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Telecom Italia Big Data Challenge

LocationTrento, Italy DescriptionTelecom Italia, in association with EIT ICT Labs, MIT Media Lab, Milan Polytechnic and Trento RISE, has la…

Wednesday — Thursday
April 2, 2014 —
April 3, 2014
Project

Big Ocean, Big Data

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…

Project

Big Data for Small Places

Big Data for Small Places is a quantitative study of the qualities that define our neighborhoods and our collective role in the production …

Article

Big problems, big data solutions

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…

Publication

Reversed urbanism: Inferring urban performance through behavioral patterns in temporal telecom data

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.

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Saving Big Data from Big Mouths

Cesar A. Hidalgo

Publication

Reversed urbanism: Inferring urban performance through behavioral patterns in temporal telecom data

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

Article

Finding the blank spots in big data

Artists and designers are working to address a major problem for marginalized communities in the data economy.

Publication

Approaches to Building Big Data Literacy

D’Ignazio, C., & Bhargava, R. (2015). Approaches to Building Big Data Literacy. In Bloomberg Data for Good Exchange 2015. New York, NY, USA.

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Urban Computing: Using City Dynamics to Tackle the Biggest Challenges in Urban Spaces

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-240 DescriptionThe rapid progress of urbanization on earth leads to modern cities, which provide people with a c…

Tuesday
April 10, 2012
Publication

RevUrb: Understanding Urban Activity and Human Dynamics through Point Process Modelling of Telecoms Data

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

Article

Battling the Tyranny of Big Data

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…

Article

Big Data and Social Analytics: Reflections

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…

Event

Viral Spaces @ IEEE 2nd International Conference on Open & Big Data 2016

LocationVienna, Austria Description Additional Related ProjectsMedRec

Tuesday
August 23, 2016
Article

Saving Big Data From Itself

In a room at The MIT Media Lab, you can find the dreamscape of small children everywhere. Giant cities, in perfect detail, constructed enti…

Article

Living Big Data

Event

Danielle Wood Speaks at CGIAR's 2020 Platform for Big Data in Agriculture Convention

Danielle Wood will speak in the session on "Computational Sustainability."

Wednesday
October 21, 2020
6:30am ET
Article

Data-Pop Alliance: Promoting a People-Centered Big Data Revolution

Event

Responsible Data in the Time of Pandemic: GAEN-based Contact Tracing and Challenges

Tune in to the livestream at 12pm August 20 for Responsible Data in the Time of Pandemic: GAEN-based Contact Tracing and Challeng…

Thursday
August 20, 2020
12:00pm — 3:00pm ET
Article

Inici dels treballs pel desenvolupament d'una "big data" nacional

City Science collaborates on a big data project with the University of Andorra

Event

Responsible Data Summit: GAEN-based Contact Tracing and Challenges

These sessions will focus on tools for privacy-aware contact tracing.

Thursday
August 13, 2020
12:00pm — 3:00pm ET
Post

Fast Company's 2024 Next Big Things in Tech: Aurelia Institute

They were honored in the Small and Mighty: Fewer Than 100 Employees category.

Video

Responsible Data Summit: GAEN-based Contact Tracing and Challenges

These sessions will focus on tools for privacy-aware contact tracing.

Video

Responsible Data in the Time of Pandemic: GAEN-based Contact Tracing and Challenges

Thursday August 20, 2020 …

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Pratik Shah invited to speak at Elsevier conference AI and Big Data in Cancer: From Innovation to Impact

Talk title: Novel deep learning systems for oncology imaging, digital medicines and real world dataAbout the event:The future of medic…

Sunday — Tuesday
November 15, 2020 —
November 17, 2020
11:30am — 6:10pm ET
Article

Rethinking the approach: Sandy Pentland on Big Data

Publication

Big data sensors of organic advocacy: The case of Leonardo Dicaprio and climate change

Article

Q&A: Climate Grand Challenges finalists on using data and science to forecast climate-related risk

Faculty leaders highlight innovations that can close longstanding knowledge gaps and reimagine how the world responds to the climate crisis.

Event

Inimitable and Iconic: Italian Design Stories in the US

 Inimitable and Iconic: Italian Design Stories in the USDr. Valentina Sumini, as designated Ambassador of Italian Design in the W…

Wednesday
July 7, 2021
11:00am — 1:00pm ET
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Danielle Wood featured speaker in Italian Space Agency's "From Home to Space" Series

The US Embassy in Italy & Italian Space Agency invite you to a virtual program of the From Home to Space series

Thursday
May 7, 2020
9:00am — 10:00am ET
Video

Big Picture Session | The World we Build: Radical Sustainability

During this session, Professor Danielle Wood (Space Enabled) will curate several conversations on radical sustainability.

