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How can we establish nurturing and circular relationships for informal settlements and allow regenerative ecosystems to envision urban…
In his talk, Hossein Rahnama discusses what the world would look like if we owned our data. Digital life, and real life, would be so much b…
Many digital mental health apps show promising results for stress and anxiety management, but they often fail to keep users engaged. Our pr…
Abstract: We propose, implement, and evaluate two extensions to OpenCBDC, an open-source transaction processor designed for central ba…
With the increase in electronic payments options, privacy considerations are becoming even more important and privacy concerns more prevale…
The close relationship between touch, gesture, and sound plays a critical role in expressive musical performance. Many acoustic instruments…
The Brazilian Creative Learning Network (BCLN -- https://aprendizagemcriativa.org/) is a grassroots movement that promotes and supports the…
Learn more about what our team members do for Bitcoin Core development.On January 8 2009, the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto released v0.1 o…
This paper provides an overview of blockchain technology and smart contracts and explains how they enable multiple parties to deploy and ex…
As the digitalization of the economy accelerates, protecting privacy is essential. In this regard, MIT Digital Currency Initiative has laun…
Announcement dated March, 17, 2022The Bank of Canada is collaborating on a CBDC research project with the MIT Digital Currency Initiative. …
Parallelized Architecture for Scalably Executing smart Contracts (PArSEC)AuthorsJames Lovejoy, Federal Reserve Bank of BostonAnders Brownwo…
Bitcoin Core's internal Random Number Generator (RNG) continuously seeds itself from many different sources of entropy including the operat…
SoundSHROOM: Sensor-equipped Habitat Recorder for Outdoor Omnidirectional Monitoring
The Imaginary Atlas, Brazil explores new urban futures for cities in the heart of Brazil’s forests. In partnership with traditional communi…
People use AI chatbots like ChatGPT in many ways—asking questions, sparking creativity, solving problems, and even for personal interaction…
@artbhot is a Twitter bot that leverages stable diffusion technology to translate user tweets into images and animations. Access…
Our work aims to advance the socially intelligent behavior of social embodied artificial intelligence (AI) agents in real-world social inte…
Say hello to FutureYou!Imagine stepping into a time machine and having a conversation with your future self. What would you ask? What unex…
In an era where loneliness has been declared an epidemic by the U.S. Surgeon General, older adults face particular vulnerability to social …
Loneliness is a growing and global issue that affects approximately a third of individuals in industrialized countries. Given the…
OceanChat: The Effect of Virtual Conversational AI Agents on Sustainable Attitude and Behavior ChangeMarine ecosystems face unprecede…
Learning robust audio representations currently demands extensive datasets of real-world sound recordings. By applying artificial transfor…
ConceptualTales uses generative AI to explain concepts through fiction-inspired analogies. Education, particularly in STEM and social …
Proteins are the workhorses of the cell, powering the biological processes that make life possible. Their precise choreographies catalyze r…
Would you train for a tennis match in chaotic outdoor conditions from day one, or would you first perfect your fundamentals in a controlled…
Papalotes Atmosféricos is a set of wind interfaces that aim to explore kites and wind instruments as a form of low impact data collection i…
The AstroAnt is a tiny robot that will be sent to the Lunar South Pole. It will do inspection sensing from the outside of a Lunar rover. Th…
The Space Exploration Initiative goes to Antarctica to test 3D scanning technology for building digital twinsHumanity is on the precipice o…
Using 3D imaging combined with Ambient Noise Tomography we will test advanced Earth technologies to map lava tubes on the Moon.Humanity is …
The MIT Space Exploration Initiative explores Lunar analog sites on Spain’s Canary Island of Lanzarote.During a 10-day field program in Feb…
Venture DJ is an AI-powered visual tool that transforms the way you explore your music library. By generating an interactive cloud of your …
The Community Carbon Impact is a data visualization installation created by the MIT City Science group for the Boston Museum of Science's y…
Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ow…
Will the city swallow the forest, or will the forest reclaim the city? Or can we find a third way?The 21st century is a critical momen…
This research aims to address the timely and timeless challenge of human-computer interaction by focusing on designing and studying human-A…
We crowdsourced and published a first-of-its-kind open dataset that contains Amazon purchase histories, spanning 2018 to 2022, from more th…
Optimizing environmental, social, and economic performance of citiesCities play a central role in the climate crisis. According to the late…
As climate-related disasters become more frequent, the need for actionable climate intelligence has never been greater. Earth Observa…
A robust and resilient communication infrastructure is essential to the development of democratic processes and knowledge formation. Decent…
Complications of prosthetic leg use in persons with lower extremity amputation often occur at the prosthetic socket, and includes delayed w…
As a machine learning engineer, I love a good parameterization that represents something interesting, like a creative coding sketch, …
We demonstrate a multimodal approach for perceptual learning that supplements a perceptually-ambiguous audio stimulus with haptics. In our …
People inherently use experiences of their past while imagining their future, a capability that plays a crucial role in mental health. …
MiFly is a self-localization system for drones that works indoors, including in the dark and low-visibility settings. Instead of …
The environmental conditions of prolonged spaceflight pose significant psychological risks for astronauts. In particular, crews of future …
People have to remember an ever-expanding volume of information. To help with this, we developed Memoro, a wearable and audio-based person…
Wearable Reasoner: Towards Enhanced Human Rationality through a Wearable AI AssistantWe present "Wearable Reasoner," a proof-of-concep…
AI Agents are coming quickly. How can we build robust systems to make sure we know who AI agents act on behalf of, verify that they are pe…
The most meaningful connections between people are often formed through expression of shared vulnerability and emotional experiences. Despi…
Despite living in an increasingly connected world, loneliness and social isolation are prevalent issues today. While social robots have bee…
Advances in machine learning have recently enabled the synthesis of text, images, audio and video data, in what is referred to as Generativ…
Here is a sampling of MS theses.It is a good idea to have models on which to base your thesis. All theses are measured both by thoroughness…
A FerroMagnetic Suit For Zero Gravity // Grounding Humans without Gravity
ARS ELECTRONICA 2021Garden CAMBRIDGE
By Rachel BellisleOverview:The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit (GLCS or “Skinsuit”) is an intravehicular activity suit for astronau…
When imagining human life in space, how will we express our humanity and creativity in an alien environment? Can the art we make both refle…
The Antiracism & Technology Design Research Seminar Series hosts speakers from around the world who center issues of race, intersection…
We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of 𝑈2𝐵, a technology that enables scalable ad ultra-low power ocean IoT. At the…
PAB-QAM is a new system that achieves higher-order modulation with the current PAB sensor design. PAB relies on the piezoelectric eff…
Can we build a battery-free underwater GPS? While underwater localization is a long-studied problem, we seek to bring it to batt…