Karthik Dinakar and Birago Jones, both MIT graduates, developed a tool facilitating social media content moderation as part of a class project in 2010. The project generated significant interest and was demonstrated at a White House cyberbullying summit. However, they initially struggled with their demo due to their unfamiliarity with teenage slang used in harmful…
In an enormous robotic warehouse, hundreds of robots zip back and forth, picking up items and delivering them to human workers for packing and shipping. This is becoming an increasingly common scene in various industries, from e-commerce to automotive manufacturing. However, managing these large numbers of robots, ensuring they reach their destinations effectively, and avoiding…
In 2010, Karthik Dinakar and Birago Jones, students at the Media Lab, collaborated to develop a tool that could assist content moderation teams in identifying concerning posts on platforms like Twitter and YouTube. Their innovation received extensive attention, leading to an invitation to present their creation at a cyberbullying seminar at the White House. However,…
In the growing field of warehouse automation, managing hundreds of robots zipping through a large warehouse is a logistical challenge. Delivery paths, potential collisions and congestion all pose significant issues, making the task a complex problem that even the best algorithms find hard to manage. To solve this, a team of MIT researchers has developed…
In 2010, Media Lab students at MIT, Karthik Dinakar and Birago Jones, embarked on a class project to create a tool aimed at aiding content moderation teams at companies such as Twitter and YouTube. The innovative project generated considerable interest, leading to an opportunity to demonstrate the tool at a White House cyberbullying summit. However,…
In order to improve efficiency in large-scale robotic warehouses, a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a deep learning model which assists in navigating robots to decongest warehouse floors. The way this model works is by splitting the hundreds of robots into smaller, manageable groups which are easier for…
As students at the Media Lab in 2010, Karthik Dinakar SM ’12, PhD ’17 and Birago Jones SM ’12 embarked on a project to build a tool for moderating content on platforms such as Twitter and YouTube. The project received so much attention that they were invited to demonstrate it at a cyberbullying summit at…