Media Coverage

Keri Pearlson, executive director of Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan, speaks with Ally Donnelly of NBC 10 about protecting your online privacy. “Your spouse, your family, your birthday, your hometown, your high school, your college, your degrees,” says Pearlson. “I think we have to assume our information is out there and take other steps to protect ourselves.”

Prof. Tim Berners-Lee speaks with Wired reporter K.G. Orphanides about his startup Inrupt, which is aimed at transforming how we share personal data on the web. Orphanides explains that Berners-Lee’s idea is that, “instead of a company storing all your personal data on their servers, you would keep it on your own personal data ‘pod.’”

Prof. Sara Seager speaks with National Geographic reporter Jamie Shreeve about her work searching for an Earth-like planet orbiting a sunlike star. “You never know what’s going to happen,” Seager says. “But I know that something great is around those stars.”

WBUR’s Andrea Shea spotlights an exhibit at the Fitchburg Art Museum celebrating the work of artist Otto Piene, who served as the director of MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies from 1974 to 1994. The new show, “reveals concepts and connections he forged throughout his long career, and proves how Piene was ahead of his time.”