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Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative

#robotics #design #virtual reality +68 more
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +30 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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Space Enabled

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

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +52 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art

#robotics #design #architecture +30 more
Accepting Applicants
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Future Sketches

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium

#design #computer vision #art +16 more
Accepting Applicants
Research
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Doing the work to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion at the Media Lab

#social change #racial justice #diversity
Project Research

Candlewax Rockets: A Green Alternative for In-Space Propulsion

Wax-based hybrid rocket propellants, including paraffin (common candlewax) and beeswax show promise as high-performing hybrid rocket propel…

in Space Enabled
Javier Stober
#robotics #architecture #art +16 more
Project Research

A Counting

A Counting is an ongoing series of software-generated live-streamed sound and video works composed of an evolving neverending count fr…

in Poetic Justice
Ekene Ijeoma
#robotics #design #art +11 more
Project Research

Freedom Radio

Freedom Radio (in development) is an ongoing participatory artwork collecting multilingual thoughts and expressions of freedom across natio…

in Poetic Justice
Nina Lutz · Justin Blinder +1 more
#art #data #creativity +5 more
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Personal Robots

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

#robotics #design #virtual reality +66 more
Accepting Applicants
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Responsive Environments

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

#robotics #design #virtual reality +66 more
Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Space Fabrics: resilient electronic textiles for distributed sensing in low Earth orbit

Overview: The outermost skin of a space-based structure is designed using materials known to protect against the harsh elements of space. S…

in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative
Juliana Cherston
#design #architecture #consumer electronics +14 more
Post Research

Technical Flaws of Pretrial Risk Assessments Raise Grave Concerns

By Chelsea Barabas, Karthik Dinakar, and Colin DoyleTwenty-seven prominent  researchers from MIT,  Harvard, Princeton, NYU, …

July 17, 2019
in Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
#artificial intelligence #social science #racial justice
Research
Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion

#robotics #social networks #computer vision +50 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Space Sustainability Rating

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

in Space Enabled
Danielle Wood · Minoo Rathnasabapathy
#environment #health #politics +7 more
Project Research

Design Justice Project at MIT

​We take as a starting point for our work the recent scholarship by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Design Justice, in which she described design jus…

in Personal Robots
Raechel Walker · Anastasia Ostrowski +1 more
#design #social science #social change +1 more
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Open Agriculture (OpenAg)

Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)

#robotics #design #agriculture +21 more
Archived
Research
Civic Media

Creating technology for social change

#robotics #design #social networks +54 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Research
Mediated Matter

Designing for, with, and by nature

#robotics #design #architecture +34 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Project Research

Actionable Auditing: Coordinated bias disclosure study

Algorithmic auditing has emerged as a key strategy to expose systematic biases embedded in software platforms, yet scholarship on the impac…

in Civic Media
Joy Buolamwini
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #civic media +8 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Gender Shades

The Gender Shades project pilots an intersectional approach to inclusive product testing for AI.Algorithmic Bias PersistsGender Shades is a…

in Civic Media · Center for Civic Media
#design #computer vision #art +16 more
Archived
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"An Ethics, Equity, and Justice Audit and Reimagination of Engineering Education" receives seed funding from MIT IDSS and SSRC program

The IDSS/SSRC Combatting Systemic Racism Seed Fund Program supports innovative, early-stage cross-disciplinary research projects.

June 1, 2022
in Personal Robots
#design #social science #social change +1 more
Project Research

Personalized Performance-Optimization Platform (AttentivU - P-POP)

​The environmental conditions of prolonged spaceflight pose significant psychological risks for astronauts. In particular, crews of future …

in Fluid Interfaces · Space Exploration Initiative
Nataliya Kos'myna · Pattie Maes
#environment #health #sensors +6 more
Archived
Project Research

Vespers III

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 d…

in Mediated Matter
Neri Oxman · Christoph Bader +4 more
#design #art #artificial intelligence +5 more
Archived
Article Research

Q&A: Climate Grand Challenges finalists on building equity and fairness into climate solutions

Faculty leaders discuss the opportunities and obstacles in developing, scaling, and implementing their work rapidly.

via MIT News · March 4, 2022
in Space Enabled
#environment #ethics #climate change +1 more
Article Research

Designing the change: Black designers on equity and representation in the industry

Chelsi Cocking shares her thoughts on how the design industry can better foster, support, and grow design talent in the Black community.

via Fortune Magazine · Feb. 15, 2022
in Future Sketches
#design #ethics #social change +3 more
Article Research

Eddie Glaude Jr.: “We must run toward our fears”

