MIT historian’s new book examines the political value early medieval European kings and nobles found in a royal ritual. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (MIT News Office)-- The Frankish king Charlemagne led armies in battle, united much of medieval…
Back-and-forth exchanges boost children’s brain response to language
Study finds engaging young children in conversation is more important for brain development than “dumping words” on them. [caption id="attachment_14440" align="alignnone" width="639"] MIT cognitive scientists have found that conversation between an adult and a child…
Study finds gender and skin-type bias in commercial…
Examination of facial-analysis software shows error rate of 0.8 percent for light-skinned men, 34.7 percent for dark-skinned women. [caption id="attachment_14415" align="alignnone" width="639"] Joy Buolamwini, a researcher in the MIT Media Lab's Civic Media groupPhoto: Bryce…
Innovation as the key to hotels’ survival
Study advises small and medium hotels in Mauritius to embrace new technologies and cultivate new clienteles. [caption id="attachment_14394" align="alignnone" width="878"] Hotels form a vital sector of the economy in Mauritius, an African island nation in…
Eradicating Child Marriage
Child marriage is a global issue affecting various countries, religions and ethnicities. In this Asia Research News 2018 feature article, researchers from Malaysia and UK spoke to 7,500 women to find out the causes and…