Protecting web users’ privacy
System for disguising database queries could prevent customer profiling and price gouging.
Democratizing databases
With a new tool, any competent spreadsheet user can construct custom database interfaces.
Visual control of big data
Data-visualization tool identifies sources of aberrant results and recomputes visualizations without them.
Improving data management, through entrepreneurship
MIT adjunct professor Michael Stonebraker co-founded Vertica Systems, and other startups, that have helped improve database management.
Making cloud computing more efficient
For database-driven applications, new software could reduce hardware requirements by 95 percent while actually improving performance.
Making Web applications more efficient
A new system that automatically streamlines database access patterns can make large Web applications up to three times as fast.
Making crowdsourcing easier
A new system for crowdsourcing database operations spares the user from worrying about the computational details but improves cost effectiveness.
MIT, Intel unveil new initiatives addressing ‘big data’
An Intel research center based at MIT will be the cornerstone of a new research project dubbed ‘bigdata@CSAIL.’
Cognos reporting tool makes its debut at MIT
IS&T installed this web-based reporting tool last spring and is now doing a soft rollout to the MIT community that includes hands-on classes.
Faster websites, more reliable data
Web servers that store data locally save time on database searches but sometimes serve up obsolete results. A new system solves that problem.