Diversifying your online world
In a new book, MIT’s Ethan Zuckerman asserts that we need to overcome the Internet’s sorting tendencies and create tools to make ourselves ‘digital cosmopolitans.’
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Automated ‘coach’ could help with social interactions
New software system from MIT could help people improve their conversational and interview skills.
Why innovation thrives in cities
Double a city’s population and its economic productivity goes up 130 percent. MIT researchers think they know why.
U.S. Ambassador Allan J. Katz visits MIT
Ambassador to Portugal led a Business Development Road Show that included a stop at the MIT Media Lab.
MIT hosts American Junior Academy of Science delegates
The Institution provides day’s worth of activities for more than 200 conference attendees.
The robotic equivalent of a Swiss army knife
Reconfigurable robot a step toward something that can become almost anything.
New books on the shelf from SA+P
Recent publishing news from School of Architecture + Planning faculty and alumni
Watch ‘The Story and the Algorithm’ live
Civic Media Conference to be broadcast and liveblogged at knightfoundation.org/live.
Finding good music in noisy online markets
MIT researchers revisit data from a seminal online experiment but draw more encouraging conclusions.
Is that smile real or fake?
A computerized system developed at MIT can tell the difference between smiles of joy and smiles of frustration.
