Author: Katharine Dunn
OA research in the news: MIT launches Institute for Data, Systems, & Society
Last week, the deans of MIT’s five Schools announced a new Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), which will launch in July and be...
OA research in the news: Stonebraker wins computing “Nobel”
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory researcher Michael Stonebraker was awarded the “Nobel Prize of computing” last month for his research in database management systems....
OA research in the news: Preschoolers learn programming
MIT researchers are developing a system in which children as young as four can program a socially interactive robot so it reacts to stimuli. The...
OA research in the news: MIT’s influence on US economics
In his New York Times blog last week, economist and MIT alum Paul Krugman writes about the “triumph” of MIT’s economics department as described...
OA research in the news: How global warming can worsen snowfalls
In the last month, Boston has set a string of records: Most snowfall in the city in a 30-day period (90.2 inches); deepest snow...
OA research in the news: Does church attendance cause people to vote?
In a paper published last month, researchers including MIT economist Jonathan Gruber use the repeal of Sunday shopping (or “blue”) laws in various states to determine that...
OA research in the news: What our sewage says about us
This month, MIT researchers and local public health officials will gather and analyze waste from Cambridge sewers in search of insights into the health of...
OA research in the news: Murray receives award from Queen Elizabeth
Entrepreneurship professor Fiona Murray, the Sloan School of Management’s associate dean for innovation, has been named a Commander in the Order of the British...
OA research in the news: Longtime anthropologist retires from MIT
Jean Jackson, one of the earliest members of MIT’s Anthropology program and a founding member of the Women’s and Gender Studies program (formerly Women’s...