What buyers want
MIT professors’ choice-modeling software predicts customer preferences for retailers.
3 Questions: Carlo Ratti on big data and health predictions
MIT researcher discusses a new study on correlations among medical problems.
MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society launches
IDSS will address challenges and opportunities in complex systems.
Podcast: Explaining the art behind data
Society has access to more data than ever before. How do we make sense of it all?
MIT-Singapore design center creates free software tool to analyze cities as spatial networks
New plugin aids in understanding social and economic consequences of city planning.
Breaking down social networks in a city
New research finds urban social networks are not determined geographically, but socially.
“Rocket science” for marketing
Startup’s software, designed to plan NASA space missions, now drives more effective online advertising.
MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation and Infosys form Global Risk Advisory Group
Group will focus on helping industry expose and mitigate risk.
One way to reduce email stress: Re-invent the mailing list
New CSAIL system lets users customize the mailing-list experience by following and blocking users and “upvoting” messages.
How a computer can help your doctor better diagnose cancer
Model from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory aims to automatically distinguish lymphoma subtypes.
Patents forecast technological change
New method uses patent data to estimate a technology’s future rate of improvement.
Closing the arctic data gap
Ice-tethered devices are helping researchers collect more data on the Arctic Ocean.
GE’s William Ruh to keynote at MIT Forum’s April analytics conference
MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation conference will showcase research in data science and analytics and present industry case studies.
MIT Climate CoLab seeks high-impact ideas on how to tackle climate change
Twenty-two contests now open to the global public.