{"id":5022,"date":"2026-05-13T20:35:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/gpmc\/?p=5022"},"modified":"2026-05-13T20:35:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:35:29","slug":"celebrating-40-years-of-innovation-at-the-mit-media-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/gpmc\/celebrating-40-years-of-innovation-at-the-mit-media-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating 40 years of innovation at the MIT Media Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>In the last week of October 2025, <strong>Professor Vin\u00edcius Brei<\/strong> attended the <strong>40th-anniversary celebrations<\/strong> of the <strong>MIT Media Lab<\/strong>, one of the world&#8217;s most influential centers for interdisciplinary research. The event was part of Members Week, which brings together companies, researchers, and partners to share the top innovations developed over the past year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the week, Professor Brei also participated in meetings with the Connection Science group, part of the Media Lab&#8217;s Human Dynamics laboratory, led by Professor Alex \u201cSandy\u201d Pentland \u2014 one of the pioneers of Computational Social Science and one of the world&#8217;s most influential data scientists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>O<\/strong>n this occasion, Professor Vin\u00edcius Brei presented the <strong>recent breakthroughs<\/strong> of the <strong><em>Atlas de Oportunidades<\/em> (Atlas of Opportunities) project<\/strong>, developed in collaboration with MIT since 2018. The project contributes to the ethical use of Artificial Intelligence to <strong>generate economic opportunities for individuals and entrepreneurs who lack management knowledge or the resources to invest in market research<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Interactions with researchers such as Alex Pentland, Mohsen Bahrami, Esteban Moro, and Bur\u00e7in Bozkaya reinforce the group&#8217;s commitment to responsible innovation and the internationalization of scientific research.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last week of October 2025, Professor Vin\u00edcius Brei attended the 40th-anniversary celebrations of the MIT Media Lab, one[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":5023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/gpmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/gpmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/gpmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/gpmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/gpmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/gpmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5024,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/gpmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022\/revisions\/5024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/gpmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/gpmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/gpmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/gpmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}