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Space Enabled

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

Looking beyond smart cities
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Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)

Digital Currency Initiative
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
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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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Digital Currency and Trade Systems Are Tearing up the Rules: We need a "digital Bretton Woods" to set standards

Sandy Pentland discusses national digital currencies and trade platforms, and how they could upend today's geopolitical hierarchies.
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The Atlas of Inequality

Segregation is hurting our societies and especially our cities. But economic inequality isn't just limited to neighborhoods. The restaura...
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Responsive Environments

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

Community Biotechnology
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Norman Foster launches 'On Cities' masterclass series

A new masterclass video series from the Norman Foster Foundation features leading experts in the fields of architecture, urbanism, and more.
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COVID-19 policy analysis: labour structure dictates lockdown mobility behaviour

Countries and cities around the world have resorted to unprecedented mobility restrictions to combat COVID-19 transmission. Here we explo...
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COVID-19 policy analysis: labour structure dictates lockdown mobility behaviour

Heroy Samuel, Loaiza Isabella, Pentland Alex and O’Clery Neave 2021COVID-19 policy analysis: labour structure dictates lockdown mobility behaviourJ. R. Soc. Interface.182020103520201035 http://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2020.1035
Center for Mobile Learning
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Viral Vote

Climate change and the domino effect it creates will require coordination at scales we haven’t seen and new forms of organization to addr...
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Viral Communications

Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
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Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)

Since the Bank of England first raised the concept of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in its 2015 research agenda, the subject has...
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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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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change
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Object-Based Media

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

How radical new collaborations will catalyze a revolution in health.
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Scalable Cooperation

Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
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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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An exercise at Kennedy School explores the dangers if large sums could be secretly sent to hostile nations

Neha Narula and Gary Gensler joined other experts to explore the potential impacts of digital currencies on national and global security.
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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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Contact Tracing Technologies: Methods and trade-offs

Alex Berke and Kent Larson, City Science group, MIT Media Lab (2020).
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(Re)Building the Economy | Alex (Sandy) Pentland | TEDxMIT

With each major crisis, be it pandemic, war, or major new technology, there has been the need to reinvent our society.
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Dizzying Decisions

It’s not about your wireless or cable bill, it’s about your right to learn.
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A Coronavirus briefing with MIT

MIT Industrial Liaison Program with professors Yossi Sheffi, Alex Pentland, and Andrew Lo to discuss the impacts of COVID-19 on business.
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Does the US need a national digital currency?

Proponents say payments with a digital dollar would be faster and easier. Opponents say it would be costly and inefficient.
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China’s digital yuan could help countries like North Korea evade US sanctions, experts say

Neha Narula joined experts discussing the privacy and security concerns around China's digital currency.
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In wargaming exercise, a digital yuan neuters US sanctions and North Korea buys nukes

Neha Narula and Gary Gensler participated in a simulated “digital currency war” at Harvard’s Belfer Center.
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Sustainability rating for space could help keep junk out of the sky

Danielle Wood discusses the satellite technology research and other work underway in her Space Enabled research group.
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CE 2.0

CE 2.0
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Advancing Wellbeing

Advancing Wellbeing
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Music, Mind and Machine

How to build intelligent music systems out of interacting audio-processing agents.
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The world is complex. Measuring charity has to be too

We must, however, make changes in the way we fund potential solutions so that it supports a diversity of disciplines and approaches.
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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...
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Toward understanding the impact of artificial intelligence on labor

Frank, Morgan R., David Autor, James E. Bessen, Erik Brynjolfsson, Manuel Cebrian, David J. Deming, Maryann Feldman, et al. “Toward Understanding the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Labor.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 25, 2019, 201900949. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1900949116.
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Visualizing where rich and poor people really cross paths—or don’t

These maps show “place inequality"—or why people of different income levels are at different coffee shops.
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The 'Atlas of Inequality' maps micro-level segregation

MIT Media Lab’s new interactive “Atlas of Inequality” shows that “segregation is not just about where you live, but what you do."
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How different types of knowledge impact the growth of new firms

Study explores the micromechanisms underlying regional economic diversification.
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Inventing the future of digitally augmented objects and environments.
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Unpacking the polarization of workplace skills
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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 ...
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
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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.
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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.
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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 ...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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
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.
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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.
How to give computers human-like intuition so they can better understand us.
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How to engage diverse audiences in creating their own technology by situating computation in new contexts and building tools to democratize engineering.
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