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A researcher sits in an office looking at a computer monitor. On the left side of the monitor are several graphs. On the right side are four images of a woman's arm with a crown tattoo.

Turning technology against human traffickers

Lincoln Laboratory connects counter–human trafficking community in pursuit of technology to help investigate cases.

May 6, 2021

Berit Muh, David Milibrand, Melissa Nobles, Dick Samuels, Bob Muh, and Daron Acemoglu.

David Miliband SM ’90 warns of “age of impunity” for despotic governments around the globe

Former British foreign minister says “countervailing power” must be developed to protect human rights and safeguard democracy.

April 30, 2021

Portrait photo of David Miliband, smiling and wearing a suit and tie

David Miliband SM ’90 receives the 2021 Robert A. Muh Alumni Award

As the United Kingdom's foreign secretary, Miliband drove advancements in human rights and became known as “one of the ablest, most creative public servants of our time.”

April 26, 2021

Image of Earth with random numbers and letters superimposed on the "space" above and around the planet

A global collaboration to move artificial intelligence principles to practice

Convened by the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, the AI Policy Forum will develop frameworks and tools for governments and companies to implement concrete policies.

October 19, 2020

MIT's new captioning and accessibility website includes guidelines and tools for captioning media, as well as training and other resources for staff and MIT affiliates who post or have posted media that needs captioning (certificates required).

MIT launches website to help with captioning media content

Website, online tools will help MIT fulfill National Association of the Deaf lawsuit settlement terms.

July 23, 2020

Assistant Director of the MIT-Boston University Startup Law Clinic, Samuel Taylor, right, speaks to participants.

MIT-BU law clinics help students bring innovations into the world

Growing program provides free legal services to student entrepreneurs and researchers, while giving law students practical experience.

July 16, 2020

Luis Videgaray, director of MIT’s AI Policy for the World Project, talking at his Starr Forum lecture, hosted by the Center for International Studies, on February 19, 2020.

A road map for artificial intelligence policy

In a Starr Forum talk, Luis Videgaray, director of MIT’s AI Policy for the World Project, outlines key facets of regulating new technologies.

February 20, 2020

Susan Silbey, the Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor of Humanities, Sociology and Anthropology, and Professor of Behavioral and Policy Sciences at the Sloan School of Management, delivering the 48th Annual James R. Killian, Jr. Faculty Achievement Award Lecture at MIT on Tuesday, February 11, 2020.

Understanding law in everyday life

Susan Silbey, a pioneer in studying popular attitudes toward the legal system, discussed her research while giving MIT’s annual Killian Lecture.

February 13, 2020

"Lately I have been trying to think of African history from the perspective of goodness and basic human decency," says Kenda Mutongi, an MIT professor of history. "Of course, conflicts exist, and do a great deal of damage in our lives, and we must confront them — but we must also allow ourselves to appreciate basic goodness and kindness when we see it."

3 Questions: Professor Kenda Mutongi on Africa, women, power — and human decency

Mutongi discusses the connection between Kenyan widows and the #MeToo movement, myths of African entrepreneurship, and the wider implications of her research.

January 14, 2020