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Space Exploration Initiative
Designing for, with, and by nature
Cognimates is a platform where parents and children (7-10 years old) participate in creative programming activities in which they l...
The future of human habitation in space, from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to planetary systems far beyond, lies in self-assembling, adaptive, a...
Advancing wellbeing by using new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Transforming data into knowledge
Creating technology for social change
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Here is my secret to staying in computer science: first, have great perseverance. Second, have great friends.
A Wearable Olfactory Display That Monitors Cardio-respiratory Information to Support Mental WellbeingBioEssence is a novel wearable ...
The design of next-generation bionic ankles and knees aims to improve bionic actuators on all metrics: range of motion, power density, ba...
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Wearable and immersive systems for cognitive enhancement and personal growth
ML Learning
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Code Next : Cultural Resonation
Sparking discussion about the social, cultural, and ethical implications of emerging technologies through design and storytelling
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
SpeechBlocks is a smartphone app that allows children to explore spelling principles in an open-ended way. Children rearrange words on th...
www.ajlunited.orgAn unseen force is rising—helping to determine who is hired, granted a loan, or even how long someone spends in prison. ...
The Gender Shades project pilots an intersectional approach to inclusive product testing for AI.Algorithmic Bias PersistsGender Shades is...
Lensless Imaging with Compressive Ultrafast SensingTraditional cameras require a lens and a mega-pixel sensor to capture images. The lens...
All people are created equal, but in the eyes of the algorithm, not all faces are just yet.A new study from MIT and Microsoft r...
A new review of face recognition software found that, when identifying gender, the software is most accurate for men with light skin...
Examination of facial-analysis software shows error rate of 0.8 percent for light-skinned men, 34.7 percent for dark-skinned women.
New research out of MIT’s Media Lab is underscoring what other experts have reported or at least suspected before: facial recognition tec...
Ekblaw, Ariel, and Joseph Paradiso. "Self-assembling Space Structures: Buckminsterfullerene Sensor Nodes." In 2018 AIAA SciTech / AHS Adaptive Structures Conference, p. 0565. 2018.
The Scratch Team invited young people from around the world to create Scratch projects designed specifically to be played in zero gr...
Scratch is a programming language and online community that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, games, and animations–a...
Joy Buolamwini's TED Talk
Algorithms used by the police are better at identifying some racial groups than others. Why is hardly anyone studying this?
Leveraging the power of platforms, big data, and advanced analytics for species protection and the public good in a privacy-preserving, s...
Earlier studies proved that behavior is highly shaped and constrained by one's social networks, and demonstrated ways in which individual...
The MIT Scratch Team is exploring ways to make it easier for newcomers to get started creating with coding. We are designing "microworlds...
Foundations (2015 - 2016): The Year 1 MIT/Google collaboration program has Pilot Labs in NYC and Oakland. In the Labs, we introduce a coh...
Team Edge (2016 - 2017): The Year 2 MIT/Google Collaboration. For it, we design and author Curricula and Learning Activities in the follo...
Our Personal Research Projects group is dedicated to the closure of the digital and educational divides and gaps as they effect the under...
Peter Krafft, Michael Macy, Sandy Pentland. (2017). Bots as Virtual Confederates: Design and Ethics. The 20th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW).
Almaatouq, Abdullah, et al. "Twitter: who gets caught? observed trends in social micro-blogging spam." Proceedings of the 2014 ACM conference on Web science. ACM, 2014.
Almaatouq, Abdullah, et al. "A malicious activity detection system utilizing predictive modeling in complex environments." 2014 IEEE 11th Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC). IEEE, 2014. APA
Launched in 2007, the Scratch Online Community enables children, primarily between the ages of 8 and 16, to share interactive media such ...
Creating tangible materials to break down complex computer science ideas for young children.
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.
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
When we analyzed self-reported relationship surveys from several experiments around the world (from human subjects, not hobbits!), we fou...
Location prediction is a critical building block in many location-based services and transportation management. This project explores the...