Topic
Big data
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MIT Professional Education announces new offerings of Online X professional course on big data
In response to success of initial offering, individuals may sign up now for fall and spring sessions of "Tackling the Challenges of Big Data"
September 19, 2014 -
In Song Kim: Bringing big data to bear on international trade
September 9, 2014 -
Visual control of big data
Data-visualization tool identifies sources of aberrant results and recomputes visualizations without them.
August 15, 2014 -
Collecting just the right data
When you can’t collect all the data you need, a new algorithm tells you which to target.
July 25, 2014 -
Mental-health monitoring goes mobile
Startup Ginger.io analyzes smartphone data to remotely predict when patients with mental illnesses are symptomatic.
July 16, 2014 -
Keeping it simple (for a bioinformatician)
Alumnus strikes delicate balances in big data — helping define the future of health care.
July 14, 2014 -
Own your own data
A new system would allow individuals to pick and choose what data to share with websites and mobile apps.
July 9, 2014 -
Mathematical patchwork
Alice Guionnet, an authority on random matrix theory, aims to make sense of huge data sets.
June 27, 2014 -
The Internet of medical things
Stephen Miles helps to bring the benefits of serialized identification systems to translational medicine and research.
June 3, 2014 -
Big, fast, weird data
Sam Madden leads big initiatives tackling Big Data research at MIT.
April 7, 2014 -
HuMNet Lab students win big at MIT Big Data Challenge
Urban transportation expertise gave team the edge to earn first- and second-place prizes in different categories.
April 3, 2014 -
Upcoming conference puts supply chain management in broad context
Host Yossi Sheffi thinks supply chains change, and are changed by, the world.
March 12, 2014 -
MIT, White House co-sponsor workshop on big-data privacy
MIT hosts the first of three conferences on privacy policy
March 4, 2014 -
Social physics
Media Lab professor’s new book ties more than a decade’s research into a new theory of information propagation in communities large and small.
March 4, 2014 -
White House to co-host workshop at MIT on ‘big data’ and privacy
March 3 event convenes academics, representatives of industry, and top government officials to discuss big data and the role of technology in protecting privacy.
February 24, 2014 -
New MITx course shares how data has changed healthcare, dating, and baseball
15.071 The Analytics Edge examines real-world examples and teaches analytic approaches.
February 19, 2014 -
Storage system for ‘big data’ dramatically speeds access to information
Using multiple nodes allows the same bandwidth and performance from a storage network as far more expensive machines.
January 31, 2014 -
MIT Professional Education creates Online X Programs and launches big data course
"Tackling the Challenges of Big Data” is first professional course to be offered online
January 10, 2014 -
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick visits MIT’s SMART Centre in Singapore
Governor’s visit spurs a discussion regarding transportation, ‘Big Data,’ and information technology.
December 24, 2013 -
Cameron Kerry joins MIT Media Lab as visiting scholar
Former Commerce Department official will work on privacy issues and ‘Big Data for Public Good’ initiative.
December 17, 2013