Meet 2011 TR35 Winner Jeff Hammerbacher
Meet 2011 TR35 Winner Jeff Hammerbacher
Hammerbacher presents his work at EmTech 2011: Managing huge data sets Company: Cloudera Learn more:http://techre.vu/wkeXPq
Meet 2011 TR35 Winner Alina Oprea
Meet 2011 TR35 Winner Alina Oprea
Oprea describes her work at EmTech 2011: Guaranteeing cloud security RSA Laboratories PROBLEM: Cloud computing offers numerous advantages to businesses and individuals by enabling them to store data and run websites on remote computers rather than ones they own. But many hesitate to use the ...
Meet 2011 TR35 Winner Aishwarya Ratan
Meet 2011 TR35 Winner Aishwarya Ratan
Ratan describes his work at EmTech 2011: Converting paper records to digital in real time Yale University Beginning in 2009, while working with Microsoft Research India, Aishwarya Ratan spent 15 months figuring out how to help local microcredit co-ops, which often struggle with handwritten ...
Google's Eric Schmidt on "The Future of the Global Mind"
Google's Eric Schmidt at MIT Sloan: "The Future of the Global Mind"
With knowledge and data, a smarter world will divide work between humans and computers, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said in this Nov. 15, 2011, talk at MIT Sloan.
A Social-Media Decoder
A Social-Media Decoder
New technology deciphers-- and empowers--the millions who talk back to their televisions through the Web.
RLE Investigator Profile Video Series: Alan V. Oppenheim
RLE Investigator Profile Video Series: Alan V. Oppenheim
Professor Alan V. Oppenheim of MIT discusses research and education in his group, and the intellectual challenges facing engineers at the frontiers of signal processing, modeling and representation.
The Quantum Frontier
The Quantum Frontier
MIT researchers have been leading the way toward quantum computers--devices that could solve problems too big for all today's supercomputers put together.
Data Transfer at Light Speed
Data Transfer at Light Speed
At Intel Research Day, the company demonstrated some of its silicon photonics technology for the first time. The goal of this work is to speed data transfer by replacing today's electrical wiring with faster, more efficient fiber-optic connections.
Quantifying Uncertainty in Complex Physical Systems: ...
Quantifying Uncertainty in Complex Physical Systems: Application to Energy ...
04/12/2011 4:00 PM Youssef Marzouk, Assistant Professor; Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics; Description: In search of better"burning fuels, or more accurate projections of climate change, researchers inevitably work through multiple models, sometimes at great ...
Lost in Boston: Realtime
Lost in Boston: Realtime
Rick Borovoy explains the benefits of displaying relevant community information -- such as realtime bus location data -- using inexpensive displays in public-private spaces like coffeeshops.
Data-driven Traffic Modeling, Prediction, and Planning
Data-driven Traffic Modeling, Prediction, and Planning
03/15/2011 4:00 PM 3"270Daniela Rus, MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Associate Director of CSAIL; Description: Some professors work primarily in labs, and others mainly at desks. Daniela Rus conducts her research on the bustling streets of Singapore, ...
The Growth of Cryptography
The Growth of Cryptography
02/08/2011 4:00 PM 10"250Ronald L. Rivest, Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)Description: It's not every day that Euclid appears in public with "Alice and Bob," but in a lecture spanning a few thousand years, Ronald Rivest ...
Aaron Koblin
Aaron Koblin
While the 2010-11 Abramowitz Artist in Residence, infographics wizard Aaron Koblin gave a public lecture entitled "Crowds and Clouds: Data, Sheep, and Collaboration in the Works of Aaron Koblin" at the Ray and Maria Stata Center on Sept. 30, 2010. This video includes excerpts from that talk ...
Finance in Action
Finance in Action
01/28/2011 10:45 AM KresgeStewart C. Myers, Robert C. Merton (1970) Professor of Financial Economics,; MIT Sloan School of Management ; Douglas T. Breeden, '72, William W. Priest, Jr. Professor of Finance, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University; Eugene Flood, PhD '84, President and CEO, ...
Economic Policy Challenges: Microeconomics and Regulation
Economic Policy Challenges: Microeconomics and Regulation
01/27/2011 3:45 PM KresgeNancy L. Rose, PhD '85, Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics, MIT; Dennis W. Carlton, SM '74 PhD '75, Katherine Dusak Miller Professor of Economics,; Booth School of Business, University of Chicago; Richard Schmalensee, '65 ...
Mathematics, Common Sense, and Good Luck: My Life and ...
Mathematics, Common Sense, and Good Luck: My Life and Careers
12/09/2010 4:15 PM 10"250James Simons, '58, President, Euclidean CapitalDescription: Don't expect to glean any market tips or trading secrets from James Simons, who steadfastly refuses to disclose the method behind his remarkable record in investing. Instead, listen ...
Energy and Emissions Logging in Road Vehicles
Energy and Emissions Logging in Road Vehicles
11/30/2010 4:00 PM 3"270Sanjay Sarma, Professor, Department of Mechanical EngineeringDescription: Soon, after checking under the hood and kicking the tires, we will be scanning our car's on"board diagnostic system (OBD). Sanjay Sarma has been investigating ways to ...
Communications in Slow-Moving Crises
MIT Communications Forum: Communications in Slow-Moving Crises
What's a journalist to do when a major story must be coaxed reluctantly into public view, or emerges on what seems like a geological time scale?
Civic Media and the Law
Civic Media and the Law
11/04/2010 5:00 PM E14-633Micah Sifry, Founder, Editor, Personal Democracy Forum; Daniel Schuman, Policy Counsel, Sunlight Foundation; David Ardia, Fellow, Berkman CenterDescription: While these panelists diverge on the precise metaphor -- 'picking through a minefield,' 'hacking through the ...