Featured series 
Tag: Computers
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Nation & World
Brainwashing? Like ‘The Manchurian Candidate’?
More than vestige of Cold War, mind-control techniques remain with us in social media, cults, AI, elsewhere, new book argues
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Arts & Culture
What good is writing anyway?
Scholars across range of disciplines weigh in on value of the activity amid rise of generative AI systems
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Campus & Community
‘Like we’re reaching a new period of human history’
Fascination with artificial intelligence pulls Muqtader Omari back to his scholarly first love: Science
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Campus & Community
New Learning Experience Platform opens doors to innovation in teaching
Flexible, modular platform supports unique pedagogical approaches
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Campus & Community
Using the best GenAI has to offer
HUIT creates safe space to experiment, faculty share how they integrated it into their teaching
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Campus & Community
5 faculty members named Harvard College Professors
Recognized for excellence in teaching in fields ranging from geometry to politics
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Arts & Culture
Future doesn’t have to be dystopian, says Ruha Benjamin
In Tanner Lectures, Princeton sociologist talks AI, social justice
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Campus & Community
Helping the U.S. fight addiction, cancer, other afflictions
A snapshot of research backed by partnership between government agencies and higher ed
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Campus & Community
Cutting drug costs, embracing aging, demystifying AI — and more research ideas
8 graduate students pitch their work in Harvard Horizons talks
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Arts & Culture
Patricia Lockwood wants you to admit the internet is real life
In Harvard talk, author riffs on ‘cloistered’ upbringing, crafting characters through dialogue, working in bed vs. on couch
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Science & Tech
From Capasso lab to your living room
Rob Devlin helped develop innovative new mini-lens as grad student. Now startup he runs produces millions of them for consumer electronics.
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Science & Tech
What are the odds of picking a perfect NCAA bracket?
Statistician explains why ‘it’s unlikely to happen in anyone’s lifetime’
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Nation & World
What happens to your data if 23andMe collapses?
Health law policy expert says biotech firm’s uncertain future shows need for protections of personal, genetic information
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Science & Tech
Why new qubit may give ultrafast quantum computing a boost
Microsoft discovery appears to be more stable, robust option
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Science & Tech
Exploring superconducting electrons in twisted graphene
Could up the game of lossless power transmission, levitating trains, quantum computing, even energy-efficient detectors for space exploration
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Work & Economy
Is AI already shaking up labor market?
4 trends point to major change, say researchers who studied century of tech disruptions
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Science & Tech
Even Bill Gates thinks AI is a little scary
Tech pioneer visits campus with his new memoir to discuss beauty of math, dropping out of College, founding Microsoft, value of curiosity
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Health
Gambling problems are mushrooming. Panel says we need to act now.
With recent leap in legalized sports betting and online options, public health experts outline therapeutic, legislative strategies
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Work & Economy
How to avoid really bad decisions. (Hint: One tip is just hit pause.)
Business ethicist details ways to analyze complex, thorny issues, legal gray areas, and offers advice we can all use
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Science & Tech
Researchers make leap in quantum computing
Trapping molecules for use in systems may help make ultra-high-speed experimental technology even faster
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Arts & Culture
Dance the audience can feel — through their phones
Engineer harnesses haptics to translate movement, make her art more accessible
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Health
Cutting through the fog of long COVID
Researchers say new AI tool sharpens diagnostic process, may help identify more people needing care
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Arts & Culture
Bot’s literary analysis wasn’t ‘brilliantly original’ — is that beside the point?
Writers Claire Messud, Laura Kipnis debate AI’s merits as a reading companion
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Work & Economy
Generative AI embraced faster than internet, PCs
Study finds nearly 40 percent of Americans have used technology for tasks at work and at home
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Nation & World
You’d never fall for an online scam, right?
Wrong, says cybersecurity expert. Con artists use time-tested tricks that can work on anyone regardless of age, IQ — what’s changed is scale.
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Science & Tech
Professor tailored AI tutor to physics course. Engagement doubled.
Preliminary findings inspire other large Harvard classes to test approach this fall
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Science & Tech
The answer to your search may depend on where you live
Researchers find ‘language bias’ in various site algorithms, raising concerns about fallout for social divisions among nations
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Campus & Community
Coding for a cause
Professor Jelani Nelson develops new algorithms to make computer systems work more efficiently, but also takes his educational efforts beyond Harvard’s walls. He founded AddisCoder, a program that teaches students in Ethiopia how to code.
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Campus & Community
Adding security at Harvard
Harvard encourages computer users to watch out for and report phishing expeditions, which are increasing.
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Science & Tech
Defending breakthrough research
Harvard initiates patent infringement suits to protect inventors’ rights in computer-chip technology.
