LocationTrento, Italy DescriptionTelecom Italia, in association with EIT ICT Labs, MIT Media Lab, Milan Polytechnic and Trento RISE, has la…
More ocean data has been collected in the last two years than in all previous years combined, and we are on a path to continue to break tha…
Big Data for Small Places is a quantitative study of the qualities that define our neighborhoods and our collective role in the production …
At EmTech 2017, Deb Roy discusses how insights gained from big data and machine learning can help us monitor the social impact of new techn…
Noyman, A., Doorley, R., Xiong, Z., Alonso, L., Grignard, A. and Larson, K., 2019. Reversed urbanism: Inferring urban performance through behavioral patterns in temporal telecom data. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 46(8), pp.1480-1498.
Cesar A. Hidalgo
Noyman, A., Doorley, R., Xiong, Z., Alonso, L., Grignard, A., & Larson, K. (2019). Reversed urbanism: Inferring urban performance through behavioral patterns in temporal telecom data. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 46(8), 1480–1498. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399808319840668
Artists and designers are working to address a major problem for marginalized communities in the data economy.
D’Ignazio, C., & Bhargava, R. (2015). Approaches to Building Big Data Literacy. In Bloomberg Data for Good Exchange 2015. New York, NY, USA.
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-240 DescriptionThe rapid progress of urbanization on earth leads to modern cities, which provide people with a c…
Doorley, R., Noyman, A., Xiong, Z., Alonso, L., Grignard, A., & Larson, K. (2019, May 1). RevUrb: Understanding Urban Activity and Human Dynamics through Point Process Modelling of Telecoms Data. 2019 Smart Cities Symposium Prague, SCSP 2019 Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.1109/SCSP.2019.8805683
A first thing is to find ways to control how data can be used. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab are devel…
Near the end of 2016 I completed an 8 week course from MIT on big data and social analytics. It was fascinating, challenging, timely, and t…
LocationVienna, Austria Description Additional Related ProjectsMedRec
In a room at The MIT Media Lab, you can find the dreamscape of small children everywhere. Giant cities, in perfect detail, constructed enti…
Danielle Wood will speak in the session on "Computational Sustainability."
Tune in to the livestream at 12pm August 20 for Responsible Data in the Time of Pandemic: GAEN-based Contact Tracing and Challeng…
City Science collaborates on a big data project with the University of Andorra
These sessions will focus on tools for privacy-aware contact tracing.
These sessions will focus on tools for privacy-aware contact tracing.
Thursday August 20, 2020 …
Talk title: Novel deep learning systems for oncology imaging, digital medicines and real world dataAbout the event:The future of medic…
Faculty leaders highlight innovations that can close longstanding knowledge gaps and reimagine how the world responds to the climate crisis.
Inimitable and Iconic: Italian Design Stories in the USDr. Valentina Sumini, as designated Ambassador of Italian Design in the W…
During this session, Professor Danielle Wood (Space Enabled) will curate several conversations on radical sustainability.
The US Embassy in Italy & Italian Space Agency invite you to a virtual program of the From Home to Space series
Data-driven strategies to meet the Dual Energy-Climate ChallengeThe global community stands at a critical juncture, facing the dual energy-…
We built an inexpensive, portable, micro-projector-based laptop extension the purpose of which is to engage real space in remote interactio…
Cynthia Breazeal is featured in The Big Conversation: Machine Yearning, part of a conversation series running at the Sundance Film Festival.
Mental wellbeing is intimately tied to both social support and physical activity. The Challenge is a tool aimed at promoting social connect…
These discussions, each of which was dedicated to a timely, urgent topic, were livestreamed as part of our recent Out of Lab Experience.
FiftyNifty.org takes the hassle out of calling your lawmakers.
Each of these discussions was dedicated to a timely, urgent topic.
Four social-impact startups reveal how they manage privacy laws and concerns—even if they’re not required to.
The Big Thing is a massive, child-oriented music construction kit that allows multiple children to experiment with creating musical structu…
I believe that 30 years from now people will look back at the beginning of our century and wonder what we were doing and thinking.
Media Lab researchers win three of six categories in inaugural contest.
Hasier Larrea, an alum of the City Science research group, talks about the research that led him to co-found spinoff Ori.
In January 2019, members of the City Science team traveled to Andorra to further explore Andorra’s innovation opportunity to improve urban …
Chris Schmandt, Barry Arons
Chris Schmandt
Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; Toshiba Professor
This session explores resilience at the Human, Community, and Society levels.
This session explores resilience at the Human, Community, and Society levels.
Neil Gaikwad from the Space Enabled research group is co-organizing the KDD Workshop on Humanitarian Mapping.
Ed Boyden advances on his goal of understanding how the brain works.
During this session, Professor Danielle Wood (Space Enabled) will curate several conversations on radical sustainability.
Senior Garrett Parrish combines art and technology, with dramatic effects.
DeCamp, P. "Data Visualization in the First Person"
Chris Schmandt, Barry Arons
Research Assistant
This session features four conversations between Media Lab researchers and guest speakers on expanding more equitable research.
Letouzé, E., Noonan, A., Bhargava, R., Deahl, E., Sangokoya, D., & Shoup, N. (2015, September). Beyond Data Literacy: Reinventing Community Engagement and Empowerment in the Age of Data. Data-Pop Alliance.
Optimizing environmental, social, and economic performance of cities.
LocationUSC, Los Angeles, CA Description Additional Featured Research By (Unpublished) Information Ecology
This session features four conversations between Media Lab researchers and guest speakers on expanding more equitable research.
Former Research Assistant
Innovations are looming in food, medicine, brain-machine interfaces, sex, sleep, and do-it-yourself biology. That’s the picture we got from…
Optimizing environmental, social, and economic performance of cities.Cities play a central role in the climate crisis. According to the lat…
Ophelia Dalh and Dr. Megan Murray of Partners in Health in conversation with David Moinina Sengeh and Joi Ito.
Pedro Reynolds-Cuellar will be speaking on a panel hosted by the Centre for Free Expression.
MIT Media Lab professor Ramesh Raskar talks about how his high-tech inventions and initiatives can help solve real-world problems.