Author: Katharine Dunn
OA research in the news: Programming with natural language
Researchers in MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have demonstrated it’s possible to use English instead of specialized programming languages to complete some...
OA research in the news: Challenges for women entrepreneurs
Last month, Dell released its first Gender Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index (GEDI), a report analyzing conditions that help women entrepreneurs flourish in various...
OA research in the news: Bertschinger appointed as Community & Equity Officer
Last week, MIT Provost Chris Kaiser announced that physics department head Edmund Bertschinger will take on a newly created role as Institute Community and...
OA research in the news: Tracking bird flu
New studies coauthored by biological engineering professor Ram Sasisekharan show that two bird flu strains could become highly infectious among humans with just a...
OA research in the news: Modern dance meets robotics
Earlier this month, more than 250 members of the MIT community gathered on Jack Berry Field carrying specially made umbrellas that lit up with...
OA research in the news: Can IP rights slow innovation?
Intellectual property rights may give incentive to people and companies to do creative work, but do they also hinder subsequent innovation? This is the...
OA research in the news: Boyden honored for optogenetics work
Ed Boyden, an associate professor of Biological Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences, has won Brandeis University’s Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award in Biotechnology and...
OA research in the news: The Townsend Thai Project
In 1997, economist Robert Townsend and colleague Sombat Sakunthasathien, a Thai government researcher, began to gather data on family and community finances in rural...
Open access gains momentum in Washington
White House takes action to increase access to the results of federally funded scientific research When MIT faculty adopted an open access (OA) policy...