Decentralized Information Group

The Decentralized Information Group explores technical, institutional, and public policy questions necessary to advance the development of global, decentralized information environments.

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Current Projects

The Tabulator project is a generic Semantic Web data browser. Using outline and table modes, it provides a way to browse RDF data.

The Transparent Accountable Datamining Initiative (TAMI) Project, funded by NSF, is creating technical, legal, and policy foundations for transparency and accountability in large-scale aggregation and inferencing across heterogeneous information systems.

The Privacy for the Social Web or Respect My Privacy (RMP) Project deals with establishing privacy boundaries in social networking environments. It is focussed on enabling explicit privacy preferences to be associated with personal data and on developing tools and technologies for making those who use this personal information to be aware of and respect these preferences.

The AFOSR funded project titled Secure SW Federation is focussed on creating open information environments that allow data from different sources to be seamlessly integrated while preserving appropriate security and privacy policies.

The Fusion Center project supports information sharing at Fusion Centers using accountability techniques developed in our lab and is funded by DHS. This information sharing requires the ability to represent and evaluate the interaction of policies over information from multiple sources, governed by laws from different jurisdictions, with the real possibility that applicable laws might either conflict or lead to inconclusive results.

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MIT Students: We are interested in working with students at any level, UROP, MEng, or PhD. Send email and come talk to us. More...

Selected Publications and Courses

Semantic Web Live

Past Projects

Policy Aware Web, funded by NSF, a collaboration between MINDSWAP and DIG to work toward creating discretionary, rules-based access for the World Wide Web.

Semantic Web Advanced Development, funded by DARPA under the DAML program, creating and distributing core components that form the basis for the Semantic Web.

Semantic Web Application Platform for the Mobile Ecosystem (SwapMe), funded by Nokia Research Center, is a joint project of MIT CSAIL and Nokia Research Center Cambridge. The goals of SwapMe are to build systems that offer users flexible, content-, and policy-aware means to access and manipulate information and environments.

SIMILE, funded by the Mellon Foundation, is a joint project conducted by the W3C, MIT Libraries, and MIT CSAIL. SIMILE seeks to enhance inter-operability among digital assets, schemata / vocabularies / ontologies, metadata, and services.

Visiting DIG

DIG is located on the MIT Campus in the State Center

If you need hotel accommodations while visiting us, the Kendall Hotel and the Cambridge Marriot are within a two block walk. Use this list a complete listing of hotels and contact information.

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Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Stata Center 5th floor room 32G-524
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Cambridge MA 02139
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