When did human language emerge?
It is a deep question, from deep in our history: When did human language as we know it emerge? A new survey of genomic evidence suggests our unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years...
View ArticleThree economists with MIT ties win BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
Olivier Blanchard PhD ’77, the Robert M. Solow Professor of Economics Emeritus, has been named a winner of the 2025 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics, Finance and Management for...
View Article“An AI future that honors dignity for everyone”
Ben Vinson III, president of Howard University, made a compelling call for artificial intelligence to be “developed with wisdom,” as he delivered MIT’s annual Karl Taylor Compton Lecture on campus...
View ArticleCredit where it’s due
When most people buy cars, the sticker price is only part of the cost. The other part involves the loan, since folks usually borrow money for auto purchases. Therefore the interest rate, monthly...
View ArticleMIT affiliates named 2024 AAAS Fellows
Six current MIT affiliates and 27 additional MIT alumni have been elected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The 2024 class of AAAS Fellows includes 471...
View ArticleNew Alliance for Data, Evaluation and Policy Training will advance...
On March 25, the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT launched the global Alliance for Data, Evaluation, and Policy Training (ADEPT) with Community Jameel at an event in São Paulo,...
View ArticleSupersize me
Well into the late 19th century, the U.S. retail sector was overwhelmingly local, consisting of small, independent merchants throughout the country. That started changing after Sears and Roebuck’s...
View ArticleExploring the impacts of technology on everyday citizens
Give Dwai Banerjee credit: He doesn’t pick easy topics to study.Banerjee is an MIT scholar who in a short time has produced a wide-ranging body of work about the impact of technology on society — and...
View ArticleFour from MIT awarded 2025 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
MIT graduate students Sreekar Mantena and Arjun Ramani, and recent MIT alumni Rupert Li ’24 and Jupneet Singh ’23, have been named 2025 P.D. Soros Fellows. In addition, Soros Fellow Andre Ye will begin...
View ArticleMIT Press announces new Faculty and Alumni Book Awards
The MIT Press announced today the inception of its new Faculty and Alumni Book Awards program, along with the inaugural winners.The new awards are made possible by an anonymous donor and are intended...
View ArticleBuilding for Ukraine: A hackathon with a mission
“No cash prizes. But our friends in Kiev are calling in, and they’ll probably say thanks,” was the the tagline that drew students and tech professionals to join MIT-Ukraine’s first-ever hackathon this...
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