In a breakthrough that could guide the development of targeted vaccines, MIT researchers used natural language processing methods lifted from the field of computational linguistics to analyze the viral protein sequence data of influenza A, HIV, and SARS-CoV-2 to identify…
Some have suggested that blockchain, a decentralized, distributed ledger, may be useful for voting. But in a new paper, researchers at MIT affirm a humorous cartoon from XKCD about potential blockchain voting products: “Whatever they sold you, don’t touch it.…
