Using data science to improve public policy
MIT Policy Hackathon, run by students within MIT’s Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, seeks interdisciplinary solutions to societal challenges.
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Highlights from MIT Water Night 2014
Oceans at MIT's highlights from MIT Water Night 2014 include nano-technological desalination of seawater, innovative wetland conservation, and ocean carbon cycle research.
Copytech makes it easy to order your print jobs online
Copytech, MIT's print and copy facility, provides a range of online printing options, from large-format color posters to MIT business cards — and they deliver.
Powering better online document viewing
Fast-growing startup Crocodoc is developing technology that converts documents into HTML for easy viewing and embedding.
Learn your way around MIT through online courses
Thanks to a series of online training courses, it’s now easier to find the answers you need when you need them.
Detecting program-tampering in the cloud
A new version of ‘zero-knowledge proofs’ allows cloud customers to verify the proper execution of their software with a single packet of data.
Kendall Square initiative moves toward design phase
Urban-design firm to be selected; community meetings will be set for fall.
Encryption is less secure than we thought
For 65 years, most information-theoretic analyses of cryptographic systems have made a mathematical assumption that turns out to be wrong.
Targeting product design for the developing world
The key, MIT study finds, is designing products that make money for the microentrepreneur.
Writing programs using ordinary language
Systems that can convert written specifications into working code in a few narrow cases could be generalized to other tasks.
White House cites new MITx course as key to improving U.S. innovation
Professor Eugene Fitzgerald and Andreas Wankerl reconceptualize the innovation process in new MOOC
Putting a price on adaptation
Researchers use new method to calculate the impacts and adaptation costs of climate change