Closing the AI gap: why we can’t leave students—or Montana—behind

In the film The Hunt for Red October, a Soviet submarine captain intends to defect to the United States with his state-of-the-art nuclear submarine, and he discusses plans with his senior officers while underway. “I will live in Montana,” one says, and I will marry a...

Behind the cloud: the engineering work powering the Mass Open Cloud research environment

Engineers on the Mass Open Cloud are continually developing new capabilities for the research resource. Here’s how. For many people, “the cloud” is a very abstract entity. It’s a place to store their photos and data, and they don’t expect to have control over it...

“It’s the wild frontier”: security, agentic AI, and open source

The name Luke Hinds is well known in the open source security community. During his time as Distinguished Engineer and Security Engineering Lead for the Office of the CTO Red Hat, he acted as a security advisor to multiple open source organizations, worked with MIT...

Refined Yuga analysis tool for detecting code defects in Rust improves usability

Improvements to the research-developed tool for analyzing unsafe Rust have rendered it much more precise. Yuga is a static software analysis tool for identifying lifetime annotation code defects in Rust code. At the time it was first presented in a previous article in...

The post-quantum cryptography transition: researching a quantum-safe future

Collaborative research among industry, academia, open source communities, and government is proactively developing quantum-resistant solutions. The rise of large-scale quantum computers presents a direct threat to the cryptographic primitives that secure our most...