Study of 188 practitioners distills key recommendations about using technology to advance social justice and the public interest.
August 23, 2018Improved recommendation algorithm should work especially well when ratings data are “sparse.”
December 6, 2017New book, “The Longevity Economy,” calls for rethinking our ideas about what the elderly can do.
November 8, 2017Alumni aim to make outdoor sports safer through gathering data and building a real-time social network.
July 10, 2017PhD student Dean Knox studies social networks and how individuals use them to access government goods and services.
February 17, 2017MIT senior Charlie Andrews-Jubelt encourages students to look out for each other and lend support.
November 9, 2016At IDSS celebration, speakers explore how data can be brought to bear on global challenges.
September 26, 2016Analysis of ant colony behavior could yield better algorithms for network communication.
July 13, 2016New book by Senseable City Lab researchers presents vision of data-driven urban design.
July 5, 2016MIT professor talks about our need for face-to-face dialogue, in families, classrooms, and workplaces.
November 17, 2015New research finds urban social networks are not determined geographically, but socially.
June 10, 2015MIT study details the degree to which urban movement is linked to social activity.
February 26, 2015Sinan Aral studies peer effects and influence, with an eye toward tackling pressing social problems.
November 10, 2014MIT social media strategist Stephanie Hatch Leishman highlights applications and resources that can streamline your workflow: Feedly, Flickr, Hootsuite, and IFTTT.
October 8, 2014What are people at MIT doing on campus and around the world? Find out by exploring MIT Connect.
September 5, 2014MIT alumni took their photo-aggregating app to market with help from the Institute.
August 15, 2013Technique could be applied to the study of disease, social networks and other diverse fields.
August 2, 2013In a new book, MIT’s Ethan Zuckerman asserts that we need to overcome the Internet’s sorting tendencies and create tools to make ourselves ‘digital cosmopolitans.’
June 18, 2013Want to know what’s up at MIT? Check out MIT Connect, an innovative social media portal recently launched by MIT’s Communication Production Services in collaboration with the News Office.
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