"We’ve seen a number of examples of organizations using Big Data to solve really big problems, and the returns on those investments could be just as important."
"The head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s trailblazing Media Laboratory yesterday said he encourages its faculty and students to 'try something that works in practice, but not in theory.'”
"A series of programs that kicks off tonight will explore the history and legacy of the fight against a proposal in the 1950s to build an eight lane highway called the Inner Belt through Cambridge."
"Bair and three academics are urging the Fed to impose more stringent capital standards on financial giants and criticizing the U.S. central bank's recent decision to allow big banks, such as JPMorgan Chase, to boost stock dividends rather than use these funds to fortify their balance sheets."
"Now, scientists have surveyed the landscape of some 100 different nanoparticle formulations and shown that when a conventional chemotherapeutic drug is packaged inside the best of these nanoparticles, it proves considerably more effective at fighting prostate cancer in animals than the drug alone."
"Simon Johnson, an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, talks about U.S. fiscal policy and his book White House Burning: The Founding Fathers, Our National Debt, and Why It Matters to You. He speaks with Tom Keene on Bloomberg Television's 'Surveillance Midday.'"
"A goal of an upcoming MIT conference is to create a new interdisciplinary field focused on issues related to collective intelligence such as crowdsourcing, on-line collaboration, animal collective intelligence, collective decision-making, and the wisdom of crowds."
"A goal of an upcoming MIT conference is to create a new interdisciplinary field focused on issues related to collective intelligence such as crowdsourcing, on-line collaboration, animal collective intelligence, collective decision-making, and the wisdom of crowds."