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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks

#robotics #design #social networks +41 more
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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change

#social networks #art #artificial intelligence +33 more
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks

#robotics #design #virtual reality +26 more
Accepting Applicants
Post Research

Neil Gaikwad chosen as a 2019 Facebook Fellow

Neil Gaikwad, a third-year PhD student in the Space Enabled research group, has been selected as one of the 2019 Facebook Fellows.

Jan. 16, 2019
in Space Enabled
#agriculture #artificial intelligence #ecology +6 more
Research
Space Enabled

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

#design #agriculture #artificial intelligence +20 more
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Research
Object-Based Media

Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies

#robotics #design #virtual reality +31 more
Accepting Applicants
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Scalable Cooperation

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

#design #architecture #artificial intelligence +35 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Communications Futures Program
#robotics #architecture #art +20 more
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Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion

#robotics #design #art +50 more
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge

#design #social networks #virtual reality +35 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Article Research

How different types of knowledge impact the growth of new firms

Study explores the micromechanisms underlying regional economic diversification.

via MIT News · Dec. 20, 2018
in Collective Learning
#economy #industry
Project Research

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...

in Collective Learning
#data #economy #social science
Project Research

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 ...

in Collective Learning
Cristian Ignacio Jara Figueroa · Bogang Jun +1 more
#data #economy
Counter Intelligence
#architecture #consumer electronics #economy +3 more
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e-markets
#robotics #human-computer interaction #cognition +6 more
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Advancing Wellbeing

Advancing Wellbeing

#design #virtual reality #human-computer interaction +25 more
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CE 2.0

CE 2.0

#robotics #architecture #art +20 more
Future Storytelling
#robotics #architecture #art +21 more
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Consumer Electronics Laboratory
#robotics #architecture #art +20 more
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Hundred Dollar Laptop
#architecture #consumer electronics #developing countries +5 more
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Viral Communications

Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness

#design #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +22 more
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Research
Community Biotechnology

Community Biotechnology

#design #art #bioengineering +6 more
Project Research

Future of Work: Automation, Labor & Cities

As advances in robotics and artificial intelligence revive concerns about the impact of automation on jobs, a question looms: How will au...

in Scalable Cooperation
Manuel Cebrian · Morgan Ryan Frank +3 more
#artificial intelligence #data #economy +3 more
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Inventing the future of digitally augmented objects and environments.
#robotics #architecture #art +23 more
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Center for Mobile Learning
#consumer electronics #developing countries #economy +3 more
Publication Research

Unpacking the polarization of workplace skills

Academic Paper, July 2018
in Scalable Cooperation
#economy
Research
Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)

Digital Currency Initiative

#banking and finance #cryptocurrency #economy +8 more
Post Research

Skillscape: How skills affect your job trajectory, and their implications for automation by AI

This blog post summarizes the key findings of our new paper Unpacking the polarization of workplace skills published in Science Advances ...

July 18, 2018
in Scalable Cooperation
#data #economy
How software can act as an assistant to the user rather than a tool, by learning from interaction and by proactively anticipating the user's
#robotics #architecture #art +20 more
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Dizzying Decisions

It’s not about your wireless or cable bill, it’s about your right to learn.

June 20, 2018
in Viral Communications
#communications #economy
Center for Civic Media
Ethan Zuckerman
#robotics #design #computer vision +39 more
Publication Research

Optimal diversification strategies in the networks of related products and of related research areas

Alshamsi A, Pinheiro FL, & Hidalgo CA. "Optimal diversification strategies in the networks of related products and of related research areas." Nature Communications (2018) 9:1328. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03740-9.

Academic Paper, April 2018
in Collective Learning
#data #economy #social science
Project Research

Social Physics of Unemployment

Earlier studies proved that behavior is highly shaped and constrained by one's social networks, and demonstrated ways in which individual...

in Human Dynamics
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland · Abdullah M. Almaatouq
#data #economy #politics +4 more
Publication Research

Mobile Communication Signatures of Unemployment

Almaatouq, A., Prieto-Castrillo, F. and Pentland, A., 2016, November. Mobile Communication Signatures of Unemployment. In International Conference on Social Informatics (pp. 407-418). Springer International Publishing.

Article, Nov. 2016
in Human Dynamics
#economy #social science
Archived
Project Research

Collective Learning in China's Regional Economic Development

Industrial development is the process by which economies learn how to produce new products and services. But how do economies learn? And ...

Jian Gao · Bogang Jun +1 more
#developing countries #economy #learning +2 more
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Publication Research

Collective Learning in China's Regional Economic Development

Jian Gao, Bogang Jun, Alex Pentland, Tao Zhou, and Cesar A. Hidalgo. Collective Learning in China's Regional Economic Development. arXiv:1703.01369, 2017.

Article, March 2017
in Collective Learning
#economy #learning #networks
Publication Research

Collective Learning in China's Regional Economic Development

Jian Gao, Bogang Jun, Alex Pentland, Tao Zhou, and Cesar A. Hidalgo. Collective Learning in China's Regional Economic Development. arXiv:1703.01369, 2017.

