Anonymity networks protect people living under repressive regimes from surveillance of their Internet use. But the recent discovery of vulnerabilities in the most...MIT News Office From ACM News | July 12, 2016
The new Eyebrowse system enables Web users to share self-selected aspects of their online activity with their friends and the general public. MIT News From ACM TechNews | March 7, 2016
Anonymity networks, which sit on top of the public Internet, are designed to conceal people’s Web-browsing habits from prying eyes.MIT News Office From ACM News | December 7, 2015
MIT researchers have found a new approach to deliver the short but intense bursts of power needed by wearable electronic devices for health and fitness monitoring...MIT News From ACM TechNews | July 9, 2015
Researchers at MIT CSAIL have developed a prototype system called Murmur that they hope will improve the experience of using email mailing lists by incorporating...MIT News From ACM TechNews | April 29, 2015
Analyzing people's keystrokes as they type on a computer keyboard can reveal a great deal of information about the state of their motor function, according to a...MIT News Office From ACM News | April 3, 2015
MIT chemists have devised a new way to wirelessly detect hazardous gases and environmental pollutants, using a simple sensor that can be read by a smartphone.MIT News Office From ACM News | December 11, 2014
MIT researchers have developed openPDS (personal data store), a prototype system that stores data from digital devices in a single location specified by the user...MIT News From ACM TechNews | July 11, 2014
Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a new algorithm that can accurately measure the heart rates of people...MIT News Office From ACM News | June 21, 2013
One of the many promising applications of quantum mechanics in the information sciences is quantum key distribution (QKD) in which the counterintuitive behavior...MIT News Office From ACM News | May 22, 2013
Twitter's home page features a regularly updated list of topics that are "trending," meaning that tweets about them have suddenly exploded in volume.MIT News Office From ACM News | November 2, 2012
During the opening ceremonies of this summer’s Olympic games in London, a musical performance culminated with a stage-set house rising into the rafters to reveal...MIT News Office From ACM Opinion | October 22, 2012
Most major Websites these days maintain huge databases: Shopping sites have databases of inventory and customer ratings, travel sites have databases of seat availability...MIT News Office From ACM News | September 5, 2012
Anyone who has tried to build a piece of furniture from scratch knows the frustration of painstakingly cutting pieces of wood, only to discover that they won't...MIT News Office From ACM News | August 8, 2012
Scores of interesting new findings from the biosciences may speed around the globe at the click of a mouse, but one thing particularly encourages other researchers...MIT News Office From ACM News | January 12, 2012
We've all heard it: The Internet has flattened the world, allowing social networks to spring up overnight, independent of geography or socioeconomic status.MIT News Office From ACM News | December 27, 2011
LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman talks data mash-ups, entrepreneurship, and how his site keeps people honest.MIT News Office From ACM News | July 25, 2011
Do scientists' job locations have any impact on the way their work spreads? Or, in today’s highly networked world, does research flow around the globe without...MIT News Office From ACM News | May 25, 2011