalto Campus-as-a-Service Simulations

How can we get more value from the same buildings? Cities contain many different resources and spaces and typically, these resources o…
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Parental leave isn’t just policy at my company—it’s a huge part of our culture, and here’s how

Alum Ben Waber talks about how the spinoff Humanyze has worked to create a culture that supports employees in taking parental leave.
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Stanford increasing access to 3D modeling through touch-based display

Researchers in alum Sean Follmer’s lab at Stanford are developing a touch-based display to make computer-aided design tools more accessible.
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Chance the Rapper enlists Chicago students to code "I Love You So Much" video game

SuperMe features superheroes designed by Chicago Public School students
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Towards functional restoration for persons with limb amputation: A dual-stage implementation of regenerative AMIs

S. S. Srinivasan, M. Diaz, M. Carty, H. M. Herr, Towards functional restoration for persons with limb amputation: A dual-stage implementation of regenerative agonist-antagonist myoneural interfaces. Sci. Rep. 9, 1981 (2019).
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Polyimide Electrode-Based Electrical Stimulation Impedes Early Stage Muscle Graft Regeneration

S. Srinivasan, K. Vyas, M. McAvoy, P. Calvaresi, O. Khan, R. Langer, D. Anderson, H. Herr, Polyimide Electrode-based Electrical Stimulation Impedes Early Stage Muscle Graft Regeneration. Front. Neurol. 10 (2019),
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A caprine model of the agonist-antagonist myoneural interface as implemented at the above- and below-knee amputation levels.

T. R. Clites, M. J. Carty, S. S. Srinivasan, S. G. Talbot, R. Branemark, H. M. Herr, A caprine model of the agonist-antagonist myoneural interface as implemented at the above- and below-knee amputation levels.: Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. 2019
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Retinal supplementation augments optogenetic stimulation efficacy in vivo

S. Srinivasan, B. Schelhaas, B. E. Maimon, H. Song, H. M. Herr, Retinal supplementation augments optogenetic stimulation efficacy in vivo. J. Neural Eng. (2019)
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Surgeons test-drive the amputation of the future with a mail-order limb, rerouted nerve, and prosthetic hand that grips like the real thing

A research team, including members of the Biomechatronics group, devises a new surgery for hand amputations and prostheses.
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MITdesignX selects 2020 cohort

Ten multi-disciplinary teams join MIT’s design entrepreneurship accelerator.
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MIT Computational Law: "A Perspective on Legal Algorithms"

The first MIT Computational Law report features an essay by Sandy Pentland, head of the Human Dynamics group.
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Neurodiverse curiosity, with Kristy Johnson

“To really understand curiosity, we need new metrics, or new ways of thinking, or both."
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A Generic Human–Machine Annotation Framework Based on Dynamic Cooperative Learning

Zhang Y, Michi A, Wagner J, Andre E, Schuller B, Weninger F. "A Generic Human-Machine Annotation Framework Based on Dynamic Cooperative Learning." IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, March 2019.
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Suleiman Alhadidi on how to maximize the future kitchen, even in small spaces

We talk a lot about the appliances that go into the future kitchen—but what about the design of the space itself?
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Will AI really transform education?

Promoters show off promising applications of the technology, but AI is not changing the world quite yet
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INSPIRE

INSPIRE: Intelligence Never Seeks Perfection, Instead Requires Effort.Stories help us expand our sense of what's possible: by hearing from …
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Out for blood: the fight against the planet’s deadliest creature

Kevin Esvelt and other experts discuss potential technological approaches to combating mosquito-borne diseases.
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QTY code designed thermostable and water-soluble chimeric chemokine receptors with tunable ligand affinity

Rui Qing, Qiuyi Han, Michael Skuhersky, Haeyoon Chung, Myriam Badr, View ORCID ProfileThomas Schubert, and Shuguang Zhang. PNAS first published November 27, 2019 (https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1909026116). Edited by Alan R. Fersht, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, and approved October 30, 2019 (received for review May 24, 2019).
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Wearable Lab on Body: Combining Sensing of Biochemical and Digital Markers in a Wearable Device

P. Pataranutaporn, A. Jain, C. M. Johnson, P. Shah and P. Maes, "Wearable Lab on Body: Combining Sensing of Biochemical and Digital Markers in a Wearable Device," 2019 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Berlin, Germany, 2019, pp. 3327-3332. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2019.8857479
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FLAPS: Folded Lightweight Actuated Positioning System for CubeSat Deployables

Mechanical actuators for deployable systems on satellites are often complex, expensive, only designed for a single use, and too large or he…
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Microgravity Rowing

In microgravity, the removal of constant loading on the skeleton leads to loss of bone density and muscle mass. In order to counteract this…
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