Call for entries is now closed. Please check back in 2020, when we may run this contest again. Essays must be no more than 1,000 words in length, and must address the question: What do adults not know ...

A language researcher and former MIT professor is giving computer-generated essay marking systems a failing grade. Les Perelman, who recently retired from his writing research post at MIT, says that ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has suspended an Indian-origin PhD scholar over a pro-Palestine essay he wrote in the college magazine last month. Prahlad Iyengar, who is barred from ...

Les Perelman, a former director of undergraduate writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, sits in his wife’s office and reads aloud from his latest essay. “Privateness has not been and ...

A pro-Palestine essay has cost Prahlad Iyengar his career at Massachusetts Institute of Technology A pro-Palestine essay has cost Prahlad Iyengar his career at Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...