Topic
Database
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Protecting web users’ privacy
System for disguising database queries could prevent customer profiling and price gouging.
March 23, 2017 -
Democratizing databases
With a new tool, any competent spreadsheet user can construct custom database interfaces.
July 8, 2016 -
Visual control of big data
Data-visualization tool identifies sources of aberrant results and recomputes visualizations without them.
August 15, 2014 -
Improving data management, through entrepreneurship
MIT adjunct professor Michael Stonebraker co-founded Vertica Systems, and other startups, that have helped improve database management.
September 10, 2013 -
Making cloud computing more efficient
For database-driven applications, new software could reduce hardware requirements by 95 percent while actually improving performance.
March 12, 2013 -
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.
August 31, 2012 -
Making crowdsourcing easier
A new system for crowdsourcing database operations spares the user from worrying about the computational details but improves cost effectiveness.
August 24, 2012 -
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.’
May 31, 2012 -
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.
May 4, 2012 -
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.
October 14, 2010