Topic
Data
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New medical operations
At MIT’s ‘Innovations in Health Care’ conference, industry experts discuss how to maintain quality while reining in costs.
December 5, 2013 -
CBMM co-hosts workshop on data representation
November 14, 2013 -
Improving data management, through entrepreneurship
MIT adjunct professor Michael Stonebraker co-founded Vertica Systems, and other startups, that have helped improve database management.
September 10, 2013 -
MIT professor Erik Brynjolfsson to deliver keynote at big data conference
The MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation and the Accenture and MIT Alliance in Business Analytics will host the conference at the Cambridge Marriott.
August 15, 2013 -
How to keep wireless carriers from selling your usage data
How you can opt out
July 29, 2013 -
Protecting data in the cloud
A new hardware design makes data encryption more secure by disguising cloud servers’ memory-access patterns.
July 2, 2013 -
Wealth of words
Professor Deb Roy’s technology company, which recently sold to Twitter, analyzes social-media conversations about TV.
June 25, 2013 -
Making waves
Pierre Lermusiaux quantifies uncertainty to develop better ocean simulations.
June 12, 2013 -
Data from edX’s first course offer preliminary insights into online learning
Researchers analyze page views, clickstreams and discussion threads for clues to how students learn online.
June 11, 2013 -
An electrical switch for magnetism
MIT researchers develop a new approach to controlling the motion of magnetic domains; work could lead to low-power computer memory.
May 29, 2013 -
Making quantum encryption practical
An MIT team that proposed a new, more-practical scheme for using quantum physics to secure data transmission has now demonstrated it experimentally.
May 20, 2013 -
Study shows that people organize daily travel efficiently
A population-level study discovers small-scale details about individuals’ choices.
May 8, 2013 -
How hard is it to 'de-anonymize' cellphone data?
A new formula that characterizes the privacy afforded by large, aggregate data sets may be discouraging, but could help sharpen policy discussion.
March 27, 2013 -
Making sense of big data
PhD student Jameson Toole wants to harness data to improve human lives.
March 26, 2013 -
Helping students master data
An undergraduate econometrics class gets students to think critically about their own research.
March 18, 2013 -
Companies benefit from analytics
Global study from <i>MIT Sloan Management Review</i> and SAS finds companies gain competitive edge by using analytics.
March 5, 2013 -
Sports analytics: a real game-changer
2013 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference underscores how statistics keep changing the way sports are played — and changing minds in the industry.
March 4, 2013 -
How numbers can reveal hidden truths about sports
MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference brings professionals and statistics-savvy fans together to study the games people play.
March 1, 2013 -
Securing your eW-2 tax form
As with any personal data accessed online, there are measures that can be taken to minimize risk.
February 1, 2013 -
Cellphone data helps pinpoint source of traffic tie-ups
Study: Congestion can be alleviated throughout a metropolitan area by altering the trips of drivers in specific neighborhoods.
December 20, 2012
