MIT OpenCourseWare joins with our colleagues across higher education to mourn the passing of William Bowen. As president of the Mellon Foundation, he played a central role in the creation of…
Continue readingPresident Barack Obama has evolved in many ways during his eight years in office, both personally and politically. Add now to that list, becoming a self-professed science nerd? We caught an early…
Continue readingOur hearts ache from the violence that has taken place this month. The shooting deaths of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, five police officers in Dallas and three police officers in Baton Rouge fill families,…
Continue readingAt this Friday’s MIT commencement, the featured speaker is Matt Damon: actor, filmmaker, co-founder of Water.org, and Cambridge MA native. In Good Will Hunting, Mr. Damon played an unrecognized math-genius janitor at MIT; and…
Continue readingThis week, as we celebrate the 15 year anniversary of MIT OpenCourseWare’s unveiling, we’re reflecting on other great strides taken in 2001 and in the years since. It wasn’t so long ago,…
Continue readingPhoto by Wolfgang Lutz on Unsplash, license CC 0 (public domain) People hear about OpenCourseWare for the first time every day (I see the comments on Twitter!), but can you…
Continue readingBy now, surely you’re heard the dramatic news of the first observations of gravitational waves by the MIT-Caltech collaboration LIGO Laboratories. While the phenomenon of gravitational waves may be new to many of us, MIT…
Continue readingToday (Monday February 8, 2016) is the Lunar New Year celebrated in many East Asian cultures. In the cycle of 12 zodiac animal signs, this is the Year of the Monkey. Reputed to be…
Continue readingProfessor emeritus was a co-founder of CSAIL and a founding member of the Media Lab. MIT Media Lab | January 25, 2016 Marvin Minsky, a mathematician, computer scientist, and pioneer in…
Continue readingHeader Image: Photo: Brian J. Matis / Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA November 2015 is a landmark anniversary in the history of science. One hundred years ago this week — on November…
Continue readingAs MIT’s spring semester wraps up, we always look forward to the latest installment in this classic MIT event. Congratulations to Allison and all the participants! Robots compete in “Hack to the…
Continue readingOn April 19th, Freddie Gray died after suffering an acute spinal injury while he had been in police custody. The details are still unknown about what had transpired. His arrest…
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