AI can rewrite open source code—but can it rewrite the license, too?

Computer engineers and programmers have long relied on reverse engineering as a way to copy the functionality of a computer ...
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 ...
EDN

IEEE Partners with The MIT Press to Deliver New eBooks Collection via the IEEE Xplore® Digital Library

The new titles will be available via a new collection delivered in IEEE Xplore called The MIT Press eBooks Library – Computing and Engineering Collection. This special collection features over 400 ...
Qalampir

Uzbekistan corner established at a world-leading institution

A special book corner dedicated to Uzbekistan, titled the “Uzbek Books Collection Corner,” has been established at the central Hayden Library of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the ...
InfoQ

MIT's Recursive Language Models Improve Performance on Long-Context Tasks

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Andres Almiray, a serial open-source ...
NDTV

How Difficult Is Admission To Massachusetts Institute Of Technology (MIT)

Most applicants apply at the start of their final year of high school. Getting into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is widely considered one of the toughest academic challenges in the ...
Indiatimes

MIT-WPU to open new 100-acre campus in Goa

Pune: The MIT World Peace University (WPU) announced a new 100-acre campus in Thivi, Goa, which will start operations from the Aug 2026-27 academic year with postgraduate transdisciplinary programs in ...
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 ...
Newsweek

MIT Defies Trump’s Federal Funding Deal: ‘Cannot Support’

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology became the first university to turn down a proposed deal offering favorable access to federal funding in return for the backing of the the Donald Trump ...
Wall Street Journal

Trump, Merit and MIT

Harvard economist Roland Fryer discovered something remarkable while studying the Harlem Children's Zone. They had eliminated the racial achievement gap in math and cut it by a third in reading. But ...
Wall Street Journal

MIT Rejects Trump’s Sweeping ‘Compact’ Offering Colleges Funding Advantages

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology became the first university to reject a sweeping proposal from the Trump administration offering colleges funding advantages in exchange for far-reaching ...