Using friends to fight online harassment | MIT News

CSAIL’s “Squadbox” uses “friendsourcing” to better support targets of cyberbullying.

Adam Conner-Simons | Rachel Gordon | CSAIL • mit
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.

Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office • mit
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.

Leda Zimmerman | Department of Political Science • mit
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.

Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office • mit
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.

MIT Media Lab • mit
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.

Mary Beth O'Leary | Department of Mechanical Engineering • mit
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.

Mary Beth O'Leary | Department of Mechanical Engineering • mit
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.

Rachel Gordon | CSAIL • mit
May 30, 2017 ~6 min


Q&A: How Twitter explains the 2016 election | MIT News

“Electome” project charts the national conversation in unique detail.

Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office • mit
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.

Catherine Curro Caruso | MIT News correspondent • mit
Sept. 8, 2016 ~8 min

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