With the NCAA Tournament underway, and the first big games just hours away on Thursday, students at Harvard are in the grips of March Madness for the first time in more than six decades. Harvard last made the NCAA Tournament in 1946.
Patrick Winston is Principal Investigator at MIT's Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab. He believes that creating artificial intelligence is not a matter of more powerful processing: we have to teach computers how to think more like humans.
After much criticism, the NCAA is poised to take up proposals that could bring about major changes to the rules governing college football, basketball and other sports.
The best-known American school for jazz and contemporary music has just opened a campus overseas in Spain.
Aaron Swartz faces the possibility of 35 years in prison and $1 million in fines for hacking into and downloading four million academic journal articles.
In 2002, a Harvard University sophomore found evidence in the university's archives of a court that sough out and punished gay students. This scandal is the backdrop for "Unnatural Acts," a new play at the Classic Stage Company in New York.