MAY 2025

‘Letterlocking’ Review: Folds of Fascination
Wall Street Journal
In the age of handwritten correspondence, the practice of manipulating a letter so that no envelope was needed rose to a kind of art.

 

MARCH 2025

Letterlocking: A new look at a centuries-old practice
MIT News
A first history of the document security technology, co-authored by MIT Libraries’ Jana Dambrogio, provides new tools for interdisciplinary research.

 

 

JANUARY 2025

‘ELIZA,’ the world’s 1st chatbot, was just resurrected from 60-year-old computer code
Live Science
Scientists have just resurrected “ELIZA,” the world’s first chatbot, from computer code found in Joseph Weizenbaum’s papers in MIT Libraries’ Distinctive Collections.

 

NOVEMBER 2024

Samurai in Japan, then engineers at MIT
MIT News
A new exhibit explores the Institute’s first Japanese students, who arrived as MIT was taking flight and their own country was opening up.

 

 

MARCH 2024

New exhibits showcase trailblazing MIT women
MIT News
Materials from MIT’s Distinctive Collections reveal stories of women at the Institute.