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.
Simchi-Levi and colleagues win INFORMS Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice
Team awarded for utilizing Simchi-Levi’s Risk Exposure Index to identify risk and mitigate disruptions in the automotive supply chain.
Hewlett Foundation funds new MIT initiative on cybersecurity policy
Largest-ever private commitment to cybersecurity establishes major new academic centers.
Recommendation theory
Model for evaluating product-recommendation algorithms suggests that trial and error get it right.
“Moneyball for business”
Startup’s behavioral analytics on employees uncover ways to increase workplace productivity, satisfaction.
MIT computer scientists can predict the price of Bitcoin
CSAIL/LIDS team's algorithm doubles initial investment in under two months.
MIT Professional Education announces new offerings of Online X professional course on big data
In response to success of initial offering, individuals may sign up now for fall and spring sessions of "Tackling the Challenges of Big Data"
Visual control of big data
Data-visualization tool identifies sources of aberrant results and recomputes visualizations without them.
On the job: IS&T’s Security Operations Team
Team plays a key role on campus, delivering tools, infrastructure, services, and consulting that help the community do its work securely.
Collecting just the right data
When you can’t collect all the data you need, a new algorithm tells you which to target.
No-wait data centers
New system could reduce data-transmission delays across server farms by 99.6 percent.
Mental-health monitoring goes mobile
Startup Ginger.io analyzes smartphone data to remotely predict when patients with mental illnesses are symptomatic.
Keeping it simple (for a bioinformatician)
Alumnus strikes delicate balances in big data — helping define the future of health care.