MIT Professional Education creates Online X Programs and launches big data course
"Tackling the Challenges of Big Data” is first professional course to be offered online
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick visits MIT’s SMART Centre in Singapore
Governor’s visit spurs a discussion regarding transportation, ‘Big Data,’ and information technology.
Cameron Kerry joins MIT Media Lab as visiting scholar
Former Commerce Department official will work on privacy issues and ‘Big Data for Public Good’ initiative.
How should we use our intelligence?
MIT event exposes fault lines among high-ranking former government officials on NSA’s data-gathering programs.
New medical operations
At MIT’s ‘Innovations in Health Care’ conference, industry experts discuss how to maintain quality while reining in costs.
MIT Big Data Initiative launches transportation challenge, privacy working group
New efforts aimed at improving the use and management of big data
Improving data management, through entrepreneurship
MIT adjunct professor Michael Stonebraker co-founded Vertica Systems, and other startups, that have helped improve database management.
Chairman of McEwen Mining to speak at MIT big data conference
Rob McEwen will discuss how big data and the Internet led to a major gold strike, transforming the mining industry.
MIT professor Erik Brynjolfsson to deliver keynote at big data conference
The MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation and the Accenture and MIT Alliance in Business Analytics will host the conference at the Cambridge Marriott.
Green computing is super
MIT Lincoln Laboratory's new supercomputing facility reduces energy impacts
Finding harmony with big data
Technology developed by two MIT alumni entrepreneurs is helping developers create smarter online music-streaming services.
Protecting data in the cloud
A new hardware design makes data encryption more secure by disguising cloud servers’ memory-access patterns.
Wealth of words
Professor Deb Roy’s technology company, which recently sold to Twitter, analyzes social-media conversations about TV.