A rising star in the field of economics has fallen from grace after his highly influential research on the impact of AI in the workplace was called into question, leading to an investigation by MIT.
MIT announced on Wednesday that it will offer free tuition to undergraduate students from families earning less than $200,000 a year, starting in 2025.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Alex Wagner Tonight,” New York Times columnist and MSNBC Contributor Michelle Goldberg stated that MIT President Sally Kornbluth, former Harvard President Claudine Gay, and former Penn President Elizabeth Magill gave the answers they did before Congress because
Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Emerson College, and Tufts University have set up encampments in solidarity with Columbia University’s “Gaza solidarity encampment.”
The drama stemming from woke Ivy Leagues appears to be far from over, with conservatives stating that the resignations of the Harvard and University of Pennsylvania presidents amid antisemitism controversy are “just the beginning.”
On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) stated that while the testimonies by the presidents of Harvard, Penn, and MIT on campus antisemitism “was abhorrent and I totally disagree with the way they approached the line
Half of young Americans are either unsure of the Nazi Holocaust’s authenticity or outright believe it to be a “myth,” according to a recent survey that reveals a worrying trend in the U.S. across the younger generation.
On Monday’s broadcast of “CBS Mornings,” co-host Tony Dokoupil stated that colleges “have been very good at cracking down on speech that offends liberals” but aren’t so quick to act when it comes to stopping antisemitic speech and that the
On Monday’s broadcast of “CBS Mornings,” Wesleyan University President Michael Roth argued that the presidents of Harvard and MIT shouldn’t lose their jobs “because they would then be subject to these outside forces, the Republican congresswoman on the one hand,
Even if these neo-Nazis are eventually fired, the fact it took more than four days, more than an hour, tells you that academia is rotten and evil, something beyond redemption.
The consistently opaque answers offered by three academic leaders in their testimony at a House hearing on antisemitism this week saw them mercilessly mocked on the Saturday Night Live cold open.
During an interview aired on Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) called for the presidents of Harvard, Penn, and MIT to resign and also called for a Department of Education investigation of MIT in addition to its
Many who have long supported left-wing causes face a mounting crisis as they witness a surge of anti-Jewish hostilities emanating from the left.
We learned that some elite university administrators are moral cowards. But to understand the roots of antisemitism, we have to dig deeper.
On Thursday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show,” 2024 Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) called for cutting off federal funds to schools that have failed to act on antisemitic assaults on their campuses like Harvard, MIT, and the University of
Dave Portnoy has essentially hung a banner on the front door of Barstool Sports: Harvard, Penn, and MIT grads need not apply.
Eyal Yakoby, a senior at the University of Pennsylvania, told reporters on Tuesday that it felt unsafe to be Jewish on campus due to the outbreak of antisemitism that has accompanied radical anti-Israel protest since the Hamas terror attack of October 7.
Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman is demanding that the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and UPenn “resign in disgrace” following their comments during a congressional hearing on Tuesday.
On Monday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) criticized the Department of Education’s announcement that it will investigate some schools for antisemitism by pointing out that they omitted MIT, where Jewish students were prevented from going to class. Host
Anti-LGBT slurs that were recently found on flyers and scrawled in chalk on the campus of MIT were a false flag campaign by students upset over the school’s new pro-free speech policies, according to a university investigation.
According to a recent report, orders for automated technology and robots have increased by 40 percent in the first quarter of 2022 as businesses seek solutions to ongoing labor shortages. One MIT professor warned: “Automation, if it goes very fast, can destroy a lot of jobs. The labor shortage is not going to last. This is temporary.”
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) community members have formed the MIT Free Speech Alliance and are advocating for the adoption of stronger academic freedom protections after a secret ballot among the school’s faculty members revealed that more than half of them feel their voices are constrained by the university on an “everyday basis.”
A scientist’s speech at MIT on climate change was canceled because of past remarks opposing affirmative action policies.
A woke mob’s cancel culture attack on professor Dorian Abbot has backfired spectacularly. Princeton University has reportedly decided to host a remote lecture by Abbot, which thousands of students have already signed up for, that was canceled by MIT after the professor was targeted for supporting “merit-based evaluations.”
According to a recent study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, many Tesla owners appear to become inattentive while using the vehicle’s Autopilot “Full Self-Driving” beta software.
In a recent article, the MIT Technology Review notes that during the coronavirus pandemic, a large number of AI-powered tools were developed in an effort to predict the effects of the virus, but none have appeared to actually make any real difference.
100 MIT faculty members have signed a letter standing in “solidarity” with fellow professor Gang Chen, who has been accused of hiding financial ties to China, saying that DOJ charges are “a complaint against all of us, and an affront to any citizen who values science and the scientific enterprise,” adding, “we are all Gang Chen.”
A professor and researcher at MIT was arrested and charged with grant fraud on Thursday. Professor Gang Chen allegedly failed to disclose his work for Communist China to the U.S. Department of Energy.
MIT has decided that it will continue to pay the salary of MIT Professor Seth Lloyd, who was placed on paid leave by the university over his relationship with disgraced financier and sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein. Lloyd reportedly accepted $225,000 in research donations from Epstein on behalf of the university over a 15-year period.
Students at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, will be required to participate in a diversity training seminar this winter. The university told students recently that they will not be permitted to register for their spring courses until they complete the diversity training program.
The U.S. Education Department has revealed that top universities, such as Cornell, MIT, and Georgetown, have failed to disclose billions of dollars they have accepted in foreign funds. Universities have failed to report at least $6.5 billion to the government according to the report, including money from the Chinese government, Huawei, and other countries.
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany says students should consider suing Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for charging students full tuition while offering mostly online courses for the Fall 2020 semester.
Researchers at MIT are apologizing this week after one of its research projects included racial and gender-based slurs in a massive dataset used to train AI systems. The AI was designed to identify objects in photographs such as trees, cars, plants, and pets, but also learned racial and gender slurs from the training dataset.
Researchers at MIT recently announced that they have developed an autonomous robot technology using UV light that may keep large, open, spaces free from coronavirus. The research team hopes that the technology will eventually be used by warehouses, schools, airlines, and grocery stores.
The MIT Technology Review recently published an article noting that a number of new coronavirus contact tracing apps have been introduced that invasively track user data, so the publication has created a “Covid Tracing Tracker” to determine what each app does with the user data it collects.
A new report published this week details the extensive ties between Harvard University and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who mysteriously died in a Manhattan prison last fall. Harvard reportedly gave Epstein his own office on campus in exchange for almost $10 million in donations he gifted to the university between 1998 and 2007.
A team of researchers at MIT announced this week that it will publish an open-source design for a low-cost ventilator that could potentially save lives during the ongoing Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. The ventilators designed by the “MIT Emergency Ventilator Project” will cost just $100 as opposed to up to $50,000 for typical hospital ventilators.
Students at Harvard and MIT are fighting back against the recent decisions to shut down campus housing in response to the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak. At MIT, 50 students held a “sit-in” protest to demand that university officials reconsider their decision to send students home.
A recent report from the MIT Technology Review claims that Amazon Alexa home assistant devices may actually be listening in on people’s daily lives even when not given commands.
College students around the country have launched a campaign against the adoption of facial recognition technology on campus. A report revealed that the University of San Francisco deployed the technology in campus dorm rooms as early as 2013 to surveil students.