Annual MLK celebration at MIT features call to confront America’s history of racism in order to move forward.

via MIT News · Feb. 15, 2022
in Space Enabled
#ethics #community #social change +3 more
Archived
Research
Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence

Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence

#artificial intelligence #government #health +10 more
Article Research

Black women, AI, and overcoming historical patterns of abuse

Danielle Wood, Katlyn Turner, and Catherine D'Ignazio talk about The Abuse and Misogynoir Playbook.

via VentureBeat · April 10, 2021
in Space Enabled
#artificial intelligence #ethics #racial justice +2 more
Article Research

Art is a bridge ‘between facts and feelings’ for MIT’s Ekene Ijeoma

Cate McQuaid talks to Ekene Ijeoma about his work, including the Black Mobility and Safety Seminar

via The Boston Globe · March 26, 2021
in Poetic Justice
#art #natural language processing #racial justice +1 more
Article Research

Why Ekene Ijeoma advocates to design for the citizen, not just the consumer

Ekene Ijeoma, head of the Poetic Justice research group, talks to Frame about his work.

via Frame · Jan. 24, 2021
in Poetic Justice
#design #art #data +2 more
Article Research

STEM Week event encourages students to see themselves in science and technology careers

MIT hosts kickoff event of Massachusetts STEM Week — a statewide virtual celebration of K-12 education.

via MIT News · Nov. 17, 2020
in Personal Robots · Space Enabled
#government #kids #learning +4 more
Post Research

Media Lab Research Takes Flight

Space research, led by a diverse team of women scientists, will be presented at this year's AIAA Ascend Conference.

Nov. 16, 2020
in Responsive Environments · Fluid Interfaces · Space Exploration Initiative +1 more
#environment #health #sensors +5 more
Project Research

Lunar Open Architecture

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

in Space Exploration Initiative
Mehak Sarang · Ariel Ekblaw
#architecture #environment #health +9 more
Article Research

Americans speak more than 1,300 languages. This artist wants to capture them all

People speak as many as 800 languages in New York alone. With A Counting, Ekene Ijeoma aims to represent every single one.

via Fast Company · Sept. 16, 2020
in Poetic Justice
#art #data #natural language processing +1 more
Project Research

Algorithmic Justice League

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 for…

Ethan Zuckerman · Joy Buolamwini
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #civic media +11 more
Article Research

Episode 80: Bias, Algorithms, and Criminal Justice

Chelsea Barabas shares her thoughts on these topics in an episode of the Philosophical Disquisitions podcast.

via Philosophical Disquisitions · Aug. 13, 2020
in Civic Media
#artificial intelligence #technology #racial justice
Article Research

Episode 89: Chelsea Barabas

Joshua B. Hoe interviews Chelsea Barabas of MIT about criminal justice monitoring, surveillance, and algorithms

via Decarceration Nation · Aug. 17, 2020
in Civic Media
#artificial intelligence #civic technology #racial justice
Article Research

This audio portrait of the 2020 census asks: Whose voices really count?

Poetic Justice head Ekene Ijeoma talks to NPR about his work, from Deconstructed Anthems to A Counting.

via NPR · Aug. 6, 2020
in Poetic Justice
#art #data #racial justice
Article Research

Using space technology to advance justice on Earth with Danielle Wood, director of the Space Enabled research group at MIT

Listen to Danielle Wood speak in a new episode of the Stories of Transformation podcast.

via Stories of Transformation Podcast · July 21, 2020
in Space Enabled
#space #technology #racial justice
Article Research

Danielle Wood quoted in Space News: How the space sector is responding to the killing of George Floyd

If the space industry wants to become more diverse, it must come to terms with how racially motivated decisions shape the country, Wood said

via Space News Magazine · July 15, 2020
in Space Enabled
#space #racial justice
Article Research

AI researchers say scientific publishers help perpetuate racist algorithms

“This is why we keep seeing race science emerging time and again," writes Chelsea Barabas. "It’s because publishers publish it."

via MIT Technology Review · June 23, 2020
in Civic Media
#artificial intelligence #civic technology #publishing +1 more
Article Research

Black engineers see both pride and exclusion in the return of human spaceflight

Like too many science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, the aerospace sector in the US is populated mainly by white people.

via Quartz · June 10, 2020
in Space Enabled
#design #space #community +3 more
Archived
Project Research

Personal Food Computer

The OpenAg™ Personal Food Computer is a tabletop-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology platform that uses robotic systems to…

in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
Daniel Poitrast · Rebekah Carlson +3 more
#robotics #design #agriculture +13 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Humanizing AI in Law (HAL)

This work is being continued through The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.The  Humanizing …

in Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence · Ethics
Chelsea Barabas · Karthik Dinakar +4 more
#artificial intelligence #government #social science +2 more
Archived
Post Research

Joy Buolamwini and Amanda Nguyen chosen for TIME 100 Next 2019

Congratulations to Joy Buolamwini and Amanda Nguyen for being recognized in the "Advocates" category.

