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Initiative for Combatting Systemic Racism

A photo of protestors holding signs at a march against racism. A person in the front holds a sign that reads "The system is failing our brothers and sisters". Next to them is another person holding a sign that says "White silence is violence"

Connection Science Research in the News

In the paper "Behavioral changes during the COVID-19 pandemic decreased income diversity of urban encounters" Connection Science researchers used mobility data gathered across four major U.S. cities — Boston, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Seattle — to find the diversity of urban encounters diminished significantly during the pandemic. Read coverage in...

Connection Science: The Technology of Innovation

Image of a hallway entering the MIT Human Dynamics Lab. There is an LED screen on the wall with a black background and the words "collective learning" and "human dynamics" on it in white and a large white arrow pointing to the right. On the right side of the hallway is a glass wall and door. A person going through that doorway can be faintly seen.

Grand Challenge for Alternatives to Sugar

Real Talk for Change

A group of people - most of whom are Black or African American - sitting around a table in red chairs with their hands raised.

Ways of Seeing: Documenting Endangered Built Heritage in Afghanistan

digital rendering of the Green Mosque in Balkh, Afghanistan, a 16th Century building, by Nikolaos Vlavianos

News Sharing, Persuasion and a Theory of Misinformation Spreading in Social Networks

A set of four alphabet blocks on a table with the first two showing the letters F and A; and the last two being turned from one side to another, going from KE to CT (making the word change from fake to fact)

AI, Computation, Data Science, Information & Decision-making, Institutional Behavior, Big Data, Social Networks

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Grand Challenge for Alternatives to Sugar

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