The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced Sunday that it will launch an investigation into its role in the death of renowned Web activist Aaron Swartz, who took his own life in his Brooklyn, ...

An MIT-Microsoft research project called iCampus aims to show that Web services can help realize the promise of the Web browser: broad access to information. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

Hacking group Anonymous has taken over part of MIT’s website to post a tribute to Aaron Swartz and call for reforms to computer crime and intellectual property laws. “Whether or not the government ...

It's hard to find anyone who'd argue that websites load too quickly. Mobile pages constantly creak under the weight of complex visual elements and ad networks. It's led to an ad-blocking boom, ...

The sign at the end of Jill Wiener’s driveway simply reads “No Frack.” The declaration reflects her two-year effort to keep natural gas wells off her and her neighbors’ property. Wiener lives in ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology took down a history course Web page after Chinese students complained about a 19th century wood-print image of Japanese soldiers beheading Chinese prisoners.

A spider weaving its intricate web is a bit like a person composing a song, at least in the eyes of MIT materials engineer Markus Buehler, whose research involves translating web structure into ...