More personalized online shopping
Startup’s platform analyzes data from multiple sources to better predict buying preferences.
Winners of first annual #myMISTI video contest announced
Winning videos demonstrate what it's like to be an MIT student interning, researching, and teaching around the globe.
Policing sex trafficking in the digital age
Mitali Thakor works with tech companies and police to understand what sex trafficking looks like today.
MIT community: #ILookLikeanEngineer
MIT alumni, staff, faculty, and students enthusiastically join a social media campaign supporting diversity in engineering.
3 Questions: Jennifer Light on new media and democracy
MIT historian of technology discusses new work examining “digital citizenship.”
One way to reduce email stress: Re-invent the mailing list
New CSAIL system lets users customize the mailing-list experience by following and blocking users and “upvoting” messages.
Wear your social network
Media Lab students aim to take common interests offline to encourage real-life connections.
When logic meets rhetoric
Edward Schiappa has studied reason and rhetoric from ancient Greece to “Will & Grace.”
Top tweets of 2014
Best of the year on @MIT include a robot cheetah, next-generation spacesuits, and Tetris tater tots.
How information moves between cultures
Networks that map strength of connections between languages predict global influence of their speakers.
By any media necessary
By studying immigrants, book provides a new view on social media and political movements.
New dark matter experiments prepare to hunt the unknown
In support of three new experiments, MIT's Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano will answer questions about dark matter research in a live Google Hangout on Nov. 20.
Social media tools that can save you time
MIT social media strategist Stephanie Hatch Leishman highlights applications and resources that can streamline your workflow: Feedly, Flickr, Hootsuite, and IFTTT.
MIT launches Laboratory for Social Machines with major Twitter investment
Program aims to develop collaborative technologies to tackle complex social problems.