J-PAL North America and the University of Chicago’s Behavioral Insights and Parenting Lab will evaluate two approaches to text-based parental engagement programs that motivate two distinct kinds of learning interactions.
The role-playing game “On the Plane” simulates xenophobia to foster greater understanding and reflection via virtual experiences.
Study suggests a robot levy — but only a modest one — could help combat the effects of automation on income inequality in the U.S.
Philosophy PhD student Eliza Wells investigates how our social roles influence our moral lives.
Fifteen MIT students traveled to Washington to speak to representatives from several federal executive agencies.
But the harm from a discriminatory AI system can be minimized if the advice it delivers is properly framed, an MIT team has shown.
MIT Conference on Mining, Environment, and Society convenes academics, industry, policymakers, and NGOs to discuss challenges of supplying the materials for clean energy.
Dan Huttenlocher is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science and the inaugural dean at MIT Schwarzman College of Computing.
In the fight against escalating cybercrime, boards need to deepen their cybersecurity competencies, explains Keri Pearlson, executive director of Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan.
Delegates from MIT attended COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, where international climate negotiations went down to the wire.
Hackathon explores policy solutions to challenges in cybersecurity, environmental justice, and city planning focused on post-pandemic efforts to build a better society.
New data suggest most of the growth in the wage gap since 1980 comes from automation displacing less-educated workers.
MIT’s inaugural Bearing Witness, Seeking Justice conference explores video’s role in the struggle over truth and civil liberties.
Digital Credentials Consortium’s new report explores barriers to adoption.
MIT physicist and historian of science has edited a new volume about Dyson, a famed quantum theorist and futurist.