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Two Years Later: MIT’s Bitcoin Experiment

Fall 2015

Securing the Digital Landscape

Daniela Rus says: “Cybercrime may seem inevitable today, but with the right people, resources, and approach, we can change that.”

A police officer prepares to throw the Explorer into an unseen stairwell. The camera will then immediately send images of the area back to the smartphone on the officer's wrist. Image: Courtesy of Bounce Imaging

Sloan Spinout’s Camera-covered “Explorer” Peers into Unseen Areas

Munther Dahleh will lead MIT's Institute for Data, Systems, and Society. Image: Lillie Paquette

MIT’s Mysterious “New Entity” Receives a Name, and a Director

At TED 2015, MIT Thinkers Reframe the Future

Spring 2015

Discovery Research Is Reinventing the World

“Without discovery research, without innovation, applied research can only go so far,” says Institute Professor Phillip Sharp.

Spring 2015

The Second Machine Age

Technological advances will reshape the global economy.

Image: Jeff Kubina/Wikimedia Commons cc-by-sa-2.0.

MIT Professor Says Slot Machine Addicts Aren’t Playing to Win

Screenshot: HealthMap's Ebola virus interactive map and timeline.

Tracking Ebola by Pairing Human Expertise with Artificial Intelligence

MIT historian and theoretical physicist, David Kaiser. Photo: Len Rubenstein

What Worries This MIT Physicist and Historian About Time Travel?