Jonathan Shaw is Managing Editor. Alumni Profiles | 1.31.2019 The Examined Life Why is it that so many doctors feel compelled to write, and that so many do, so compellingly? The Changing Campus | 1.14.2019 Massachusetts Turnpike Will be Rebuilt at Grade Massachusetts transportation officials plan to rebuild Turnpike at grade—opening Harvard parcels. Teaching & Learning | 1.10.2019 Will future online education become limited to professional degrees? Harvard and MIT experiences suggest a more constrained vision for massive free courses. University News | 12.7.2018 Harvard Commencement The German chancellor will deliver the Commencement address on May 30, 2019. Right Now | January-February 2019 Harvard Medical School’s Bruce Walker studies “elite controllers” of HIV The immune systems of “elite controllers” point to HIV’s vulnerabilities. Features | January-February 2019 Confronting pitfalls of machine learning, artificial intelligence Ethics and the dawn of decision-making machines | January-February 2019 Language as a litmus test for AI And the problem of bias | January-February 2019 AI and adversarial attacks Vulnerabilities to manipulation Faculty & Research | 12.5.2018 Climate Change Portends Diminishing Potential for Wind Power Diminishing winds may be a harbinger of further climate-change damage to come. Science & Technology | 11.14.2018 Harvard Pushes to Advance Basic and Applied Quantum Physics Harvard thinks bigger about the odd realm of matter at the very smallest scale. Right Now | November-December 2018 Is there a language of behavior? Sandeep Datta says the brain composes behavior from pre-existing “syllables.” Features | November-December 2018 Vamsi Mootha studies mitochondria and oxygen Probing the mysteries of mitochondria, Vamsi Mootha discovers new ways to understand metabolic disease. Load More
