MIT Climate CoLab seeks high-impact ideas on how to tackle climate change
Twenty-two contests now open to the global public.
High “return-on-learning”
“Business intelligence” software for schools links classroom technology and strategies to student achievement.
MIT Libraries’ Program on Information Science awarded Sloan Foundation grant
Funding will support the development of tools for sharing confidential research data while retaining data privacy.
Better machine learning
Kalyan Veeramachaneni tackles some of the biggest bottlenecks holding back the data science industry.
3 Questions: John Charles on enabling IS&T to meet MIT’s evolving needs
MIT’s vice president for information systems and technology shares his vision for IS&T’s future.
Keeping health care clean
Startup’s smart devices track hand-washing in hospitals to help reduce the spread of infection.
Privacy challenges
Analysis: It’s surprisingly easy to identify individuals from credit-card metadata.
Biology, driven by data
Newly tenured biological engineer Ernest Fraenkel goes where the numbers lead.
Evolutionary approaches to big-data problems
Una-May O'Reilly applies machine learning and evolutionary algorithms to tackle some of the world's biggest big-data challenges.
Drones, Bitcoin, and robotic fish
Here are eight of the coolest things that happened at CSAIL in 2014.
Could birdsong help us solve stuttering?
New CSAIL genomics work suggests vocalizing birds could tell us more about speech disorders.
How information moves between cultures
Networks that map strength of connections between languages predict global influence of their speakers.
Call for analytics research proposals and announcement of seed funding for non-tenured professors
Research will be conducted through the Accenture and MIT Alliance in Business Analytics.