Given recent news that popular online anonymity tool Tor might not be as completely secure as many of us had assumed, we were intrigued to see that some researchers at MIT are now claiming that ...

When professors in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering set out to design a computer science curriculum in 1967, they began with three fundamental classes–hardware, software, and systems–and no ...

There are plenty of examples of AI models being fooled out there. From Google’s AI to detect images mistaking a turtle for a gun to Jigsaw’s AI to score toxic comments tricked to think a sentence is ...

A data analytics spinoff from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab has developed a new text analytics engine it claims could give computers the ability to understand humans the way ...

At 7:45 a.m. on the day before Valentine’s Day 2016, five undergrads gathered at the Stratton Student Center to take part in the annual ­MakeMIT hackathon. The women, who’d been friends since their ...