“Rocket science” for marketing
Startup’s software, designed to plan NASA space missions, now drives more effective online advertising.
To handle big data, shrink it
Algorithm reduces size of data sets while preserving their mathematical properties.
Crop-mapping drones win MIT $100K
Team developing drones that scan and monitor crop health takes grand prize at 25th annual competition.
MIT engineers hand “cognitive” control to underwater robots
With MIT-developed algorithms, robots plan underwater missions autonomously.
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.
Deans announce new Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
MIT-wide effort aims to bring the power of data to the people.
Closing the arctic data gap
Ice-tethered devices are helping researchers collect more data on the Arctic Ocean.
Michael Stonebraker wins $1 million Turing Award
CSAIL researcher invented core database concepts, turned many into companies.
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.