Democratizing education: Bringing MIT excellence to the masses
The MicroMasters Program in Statistics and Data Science, with over 1,000 credential holders, brings MIT excellence to learners around the world.
Research, education, and connection in the face of war
“I wouldn’t let the aggressor in the war squash my dreams,” says Ukrainian mathematician and MITx MicroMasters learner Tetiana Herasymova.
Making each vote count
MIT PhD candidate Jacob Jaffe uses data science to identify and solve problems in election administration.
Costis Daskalakis appointed inaugural Avanessians Professor in the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
Professor of electrical engineering and computer science will receive additional support to advance his research and career.
Emery Brown wins a share of 2022 Gruber Neuroscience Prize
Brown and three other scientists recognized for advancing statistical, theoretical analyses of neuroscience data.
What words can convey
Natural language processing models capture rich knowledge of words’ meanings through statistics.
Emery Brown earns American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering Pierre Galletti Award
AIMBE's highest honor recognizes MIT professor's contributions to neural signal processing, anesthesiology advances.
Professor Emery Brown has big plans for anesthesiology
In stepping down as co-director of the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, Brown will work to develop a new center for anesthesiology research.
Using adversarial attacks to refine molecular energy predictions
MIT researchers find a new way to quantify the uncertainty in molecular energies predicted by neural networks.
Inequality across networks
Eaman Jahani examines how resources are distributed across networks as a social and engineering systems PhD student at the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society.
Emery Brown wins Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience
Award cites major contributions to statistical analysis of brain activity and advancing the neuroscience of anesthesia.
Statistical model improves analysis of skin conductance
By accounting for sweat physiology, method can make better use of electrodermal activity for tracking subconscious changes in physical or emotional state.
What is the Covid-19 data tsunami telling policymakers?
A global team of researchers searches for insights during a weeklong virtual “datathon.”
A data-driven response to a pandemic
Isolat, a volunteer collaboration organized by the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, informs coronavirus policy by analyzing data associated with the pandemic.
The MIT Press releases a comprehensive report on open-source publishing software
Report catalogs, analyzes available open-source publishing software; warns open publishing must grapple with siloed development and community-owned ecosystems.