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Solve at HUBweek offers local showcase, global springboard for solutions to society’s challenges

Innovators from many sectors to tackle issues involving the digital economy, education, and more.

September 16, 2016

Researchers at MIT and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have developed a new anonymity scheme that provides strong security guarantees but uses bandwidth much more efficiently than its predecessors.

How to stay anonymous online

Network can protect users’ anonymity if all but one of its servers are compromised.

July 11, 2016

MIT announces Solve program activities

Addressing the world’s most pressing issues, second year of program will focus on in-person gatherings, solution proposals.

July 7, 2016

“This is a rethinking of the Web infrastructure,” Frank Wang says. “Maybe it’s better that one person manages all their data. There’s one type of security and not 10 types of security. We’re trying to present an alternative model that would be beneficial to both users and applications.”

Secure, user-controlled data

Cryptographic system would allow users to decide which applications access which aspects of their data.

March 18, 2016

“Data has traditionally been used by anyone from corporations to the government,” Mor Naaman says. “But the goal of this system is to make the data more useful for the individuals themselves, to give them more control, and to make it more useful to communities.”

Browsing in public

System lets Web users share aspects of their browsing history with friends, researchers.

March 7, 2016

“Tor operates under the assumption that there’s not a global adversary that’s paying attention to every single link in the world,” Nickolai Zeldovich says. “Maybe these days this is not as good of an assumption.”

Untraceable communication — guaranteed

New untraceable text-messaging system comes with statistical guarantees.

December 7, 2015

An artist from ImageThink summarizes talks on Oct. 8.

Solving the world’s great challenges

Inaugural Solve conference concludes four days of talks, workshops, and discussions on global challenges.

October 15, 2015

What we can solve

Inaugural Solve event intended to “accelerate positive change.”

October 6, 2015

Mostly black photo showing someone's sillhouette

Shoring up Tor

Researchers mount successful attacks against popular anonymity network — and show how to prevent them.

July 28, 2015

Radio chip for the “Internet of things”

Circuit that reduces power leakage when transmitters are idle could greatly extend battery life.

February 22, 2015

Cover of "Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets!" (MIT Press), by Sasha Costanza-Chock, an assistant professor of civic media in the Department of Comparative Media Studies/Writing at MIT.

By any media necessary

By studying immigrants, book provides a new view on social media and political movements.

November 25, 2014

Illustration featuring a lock in the middle of a computer chip

Hewlett Foundation funds new MIT initiative on cybersecurity policy

Largest-ever private commitment to cybersecurity establishes major new academic centers.

November 18, 2014

No-wait data centers

New system could reduce data-transmission delays across server farms by 99.6 percent.

July 17, 2014

Cyrus Wadia to deliver keynote at "Technology and the Industrial Internet" conference

White House Office of Science and Technology Policy's assistant director of clean energy and materials R&D will discuss President Obama’s "Materials Genome Initiative" at MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation.

June 6, 2014

The science of networking

MIT senior Esther Jang uses science, engineering, and teaching to help others and challenge herself.

May 20, 2014

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