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Is MIT’s “AI2” The Next Step In Cybersecurity?

Cybersecurity is perhaps the most important thing on the planet right now. Everything we have and need is on the internet: personal photo albums, business plans and government secrets. And all of it needs protection. For every barrier we learn how to erect, hackers find just as many ways to sneak around them. Unless the …

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Programmable Bacteria: Cure-all or End-all?

Every culture has a legend of a kind of cure-all substance, something that can cure any and all diseases and increase longevity. From the Greek panacea to Chinese ginseng to alchemist elixir of life, humanity has been obsessed with the idea of one solution that could solve all of our health problems. Have the researchers …

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MIT Dean Plans University With No Majors, Lectures or Classrooms

What could drive Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dean Christine Ortiz to take a leave from one of the top schools in the United States? A passion to change universities as we know it. Ortiz not only wants to create an university that has no majors, lectures or classrooms, she also wants to make it a …

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MIT Creating X-Ray Vision With Wifi

Superman has it, and nearly everyone has probably had a time when they wanted it, too. X-Ray vision. Who wouldn’t want that for Christmas? The ability to see through walls. It’s something that has been reserved for fantasies and science fiction, until now. Researchers at MIT have found a way to use variations in radio …

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