Cutting cost and power consumption for big data
New network design exploits cheap, power-efficient flash memory without sacrificing speed.
3 Questions: Carlo Ratti on big data and health predictions
MIT researcher discusses a new study on correlations among medical problems.
MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society launches
IDSS will address challenges and opportunities in complex systems.
Podcast: Explaining the art behind data
Society has access to more data than ever before. How do we make sense of it all?
MIT-Singapore design center creates free software tool to analyze cities as spatial networks
New plugin aids in understanding social and economic consequences of city planning.
Can phone data detect real-time unemployment?
Study: Usage patterns vary when people are not working.
Breaking down social networks in a city
New research finds urban social networks are not determined geographically, but socially.
A check on runaway lake drainage
Draining lakes are unlikely to increase the Greenland ice sheet’s contribution to sea-level rise.
Circular orbits identified for small exoplanets
Observations of 74 Earth-sized planets around distant stars may narrow field of habitable candidates.
“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.