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Testing a voting system may show that certain adversarial attacks don’t work, but it doesn’t reveal that there are no attacks that work.

3 Questions: Ron Rivest on trusting electronic voting systems

MIT cryptography expert and election technology developer explains how to verify an election outcome.

February 26, 2020

MIT graduate student Emily Hanhauser demonstrates a new device that may simplify the logistics of water monitoring for trace metal contaminants, particularly in resource-constrained regions.

Instrument may enable mail-in testing to detect heavy metals in water

Whisk-shaped device absorbs trace contaminants, preserves them in dry state that can be shipped to labs for analysis.

February 25, 2020

(Left to right:) MIT students Kenny Li, Maya Murad, Devin Zhang, Tiffany Fung, Eduardo Rivera, Evan Pu, Taylor Baum, Julian Alverio, and Madhav Kumar participated in this year's MISTI Global Startup Labs program.

Dreaming big in a small country

MIT students teach machine learning and entrepreneurship in Uruguay through MIT Global Startup Labs.

February 24, 2020

A new study shows that even when people are given multiple financing options, many smooth out the monthly payments into multiples of $100, often at less money per payment, but with notably increased long-term costs, even if they can afford to pay more.

The trouble with round numbers

Study shows people prefer monthly payments in multiples of $100, even when it may cost them money.

February 20, 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

Scientific evidence that’s been accumulating for decades points to ways in which suppressing fire leads to unhealthy forests.

Rethinking fire with data analytics and systems design

MIT frameworks are helping the U.S. Forest Service find solutions to fire.

February 12, 2020

Katy Knight (left) of the Siegel Family Endowment and José Cisneros (right), elected treasurer for the City and County of San Francisco, listen as MIT professor and Work of the Future Initiative co-chair David Autor provides feedback on how to design an effective evaluation of a labor force development program.

Experts join J-PAL North America in advancing conversation on the work of the future

Academic, government, and advocacy leaders gathered to promote collaborative research partnerships to identify strategies that help workers thrive in today’s labor market.

January 31, 2020

A new study by MIT economists indicates that some metrics used in hospital rankings do, in fact, provide real insight about hospital quality.

Hospital rankings hold up

Some basic metrics do effectively diagnose care quality, according to MIT economists.

January 30, 2020

Alchemista co-founder and CEO Christine Marcus MBA ’12 says she sold her house and dipped into her retirement savings to get the company off the ground.

MIT helps first-time entrepreneur build food hospitality company

Led by Christine Marcus MBA ’12, Alchemista is finding success with a human-centered approach to food service.

January 30, 2020

Candorful uses video conferencing to facilitate mock job interviews between volunteer coaches and military personnel to help prepare them for civilian job interviews.

Helping military veterans nail that interview

Interview coaching startup Candorful helps veterans transitioning to civilian life prepare for job interviews.

January 28, 2020

It has never been safer to fly on commercial airlines, according to a new study by Arnold Barnett, the George Eastman Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Shown are evening air traffic patterns in Europe.

Study: Commercial air travel is safer than ever

The rate of passenger fatalities has declined yet again in the last decade, accelerating a long-term trend.

January 23, 2020

Available on the edX platform, the MITx MicroMasters Program in Finance offers recent graduates, early- to mid-stage professionals, and others interested in or already pursuing a career in finance an opportunity to enhance their financial skill set or to fast-track a master’s degree in finance from MIT Sloan.

MIT Sloan launches MITx MicroMasters Program in Finance

Taught by faculty in the MIT Sloan School of Management, MIT’s fifth MicroMasters program offers learners an opportunity to enhance their financial skill set.

January 15, 2020

A new MIT-led study set in Camden, New Jersey (pictured here), finds that “hotspotting” healthcare programs have a very limited effect when it comes to improving care and reducing costs for high-risk patients.

In health care, does “hotspotting” make patients better?

Study shows no effect from program intended to reduce repeated hospitalizations by targeting high-cost patients.

January 8, 2020

Business lessons from “Ford v. Ferrari”

A look at the popular film through a lens of systems thinking and process improvement.

January 7, 2020

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