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Blockchain: A new framework for robotic swarm systems

Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make...
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
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Monitoring Changes in Depression Severity Using Wearable and Mobile Sensors

Pedrelli, P., Fedor, S., Ghandeharioun, A., Howe, E., Ionescu, D. F., Bhathena, D., ... & Picard, R. W. (2020). Monitoring changes in depression severity using wearable and mobile sensors. Frontiers in psychiatry, 11, 1413.
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Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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Fluid Interfaces

Designing systems for cognitive support
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Signal Kinetics

Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
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TuringBox: Democratizing the study of AI

TuringBox is a platform that makes it easier for social and behavioral scientists to study Artificial Intelligence algorithms. ...
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Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence

Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
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RetroGAN

Retrofitting is a technique used to move word vectors closer together or further apart in their space to reflect their relationships in a...
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Horizons 2021 - The Calm Before the Storm: The Transformational Impact of Al on Education

Cynthia Breazeal and others discuss the impact of AI on education, and how it might be applied in intentional ways to improve learning.
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BayesDB

BayesDB is open-source AI software that lets any programmer answer data analysis questions in seconds or minutes with a level of rigor th...
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AI and Global Governance

Given the cross-border impact of AI and related technologies, what are appropriate and workable governance mechanisms that can operate at...
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CivilServant: User-led randomized trials online

The CivilServant project supports online communities to run their own experiments on the effects of moderation practices on antisocial be...
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A robot that finds your lost stuff and more AI-enabled gadgets to come

The WSJ covers research from the Signal Kinetics group and other labs, universities, and companies working on AI-enabled devices.
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Mediated Matter

Designing for, with, and by nature
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Research Area | Emergent Neural Networks to Redesign Clinical Testing of Medicines and Learning from Real World Evidence

Real World Data (RWD) and Real World Evidence (RWE) are playing an increasing role in healthcare decisions to support innovative use of E...
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Research Area | Application, Interpretability and Clinical Translation of Deep Learning Algorithms for Medical Images

Research in our laboratory reduces dependence on specialized medical imaging devices, biological and chemical processes and creates new p...
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Health 0.0

Health 0.0
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MAS.S72. How to Write Academic Grant Proposals and Research Manuscripts

Description: Designed for grant proposal and research publication student writers, this course presents a general overview as well a...
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FIGUR8 Raises $12 Million To Take The Guesswork Out Of Musculoskeletal Diagnostics

Forbes highlights spinoff Figur8 and its most recent funding round, which raised $12 million.
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Emerging Interfaces for Human Augmentation

Pattie Maes talks about optimizing technology to be used by people, through fluid, interactive, immersive, and wearable systems.
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PAL: a wearable on-device deep learning platform for personalized, context-aware, and closed-loop real-time support

OverviewPAL is a  wearable platform for personalized, context-aware, and always-present user change.  PAL has mu...
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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Privacy-Preserving Depressive Symptoms Estimation

The goal of this project is to develop techniques to remove identifying information from wearable and phone data to protect patients’ pri...
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DISSECT: Disentangled Simultaneous Explanationsvia Concept Traversals

One of the principal benefits of counterfactual explanations is allowing users to explore "what-if" scenarios through what does not and c...
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Scaling Science: Using Data to Find “Hidden Gem” Research

The current system of scientific recognition and funding has significant bias towards work published in the top few percent of journ...
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Vespers III

Vespers is a collection of masks exploring what it means to design (with) life. From the relic of the death mask to a contemporary living...
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parkinsAI

Appropriate and adaptive treatment plans are challenging in Parkinson’s disease for several reasons.  parkinsAI models drug response...
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RAISE

RAISE
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Helping students of all ages flourish in the era of artificial intelligence

Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education (RAISE) seeks to empower more people to participate in, and benefit from, AI.
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Using machine learning to predict high-impact research

DELPHI can give an “early-alert” signal for future key technologies by learning from patterns gleaned from previous publications.
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Learning on knowledge graph dynamics provides an early warning of impactful research

Weis, J.W., Jacobson, J.M. Learning on knowledge graph dynamics provides an early warning of impactful research. Nat Biotechnol (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-021-00907-6
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Neil Gaikwad chosen as a 2019 Facebook Fellow

Neil Gaikwad, a PhD student in the Space Enabled research group, has been selected as one of the 2019 Facebook Fellows.
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2018 GSC Graduate Teaching Award

Neil Gaikwad, a PhD student in the Media Lab's Space Enabled research group, has received the GSC Graduate Teaching Award, an Institute A...
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Future Sketches

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
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MAS.S64. Real-world Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence and Genome Editing Technologies

