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Viral Communications

People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop

#design #virtual reality #computer vision +43 more
Accepting Applicants
Research
City Science

Looking beyond smart cities

#robotics #design #social networks +67 more
Accepting Applicants
Research
Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion

#robotics #design #social networks +68 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Camera Culture

Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection

#computer vision #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +41 more
Accepting Applicants
Publication Research

The Tradeoff Between the Utility and Risk of Location Data and Implications for Public Good

Calacci, Dan, Alex Berke, Kent Larson, Sandy Pentland. "The tradeoff between the utility and risk of location data and implications for public good." Presented at the Oxford & London School of Economics Connected Life conference. (2019). https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.09350

Academic Paper, May 2019
in Human Dynamics · City Science
#social networks #privacy #security +3 more
Project Research

Private Location Data for the Public Good and Urban Understanding

There is a continuous and ubiquitous collection of precise, timestamped, geolocation data from apps and devices, being amassed by private f…

in City Science
Alex Berke · Esteban Moro Egido +2 more
#civic technology #privacy #security +2 more
Publication Research

Secure and secret cooperation in robot swarms

E. C. Ferrer, T. Hardjono, A. S. Pentland, M. Dorigo, Secure and secret cooperation in robot swarms. Sci. Robot. 6, eabf1538 (2021).

Academic Paper, July 2021
in Human Dynamics
#robotics #security #blockchain +1 more
Project Research

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 t…

in Human Dynamics
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland · Eduardo Castello Ferrer
#robotics #artificial intelligence #data +12 more
Research
Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)

Digital Currency Initiative

#artificial intelligence #banking and finance #civic technology +20 more
Publication Research

Managing Byzantine Robots via Blockchain Technology in a Swarm Robotics Collective Decision Making Scenario

Volker Strobel, Eduardo Castelló Ferrer, and Marco Dorigo. 2018. Managing Byzantine Robots via Blockchain Technology in a Swarm Robotics Collective Decision Making Scenario. In Proc. of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2018), Stockholm, Sweden, July 10–15, 2018, IFAAMAS

Academic Paper, April 2018
in Human Dynamics
#robotics #security #blockchain
Project Research

Safe Paths

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

in Camera Culture · Sculpting Evolution
Ramesh Raskar · Alex 'Sandy' Pentland +1 more
#artificial intelligence #communications #data +7 more
Project Research

Splintering with distributions: A stochastic decoy scheme for private computation

We present a stochastic scheme for splitting the client data into privatized shares that are transmitted to the server in such settings. Th…

in Camera Culture
Ramesh Raskar · Praneeth Vepakomma
#artificial intelligence #privacy #security +1 more
Publication Research

Splintering with distributions: A stochastic decoy scheme for private computation

Vepakomma, P., Balla, J., Raskar, R., "Splintering with distributions: A stochastic decoy scheme for private computation." 6 Jul 2020.

Academic Paper, July 2020
in Camera Culture
#artificial intelligence #privacy #security +1 more
Project Research

Corporate surveillance of the commons + Amazon Ring

As of August 2020, Ring has active partnerships with over 1400 law enforcement agencies across the US. These partnerships allow law enforce…

in Human Dynamics
Dan Calacci
#networks #privacy #security +2 more
Article Research

Episode 19: COVID-19 Update - Jaleesa Trapp - Flaws in Facial Recognition

Jaleesa Trapp talks to Brittney Gallagher about how she works to create equitable spaces for STEM learning experiences.

via Digital Village · July 7, 2020
in Lifelong Kindergarten
#artificial intelligence #learning #privacy +2 more
Publication Research

Contact Tracing Technologies: Methods and trade-offs

Alex Berke and Kent Larson, City Science group, MIT Media Lab (2020).

White Paper/Memo, May 2020
in City Science
#civic technology #economy #privacy +4 more
Post Research

Lesson of a Pandemic for a Connected World

Let’s jumpstart a new infrastructure for industry, health, learning, and the people.

