During Campus Preview Weekend, prospective students got a chance to challenge current members of MIT Wrestling—and check out some 700 events run by student volunteers. In April, a pack of 1,016 ...

PROF. USPENSKY'S treatise on mathematical probability is a very comprehensive one and includes every theoretical aspect of the subject, with several chapters on modern developments. Only those ...

Probability theory is indispensable in computer science: It is at the core of artificial intelligence and machine learning, which require decision making under uncertainty. It is integral to CS theory ...

Life is uncertain. None of us know what is going to happen. We know little of what has happened in the past or is happening now outside our immediate experience. Uncertainty has been called the ...

David Spiegelhalter is emeritus professor of statistics at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is the author of The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck (Penguin, 2024) ...

Get up to speed on the weird world of AI in just six editions of our new free newsletter. It feels as though AI is moving a million miles a minute. Every week, it seems, there are product launches, ...

The Harvard Math Department will pilot a new introductory course aimed at rectifying a lack of foundational algebra skills among students, according to Harvard’s Director of Introductory Math Brendan ...

MIT says the percentage of Black, Hispanic, Native American, Pacific Islander students in its incoming freshman class has plummeted, tying it to 2023’s Supreme Court ruling banning affirmative action.

Enrollment for Black and Latino students dropped at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the first class formed after the Supreme Court found race-conscious admissions in colleges ...

Called the AI Risk Repository, the goal, its creators say, is to provide an accessible and updatable overview of risk landscape. A group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have ...

When is it appropriate to completely reinvent the wheel? To an outsider, that seems to happen a lot in category theory, and probability theory isn’t spared from this treatment. We’ve had a useful ...