MAS.S64 Real-world Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence and Genome Editing Technologies - Fall 2020 Online CourseWhen: Tuesdays, 3-...
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Data-driven Humanitarian Mapping, KDD 2020

Neil Gaikwad from the Space Enabled research group is co-organizing the KDD Workshop on Humanitarian Mapping.
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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Clinical Development: A Translational Perspective

Technical summary: Future of clinical development is on the verge of a major transformation due to convergence of large new digital data ...
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Deep Learning to Develop and Analyze Computational Hematoxylin and Eosin Staining of Tissue Images for Digital Biopsies

Staining of tissues sections using chemical and biological dyes has been used for over a century for visualizing various tissue types and...
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Automated End-to-End Deep Learning Framework for Classification and Tumor Localization from Native Non-stained Pathology Images

This study reports an end-to-end deep learning framework for virtual H&E staining, automatic classification, and localization of pros...
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Automated end-to-end deep learning framework for classification and tumor localization from native nonstained pathology images

Akram Bayat, Connor Anderson and Pratik Shah. "Automated end-to-end deep learning framework for classification and tumor localization from native nonstained pathology images," Proc. SPIE 11596, Medical Imaging 2021: Image Processing, 115960A (15 February 2021); doi: 10.1117/12.2582303
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Detect DeepFakes: How to counteract misinformation created by AI

How do you spot a DeepFake? How good are DeepFake videos? How well can ordinary people tell the difference between a video manipulated by...
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AlterEgo

AlterEgo is a  non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with mach...
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Black women, AI, and overcoming historical patterns of abuse

Danielle Wood, Katlyn Turner, and Catherine D'Ignazio talk about The Abuse and Misogynoir Playbook.
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RF-Grasp: Robotic Grasping of Hidden Objects

 Can robots find and grasp hidden objects?Robots are not capable of handling tasks as simple as restocking grocery store shelves as ...
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A robot that senses hidden objects

System uses penetrative radio frequency to pinpoint items, even when they’re hidden from view.
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MIT Center for Constructive Communication

MIT Center for Constructive Communication
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Augmented Eternity and Swappable Identities

Have you ever wondered what a friend would do if she was in your decision-making situation? Or thought about where a family mem...
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Career Girls Role Models

Watch the interviews conducted by Career Girls with Labbers Randi Williams, Jaleesa Trapp, Marian Muthui, and Alexis Hope.
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Cyber Joe: AI Mentor for MIT Media Lab Students of 2050

This video interview is a part of Media Lab X.0: Anthology of Tomorrows.In 2020, first-year PhD students at the MIT Media Lab were t...
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FedML: A Research Library and Benchmark for Federated Machine Learning

In this work, we introduce FedML, an open research library and benchmark that facilitates the development of new 'federated learning algo...
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How to be the steward of your idea, with Affectiva's Rana el Kalioub‪y

Former Labber Rana el Kaliouby, current CEO and co-founder of Affectiva, talks with Reid Hoffman during an episode of Masters of Scale.
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iNonymize: Empathetic Anonymity in Tele-Mental Health Using AI Generated Avatars

This project was selected to represent MIT at the Microsoft Design Expo 2020 on ‘Healthier Futures.’ iNonymizeA tele-mental health p...
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Career Girls Role Models: Randi Williams

Randi Williams talks about her work. Her advice to girls is never to be afraid to make yourself heard; your ideas are essential.
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Curriculum: Power + AI

Check out the project site here. The pursuit of justice in AI requires more than just tweaking the numbers. It requires us to “study up”...
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Judicial Risk Assessment

In this speculative project, we "flipped the script" on a widespread narrative regarding the use of algorithmic risk assessment for crimi...
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability
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Learning with—and about—AI technology

At Open Learning Talks, Cynthia Breazeal and Eric Klopfer discuss artificial intelligence education.
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dementAI

 dementAI is an open-source platform for modeling risk stratification of Alzheimer's dementia using spontaneous speech through ...
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SeqCLR: Self-supervised learning of features for time-series data

Interpreting human electroencephalogram (EEG) is a challenging task and requires years of medical training. We present a framework for le...
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DAMS: Differentially Private Sketching Data Structures

We propose an improved private count-mean-sketch data structure and show its applicability to differentially private contact tr...
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Six researchers who are shaping the future of artificial intelligence

Nature profiles researchers from a variety of different fields, including the Lab’s own Cynthia Breazeal, who are shaping the future of AI.
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Redesigning YouTube

Middle school students reimagine the YouTube platform. Students consider the stakeholders in YouTube, the goal of the recommendation algo...