Oct. 30, 2020
Project

Dual Energy-Climate Challenge

Data-driven strategies to meet the Dual Energy-Climate ChallengeThe global community stands at a critical juncture, facing the dual energy-…

Project

Big Screen

We built an inexpensive, portable, micro-projector-based laptop extension the purpose of which is to engage real space in remote interactio…

Article

The Big Conversation - Machine Yearning

Cynthia Breazeal is featured in The Big Conversation: Machine Yearning, part of a conversation series running at the Sundance Film Festival.

Project

The Challenge

Mental wellbeing is intimately tied to both social support and physical activity. The Challenge is a tool aimed at promoting social connect…

Series

Fall 2020 OoLE: Big Picture Sessions

Each of these discussions was dedicated to a timely, urgent topic.

Oct. 30, 2020
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Big Picture Sessions

These discussions, each of which was dedicated to a timely, urgent topic, were livestreamed as part of our recent Out of Lab Experience.

Article

How tiny startup teams handle big privacy issues

Four social-impact startups reveal how they manage privacy laws and concerns—even if they’re not required to.

Post

The FiftyNifty challenge

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

Article

Big idea famine

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.

Project

Big Thing

The Big Thing is a massive, child-oriented music construction kit that allows multiple children to experiment with creating musical structu…

Project

Moodeng AI Challenge

Animal-Human-AI Interaction Design Challenge for Promoting Deeper Connection with NatureMoodeng, our beloved baby hippo, has captured …

Publication

Data Acquisition via Experimental Design for Data Markets

Lu, Charles, et al. "Data Acquisition via Experimental Design for Decentralized Data Markets." arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.13893 (2024).

Article

'I Make Tiny Homes That Can Grow 33% Bigger'

Hasier Larrea, an alum of the City Science research group, talks about the research that led him to co-found spinoff Ori.

Post

Human Dynamics team tops Fragile Families Challenge

Media Lab researchers win three of six categories in inaugural contest.

Person

Alex 'Sandy' Pentland

Professor Post Tenure of Media Arts and Sciences

Video

Big Picture Session | The World we Build: Resilience Across Scales

This session explores resilience at the Human, Community, and Society levels.

Oct. 30, 2020
Post

Innovation Challenge Andorra kicks off with City Science workshop

In January 2019, members of the City Science team traveled to Andorra to further explore Andorra’s innovation opportunity to improve urban …

Publication

Phone Slave: A Graphical Telecommunications Interface

Chris Schmandt, Barry Arons

Publication

Conversational Telecommunications Environments

Chris Schmandt

Person

Neil Gaikwad

Former Graduate Student

Event

Big Picture Session | The World we Build: Resilience Across Scales

This session explores resilience at the Human, Community, and Society levels.

Tuesday
October 27, 2020
12:00pm — 1:30pm ET
Article

A neurobiologist thinks big — and small

Ed Boyden advances on his goal of understanding how the brain works.

Event

Big Picture Session | The World we Build: Radical Sustainability

During this session, Professor Danielle Wood (Space Enabled) will curate several conversations on radical sustainability.

Thursday
October 29, 2020
12:00pm — 1:30pm ET
Article

Creating “big, beautiful things”

Senior Garrett Parrish combines art and technology, with dramatic effects.

Publication

DAVED: Data Acquisition via Experimental Design for Data Markets

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Big Picture Session | The World we Build: Equitable Technology

This session features four conversations between Media Lab researchers and guest speakers on expanding more equitable research.

Wednesday
October 28, 2020
12:00pm — 1:30pm ET
Publication

Phone Slave: A Graphical Telecommunications Interface

Chris Schmandt, Barry Arons

Post

Data-driven Humanitarian Mapping and Policymaking, 1st Worksop at the ACM SIGKDD 2020

Neil Gaikwad from the Space Enabled research group is co-organizing the KDD Workshop on Humanitarian Mapping.

Publication

Data Visualization in the First Person

DeCamp, P. "Data Visualization in the First Person"

Event

The Future of Mobility and AI: A Design Challenge

​How will mobility and AI shape mid-western cities? How can the human body connect to vehicles, creating seamless interfaces that augm…

Project

Hyper-LOCAL Solutions to GLOBAL Challenges

Optimizing environmental, social, and economic performance of citiesCities play a central role in the climate crisis. According to the late…

Article

3D printers just got a big, eco-friendly upgrade (in the lab)

Researchers have developed a method that allows a 3D printer to identify the parameters of unknown materials to use algae, wood, and more.

Person

Laura Perovich

Former Research Assistant

Video

Big Picture Session | The World we Build: Equitable Technology

This session features four conversations between Media Lab researchers and guest speakers on expanding more equitable research.

Oct. 30, 2020