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Meet the 2023 tenured professors in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

In 2023, 11 faculty were granted tenure in the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Megan Black is an associate professor in the MIT History Section. Her interests span the fields of environmental history, foreign relations history, history of capitalism, science and technology studies, and histories of the U.S. West. Green is an associate professor in the Department...

China is using the world's largest online disinformation operation to harass Americans

Nov 15, 2023

CNN —The Chinese government has built up the world’s largest known online disinformation operation and is using it to harass US residents, politicians, and businesses—at times threatening its targets with violence, a CNN review of court documents and public disclosures...

Print on demand business with Printseekers.com

Sep 6, 2022

Print on demand is a business model that is gaining more and more popularity. It requires small initial investments and a business doesn’t need to have a physical inventory of the things they sell. That is the perfect way how...

Cambridge Dictionary names ‘Hallucinate’ Word of the Year 2023

Nov 15, 2023

The Cambridge Dictionary – the world’s most popular online dictionary for learners of English – has updated its definition of hallucinate to account for the new meaning and crowned it Word of the Year for 2023. AI hallucinations have already...

Professor Emeritus Walter Hollister, an expert in flight instrumentation and guidance, dies at 92

Nov 15, 2023

Walter M. Hollister ’53, MS ’59, PhD ’63, MIT professor emeritus in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AeroAstro), passed away Sept. 9 at age 92. In 1954, Hollister joined the U.S. Navy, attending Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode...