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Viral Communications

People and intelligent machines in a creative loop
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Space Exploration Initiative

Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
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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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Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
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RFIQ: Food quality and safety detection using wireless stickers

​We have developed a wireless system that leverages the inexpensive RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to sense potentia…
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Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
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Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
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Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society

Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
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Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
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Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body

Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
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Theme | CityScope

City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
How software can act as an assistant rather than a tool, by learning from interaction and proactively anticipating the user's needs
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conformable Facial Code Extrapolation Sensor (cFaCES)

AbstractDevices that facilitate nonverbal communication typically require high computational loads or have rigid and bulky form factors&nbs…
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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…
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The Power of Without

The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financia…
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge
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History's Great Recommenders: From ancient times to tomorrow

Michael Schrage considers the past, present, and future of recommendation engines, including Pattie Maes's advances in software agents.
Center for Civic Media
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Synthetic Apiary

The Synthetic Apiary proposes a new kind of environment, bridging urban and organismic scales by exploring one of the most important organi…
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Disobedience Award

Disobedience Award
Digital Life
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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…
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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…
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I'm Joi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab. I'm leading the selection committee for the Media Lab's Disobedience Award. Ask me anything!

I'm here to answer your questions about the award, my views on disobedience, and, of course, anything else.
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A Future-Forward Proposal for a System of Streets and Autonomous Vehicles

ABSTRACT   The impending introduction of autonomous vehicles (AVs) has posed regulatory and ethical questions regarding how they …
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Alfredo Morales named as one of MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35—Latin America

Visiting scientist Alfredo Morales (Human Dynamics) has been named as one of MIT Technology Review en español's "Innovadores meno…
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César Hidalgo wins the 2018 Lagrange Prize

César Hidalgo, head of the Collective Learning research group, was chosen as the sole recipient of the 2018 Lagrange Prize.
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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 …
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CityMatrix

An Urban Decision-Support System Augmented by Artificial IntelligenceThe decision-making process in urban design and urban planning is outd…
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RFly: Drones that find missing objects using battery-free RFIDs

Can drones find missing items? Every year, companies lose billions of dollars due to misplaced items and faulty inventory records in their …
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CityMatrix: An Urban Decision Support System Augmented by Artificial Intelligence

Zhang, Yan. “CityMatrix – An Urban Decision Support System Augmented by Artificial Intelligence.” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017.
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Ant-Based Modeling

Ant-Based Modeling explores the possibility of implementing agent-based modeling with living ants and external stimuli such as el…
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Signal Kinetics: Year One

Fadel Adib reflects on the whirlwind first year of his group, Signal Kinetics.
Publication Research

Ant-Based Modeling: Agent-Based City Simulation with Ants

Ho, P. H., Smuts, C., Kayser, M. A., Hernandez, J. 2017. Ant-Based Modeling: Agent-Based City Simulation with Ants. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘17).
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Last Mile Logistics

Developed by Ira Winder with the MIT Centre for Transportation and Logistics, the model seeks to use real population data and create a simu…
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Quadra-Sense: Confluence of UAVs, Enviornmental Sensor Networks, and Augmented Reality

Aerial imaging and sensor nodes each present a unique view point into the world. Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to navigate the same…
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