A Quantum Leap for the Turing Award

Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard pioneered quantum information theory. Now they’ve been awarded the highest honor in ...
Mena FN

Lemurian Labs Appoints Java Pioneer Kim Polese To Board, Adds MIT Compiler Leader Saman Amarasinghe As Technical Advisor

(MENAFN- GlobeNewsWire - Nasdaq) Two architects of modern computing join Lemurian Labs to help build AI infrastructure from the ground up SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ...
Business Insider

Lemurian Labs Appoints Java Pioneer Kim Polese to Board, Adds MIT Compiler Leader Saman Amarasinghe as Technical Advisor

Two architects of modern computing join Lemurian Labs to help build AI infrastructure from the ground up SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lemurian Labs today announced the ...
WGBH

MIT requires every student to know how to swim. But why?

The legend on MIT’s campus goes that students once had to leap into the Charles River and swim across its dirty water without stopping to graduate. That was never true. But the institution does ...
The Providence Journal

Investigators looking into possible connection between Brown, MIT shootings

Investigators are looking at whether the mass shooting at Brown University Dec. 13 is linked to the murder of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor two days later, law enforcement sources ...
The New York Times

M.I.T. Professor Is Fatally Shot in His Home

The professor, Nuno F.G. Loureiro, was pronounced dead at a hospital on Tuesday morning. The authorities said they had opened a homicide investigation. By Michael Levenson The authorities said on ...
The Boston Globe

Former MIT scientist funded by Epstein made racist and sexist claims in private emails

Joscha Bach, an AI researcher, worked at the MIT Media Lab from 2014 to 2016. He was hired in large part because of Epstein’s donations. Joscha Bach, a former MIT Media Lab researcher whose work there ...
Science Daily

MIT quantum breakthrough edges toward room-temp superconductors

MIT scientists uncovered direct evidence of unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene by observing a distinctive V-shaped energy gap. The discovery hints that electron pairing in this ...
Reason

First Circuit Rejects Harassment Claim Based on MIT Anti-Israel Protests: "[W]e Do Not Construe Title VI as Requiring a University to Quash Protected Speech"

A necessarily oversimplified excerpt from the >12K-word Stand with Us Center for Legal Justice v. MIT, decided by First Circuit Judge William Kayatta, joined by Judge Gustavo Gelpi and District Judge ...
VentureBeat

Self-improving language models are becoming reality with MIT's updated SEAL technique

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are gaining renewed attention for developing and open sourcing a technique that allows large language models (LLMs) — like those ...