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Is democracy dying?

Scholars and writers tackle a pressing question at an MIT forum.

February 27, 2018

The task force leadership team consists of (right) David Autor, the Ford Professor of Economics and associate head of the MIT Department of Economics; (left) David Mindell, the Frances and David Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing, and professor of aeronautics and astronautics; and (center) Elisabeth Reynolds, executive director of the MIT Industrial Performance Center...

MIT launches Task Force on the Work of the Future

Institute-wide effort will study the evolution of jobs in an age of technological advancement.

February 27, 2018

MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference co-founders (far left) Daryl Morey, general manager of the Houston Rockets, and (next to him) Jessica Gelman, CEO of the Kraft Analytics Group, on stage at this year's edition of the event in Boston, on Feb. 23.

Talking points: MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference explores data and how to share it

MIT's unique forum underscores the importance of communication in sports analytics.

February 26, 2018

While the world’s best-known cave art exists in France and Spain, examples of it abound throughout the world.

The writing on the wall

Did humans speak through cave art? New paper links ancient drawings and language’s origins.

February 21, 2018

A new study co-authored by a professor at MIT shows the long-term financial hurt of a medical event serious enough to cause hospitalization is significant even for the insured.

Ouch: Study reveals financial pain after hospitalization

Serious medical problems reduce earnings, hurt employment, and increase debt.

February 20, 2018

MIT professor T.L. Taylor has been co-director of AnyKey, an initiative to encourage diversity in esports.

3Q: T.L. Taylor on diversity in e-sports

MIT sociologist’s “AnyKey” initiative aims to level the playing field of online sports.

February 15, 2018

From left to right: Nora Murphy, archivist for researcher services in the Institute Archives and Special Collections; Craig Steven Wilder, the Barton L. Weller Professor of History in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences; Clare Kim, a graduate student in the HASTS program (History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society) who served as teaching assistant for Murphy and Wi...

MIT class reveals, explores Institute’s connections to slavery

Findings show founder William Barton Rogers possessed enslaved persons before coming to MIT; research, community dialogue to ensue.

February 12, 2018

Philosopher Cornel West at MIT giving a talk, “Speaking Truth to Power!” on Feb. 7.

Cornel West advocates the “examined life” on campus

In MIT talk, prominent philosopher urges self-reflection to keep academic institutions vital and fair.

February 9, 2018

William Deringer of STS has his first book coming out in February about how quantitative economic arguments gained hold in the modern world.

When numbers started counting

New book by MIT assistant professor chronicles the birth of statistical arguments in public debate.

February 5, 2018

A deep dive into the effects of trade

MIT economist David Atkin looks beneath the surface of global commerce.

February 4, 2018

At a time of rapid advances in intelligence research across many disciplines, the MIT Intelligence Quest will encourage researchers to investigate the societal implications of their work as they pursue hard problems lying beyond the current horizon of what is known.

Institute launches the MIT Intelligence Quest

New Institute-wide initiative will advance human and machine intelligence research.

February 1, 2018

Nick Montfort and his new book, "The Future"

3 Questions: Nick Montfort on shaping the future

New book delves into “future-making” as a noble endeavor.

January 11, 2018

Innovation, meet organization

Economist John Van Reenen studies the creation and use of technology, from the R&D lab to the workplace.

January 8, 2018

Brent D. Ryan, an associate professor of urban design and public policy in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning, has detailed his perspective on urban design in a new book, “The Largest Art: A Measured Manifesto for a Plural Urbanism,” recently published by the MIT Press.

A manifesto for designing cities

MIT professor’s new book calls for a more pluralistic, democratic vision of the city.

January 4, 2018

A study co-authored by MIT professor Daron Acemoglu shows that demonstrations in Cairo’s Tahrir Square lowered the stock market valuations of politically connected firms — indicating how much people thought a full democratic revolution was possible.

Street signs

Study shows how seriously investors took the possibility of a democratic revolution during Egypt’s Arab Spring.

December 19, 2017

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