Article, March 2017
in Collective Learning
#developing countries #economy #learning
Project Research

Digital Fiat Currency

Money is at the heart of the financial system—its most basic element. Fundamental reform of the system starts with addressing how money w...

in Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)
Robleh Ali
#banking and finance #economy #blockchain
Publication Research

Has the German reunification strengthened Germany’s national research system? Dynamics of the triple helix of scientific co-authorship

Yi, S. G., & Jun, B. (2016). Has the German reunification strengthened Germany's national innovation system? Triple helix dynamics of Germany's innovation system (No. 15-2016). Hohenheim Discussion Papers in Business, Economics and Social Sciences.

Article
in Collective Learning
#economy
Publication Research

The legacy of Friedrich List: the Korean history of industrialization

Jun, Bogang, Alexander Gerybadze, and Tai-Yoo Kim. The legacy of Friedrich List: The expansive reproduction system and the Korean history of industrialization. No. 02-2016. Hohenheim Discussion Papers in Business, Economics and Social Sciences, 2016.

Article, May 2016
in Collective Learning
#economy
Publication Research

Financial Hurdles for Human Capital Accumulation: Revisiting the Galor-Zeira Model

Jun, Bogang, and Won-Sik Hwang. "Financial Hurdles for Human Capital Accumulation: Revisiting the Galor-Zeira Model." (2012).

Academic Paper
in Collective Learning
#economy
Publication Research

A Neo-Schumpeterian perspective on the analytical macroeconomic framework: The expanded reproduction system

Jun, Bogang, and Tai-Yoo Kim. A neo-Schumpeterian perspective on the analytical macroeconomic framework: The expanded reproduction system. No. 11-2015. Hohenheim Discussion Papers in Business, Economics and Social Sciences, 2015.

Article
in Collective Learning
#economy
Thesis Research

Complex Systems and a Computational Social Science Perspective on the Labor Market

Almaatouq, A. (2016). Complex Systems and a Computational Social Science Perspective on the Labor Market. arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.08562. Chicago

Thesis, June 2016
in Human Dynamics
#economy #networks #social science
How people and objects can tell tales of their experience and learn from others as they navigate through the vast media fabric made up of intertwining storied threads.
#robotics #architecture #art +17 more
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eRationality

How we can understand human behavior (rationality, semi-rationality, bounded rationality, and just plain irrationality) in day-to-day behaviors, and in particular in electronic environments.

#robotics #architecture #art +17 more
Not Accepting Applicants
How to give computers human-like intuition so they can better understand us.
#robotics #architecture #art +20 more
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Archived
How to engage diverse audiences in creating their own technology by situating computation in new contexts and building tools to democratize engineering.
#robotics #architecture #art +20 more
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Archived
How various phenomena of mind emerge from the interactions among many kinds of highly evolved brain mechanisms.
#robotics #architecture #art +16 more
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Archived
Research
Future of Learning

How to redefine and expand the conceptual framework and language of learning by creating new technologies and spheres of practice.

#robotics #architecture #art +18 more
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Research
New Media Medicine

How radical new collaborations will catalyze a revolution in health.

#robotics #architecture #art +20 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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Research
Physics and Media

How to bring the programmability of the digital world to the physical world.

#robotics #architecture #art +17 more
Not Accepting Applicants
How to create better online environments and interfaces for human communication.
#robotics #design #architecture +25 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Next Billion Network
#consumer electronics #developing countries #economy +2 more
Archived
How to improve mobility with higher-quality and lower-power-consumption display technology.
#robotics #architecture #art +11 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
How buildings and cities can become more intelligently responsive to the needs and desires of their inhabitants.
#robotics #architecture #art +19 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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Archived
Research
Music, Mind and Machine

How to build intelligent music systems out of interacting audio-processing agents.

#robotics #architecture #art +17 more
Not Accepting Applicants
How artists and engineers can refigure technology for the full range of human experience.
#robotics #architecture #art +19 more
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SIMPLICITY
#robotics #architecture #art +16 more
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Digital Nations
#art #consumer electronics #developing countries +2 more
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Research
Nanoscale Sensing

How to detect the activity of biological molecules with micro- and nanofabricated devices.

#robotics #architecture #art +14 more
Not Accepting Applicants
How to design machines that use what we do, where we are, and how we feel to add to our social, educational, and functional success.
#robotics #architecture #art +17 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
How to give computers "common sense"�the ability to think about the everyday world as people do.
#robotics #art #artificial intelligence +10 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
How simplifying the basic tools for digital expression will lead to a new creative digital economy. For more Physical Language Workshop projects, see Henry Holtzman.
#robotics #architecture #art +16 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
NEXT
#robotics #art #artificial intelligence +14 more
Archived
How to create seamless and pervasive connections between our physical environments and information resources.
#robotics #human-computer interaction #architecture +23 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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Research
quanta

How we can construct information technology and intelligence from the fundamental building blocks of physical media: atoms and molecules.

#robotics #architecture #art +16 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Center for Future Banking
#robotics #architecture #art +27 more
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Digital Life
#robotics #human-computer interaction #architecture +26 more
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