Nov. 13, 2019
in Civic Media · Director's Fellows Program
#civic technology #politics #social change +3 more
Article Research

Artificial intelligence can be biased. Here’s what you should know.

Joy Buolamwini talks to Frontline about bias in AI, and what can be done about it.

via Frontline · Nov. 5, 2019
in Civic Media
#artificial intelligence #civic technology #ethics +2 more
Article Research

AI: More than Human exhibition challenges our preconceptions

An exhibition at the Barbican in London features work from OpenAg, the Mediated Matter group, Joy Buolamwini, and more.

via Digital Journal · Aug. 4, 2019
in Open Agriculture (OpenAg) · Mediated Matter · Civic Media
#design #art #artificial intelligence +2 more
Article Research

Algorithm using racist drug war data to determine Missourians’ freedom

Pretrial risk assessments draw from “deeply flawed data" generated from arrest and conviction records, say researchers.

via FilterMag · July 29, 2019
in Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
#artificial intelligence #social science #racial justice
Project Research

Accessibility of the microgravity research ecosystem

For decades, the International Space Station (ISS) has operated as a bastion of international cooperation and a unique testbed for microgra…

in Space Enabled
Danielle Wood · Christine Joseph
#environment #health #politics +8 more
Article Research

Fortune's 40 Under 40

Joy Buolamwini has been selected as one of Fortune Magazine’s “40 Under 40.”

via Fortune Magazine · July 11, 2019
in Civic Media
#artificial intelligence #government #technology +1 more
Article Research

Face recognition researcher fights Amazon over biased AI

Joy Buolamwini talks to the AP about her work on algorithmic bias.

via AP News · April 3, 2019
in Civic Media
#artificial intelligence #civic technology #ethics +1 more
Article Research

On recent research auditing commercial facial analysis technology

An open letter asking Amazon to stop selling Rekognition to law enforcement agencies.

via Medium · March 26, 2019
in Civic Media
#artificial intelligence #civic technology #ethics +1 more
Article Research

AI experts question Amazon’s facial-recognition technology

More than three dozen AI researchers have signed an open letter asking Amazon to stop selling Rekognition to law enforcement agencies.

via The New York Times · April 3, 2019
in Civic Media
#artificial intelligence #civic technology #ethics +1 more
Article Research

Women built the tech industry. Then they were pushed out.

Now activists are working to bring women, and feminism, back to Silicon Valley.

via The Washington Post · Feb. 19, 2019
in Civic Media
#ethics #computer science #technology +1 more
Article Research

A crucial step for averting AI disasters

Tech companies working on artificial intelligence find that a diverse staff can help avoid biased algorithms that cause public embarrassment

via The Wall Street Journal · Feb. 13, 2019
in Affective Computing · Civic Media
#artificial intelligence #ethics #racial justice
Article Research

‘Uncovering Hidden Pathways’ focuses on future minority youth in STEM

Jaleesa Trapp led a discussion at her alma mater about antiracist approaches to engaging young people from marginalized groups in STEM.

via The Tacoma Ledger · Feb. 4, 2019
in Lifelong Kindergarten
#technology #engineering #racial justice
Article Research

Artificial intelligence has a problem with gender and racial bias. Here’s how to solve it.

Joy Buolamwini’s essay is featured in the Optimists issue of Time, guest-edited by Ava DuVernay.

via TIME · Feb. 7, 2019
in Civic Media
#civic technology #social science #racial justice
Article Research

Supposedly ‘fair’ algorithms can perpetuate discrimination

"We must provide a mechanism for civil society to be informed and engaged in the way in which algorithms are used."

via Wired · Feb. 5, 2019
in Director's Office
#social change #industry #civic action +1 more
Article Research

Amazon is pushing facial technology that a study says could be biased

Amazon’s system had more difficulty identifying the gender of female and darker-skinned faces than similar services from IBM and Microsoft.

via The New York Times · Jan. 24, 2019
in Civic Media
#civic technology #racial justice
Post Research

Earthrise, 50 years later

Thoughts from the Media Lab's Space Enabled group and Space Exploration Initiative

Dec. 24, 2018
in Space Exploration Initiative · Space Enabled
#space #climate change #racial justice

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