Communities in the cloud
PhD student Steven Gonzalez studies cloud computing with the eye of an anthropologist.
Computing at full capacity
MIT spinout Jisto helps companies optimize utilization with real-time deployment, monitoring, and analytics.
Diagnosing “broken" buildings to make them greener
Startup’s software detects inefficient equipment in facilities — saving energy, time, and money.
Detecting program-tampering in the cloud
A new version of ‘zero-knowledge proofs’ allows cloud customers to verify the proper execution of their software with a single packet of data.
Protecting data in the cloud
A new hardware design makes data encryption more secure by disguising cloud servers’ memory-access patterns.
Securing the cloud
A new algorithm solves a major problem with homomorphic encryption, which would let Web servers process data without decrypting it.
Drew Houston's Commencement address
'I stopped trying to make my life perfect, and instead tried to make it interesting.'
Opening Dropbox
MIT alumnus Drew Houston took Dropbox from conception to a multibillion-dollar business.
Valuing versatility
In an age of specialization, a little versatility could improve operations management, cloud computing, and possibly even the provision of health care.
Making cloud computing more efficient
For database-driven applications, new software could reduce hardware requirements by 95 percent while actually improving performance.
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston will be MIT’s 2013 Commencement speaker
MIT alumnus and co-founder of popular file-transfer service will address the Class of 2013 on June 7.
MIT Auto-ID Labs launches ‘Cloud of Things’ initiative
Initiative brings together academia, industry to support the development, adoption, best practices and commercial success of big-data applications in mobile retail commerce.
CloudTop takes top $100K competition prize
A record 215 teams competed in this year’s business plan competition.
New CSAIL research could help secure the cloud
DARPA funding awarded to a project that aims to develop a smart, self-healing cloud computing infrastructure.