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Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Overview of the Space Sustainability RatingThe global space community is witnessing a rapid increase in creative business models and new ...
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
Space Exploration Initiative
A hotline where the public can respond to prompts about freedom and listen to a live remix of those responses alongside samples from ...
Danielle Wood, Katlyn Turner, and Catherine D'Ignazio talk about The Abuse and Misogynoir Playbook.
Advance human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Cate McQuaid talks to Ekene Ijeoma about his work, including the Black Mobility and Safety Seminar
A voice portrait of major US cities. We invite you to: experience the NYC edition by watching here or listening at 917-905...
Designing systems for cognitive enhancement
Ekene Ijeoma, head of the Poetic Justice research group, talks to Frame about his work.
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
MIT hosts kickoff event of Massachusetts STEM Week — a statewide virtual celebration of K-12 education.
Overview: The outermost skin of a space-based structure is designed using materials known to protect against the harsh elements of space....
Space research, led by a diverse team of women scientists, will be presented at this year's AIAA Ascend Conference.
Building an open, shared, and collaborative future of lunar exploration.Explore the Lunar Open Architecture (LOA) at loa.mit.edu.&nb...
The environmental conditions of prolonged spaceflight pose significant psychological risks for astronauts. In particular, crews of future...
Wax-based hybrid rocket propellants, including paraffin (common candlewax) and beeswax show promise as high-performing hybrid rocket prop...
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
People speak as many as 800 languages in New York alone. With A Counting, Ekene Ijeoma aims to represent every single one.
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Designing for, with, and by nature
Creating technology for social change
www.ajl.orgAn unseen force is rising—helping to determine who is hired, granted a loan, or even how long someone spends in prison. This f...
Chelsea Barabas shares her thoughts on these topics in an episode of the Philosophical Disquisitions podcast.
Joshua B. Hoe interviews Chelsea Barabas of MIT about criminal justice monitoring, surveillance, and algorithms
Poetic Justice head Ekene Ijeoma talks to NPR about his work, from Deconstructed Anthems to A Counting.
Listen to Danielle Wood speak in a new episode of the Stories of Transformation podcast.
If the space industry wants to become more diverse, it must come to terms with how racially motivated decisions shape the country, Wood said
“This is why we keep seeing race science emerging time and again," writes Chelsea Barabas. "It’s because publishers publish it."
Like too many science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, the aerospace sector in the US is populated mainly by white people.
Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
The OpenAg™ Personal Food Computer is a tabletop-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology platform that uses robotic systems ...
This work is being continued through The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.The Humanizin...
Vespers is a collection of masks exploring what it means to design (with) life. From the relic of the death mask to a contemporary living...
By Chelsea Barabas, Karthik Dinakar, and Colin DoyleTwenty-seven prominent researchers from MIT, Harvard, Princeton, NYU,&nbs...
Congratulations to Joy Buolamwini and Amanda Nguyen for being recognized in the "Advocates" category.
Joy Buolamwini talks to Frontline about bias in AI, and what can be done about it.
Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
An exhibition at the Barbican in London features work from OpenAg, the Mediated Matter group, Joy Buolamwini, and more.
Pretrial risk assessments draw from “deeply flawed data" generated from arrest and conviction records, say researchers.
For decades, the International Space Station (ISS) has operated as a bastion of international cooperation and a unique testbed for microg...
Joy Buolamwini has been selected as one of Fortune Magazine’s “40 Under 40.”
Joy Buolamwini talks to the AP about her work on algorithmic bias.
An open letter asking Amazon to stop selling Rekognition to law enforcement agencies.
More than three dozen AI researchers have signed an open letter asking Amazon to stop selling Rekognition to law enforcement agencies.
Now activists are working to bring women, and feminism, back to Silicon Valley.
Tech companies working on artificial intelligence find that a diverse staff can help avoid biased algorithms that cause public embarrassment
Jaleesa Trapp led a discussion at her alma mater about antiracist approaches to engaging young people from marginalized groups in STEM.
Joy Buolamwini’s essay is featured in the Optimists issue of Time, guest-edited by Ava DuVernay.
Algorithmic auditing has emerged as a key strategy to expose systematic biases embedded in software platforms, yet scholarship on the imp...
"We must provide a mechanism for civil society to be informed and engaged in the way in which algorithms are used."
Amazon’s system had more difficulty identifying the gender of female and darker-skinned faces than similar services from IBM and Microsoft.
Thoughts from the Media Lab's Space Enabled group and Space Exploration Initiative
The Gender Shades project pilots an intersectional approach to inclusive product testing for AI.Algorithmic Bias PersistsGender Shades is...