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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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Mobility and COVID-19 in Andorra: Country-scale analysis of high-resolution mobility patterns and infection spread

Doorley, R.M., Berke, A., Noyman, A., Alonso, L.A., Ribo, J., Arroyo, V., Pons, M. and Larson, K., 2021. Mobility and COVID-19 in Andorra: Country-scale analysis of high-resolution mobility patterns and infection spread. medRxiv.
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Travel Demand and Traffic Prediction with Cell Phone Data: Calibration by Mathematical Program with Equilibrium Constraints

Doorley, R., Alonso, L., Grignard, A., Maciá, N. and Larson, K., 2020, September. Travel Demand and Traffic Prediction with Cell Phone Data: Calibration by Mathematical Program with Equilibrium Constraints. In 2020 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC) (pp. 1-8). IEEE.
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Fluid Interfaces

Designing systems for cognitive enhancement
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
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Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art
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Why Ekene Ijeoma advocates to design for the citizen, not just the consumer

Ekene Ijeoma, head of the Poetic Justice research group, talks to Frame about his work.
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Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio

Digital Learning & Collaboration Studio
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Paper cards and digital codes target vaccination chaos

An MIT-developed vaccination card aims to cut through vaccine distribution chaos while preserving patient privacy.
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability
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ML Learning

ML Learning
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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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DAMS: Meta-estimation of private sketch data structures for differentially private COVID-19 contact tracing

DAMS: Meta-estimation of private sketch data structures for differentially private COVID-19 contact tracing, Praneeth Vepakomma, Subha Nawer Pushpita and Ramesh Raskar, PPML (Privacy Preserving Machine Learning workshop) at NeurIPS
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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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Open Ocean

Open Ocean
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Learning from the Restoration of Wetlands on Cranberry Farmland: Preliminary Benefits Assessment

Read the preliminary report from the Living Observatory at Tidmarsh on the benefits of restoration projects on four cranberry farms in MA.
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Self-Learning AI Model Learns from Patient Data to Design Novel Clinical Trials

Technical summaryUnstructured learning problems without well-defined rewards are unsuitable for current reinforcement learning (RL) appro...
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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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Controlling COVID-19: Labor Structure is more important than policy

Countries and cities around the world have resorted to unprecedented mobility restrictions to combat Covid-19 transmission. We exploit a ...
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Modeling Migration
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Looking for a better future: modeling migrant mobility

Saa, I.L., Novak, M., Morales, A.J. et al. Looking for a better future: modeling migrant mobility. Appl Netw Sci 5, 70 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-020-00308-9
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The Power of Without

The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financ...
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Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Center for Civic Media
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Health 0.0

Health 0.0
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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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Battery-Free Subsea Internet-of-Things

We present Piezo-Acoustic Backscatter (PAB), the first technology that enables backscatter networking in underwater environments. PAB rel...
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Community Biotechnology

Community Biotechnology
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Resilience Across Scales

Resilience Across Scales is a research theme that encompasses the work of a few Media Lab Principal Investigators and their research grou...
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Controlling COVID-19: Labor structure more important than lockdown policy
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A Matter of Facts podcast: MIT's Deb Roy on Twitter

Deb Roy talks to Delaware Public Media about social media, the spread of misinformation, trolling and abuse, content moderation, and more.
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Camera Culture

Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
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Scalable and Ultra-Low Power Ocean IoT

We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of 𝑈2𝐵, a technology that enables scalable ad ultra-low power ocean IoT.  At t...
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How to send underwater messages without batteries

A new device extracts energy from ambient noise
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Viral Communications

Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
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Low-cost invasive species management in coastal ecosystems: A case study in Benin

All over Africa, experts use satellite Earth Observation (EO) data for applications such as monitoring crop health or assessing the risk ...
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Safe Paths

Papers from SafePaths: https://github.com/PrivateKit/PrivacyDocumentsSafe Paths is an MIT-led, free, open source technology tha...
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Split Learning: Distributed and collaborative learning

Split Learning: Distributed deep learning without sharing raw data Project Page: https://splitlearning.github.io/Abstract: ...
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Gigbox: a research and development toolkit centering workers in the gig economy

Delivery workers, ridehail drivers, and other gig workers are increasingly controlled through algorithmic decision-making, fueled by data...
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Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
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Americans speak more than 1,300 languages. This artist wants to capture them all

People speak as many as 800 languages in New York alone. With A Counting, Ekene Ijeoma aims to represent every single one.
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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Public Library Innovation Exchange

Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the U.S. and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, ra...
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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge
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The role of industry, occupation, and location-specific knowledge in the survival of new firms

How do regions acquire the knowledge they need to diversify their economic activities? How does the migration of workers among firms and ...
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The laws of forgetting II: How death and exogenous events shape our collective memory

In order to understand how exogenous shocks, like death, impact memorability by remembering, we use a data-set of biographies from Wikipe...
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Pantheon

What if we could look at the entire history of humanity at once? Pantheon aims to create a data-driven view of history by collecting...
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Ekene Ijeoma on drawing and sculpting with data for Friedman Benda's 'Design in Dialogue'

Poetic Justice head Ekene Ijeoma in conversation with Stephen Burks.
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DIVE

DIVE is a web-based data exploration system that lets non-technical users create stories from their data without writing code. DIVE ...
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DataUSA

Visit DataUSADataUSA is the most comprehensive site visualizing public data for the United States. Through interactive profiles, DataUSA ...
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Immersion

The current interface of emails is designed around time and messages, pushing people to focus on what is more recent rather than importan...
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What is the optimal way to diversify an economy?

One of the eternal challenges of economic development is how to identify the economic activities that a country, city, or region should t...
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Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
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This audio portrait of the 2020 census asks: Whose voices really count?

Poetic Justice head Ekene Ijeoma talks to NPR about his work, from Deconstructed Anthems to A Counting.
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A Counting

A voice portrait of major US cities. We invite you to: experience the NYC edition by watching here or listening at 917-905...
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Scalable Cooperation

Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
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Reversed Urbanism

Predicting Urban Performance through Behavioral Patterns in Temporal Telecom DataThis study explores a novel method to analyze diverse be...
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AI, Automation, Labor, and Cities: How to map the future of work

Should workers worry about automation and AI?Many workers, policy makers, and researchers are asking themselves exactly this question. Bu...
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DeepMoji

Emotional content is an important part of language. There are many use cases now showing that natural language processing is becoming an ...
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Moral Machine

The Moral Machine is a platform for gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by machine intelligence, such as self-driving c...
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Shelley: Human-AI Collaborated Horror Stories

Project website: shelley.ai Human-AI collaborated stories: stories.shelley.ai Follow @shelley_ai to collaborate ...
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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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SPRING: A Smart Platform for Research, Intervention, and Neurodevelopmental Growth

SPRING is a custom-built hardware and software platform for children with neuro-differences. The system automates data acquisition, optim...
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Building a more resilient, data-driven economy

“In a resilient economy, power and decision-making should be distributed among a diverse set of stakeholders."
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Dressed in Data

This project steps beyond data visualizations to create data experiences. It aims to engage not only the analytic mind, but also the arti...
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Tidmarsh Living Observatory Portal

The Tidmarsh Living Observatory Portal is a research project that focuses on the design and fabrication of a pavilion that will gene...