An engineer for New York Times Games has been trying to teach artificial intelligence to understand wordplay more like a ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said Friday she “cannot support” a White House proposal that asks MIT and eight other universities to adopt President ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology turned down the Trump administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” on Friday, according to multiple reports, becoming the first ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Friday became the first school to reject an offer of federal funds in exchange for agreeing to the Trump administration's education agenda. MIT disagreed ...

MIT President Sally Kornbluth is telling President Trump's administration that the prestigious college in Cambridge, Massachusetts will not be signing on to the White House's "Compact for Academic ...

Just over one week after the Trump administration stepped up its push to reshape higher education, sending nine prominent universities a lengthy list of demands, the Massachusetts Institute of ...

MIT will not sign onto a White House compact that would have provided expedited access to federal grants, in exchange for meeting President Trump's political priorities. MIT President Sally Kornbluth ...

MIT’s president turned down the Trump administration’s offer of priority access for federal funding Friday, publicly releasing a letter that emphasized the elite university’s values, including free ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has rejected the Trump administration’s proposal to sign on to the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” which would mandate sweeping changes ...