Spark creator bags computing gong for making big data a little bit smaller

When Zaharia started work on Spark around 2010, analyzing "big data" generally meant using MapReduce, the Java-based ...

Coverage of the Brown University shooting and the killing of the MIT professor in Brookline

Neighborhoods shattered. A campus forever changed. Victims mourned. Heroes lauded. Here is the Globe's full coverage of these intertwined stories.
CNBC

AI may replace your financial advisor, MIT professor says — but there's one big hurdle

Artificial intelligence can give sophisticated financial advice and may be able to replace human financial advisors in the future, financial and legal experts said. However, unlike many human advisors ...
New York Post

Professor reveals the telltale sign students are using AI in their assignments

Move over em-dash, there’s a new AI giveaway. It’s hard to deny that AI is everywhere these days, and it’s no surprise that it’s making its way into classrooms. Since sneaky students are figuring out ...
NBC News

Texas professor put on leave after complaints over pro-Palestinian talk sues school to keep job

An assistant professor who was put on administrative leave last year after the university allegedly received complaints and allegations in connection to a talk he gave on the Israeli-Palestinian ...
Today

Professor Shares 1 Word That’s a Dead Giveaway for an AI-Written Paper

The em dash has become the telltale tic of the AI age, a piece of punctuation now viewed with suspicion in college essays. But for Matt Prince, an adjunct professor at Chapman University in Southern ...