The degree to which someone trusts the information depicted in a chart can depend on their assumptions about who made the data visualization, according to a pair of studies by MIT researchers.
Hal Abelson, MIT Class of 1922 Professor and CSAIL principal investigator, has received the 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence from Open Education Global for helping make information technology more accessible worldwide. “Hal Abelson’s work promotes knowledge of all forms as a public good,” notes the organization in a public statement. “Hal’s work has focused on communities working together to advance and support knowledge.”
It’s hard to keep up with the ever-changing trends of the fashion world. What’s “in” one minute is often out of style the next season, potentially causing you to re-evaluate your wardrobe.
Say a person takes their French Bulldog, Bowser, to the dog park. Identifying Bowser as he plays among the other canines is easy for the dog-owner to do while onsite.
