Topic
Data
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Protecting privacy in genomic databases
System helps ensure databases used in medical research will not leak patients’ personal information.
August 9, 2016 -
New online course addresses data science challenges
“Data Science: Data to Insights” from IDSS and MIT Professional Education begins Oct. 4.
August 4, 2016 -
Data-driven approach to pavement management lowers greenhouse gas emissions
July 26, 2016 -
Reducing wait times at the doctor’s office
MIT spinout helps health-care providers schedule patients more efficiently.
July 21, 2016 -
JuliaCon draws global users of a dynamic, easy-to-learn programming language
Now three years old, the Julia programming language is helping to solve problems in areas such as economic modeling, spaceflight, and bioinformatics.
July 18, 2016 -
Ready for takeoff
Hamsa Balakrishnan develops algorithms to reduce airport congestion.
July 15, 2016 -
Supporting clinical research with an intensive-care database
Crowdsourcing clinical data from some 40,000 patients could vastly improve research and critical-care decisions.
July 8, 2016 -
Is your meal really gluten free?
Portable sensor detects trace amounts of gluten in food at restaurants.
July 6, 2016 -
Mapping molecular neighborhoods
Associate Professor Ernest Fraenkel uses biological network modeling to identify new targets for disease.
July 5, 2016 -
Mapping coal’s decline and renewables' rise
CoalMap online tool shows what policy regulations and technological advancements can do for the cost-competitiveness of solar and wind energy.
June 22, 2016 -
Teaching machines to predict the future
Deep-learning vision system from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab anticipates human interactions using videos of TV shows.
June 21, 2016 -
For second time, LIGO detects gravitational waves
Signal was produced by two black holes colliding 1.4 billion light years away.
June 15, 2016 -
MIT Forum and Infosys Risk Group release preliminary global risk survey findings
Survey indicates 92.54 percent of companies think the nature of risk is changing due to complexity in the digital economy.
June 6, 2016 -
Making cities smarter
MIT researchers are creating tools that synthesize and collect data so that urban planners can vastly improve the quality of urban life.
June 1, 2016 -
MIT joins Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition
Led by World Bank and IMF, coalition seeks to price emissions to tackle climate change.
May 20, 2016 -
The geography of carbon pricing
Study looks at why some states could be impacted more than others if a price is put on carbon.
May 18, 2016 -
3 Questions: Jeffrey Ravel on bringing data to cultural history
MIT conference stems from data-rich historical project on French theater.
May 18, 2016 -
MIT and Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation for Education collaborate to expand digital education reach
Collaboration funds two new MITx MicroMaster's for students worldwide.
May 17, 2016 -
We know where you live
From location data alone, even low-tech snoopers can identify Twitter users’ homes, workplaces.
May 17, 2016 -
Lincoln Laboratory establishes a supercomputing center
New facility will enable interactive, high-performance computing for data analysis.
May 11, 2016