The founder of the free software movement, Richard Stallman, has resigned both from his position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and as president of the Free Software Foundation after his remarks about the late Jeffrey Epstein's victims evoked outrage.

A surprisingly high proportion of MIT's Center for Information Systems Research sponsors are Australian organisations.

We are in the early stages of an important technological revolution, so there are lessons to be learned from previous revolutions, MIT Sloan School of Management professor Erik Brynjolfsson suggested during last week's Dell Technologies World conference in the US.