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Tracking US Progress On The Path To A Decarbonized Economy
The Clean Investment Monitor database, a new collaboration between MIT CEEPR and the Rhodium Group, shows $213 billion…
2023-09-18
A More Intelligent System For The Scooter Wars
Startups racing to deploy rentable electric scooters around the world seem to be following Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s…
2019-10-02
The Transportation Problem No One Is Talking About
Right now, most self-driving cars–like those being developed by Google or Uber–can only operate in very limited urban…
2018-05-24
AI Is Reshaping What We Know About Cities
Machine learning is helping urbanists confirm–or disprove–long-standing theories about cities. Why do certain neighborhoods feel safe while some feel…
2017-11-02
In These Small Cities, AI Advances Could Be Costly
A new MIT study finds that larger cities are more resilient to technological unemployment. It’s long been clear…
2017-10-31
How A Large-Scale Solar Deployment May Look Like
Researchers are examining measures to ensure a reliable future power system. Deploying solar power at the scale needed…
2016-01-08
Why Lego Is For Both Fun Play And Serious Work
MIT wants to make transportation planning more transparent—and a bit more fun. MIT researchers unveiled something earlier this…
2015-10-19
MIT Is Drawing 10,000 Maps To Save The World
The social computing group wants to initiate social change via data visualisation at the rate of a map…
2015-02-26
DataViva, An MIT Media Lab Tool For Visualising Government Data
DataViva, a project developed in part by Media Lab professor César Hidalgo, aims to make a wide swath…
2015-02-18