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Transforming data into knowledge
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Extending human and computer abilities in sensing, communication, and actuation through signals and networks
Space Exploration Initiative
Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better
Creating technology for social change
Emerging Worlds
PubPub reinvents publication to align with the way the web was designed: collaborative, evolving, and open. PubPub uses a graphical forma...
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
A learning framework for secure, decentralized, computationally efficient data and model sharing among multiple robot units installed at...
Privacy-preserving mHealth application using Open Algorithm (OPAL) architecture to address urgent care challenges in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Achieving a safe privacy-preserving information sharing environment for individualized care using blockchain-based technology in multiple...
Predicting Urban Performance through Behavioral Patterns in Temporal Telecom DataThis study explores a novel method to analyze diverse be...
Tidmarsh is a 600-acre former cranberry farm near Plymouth, MA that is being restored to natural wetland. As the restoration procee...
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make...
Digital Currency Initiative
How to distill meaning from complex everyday experiences.
Pinheiro, Flávio L., et al. "Shooting Low or High: Do Countries Benefit from Entering Unrelated Activities?" arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.05352 (2018).
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)
Platt, E. L., Bhargava, R., & Zuckerman, E. (2015). The International Affiliation Network of YouTube Trends.
Measuring Cooperation at 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.
Travis Rich, MIT PhD Thesis, 2017
Presenting RFind, a new technology that allows us to locate almost any object with extreme accuracy by transforming low-cost, battery-fre...
The mismatch between the supply of graduates’ skills and the needs of the labor market has become increasingly obvious and problematic ov...
Stefano Battiston, Guido Caldarelli, Robert May, Tarik Roukny, Joseph E. Stiglitz (Proceedings of the National Academy of Science - PNAS)
It is well established that countries, regions and institutions tend to develop towards related activities. This implies that, for instan...
Designing systems that become experiences to transcend utility and usability
Leveraging the power of platforms, big data, and advanced analytics for species protection and the public good in a privacy-preserving, s...
Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions
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...
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, Alex Pentland, Tao Zhou, and Cesar A. Hidalgo. Collective Learning in China's Regional Economic Development. arXiv:1703.01369, 2017.
Gao, J., Zhou, T., & Hu, Y. (2015). Bootstrap percolation on spatial networks. Scientific Reports, 5: 14662.
Wang, Q., Gao, J., Zhou, T., Hu, Z., & Tian, H. (2016). Critical size of ego communication networks. EPL (Europhysics Letters), 114(5), 58004.
Gao, J., Zhou, T. Evaluating user reputation in online rating systems via an iterative group-based ranking method. arXiv: 1509.00594.
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.
Krafft, Peter M., Chris L. Baker, Alex "Sandy" Pentland, and Joshua B. Tenenbaum. (2016). Modeling Human Ad Hoc Coordination. The Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
Almaatouq, A. (2016). Complex Systems and a Computational Social Science Perspective on the Labor Market. arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.08562. Chicago
FlipFeed is a Google Chrome Extension that enables Twitter users to replace their own feed with that of another real Twitter user. Powere...
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. and Shmueli, E., 2016 The Role of Reciprocity and Directionality of Friendship Ties in Promoting Behavioral Change Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling, pp.33-41
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
CE 2.0
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 engineer and disseminate powerful, low-cost design and fabrication technologies at a grassroots level.
How to redefine and expand the conceptual framework and language of learning by creating new technologies and spheres of practice.
How radical new collaborations will catalyze a revolution in health.
How to bring the programmability of the digital world to the physical world.