Street signs
Study shows how seriously investors took the possibility of a democratic revolution during Egypt’s Arab Spring.
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg to speak at MIT’s 2018 Commencement
Executive, author, and feminist will address the Class of 2018 on June 8.
Can artificial intelligence learn to scare us?
With Shelley, the world’s first artificial intelligence-human horror story collaboration, MIT researchers aim for goosebumps.
Closing the gender gap in mechanical engineering
Women make up 49.5 percent of MIT’s undergraduates in mechanical engineering, due to department’s proactive approach, study finds.
Using sensors and social networks to make slopes safer
Alumni aim to make outdoor sports safer through gathering data and building a real-time social network.
Danielle Olson: Building empathy through computer science and art
CSAIL PhD student creates immersive media to help users understand each other’s backgrounds and feelings.
Wisdom gleaned from data and behavioral economics
In a follow-up to his popular "Disciplined Entrepreneurship," MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Bill Aulet provides new insights for entrepreneurs.
KSA meeting focuses on digital globalization, emerging technologies
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas Friedman delivers keynote on how rising trends impact society.
Uncovering new ways to tell sports and media stories
Ben Shields' research focuses on the intersection of social media technologies, data analytics, and audience behavior in the sports, media, and entertainment industries.
Making the most of social media
Jenny Fowler, manager of social media strategy in MIT’s Communications Initiatives, shares tips for those building a social media presence for their DLC or group.
Top tweets of 2016
Best posts on @MIT touch on LIGO discoveries, Nobel laureate Bengt Holmström, Apollo pioneer Margaret Hamilton, Commencement speaker Matt Damon, and more.
Q&A: How Twitter explains the 2016 election
“Electome” project charts the national conversation in unique detail.
Surrounded by questions
PhD student Nils Wernerfelt deploys the tools of economics to address his many questions about the world.
Exploring networks efficiently
Analysis of ant colony behavior could yield better algorithms for network communication.
MIT Forum and Infosys Risk Group release preliminary global risk survey findings
Survey indicates 92.54 percent of companies think the nature of risk is changing due to complexity in the digital economy.