In politics, tailored ads make sense, but with real limits to the tailoring.

The inaugural SERC Symposium convened experts from multiple disciplines to explore the challenges and opportunities that arise with the broad applicability of computing in many aspects of society.

A variety of recent events highlighted efforts by faculty, staff, and students to make a difference today.

Citadel founder and CEO Ken Griffin visits MIT, discusses how technology will continue to transform trading and investing.

An MIT-led study reveals a core tension between the impulse to share news and to think about whether it is true.

The Advanced Computing Users Survey, sampling sentiments from 120 top-tier universities, national labs, federal agencies, and private firms, finds the decline in America’s advanced computing lead spans many areas.

MIT Open Learning team awarded NIH grant to provide training in biomedical product development, entrepreneurship, and innovation.

Computer scientists want to know the exact limits in our ability to clean up, and reconstruct, partly blurred images.

MIT alumnus-founded PoolText offers a platform for researchers and journal editors to improve the efficiency of submitting and publishing scientific papers.

Popular stories this year covered the detection of radio signals from space, a new battery design, immigrants’ entrepreneurial activity, and more.