What's at the other end? - Server System Design and ...
What's at the other end? - Server System Design and Deployment - MIT Club ...
Whenever your “information device”… computer, pad computer, smart phone, video streaming device, etc. … is connected to a network of any sort… home network, office network, the internet, etc. … by either a wired or wireless ...
Visual Overviews for Cultural Heritage: Interactive ...
Visual Overviews for Cultural Heritage: Interactive Exploration for ...
05/20/2010 6:00 PM Morss Hall Walker Memorial Ben Shneiderman, University of MarylandDescription: A focus on designing technologies that allow the "visualization of things not visible" has been at the center of Ben Shneiderman's work over the past two decades. He ...
Transportation@MIT Data Hack-a-thon: Presentations
Transportation@MIT Data Hack-a-thon: Presentations
Transportation@MIT organized the first data hack-a-thon event, where talents with different skill sets gather and develop projects using transportation-related data
Transportation in Contemporary Society: A Complex Systems ...
Transportation in Contemporary Society: A Complex Systems Approach
03/09/2010 4:00 PM 3"270Joseph Sussman, J R East Professor of Civil and Environmental EngineeringDescription: In the nineteen fifties and sixties, students of transportation focused on building infrastructure and applied lessons from the physical sciences to designing ...
The Transformation of the Datacenter: How to solve the ...
The Transformation of the Datacenter: How to solve the exascale problem ...
About the Presentation This webinar will offer a comprehensive overview on the primary issues facing the modern datacenter in the drive to become higher performing and less costly, and methods to address those issues. This presentation will examine the immediate and ...
The Role of Information Technology in Improving Transit ...
The Role of Information Technology in Improving Transit Systems
09/29/2009 4:00 PM 32"124Nigel Wilson, Professor of Civil and Environmental EngineeringDescription: "Punch brothers! Punch with care! Punch in the presence of the passenjare!..." This ditty about tram car ticketing made famous by Mark Twain might spring to mind during ...
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.
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 ...
The Future of Digital Commons
The Future of Digital Commons
Nancy Kranich says the debate boils down to this: "Is information a public good or a commodity?" The more profit to be made, the higher the tension. Kranich envisions an "information society of the 21st century," where the ruling metaphor is the commons: information is neither public nor ...
Session IV: Providing Mobile Health Anywhere
Session IV: Providing Mobile Health Anywhere
Andre Hamman (MIT), Ting Shih, Greg Snyders (ClickDiagnostics, Inc.). 10/12/2009
Session IV: Improving Patient Safety and Hospital ...
Session IV: Improving Patient Safety and Hospital Performance Using ...
Michael Siegel, Principle Research Scientist, MIT Sloan School of Management. 10/12/2009
Session IV: DINUBE: the mobile-enabled cloud transactional ...
Session IV: DINUBE: the mobile-enabled cloud transactional platform and ...
Jonathan Hayes, Co-founder & President, Amherst Mobile Ventures Inc. 10/12/2009
Session III: Reality Mining: The End of Personal Privacy?
Session III: Reality Mining: The End of Personal Privacy?
Anmol Madan, Ben Waber, Margaret Ding, Paul Kominers, Alex (Sandy) Pentland (MIT). 10/12/2009
Session III: Panel
Session III: Panel
Discussion with Session III presenters. Moderator: Leonidas Kontothanassis, Senior Staff Engineer, Performance Analysis, Google Boston Labs. 10/12/2009
Session III: Navigation of Cascading Data Errors
Session III: Navigation of Cascading Data Errors
Kevin Marcus (Intelius Inc.). 10/12/2009
Session III: Engineering a Common Good: Fair Use of ...
Session III: Engineering a Common Good: Fair Use of Aggregated Anonymized ...
Nathan Eagle (MIT, Santa Fe Institute). 10/12/2009
Session II: An Internet Data Sharing Framework for ...
Session II: An Internet Data Sharing Framework for Balancing Privacy and ...
Erin Kenneally, Kimberly Claffy, (UC San Diego). 10/12/2009
Session I: Using Contextual Information to Improve ...
Session I: Using Contextual Information to Improve Awareness of Physical ...
Ian Li, Anind Dey, Jodi Forlizzi (Carnegie Mellon). 10/12/2009
Session I: Panel
Session I: Panel
Discussion with Session I presenters. Moderator: Allan Friedman, Post-doctoral Fellow, Center for Research in Computation and Society, Harvard University. 10/12/2009
Session I: Living Maps: New Data, New Uses, New Problems
Session I: Living Maps: New Data, New Uses, New Problems
Christophe Aguiton, Dominique Cardon, Zbigniew Smoreda (Orange Labs). 10/12/2009