Six current MIT affiliates and 27 additional MIT alumni have been elected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Sussman earned the honor for “inspiring students of computer science, engineering, and science with his ‘structure and interpretation’ approach, books, and MIT courses” according to the board.
MIT is excited to announce the first Citizen Data Science Summit! Join us September 20, 2021 in Boston, Massachusetts or live online on and learn about challenges and opportunities to enable more people to work with data.
As data science has evolved over the past decade, it has become clear that more data means more questions. In order to meet the demand for new data driven insights, more individuals must be empowered to start answering questions.
The 4th annual Congress was a virtual event that featured the final report from the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future. Hosted by MIT's Task Force on Work of the Future, CSAIL, and Initiative on the Digital Economy, this year's Congress highlighted research findings from the MIT Task Force on Work of the Future's final report released in November 2020. Given the rapidly changing environment brought on by Covid-19, this topic is more important and relevant than ever.
With various physical distancing guidelines in place throughout the world as a means to curb the spread of Covid-19, the internet has experienced a dramatic spike in overall traffic.
Given that our smartphones have largely become appendages over the last decade, it’s hard to imagine that ten years ago there was no Instagram, Uber, TikTok or Tinder. The ways we move, shop, eat and communicate continue to evolve thanks to the technologies we use. It can be easy to forget how quickly things have changed - so let’s turn back the clocks and reminisce about some of the computing breakthroughs that have transformed our lives in the ’10s.
Existing efforts to detect IP hijacks tend to look at specific cases when they’re already in process. But what if we could predict these incidents in advance by tracing things back to the hijackers themselves?
