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How we’ll forget John Lennon

César Hidalgo considers the role technology plays in how people and events enter, and fade from, collective memory.

via Nautilus · Jan. 10, 2019
in Collective Learning
#art #communications #entertainment +4 more
Article Research

What tech will look like in 2039

We asked futurists, tech execs, academics, researchers, and a sci-fi writer to imagine our tech-driven society in 20 years.

via PC Magazine · Jan. 3, 2019
in Ultimate Media · Viral Communications
#communications #data #networks +1 more
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Fadel Adib receives the Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research

Fadel Adib is one of 25 recipients of the Office of Naval Research's 2019 Young Investigator Awards, and the only awardee from MIT.

Dec. 19, 2018
in Signal Kinetics
#robotics #communications #networks +3 more
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Living Mobile

Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions

#design #human-computer interaction #art +16 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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TARF in the News

BBC: New tech lets submarines 'email' planesFox News: Submarine breakthrough: MIT develops wireless system to let subs communicate with pla…

Aug. 30, 2018
in Signal Kinetics
#communications
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Project Research

FaceSense: Affective-Cognitive State Inference from Facial Video

People express and communicate their mental states–such as emotions, thoughts, and desires–through facial expressions, vocal nuances, gestu…

in Affective Computing
Rosalind W. Picard · Matthew S. Goodwin +2 more
#cognition #communications #gesture interface
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Collaborative Scientific Publishing: A New Research Ecosystem

Travis Rich, MIT PhD Thesis, 2017

Thesis, May 2017
in Viral Communications
#communications #networks
Project Research

Responsive Science

Responsive Science is a way of conducting research that invites openness and community involvement from the earliest stages of each project…

in Sculpting Evolution
Avery Normandin · Devora Najjar
#communications #ecology #environment +4 more
Post Research

The FiftyNifty challenge

FiftyNifty.org takes the hassle out of calling your lawmakers.

Feb. 15, 2017
in Viral Communications
#communications #data #government +2 more
Publication Research

Sequential Voting Promotes Collective Discovery in Social Recommendation Systems

Elisa Celis, Peter Krafft, and Nathan Kobe. (2016). Sequential Voting Promotes Collective Discovery in Social Recommendation Systems. The Tenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM).

Academic Paper, March 2016
in Human Dynamics
#communications #perception #social science
Publication Research

Critical size of ego communication networks

Wang, Q., Gao, J., Zhou, T., Hu, Z., & Tian, H. (2016). Critical size of ego communication networks. EPL (Europhysics Letters), 114(5), 58004.

Academic Paper, June 2016
in Collective Learning
#communications #networks
How to create better online environments and interfaces for human communication.
#robotics #design #architecture +25 more
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Captions++

Modern web presentations such as Youtube feature videos with commentary appended at the bottom. In our new imagining of Videotext, we put t…

in Ultimate Media · Viral Communications
Andrew Lippman · Tomer Weller
#communications #social media
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Reach

Reach merges inherently local communications with user requests or offers of services. It is built atop data from services users already us…

in Viral Communications
Andrew Lippman
#communications #social media #wellbeing
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Project Research

DbDb

DbDb (pronounced DubDub) is a collaborative, visually based analysis and simulation platform. We promote open distribution of experimental …

in Ultimate Media · Viral Communications
Andrew Lippman · Travis Rich
#communications #networks
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Comm.unity

Comm.unity is a platform that implements a wireless, device-to-device information system that bypasses the need for any centralized servers…

in Viral Communications
Andrew Lippman · Nadav Aharony
#communications #networks #social media +1 more
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