Topic
Data
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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 -
International team launches vast atlas of mathematical objects
New online resource represents enormous computational effort, will advance research across fields.
May 10, 2016 -
Crowdsourcing the Silver Line commute
New app from MIT researchers gathers rider feedback to improve Boston bus service.
May 3, 2016 -
MIT outlines progress on its five-year climate action plan
Progress report underscores strong collaboration across campus to address climate change.
April 27, 2016 -
System predicts 85 percent of cyber-attacks using input from human experts
Virtual artificial intelligence analyst developed by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab and PatternEx reduces false positives by factor of 5.
April 18, 2016 -
Using new models and big data to better understand financial risk
Bringing together engineers, data theorists, mathematicians, economists, biologists, and policy experts, IDSS is looking at financial risk through a multidisciplinary lens.
April 11, 2016 -
Using data from social networks to understand and improve systems
Researchers in IDSS are learning how ideas evolve over networks, quantifying the influence of individuals in networks, and making better predictions.
April 7, 2016 -
IDSS conversations: Caroline Uhler
Electrical engineering and computer science assistant professor is working at the intersection of genomics and computational biology.
March 24, 2016 -
Secure, user-controlled data
Cryptographic system would allow users to decide which applications access which aspects of their data.
March 18, 2016 -
Architecture symposium March 30 and 31: Exploring the campus then, now, next
Event welcomes more than 20 speakers over four sessions on designing places for inventing the future.
March 15, 2016 -
Power play
Study shows how more R&D funding can accelerate the world energy revolution.
March 15, 2016 -
The games within the games
The world’s biggest sports analytics conference shows how theorists have changed sports.
March 15, 2016 -
IDSS conversations: Guy Bresler
Assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science discusses his work focusing on learning graphical models from data.
March 11, 2016 -
System loads Web pages 34 percent faster by fetching files more effectively
"Polaris" system from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab accelerates website load-time by decreasing network trips.
March 9, 2016