A teacher’s gift to the world: MIT professor who taught the math behind AI for 60 years has made his lectures free online

For more than six decades, Gilbert Strang stood at a chalkboard at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He taught ...

Meet Gilbert Strang: The MIT professor who quietly taught the math behind modern AI

An X post by investor Ihtesham Ali revives global interest in Gilbert Strang, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor whose free linear algebra lectures transformed how millions learn the ...
Indiatimes

Meet Patrick Winston: MIT professor whose one-hour lecture stayed packed for 40 years and it wasn’t about STEM

For decades at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one lecture stood out not for equations or algorithms, but for a skill that quietly shapes success across every field. Delivered by Patrick ...
The Financial Express

MIT free AI courses 2026: Complete list for beginners, advanced students and researchers

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has made a wide range of artificial intelligence (AI) courses available for free through its OpenCourseWare platform. The courses cover everything from ...
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 ...
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. Dany Lepage discusses the architectural ...
CBS News

Renowned MIT professor Nuno Loureiro remembered as brilliant scientist as search for his killer continues

Update: Law enforcement officials say the suspect in the Brown University shooting also shot and killed MIT professor Nuno Loureiro. The suspect was found dead Thursday night. Read the latest here.
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Investigators search for shooter in Brookline killing of MIT nuclear physicist Nuno F.G. Loureiro

QUESTIONS AND VERY FEW ANSWERS. YOU GOT THAT RIGHT. YOU KNOW, INVESTIGATORS SAID FROM THE START THIS DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE IN ANY WAY CONNECTED TO THE BROWN UNIVERSITY SHOOTING. BUT TONIGHT, SOURCES ...
The Washington Post

Let’s take a closer look at MIT, one target of Trump’s blunderbuss

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is unlike other large universities, and not just because, according to its inexplicably ebullient president, Sally Kornbluth, the football players “thank you ...
The Boston Globe

Former MIT scientist funded by Epstein made racist and sexist claims in private emails

Joscha Bach, an AI researcher, worked at the MIT Media Lab from 2014 to 2016. He was hired in large part because of Epstein’s donations. Joscha Bach, a former MIT Media Lab researcher whose work there ...
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 ...