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A Scientific Approach to Education Reform
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A Scientific Approach to Education Reform

The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the need to reinvent education. A new book by Sanjay Sarma, MIT's vice president for open learning, points a way.

Study: On Twitter, False News Travels Faster Than True Stories
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Study: On Twitter, False News Travels Faster Than True Stories

A new study by three MIT scholars has found that false news spreads more rapidly on the social network Twitter than real news does—and by a substantial margin. ...

Bringing Neural Networks to Cellphones
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Bringing Neural Networks to Cellphones

Researchers at MIT have developed a battery of techniques for modeling neural networks' power consumption which could make the systems available for mobile devices...

Q&a: How Twitter Explains the 2016 Election
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Q&a: How Twitter Explains the 2016 Election

The Electome project compares the content of Twitter conversations with news media coverage of the 2016 U.S. Presidential campaign.

We Know Where You Live
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We Know Where You Live

Researchers have shown that the location stamps on just a handful of Twitter posts can disclose the addresses of the poster's home and workplace to a relatively...

3-D Printing 101
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3-D Printing 101

It's been more than 30 years since the invention of 3-D printing, and yet in some ways the technology is still a frontier of unexplored potential.

Can Technology Help Teach Literacy in Poor Communities?
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Can Technology Help Teach Literacy in Poor Communities?

A project to provide tablet computers loaded with literacy applications to young children in economically disadvantaged communities has reported encouraging results...

Secure, ­ser-Controlled Data
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Secure, ­ser-Controlled Data

Cryptographic system would allow users to decide which applications access which aspects of their data.

Making 3-D Imaging 1,000 Times Better
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Making 3-D Imaging 1,000 Times Better

MIT researchers have shown that by exploiting the polarization of light they can boost the resolution of conventional 3-D imaging sensors as much as 1,000 times...

An App For Safer Roads
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An App For Safer Roads

Startup Censio has developed a mobile app that captures and analyzes data on driving behavior to show drivers where they can improve.

Smarter Lenses
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Smarter Lenses

A newly launched mobile eye-test device could lead to prescription virtual-reality screens.

Mental-Health Monitoring Goes Mobile
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Mental-Health Monitoring Goes Mobile

Startup Ginger.io analyzes smartphone data to remotely predict when patients with mental illnesses or chronic diseases are symptomatic.

Building Disaster-Relief Phone Apps on the Fly
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Building Disaster-Relief Phone Apps on the Fly

Researchers have developed new tools that allow people with minimal programming skill to rapidly build cellphone applications that can help with disaster relief...

Making Quantum Encryption Practical
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Making Quantum Encryption Practical

One of the many promising applications of quantum mechanics in the information sciences is quantum key distribution (QKD) in which the counterintuitive behavior...

Sal Khan: 'i Love Learning'
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Sal Khan: 'i Love Learning'

"If there was a Ph.D. in learning everything, I would do that," the always-enthusiastic Sal Khan '98, MEng '98 said in a talk Wednesday at MIT's Kresge Auditorium...

Nate Silver Presents Forecasting Work as Antidote to 'terrible' Political Pundits
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Nate Silver Presents Forecasting Work as Antidote to 'terrible' Political Pundits

Celebrated political forecaster Nate Silver has shot to fame by letting the data speak loudly about elections.

Addressing the Complexities of Meritocracy
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Addressing the Complexities of Meritocracy

MIT's third annual Diversity Summit, held last week at Kresge Auditorium, reflected the growing importance of inclusion at the Institute: From 70 attendees at the...

Mit, Intel ­nveil New Initiatives Addressing 'big Data'
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Mit, Intel ­nveil New Initiatives Addressing 'big Data'

MIT has been selected from among 55 institutions that submitted 157 proposals to host a new Intel research center that will concentrate on what's come to be called...
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