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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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A Trading Mechanism to Increase Intermediation Capacity in the Repo Market

The US Treasuries repo market is the largest financial market in the world. Trade volume is constrained by the interaction of accounting ru…
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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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Madars Virza wins Test of Time Award at 2024 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy

This award recognizes previously published papers that have had a lasting impact on research and practice in computer security and privacy.
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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: Life with AI

Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
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Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)

Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)
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OpenCBDC

ResearchTechnical Paper | Executive Summary | GitHubAboutIntroductionOpenCBDC is an open source project to engage in co…
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Treasury and Programmability

Programmability is one of the most touted benefits of tokenized systems, and there are billions of dollars locked up in smart contracts in …
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Privacy-Preserving Audits for OpenCBDC

Funded by a National Science Foundation EAGER GrantOpenCBDC raised the bar for CBDC performance and viability. In this subsequent work, we …
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Scaling Privacy Preserving Payments in a Centralized Digital Currency

This project is working on understanding and implementing privacy preserving payments in CBDC. After surveying privacy techniques from cryp…
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Project Us

“Us” aims to help people develop their sense of empathy. It uses machine learning to analyze interlocutors’ signals (e.g., choice of words,…
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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: Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
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Social media is rewriting the banking playbook

In Scientific American, Dr. Alex Lipton and Media Lab Professor Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland call for the creation of new banking regulations.
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Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)

Since the Bank of England first raised the concept of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in its 2015 research agenda, the subject has g…
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Let’s fight global tax dodgers with cutting-edge data science

Public interest tax analyst Don Griswold introduces Tech for Transparency, inspired by Media Lab Professor Alex Pentland's research.
Inventing the future of digitally augmented objects and environments.
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge
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Crypto Decoded

From Bitcoin to NFTs, crypto is making headlines. But what exactly is it, and how does it work?
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Global Fintech, edited by David L. Shrier and Prof. Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, wins Outstanding Academic Title Award from Choice, 2022

Choice is a publishing unit of the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association.
Center for Civic Media
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The MIT researcher who helps senators understand digital currencies

The MIT Digital Currency Initiative director serves as a crucial link between cryptocurrency developers and central banks around the world.
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MIT experts test technical research for a hypothetical central bank digital currency

Collaboration with Federal Reserve Bank of Boston yields progress in understanding how a digital currency might be developed in the future.
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Study: More people walked during the pandemic, but how much depended on their income level

Boston.com reports on research conducted by Human Dynamics head Sandy Pentland, visiting professor Esteban Moro, and collaborators.
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At delta v Demo Day, the MIT community celebrates student entrepreneurs

The 2021 event, held in Kresge Auditorium and streamed live, was an unmistakable sign that MIT’s campus is up and running.
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Digital Currency and Trade Systems Are Tearing up the Rules: We need a "digital Bretton Woods" to set standards

Sandy Pentland discusses national digital currencies and trade platforms, and how they could upend today's geopolitical hierarchies.
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Why central banks want to get into digital currencies

CNBC talks to Neha Narula and other experts about the growing interest in central bank digital currencies.
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New Media Medicine

How radical new collaborations will catalyze a revolution in health.
Digital Life
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CE 2.0

CE 2.0
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Perspectives on Libra

Essays and testimonies on Facebook's proposed cryptocurrency
Communications Futures Program
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Future Storytelling
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Consumer Electronics Laboratory
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Structural and temporal patterns of the first global trading market

We investigate the structure and dynamics of a network representative of the global trading market that emerged during the 16th century.
How software can act as an assistant to the user rather than a tool, by learning from interaction and by proactively anticipating the user's
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Gary Gensler: Remarks at "Off" The Chain Summit

Blockchain technology and the crypto ecosystem it has birthed must come fully within public policy frameworks to reach its full potential.
How to give computers human-like intuition so they can better understand us.
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How to engage diverse audiences in creating their own technology by situating computation in new contexts and building tools to democratize engineering.
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How to enhance understanding, enable creativity, and ease our interactions with the technological environment.
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How to create better online environments and interfaces for human communication.
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How artists and engineers can refigure technology for the full range of human experience.
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How to create seamless and pervasive connections between our physical environments and information resources.
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Center for Future Banking
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