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Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative
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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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Opera of the Future

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
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AI ‘Bill of Rights’ must be global

A global "AI Bill of Rights" that would help protect fairness, promote accountability, support innovation, and develop ethical guidelines.
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
Inventing the future of digitally augmented objects and environments.
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge
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How to Save Democracy: A new study gives clues for how to fix America’s political culture

Of 25 proposed interventions for democracy tested, one developed by Human Dynamics researchers was among the most effective.
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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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“Our Ancestors Did Not Breathe This Air”: On growing up Muslim in America

Six MIT students, including Biomechatronics student Ayse Guvenilir, share their thoughts on belonging, identity, love, and MIT itself.
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability
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CommunityLM

CommunityLM is a research program from MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC) and MIT Media Lab. We are devoted to developing soci…
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Tangible Media

Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
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Molecular Machines

Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
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Jelani Cobb and Deb Roy Join Knight Institute Board

The Knight Institute was established by Columbia University and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in 2016.
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Viral Communications

People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
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Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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Make the Breast Pump Not Suck Hackathon

In September 2014, 150 parents, engineers, designers, and healthcare practitioners gathered at the MIT Media Lab for the "Make the Breast P…
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MIT Center for Constructive Communication

MIT Center for Constructive Communication
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
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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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Space Sustainability Rating

The Space Sustainability RatingThe Space Sustainability Rating design team—comprised of the World Economic Forum, the European Space Agency…
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Scalable Cooperation

Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Center for Civic Media
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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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Civic Entertainment

Civic Entertainment is a project based at the Center for Civic Media that explores the intersection of civic engagement with film, televisi…
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Media Cloud

Media Cloud is a platform for studying media ecosystems. By tracking millions of stories published online, the system allows researchers to…
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RealTalk for Change Boston

A revolutionary new piece of civic infrastructure for more inclusive public input.Real Talk for Change is a collaboration between MIT’s Cen…
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Some Bostonians feel largely unheard. With MIT’s ‘Real Talk’ portal now public, here’s a chance to really listen

A database of community conversations in various Boston neighborhoods launches publicly on Monday.
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MIT’s ‘Real Talk’ campaign gives likely voters a voice in Boston’s race for mayor

Researchers enlist grassroots activists to engage “invisible” residents about the future of the city.
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Robot Policy Design Toolkit

Increasingly, devices designed with artificial intelligence (AI), such as robots or smart speakers, are entering people’s homes, workspaces…
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From modeling quantum devices to political systems

MIT senior Sihao Huang describes his experience working with Alex Siegenfeld towards the emerging field of complex systems science.
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Waze for our Pandemic Journey

Ramesh Raskar discuses potential approaches to creating apps that can leverage citizen engagement to improve government responses to crises.
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2021 was the year space tourism opened up. But for whom?

Space Exploration Initiative director Ariel Ekblaw speaks with WIRED’s Ramin Skibba about the beginning and future of space tourism.
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Better democracy through technology

Can machines make us better citizens and conversationalists? Deb Roy thinks so.
How buildings and cities can become more intelligently responsive to the needs and desires of their inhabitants.
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Social Mirror

Social Mirror is a web application that helps Twitter users interactively explore the politically active parts of their social network. Wo…
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Technologists are trying to fix the “filter bubble” problem that tech helped create

But research shows online polarization isn’t as clear-cut as people think.
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Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)

Digital Currency Initiative
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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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Building Our Muscle for Democracy (Prof. Ceasar McDowell)

In this podcast episode, Ceasar McDowell talks about designing better, more equitable public conversations.
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MIT’s Deb Roy analyzes divisions caused by social media-dominated world

In a recent lecture, Deb Roy discussed social media, democracy, and the continuing importance of local, in-person conversations.
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Community Biotechnology

Community Biotechnology
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A sustainability rating for space debris

A team led by the Space Enabled group, ESA, and the World Economic Forum will address waste in Earth’s orbit
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Anastasia Ostrowski and Daniella DiPaola receive an award from the Harold Horowitz (1951) Student Research Fund

Established in 1999, the Harold Horowitz (1951) Student Research Fund makes awards on an annual basis to students in SA+P.
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Space Freedoms

Sparking conversations through artwork  and envisioning future values for a spacefaring society
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Space for Virtual Reality

Studying group dynamics in space environments with virtual reality simulations to inform the design of future governance systems
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The MIT SEI Space Governance Collaborative

The Space Governance Collaborative is an interdisciplinary group of researchers based at the MIT Media Lab with a growing network of g…
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Leonardo Bonanni testifies before US Senate Committee on Finance in Fighting Forced Labor hearing

Alum Leonardo Bonanni, founder of spinoff Sourcemap, testified before the US Senate Committee on Finance in this virtual hearing.
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MIT Space Policy Compendium

Read the new MIT Space Policy Compendium led by Dava Newman with co-authors including Ariel Ekblaw and Danielle Wood.
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Lunar Open Architecture

Building an open, shared, and collaborative future of lunar exploration.Explore the Lunar Open Architecture (LOA) at loa.mit.edu. …
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Theme | Mobility On-Demand

Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and p…
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Safe Paths

Papers from SafePaths: https://github.com/PrivateKit/PrivacyDocumentsSafe Paths is an MIT-led, free, open source technology that …
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CabildoxLatAm

CabildoxLatAm: A space for digital participation in Latin AmericaIn the face of the challenges that have emerged and been exacerbated&…
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The Amazing Disappearing Election

Donald Trump and the coronavirus are all-consuming topics. What will happen to the rest of the world’s issues?
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New Media Medicine

How radical new collaborations will catalyze a revolution in health.
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Evolution of the Social Contract

Political constitutions describe the fundamental principles by which nation-states are governed, the political and legal state institutions…
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Global Cooperation

Measuring Cooperation at Scale
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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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SuperGlue Kinesics

The relationship between news content and its presentation has been a long-studied problem in the communications domain. Often, channe…
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Let's Talk Privacy: Exploring how privacy and data governance policies translate into practice

Let’s Talk Privacy explores how the implementation of privacy and data governance policies might impact a variety of fields.Project Let’s T…
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From legislation to implementation: Exploring how to prototype privacy bills through human-centered policymaking + design

The rise of data privacy breaches and a look into policies that address these challenges
Hundred Dollar Laptop
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Work advances on Space Sustainability Rating

A consortium established last year to develop a rating to measure how well satellites comply with space sustainability guidelines expects to
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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.