MIT Establishes Research Center to Harness Big Data
2012-05-31T11:53:31Z

Examples are the data involved in online financial transactions of major banks or collected by social networks. Key to the effort will be the creation of the Intel Science and Technology Center for Big Data, which will reside at MIT s Computer Science ...

Mass. governor, MIT announce big data initiative
2012-06-03T18:02:11Z

MIT President Susan Hockfield joined Patrick ... shopping and socializing that occurs online. Development of cloud computing services which offer remote access to storage and processing centers helped the trend.

The Meme Generation
2012-06-01T16:45:49Z

It s been two decades since I graduated from college, and I m glad to be back, walking the halls of MIT. Not that I went to MIT I couldn ... videos that went viral and others who ve become online memes, mover n shaker execs from the ...

MIT Researchers Decode Your Smile
2012-05-28T23:52:54Z

researchers recorded their subjects at the MIT Media Lab. After being asked to feign frustration most people didn t smile then the project gave them something to really be frustrated about. The subjects filled out an online survey ...

Building with MIT S Google App Inventor
2012-05-29T23:58:52Z

MIT recently resurrected App Inventor and expanded it with particular ... The end result lends itself more to functional apps than games or highly interactive experience design, but it could offer a great front-end for presenting undergraduate research ...

Finding good music in noisy online markets
2012-05-31T14:16:41Z

In a paper published in the online journal PLoS ONE, researchers from the MIT Media Laboratory s Human Dynamics Lab revisit data from the original experiment and suggest that it contains a clear quantitative indicator of quality that s consistent ...

MIT Sloan Names Robert Litterman Inaugural S. Donald Sussman Fellow
2012-05-24T20:30:03Z

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--MIT s Sloan School of Management recently announced that Dr. Robert Litterman, chairman of risk management at Kepos Capital, was named the inaugural recipient of the S. Donald Sussman Fellowship. Awarded to ...

MIT names new president
2012-05-26T18:54:38Z

MIT has elevated its top academic to run the institute once ... Reif said he wanted to look into innovating the education model, mentioning the apprentice approach and online learning. He also listed several aspects of the institution that he wanted ...

Big data initiatives set by state, MIT
2012-05-31T07:00:02Z

MIT President Susan Hockfield joined Patrick ... shopping and socializing that occurs online. Development of cloud computing services, which offer remote access to storage and processing centers, helped the trend. The governor announced a ...

MIT Names Venezuelan-Born Provost Reif as 17th President
2012-05-16T15:31:44Z

Reif, 61, has been MIT s provost, or chief academic officer ... The new president is also an advocate of online learning, overseeing last December s introduction of a plan to offer content free to students outside the university.

Venezuelan-born academic named president of MIT
2012-05-17T04:17:40Z

He takes over at a time when many college graduates face crippling student debt and an uncertain job market, and when MIT is preparing to launch a major fundraising campaign and expand its online learning programs. Reif is the youngest of four sons of ...

Almeda University Charts Course to Online Education Success; Harvard, MIT Follow
2012-06-03T16:00:30Z

A Huffington Post article by Jeff Selingo discussed the trend that many elite colleges are getting onboard with the concept of offering online classes. Most recently, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) joined forces and ...