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Vol. XXXVIII No. 5March/April 2026
TFUAP Statistics
I believe there is great upside potential in the TFUAP proposal overall and one feature strikes me as particularly exciting. The proposal to establish “Probability, Statistics, and Machine Learning” as...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 4January/February 2026
On Fiscal Balance, Entropy, and the Temperature of Knowledge
The recent announcement of the end of the 55% tuition support for research assistants has prompted many conversations across the Institute. I would like to contribute one from a narrow...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 5March/April 2026
Before we vote, please review . . .
. . . the draft proposal from the Task Force on the Undergraduate Academic Program. A copy is available here: https://gue.mit.edu/tfuap/ (under the link “Draft Proposal”). I am grateful for...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 5March/April 2026
TFUAP: Core Principles
Given that the Task Force on the Undergraduate Program’s (TFUAP’s) proposal is being discussed around the Institute and in this Faculty Newsletter, we, TFUAP, will describe the core principles that...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 5March/April 2026
Curriculum in a Time of Change
The Task Force on the Undergraduate Academic Program (TFUAP) has proposed a set of changes to the undergraduate curriculum. In Chapter 6 of The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli offers a warning...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 5March/April 2026
When Critique Becomes Accusation: Principles for Editorial Responsibility
Émile Zola’s J’Accuse…! – published in 1898 at the height of the Dreyfus Affair – remains one of the most consequential pieces of journalistic writing in modern history. It did...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 5March/April 2026
A Riddle Revisited
About five miles north of the Moscow Kremlin is an immense monument to Soviet Russia’s idealized image of itself. The Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy – known colloquially by...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 4January/February 2026
Committees, Task Forces, and Working Groups – the Ins and Outs
Not so many weeks have elapsed in academic-semester time since my first column, but the interim has been eventful. On February 4, the Task Force on the Undergraduate Academic Program...