Mapping molecular neighborhoods
Associate Professor Ernest Fraenkel uses biological network modeling to identify new targets for disease.
Cities of tomorrow
New book by Senseable City Lab researchers presents vision of data-driven urban design.
A strategy for “convergence” research to transform biomedicine
Report calls for more integration of physical, life sciences for needed advances in biomedical research.
Artificial intelligence produces realistic sounds that fool humans
Video-trained system from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab could help robots understand how objects interact with the world.
MIT Forum and Infosys Risk Group release preliminary global risk survey findings
Survey indicates 92.54 percent of companies think the nature of risk is changing due to complexity in the digital economy.
Making cities smarter
MIT researchers are creating tools that synthesize and collect data so that urban planners can vastly improve the quality of urban life.
Lincoln Laboratory establishes a supercomputing center
New facility will enable interactive, high-performance computing for data analysis.
International team launches vast atlas of mathematical objects
New online resource represents enormous computational effort, will advance research across fields.
How to make cities more energy efficient
Retrofitting a small portion of buildings would have big impact on cities’ carbon emissions.
Using new models and big data to better understand financial risk
Bringing together engineers, data theorists, mathematicians, economists, biologists, and policy experts, IDSS is looking at financial risk through a multidisciplinary lens.
Big, intensive data
Assistant Professor Thomas Heldt mines critical care data to support real-time clinical decision making and improve patient care.
IDSS conversations: Caroline Uhler
Electrical engineering and computer science assistant professor is working at the intersection of genomics and computational biology.
IDSS conversations: Guy Bresler
Assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science discusses his work focusing on learning graphical models from data.
U.S., EU leaders talk Web policy and world economy at MIT
With EU vice president, U.S. secretary of commerce discusses EU-U.S. “Privacy Shield” and launches new policy program.
Wristband detects and alerts for seizures, monitors stress
Wearable tracks increased skin conductance that signals stress, helps identify dangerous seizures.