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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)

Digital Currency Initiative
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Scalable Cooperation

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

SensorNets: Towards Reconfigurable Multifunctional Fine-grained  Soft and Stretchable Electronic Skins.SensorNets is a bio...
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
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Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative
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Signal Kinetics

Extending human and computer abilities in sensing, communication, and actuation through signals and networks
Article Research

Underwater energy harvesting with a data-link twist

A novel acoustic-based backscatter design offers an innovative scheme for underwater energy harvesting and data transmission.
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Viral Communications

Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
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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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Corporate surveillance of the commons + Amazon Ring

As of August 2019, Ring has active partnerships with over 400 law enforcement agencies across the US. These partnerships allow law enforc...
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Ring’s hidden data let us map Amazon's sprawling home surveillance network

By Dell Cameron and Dhruv MehrotraAs reporters raced this summer to bring new details of Ring’s law enforcement contracts ...
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INSPIRE

INSPIRE: Intelligence Never Seeks Perfection, Instead Requires Effort.Stories help us expand our sense of what's possible: by hearing fro...
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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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[bike] swarm

As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers...
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CE 2.0

CE 2.0
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Ultimate Media

Ultimate Media
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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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Personal Robots

Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better
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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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Music, Mind and Machine

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

Burning Man is a magical place that gets the best of human creativity and collaboration to flourish. To further understand what makes thi...
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RoboChain: A secure data-sharing framework for human-robot interaction

A learning framework for secure, decentralized, computationally efficient data and model sharing among multiple robot units installed at...
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Blockchain: A new framework for robotic swarm systems

Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make...
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Low-power wireless environmental sensor network

Tidmarsh is a 600-acre former cranberry farm near Plymouth, MA that has undergone a restoration to wetland. We have instrumented the site...
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News Graph

This project aims to show a different picture of the data behind the news, looking at how we analyze, represent, and interact with it.&nb...
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Dynamic Traffic Prediction in Andorra: a Bayesian network approach

Data Fusion for Dynamic Traffic PredictionTraffic congestion has huge negative impacts on the productivity, health and personal live...
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Wireless communication from underwater to the air

Did you know that submarines today still cannot wirelessly communicate with airplanes? For decades, communicating between underwater and ...
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Urban Swarms

Modern cities have to respond to the growing demands of more efficient and sustainable urban development, as well as an increased quality...
Communications Futures Program
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The next great (digital) extinction

We’re in a modern Cambrian era, sorting through an explosion of technologies enabled by the Internet.
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What tech will look like in 2039

We asked futurists, tech execs, academics, researchers, and a sci-fi writer to imagine our tech-driven society in 20 years.
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Fadel Adib receives the Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research

Fadel Adib is one of 25 recipients of the Office of Naval Research's 2019 Young Investigator Awards, and the only awardee from MIT.
Future Storytelling
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Emerging Worlds

Emerging Worlds
Consumer Electronics Laboratory
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Hundred Dollar Laptop
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Urban Swarms: A new approach for autonomous waste management

Alfeo, A. L., Ferrer, E. C., Carrillo, Y. L., Grignard, A., Pastor, L. A., Sleeper, D. T., Cimino, M. G. C. A., Lepri, B., Vaglini, G., Laron, K., Dorigo, M., Pentland, A. `Sandy’. (2018). Urban Swarms: A new approach for autonomous waste management. ArXiv:1810.07910 [Cs].
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RFind: Extreme localization for billions of items

Presenting RFind, a new technology that allows us to locate almost any object with extreme accuracy by transforming low-cost, battery-fre...
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The Networked Sensory Landscape: Capturing and Experiencing Ecological Change Across Scales

Mayton, Brian, et al. "The networked sensory landscape: Capturing and experiencing ecological change across scales." PRESENCE: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 26.2 (2017): 182-209.
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Inventing the future of digitally augmented objects and environments.
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Quantizer: Sonification Platform for High-Energy Physics Data

Inspired by previous work in the field of data sonification, we built a data-driven composition platform that enables users to map collis...
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Living Mobile

Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions
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Structural and temporal patterns of the first global trading market

We investigate the structure and dynamics of a network representative of the global trading market that emerged during the 16th century.
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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PubPub

PubPub reinvents publication to align with the way the web was designed: collaborative, evolving, and open. PubPub uses a graphical forma...
Gallery Research

RoboChain Project Figures
Center for Civic Media
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Electronic Publishing

How to distill meaning from complex everyday experiences.
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Shooting Low or High: Do Countries Benefit from Entering Unrelated Activities?

Pinheiro, Flávio L., et al. "Shooting Low or High: Do Countries Benefit from Entering Unrelated Activities?" arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.05352 (2018).
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Local Wealth Redistribution Promotes Cooperation in Multiagent Systems

Pinheiro, F. L., Santos, F. (2018). Local Wealth Redistribution Promotes Cooperation in Multiagent Systems, forthcoming Proc. of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2018)
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The International Affiliation Network of YouTube Trends

Platt, E. L., Bhargava, R., & Zuckerman, E. (2015). The International Affiliation Network of YouTube Trends.
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Global Cooperation

Measuring Cooperation at Scale
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Detecting reciprocity at a global scale

Frank, M. R., Obradovich, N., Sun, L., Woon, W. L., LeVeck, B. L., & Rahwan, I. (2018). Detecting reciprocity at a global scale. Science Advances, 4(1), eaao5348.
Thesis Research

Collaborative Scientific Publishing: A New Research Ecosystem

Travis Rich, MIT PhD Thesis, 2017
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Mapping Higher Education Option Space

The mismatch between the supply of graduates’ skills and the needs of the labor market has become increasingly obvious and problematic ov...
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Price of complexity in financial networks

Stefano Battiston, Guido Caldarelli, Robert May, Tarik Roukny, Joseph E. Stiglitz (Proceedings of the National Academy of Science - PNAS)
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Do countries benefit from jumping into unrelated varieties?

It is well established that countries, regions and institutions tend to develop towards related activities. This implies that, for instan...
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Playful Systems

Designing systems that become experiences to transcend utility and usability
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Secure Sharing of Wildlife Data

Leveraging the power of platforms, big data, and advanced analytics for species protection and the public good in a privacy-preserving, s...
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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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Bootstrap percolation on spatial networks

Gao, J., Zhou, T., & Hu, Y. (2015). Bootstrap percolation on spatial networks. Scientific Reports, 5: 14662.
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Critical size of ego communication networks

Wang, Q., Gao, J., Zhou, T., Hu, Z., & Tian, H. (2016). Critical size of ego communication networks. EPL (Europhysics Letters), 114(5), 58004.
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Evaluating user reputation in online rating systems via an iterative group-based ranking method

Gao, J., Zhou, T. Evaluating user reputation in online rating systems via an iterative group-based ranking method. arXiv: 1509.00594.
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Group-based ranking method for online rating systems with spamming attacks

Gao, J., Dong, Y. W., Shang, M. S., Cai, S. M., & Zhou, T. (2015). Group-based ranking method for online rating systems with spamming attacks. EPL (Europhysics Letters), 110(2), 28003.