3 Questions: Sasha Costanza-Chock on new “#MoreThanCode” report
Study of 188 practitioners distills key recommendations about using technology to advance social justice and the public interest.
Celebrating 21st century statistics
MIT Statistics and Data Science Conference highlights new approaches and varied applications.
Featured video: On alien typos and self-care, in conversation with Seth Meyers
Grad student Jonny Sun jokes on late-night TV about his alien persona and the unique challenges of working on a PhD while creating a graphic novel.
Using friends to fight online harassment
CSAIL’s “Squadbox” uses “friendsourcing” to better support targets of cyberbullying.
Southeastern European nations are latest to adopt emergency-response system
Lincoln Laboratory, in partnership with NATO, is modifying the system to help the region coordinate disaster response across borders.
Study: On Twitter, false news travels faster than true stories
Research project finds humans, not bots, are primarily responsible for spread of misleading information.
Political Methodology Lab to dig deep into new kinds of data
Founder Teppei Yamamoto designs new tools to comprehend political behavior transformed by digital technology.
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.