Topic
Data
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Inventing the “Google” for predictive analytics
Platform analyzes big data to answer plain-language business queries in minutes instead of months.
December 19, 2017 -
Calculating the cost of tech-fueled discrimination
Math graduate student’s Data for Black Lives conference provides numbers behind the technologies that enable exclusion.
December 13, 2017 -
Seeking the stories behind the data
MIT Senior Olivia Zhao will study economics as a Marshall Scholar.
December 10, 2017 -
Startup’s needle-free drug injector gets commercialization deal
Collaboration with pharmaceutical giant will bring smart jet-injection device to market.
December 7, 2017 -
Try this! Researchers devise better recommendation algorithm
Improved recommendation algorithm should work especially well when ratings data are “sparse.”
December 6, 2017 -
Why some Muslim clerics become jihadists
In his new book, political scientist Richard Nielsen proposes a “blocked ambition” hypothesis.
November 9, 2017 -
Summit discusses impact of machines on jobs, productivity, and the global economy
Two-day “AI and the Future of Work” summit at MIT focused on the artificial intelligence revolution and the workplace.
November 7, 2017 -
Faster big-data analysis
System for performing “tensor algebra” offers 100-fold speedups over previous software packages.
October 30, 2017 -
Crowdsourcing big-data analysis
Web-based system automatically evaluates proposals from far-flung data scientists.
October 30, 2017 -
Selective memory
Scheme would make new high-capacity data caches 33 to 50 percent more efficient.
October 22, 2017 -
Using artificial intelligence to improve early breast cancer detection
Model developed at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory could reduce false positives and unnecessary surgeries.
October 16, 2017 -
Small European nation becomes a “living lab” for urban innovation researchers
Andorra funds MIT Media Lab technologies that, in turn, help improve the nation’s cities.
October 13, 2017 -
Regina Barzilay wins MacArthur “genius grant”
MIT computer scientist who studies natural language processing and machine learning wins $625,000 prize.
October 11, 2017 -
An algorithm for your blind spot
Using smartphone cameras, system for seeing around corners could help with self-driving cars and search-and-rescue.
October 9, 2017 -
Fast-moving magnetic particles could enable new form of data storage
Recently discovered phenomenon could provide a way to bypass the limits to Moore’s Law.
October 2, 2017 -
First open-access data from large collider confirm subatomic particle patterns
CERN Open Data Portal results reveal predictable patterns from colliding high-energy protons.
September 29, 2017 -
The Engine announces investments in first group of startups
New venture launched by MIT will support “tough-tech” companies at work on transformative ideas that take time to commercialize.
September 19, 2017 -
Identifying optimal product prices
New research describes a price-optimization method to increase online retailers’ revenue, market share, and profit.
September 18, 2017 -
How neural networks think
General-purpose technique sheds light on inner workings of neural nets trained to process language.
September 8, 2017 -
Making data centers more energy efficient
Flash-memory system could reduce power consumption of data center “caches” by 90 percent.
August 30, 2017