The real promise of synthetic data
MIT researchers release the Synthetic Data Vault, a set of open-source tools meant to expand data access without compromising privacy.
Oct. 16, 2020 • ~9 min
Tags: machine-learning artificial-intelligence data research laboratory-for-information-and-decision-systems-lids edx mit-schwarzman-college-of-computing
Fotini Christia named director of the Sociotechnical Systems Research Center
Political science professor will spearhead the Institute’s interdisciplinary center that studies high-impact, complex societal challenges.
Oct. 14, 2020 • ~3 min
Tags: data networks research school-of-humanities-arts-and-social-sciences faculty technology-and-society idss political-science administration mit-schwarzman-college-of-computing
Finding patterns in the noise
Using novel computational approaches, graduate student Sean Liu develops better tools for analyzing data.
Oct. 14, 2020 • ~8 min
Tags: covid-19 china pandemic data profile research students graduate-postdoctoral school-of-humanities-arts-and-social-sciences political-science
Less scatterbrained scatterplots
Large datasets are difficult to depict as scatterplots — but that may change with a new CSAIL project for creating interactive visualizations.
Oct. 7, 2020 • ~3 min
Tags: data data-visualization research design electrical-engineering-computer-science-eecs computer-science-and-artificial-intelligence-laboratory-csail science-communications mit-schwarzman-college-of-computing
MIT-led team to develop software to help forecast space storms
National Science Foundation awards proposal for space weather modeling.
Sept. 10, 2020 • ~7 min
Tags: mathematics physics solar solar-system funding nasa data research school-of-engineering school-of-science computer-science-and-technology aeronautical-and-astronautical-engineering national-science-foundation-nsf computer-modeling space-astronomy-and-planetary-science grants software haystack-observatory computation
New gene regulation model provides insight into brain development
A well-known protein family binds to many more RNA sequences than previously thought in order to help neurons grow.
Sept. 8, 2020 • ~7 min
Tags: genetics neuroscience development biology data research school-of-science computer-modeling
A “bang” in LIGO and Virgo detectors signals most massive gravitational-wave source yet
A binary black hole merger likely produced gravitational waves equal to the energy of eight suns.
Sept. 2, 2020 • ~10 min
Tags: physics astrophysics astronomy data research black-holes school-of-science national-science-foundation-nsf kavli-institute space-astronomy-and-planetary-science ligo
Making health care more personal
The company Health at Scale uses machine learning to improve outcomes for individual patients.
Sept. 1, 2020 • ~8 min
Tags: machine-learning startups health-care data research school-of-engineering harvard-mit-health-sciences-and-technology innovation-and-entrepreneurship-ie alumniae electrical-engineering-computer-science-eecs algorithms computer-science-and-artificial-intelligence-laboratory-csail
The factory of the future, batteries not included
Everactive provides an industrial “internet of things” platform built on its battery-free sensors.
Aug. 20, 2020 • ~8 min
Tags: internet-of-things energy startups electronics manufacturing data research batteries school-of-engineering innovation-and-entrepreneurship-ie alumniae computer-science-and-technology energy-storage electrical-engineering-computer-sciences-eecs
Data systems that learn to be better
Storage tool developed at MIT CSAIL adapts to what its datasets’ users want to search.
Aug. 10, 2020 • ~7 min
Tags: machine-learning artificial-intelligence data research behavior school-of-engineering computer-science-and-technology algorithms computer-science-and-artificial-intelligence-laboratory-csail electrical-engineering-and-computer-science-eecs
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