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GMTaC Joins AI For Good Global Summit in Geneva

Published on May 24th, 2019Graduate student and GMTaC Research Assistant Iago Bojczuk will represent the lab at the AI For Good Global Summit from May 29-31 in Geneva. Organized by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) with United Nations (UN) sister agencies, XPRIZE Foundation and ACM, the AI For Good Global Summit […]

Lisa Parks to Deliver University of Montana Commencement Speech

Published on May 3rd, 2019Lisa Parks will deliver the 2019 commencement address at the University of Montana on May 4.  “We are delighted to have such an esteemed University of Montana graduate and respected thinker as our speaker this year,” UM President Seth Bodnar said in an earlier statement. Parks […]

Lisa Parks Discusses Space Internet Systems in New Scientist Magazine

Published on May 3rd, 2019 GMTaC Director Lisa Parks is quoted in the New Scientist article “The race to build a space internet available to anyone, anywhere” So all the laser satellite projects plan to use radio waves to communicate with the ground from orbit, which means using pricey steerable antennas […]

Google and the World Brain: A Documentary Film Analysis

Published on May 3rd, 2019A blog post by Graduate Research Assistant Iago Bojczuk. Upon arriving in the Comparative Media Studies department at MIT, it did not take much time to realize how much students are encouraged to think about communication and media practices across historical periods, cultural settings, and methods […]

Journalist Patrícia Campos Mello on WhatsApp and the 2018 Brazil Elections

Published on May 1st, 2019A blog post by Visiting Graduate Student Gabriel Pereira and Research Assistant Iago Bojczuk. Last year, in our blog post “Zap Zap, Who’s There? WhatsApp and the Spread of Fake News During the 2018 Elections in Brazil,” we discussed how WhatsApp messaging was influencing the Brazilian […]

Solar Solutions in Rural Tanzania

Published on April 2nd, 2019A blog post by Graduate Research Assistant Han Su. Imagine meeting someone from rural Tanzania — what could you have in common? One answer could be use of Facebook. But in a country where only 40% of people have access to grid electricity,1 how do users […]

Soko Letu

Published on March 20th, 2019Know the price of products located in different local markets. Poster                  Video                   Slides

Locatify

Published on March 20th, 2019Provide local guidances to tourists. Poster                  Video                   Slides