Using friends to fight online harassment | MIT News
CSAIL’s “Squadbox” uses “friendsourcing” to better support targets of cyberbullying.
April 5, 2018 • ~5 min
Study: On Twitter, false news travels faster than true stories | MIT News
Research project finds humans, not bots, are primarily responsible for spread of misleading information.
March 8, 2018 • ~8 min
Political Methodology Lab to dig deep into new kinds of data | MIT News
Founder Teppei Yamamoto designs new tools to comprehend political behavior transformed by digital technology.
Feb. 15, 2018 • ~7 min
Street signs | MIT News
Study shows how seriously investors took the possibility of a democratic revolution during Egypt’s Arab Spring.
Dec. 19, 2017 • ~8 min
Can artificial intelligence learn to scare us? | MIT News
With Shelley, the world’s first artificial intelligence-human horror story collaboration, MIT researchers aim for goosebumps.
Oct. 27, 2017 • ~2 min
Closing the gender gap in mechanical engineering | MIT News
Women make up 49.5 percent of MIT’s undergraduates in mechanical engineering, due to department’s proactive approach, study finds.
July 31, 2017 • ~9 min
Using sensors and social networks to make slopes safer | MIT News
Alumni aim to make outdoor sports safer through gathering data and building a real-time social network.
July 10, 2017 • ~5 min
Danielle Olson: Building empathy through computer science and art | MIT News
CSAIL PhD student creates immersive media to help users understand each other’s backgrounds and feelings.
May 30, 2017 • ~6 min
Q&A: How Twitter explains the 2016 election | MIT News
“Electome” project charts the national conversation in unique detail.
Sept. 26, 2016 • ~6 min
Surrounded by questions | MIT News
PhD student Nils Wernerfelt deploys the tools of economics to address his many questions about the world.
Sept. 8, 2016 • ~8 min
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