Own your own data
A new system would allow individuals to pick and choose what data to share with websites and mobile apps.
Mathematical patchwork
Alice Guionnet, an authority on random matrix theory, aims to make sense of huge data sets.
Diagnosing “broken" buildings to make them greener
Startup’s software detects inefficient equipment in facilities — saving energy, time, and money.
The Internet of medical things
Stephen Miles helps to bring the benefits of serialized identification systems to translational medicine and research.
NIST awards $539,990 grant to photonics consortium
MIT Microphotonics Center joins iNEMI for 19-month project to develop technology road map.
Syncing IT with executive vision
George Westerman develops executive-level strategies for maximizing business value through digital technology
HuMNet Lab students win big at MIT Big Data Challenge
Urban transportation expertise gave team the edge to earn first- and second-place prizes in different categories.
Democratizing data visualization
Study examines use of ‘Exhibit’ tools in creating interactive data visualizations.
Upcoming conference puts supply chain management in broad context
Host Yossi Sheffi thinks supply chains change, and are changed by, the world.
MIT, White House co-sponsor workshop on big-data privacy
MIT hosts the first of three conferences on privacy policy
Social physics
Media Lab professor’s new book ties more than a decade’s research into a new theory of information propagation in communities large and small.
Give him the hook: New data shows baseball managers when to replace the starting pitcher
As MIT’s major sports analytics conference begins, novel research provides data-based guidance for big-league skippers.