Daniel Jackson

July 25, 2024

Daniel's photographic series The Pond was published in the online magazine Edge of Humanity.

July 24, 2024

Podcast now available: Reimagining Software Design. Daniel shares cases where software design makes or breaks big companies and what can be done to improve software design in the future. Thanks to Kara Miller for a great interview!

July 12, 2024

The Forward published Daniel's photos and commentary about the MIT faculty trip to Israel that he led earlier in the spring.

July 10, 2024

Future of Data at CSAIL has awarded $100,000 to Daniel Jackson and Danny Weitzner to develop a concept-based approach to open banking.

July 4, 2024

Daniel gave the opening keynote at SDCon 2024, a major software development conference held in Beijing (but sadly, he delivered the keynote remotely).

July 1, 2024

Machine Learning Applications at CSAIL has awarded $50,000 to the Software Design Group for the Kodless project, generating application code using concepts and LLMs.

June 28, 2024

The Chinese edition of Daniel's book, Essence of Software, was published by Cheers Publishing and is now available. Daniel was invited to give a virtual speech at SECon, the global software engineering conference, to celebrate the event.

June 7, 2024

Daniel gave a talk about Kodless at CSAIL + Imagination in Action: AI Frontiers and Implications.

May 28, 2024

Daniel taught 5 sessions on concept design, innovation and social entrepreneurship with Merrick Furst and Lyel Resner in a two-week workshop for the fellow of Constellation, a new program for mid-career Israeli and Palestinian leaders run by MEET.

May 16, 2024

Daniel ran a workshop on concept design at Capital One.

May 15, 2024

Evan presented our paper on dark patterns at CHI 2024 in Honolulu.

May 14, 2024

Daniel gave a talk on concept design in person and online as part of Google's Software Design Tech Talk Series.

May 10, 2024

Evan won the 2024 Charles & Jennifer Johnson AI&D MEng Thesis Award for their MEng thesis on dark patterns.

April 30, 2024

Daniel gave a keynote at the ICEIS conference.

April 4, 2024

Daniel ran a workshop for the Dropbox-funded program at MIT EECS on Artificial Intelligence for Augmentation and Productivity.

February 8, 2024

Daniel did his annual session at UPOP in which teams design a software feature and then compete on how consistently they can predict its behavior.

January 30, 2024

Daniel organized a session entitled Three Directions in Design, as part of Schwarzman College of Computing's Expanding Horizons in Computing IAP series, and gave a talk on concept design.

Dec 16, 2023

Daniel gave a talk on software innovation at TEDx MIT.

Nov 7, 2023

Daniel gave a keynote at ER 2023 in Lisbon. Great conference and such a fun city to visit!

October 25, 2023

Peter presented our paper at OOPLSA Onward on how Palantir is using concept design to reshape their software development process.

June 20, 2023

The paperback edition of Daniel's book, Essence of Software, was published by Princeton. Thanks to Hal Abelson and Bashar Nuseibeh for the wonderful new endorsements.

June 1, 2023

The Japanese translation of Daniel's book, Essence of Software, was published by Maruzen.

May 25, 2023

Daniel gave the opening keynote on Software Development in the Age of AI at CSAIL Alliances Annual Meeting.