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This project is working on understanding and implementing privacy preserving payments in CBDC. After surveying privacy techniques from cryp…
Funded by a National Science Foundation EAGER GrantOpenCBDC raised the bar for CBDC performance and viability. In this subsequent work, we …
Digital Currency Initiative
Looking beyond smart cities
“Us” aims to help people develop their sense of empathy. It uses machine learning to analyze interlocutors’ signals (e.g., choice of words,…
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
In Scientific American, Dr. Alex Lipton and Media Lab Professor Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland call for the creation of new banking regulations.
ResearchTechnical Paper | Executive Summary | GitHubAboutIntroductionOpenCBDC is an open source project to engage in co…
Since the Bank of England first raised the concept of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in its 2015 research agenda, the subject has g…
Public interest tax analyst Don Griswold introduces Tech for Transparency, inspired by Media Lab Professor Alex Pentland's research.
Transforming data into knowledge
From Bitcoin to NFTs, crypto is making headlines. But what exactly is it, and how does it work?
Choice is a publishing unit of the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association.
The MIT Digital Currency Initiative director serves as a crucial link between cryptocurrency developers and central banks around the world.
Collaboration with Federal Reserve Bank of Boston yields progress in understanding how a digital currency might be developed in the future.
Boston.com reports on research conducted by Human Dynamics head Sandy Pentland, visiting professor Esteban Moro, and collaborators.
The 2021 event, held in Kresge Auditorium and streamed live, was an unmistakable sign that MIT’s campus is up and running.
Sandy Pentland discusses national digital currencies and trade platforms, and how they could upend today's geopolitical hierarchies.
CNBC talks to Neha Narula and other experts about the growing interest in central bank digital currencies.
How radical new collaborations will catalyze a revolution in health.
CE 2.0
Essays and testimonies on Facebook's proposed cryptocurrency
We investigate the structure and dynamics of a network representative of the global trading market that emerged during the 16th century.
Blockchain technology and the crypto ecosystem it has birthed must come fully within public policy frameworks to reach its full potential.