May 4, 2020
in Viral Communications
#communications #data #government +8 more
Project Research

Assessing Disease Exposure Risk With Location Histories And Protecting Privacy

Governments and researchers around the world are implementing digital contact tracing solutions to stem the spread of infectious disease, n…

in City Science
Alex Berke · Dan Calacci +5 more
#privacy #security #computer science +1 more
Publication Research

Assessing Disease Exposure Risk with Location Data: A Proposal for Cryptographic Preservation of Privacy

Alex Berke, Michiel Bakker, Praneeth Vepakomma, Kent Larson, Alex `Sandy' Pentland. (March 31 2020). "Assessing Disease Exposure Risk with Location Data: A Proposal for Cryptographic Preservation of Privacy." Retrieved from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.14412

Academic Paper, March 2020
in City Science
#privacy #security #computer science
Article Research

Digital Trust: Talking to David Shrier

David Shrier talks about how blockchain technology could improve the security and accessibility of information.

via LA Review of Books · April 24, 2020
in Human Dynamics
#data #security #blockchain
Article Research

If You Ever Read An Article on Online Voting: Make It This One

"Out of those approximately 17,000 articles, I profoundly enjoyed and learned from this one, written by Alex Berke, MIT Media Lab."

via US Vote Foundation · Jan. 22, 2020
in City Science
#security #blockchain
Project Research

Crypto Voting + US Elections: Reality and Science Fiction

This is a two-part project. One part is about reality. The other part is science fiction. Both are about mobile, blockchain, and cryptograp…

in City Science
Alex Berke · Kent Larson
#open source #politics #security +1 more
Article Research

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 to…

via Gizmodo · Dec. 9, 2019
in Human Dynamics
#networks #privacy #security +2 more
Project Research

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 m…

in Human Dynamics
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland · Ognjen (Oggi) Rudovic +1 more
#robotics #artificial intelligence #data +10 more
Project Research

Urban Swarms

Modern cities have to respond to the growing demands of more efficient and sustainable urban development, as well as an increased quality o…

in Human Dynamics
Kent Larson · Alex 'Sandy' Pentland +3 more
#robotics #artificial intelligence #data +10 more
Publication Research

The blockchain: a new framework for robotic swarm systems

Castelló Ferrer E. (2019) The Blockchain: A New Framework for Robotic Swarm Systems. In: Arai K., Bhatia R., Kapoor S. (eds) Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2018. FTC 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 881. Springer, Cham

Academic Paper, Aug. 2016
in Human Dynamics
#robotics #data #security +1 more
Project Research

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-free …

in Signal Kinetics
Fadel Adib · Yunfei Ma +1 more
#artificial intelligence #augmented reality #human-machine interaction +6 more
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Research
Living Mobile

Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions

#design #human-computer interaction #art +16 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Article Research

Responsible disclosure in the era of cryptocurrencies

My experience disclosing a critical Bitcoin Cash vulnerability

via MIT Media Lab Digital Currency Initiative | Medium · Aug. 9, 2018
in Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)
#cryptocurrency #security
Article Research

Reducing the risk of catastrophic cryptocurrency bugs

Projects should take steps to ensure that responsible disclosure is the easiest, safest and most lucrative response.

via MIT Media Lab Digital Currency Initiative | Medium · Aug. 9, 2018
in Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)
#cryptocurrency #security
Archived
Project Research

Intrepid

Every 98 seconds, a person in the United States is sexually abused. Every 16 hours, a woman in the United States is murdered by her ro…

in Living Mobile
Manisha Mohan · Ethan Zuckerman +1 more
#consumer electronics #developing countries #human-machine interaction +5 more
Archived
Article Research

In an engineering paper, bunnie Huang and Ed Snowden describe a malware-resistant hardware Iphone privacy overlay

In July 2016, Andrew "bunnie" Huang and Edward Snowden presented their research on journalist-friendly mobile surveillance resistance at th…

via Boing Boing · Sept. 8, 2017
in Director's Office
#security
Publication Research

A Malicious Activity Detection System Utilizing Predictive Modeling in Complex Environments

Almaatouq, Abdullah, et al. "A malicious activity detection system utilizing predictive modeling in complex environments." 2014 IEEE 11th Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC). IEEE, 2014. APA

Academic Paper, Jan. 2014
in Human Dynamics
#privacy #security #computer science

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