Assistant Professor of Economics and Computing - MIT, Department of Economics - Cambridge, MA
Cambridge, MA, United States
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Documentation Academy Aims to Empower Open Source Newcomers
Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
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How BlackBerry Finally Found Its Buyer
The BlackBerry melodrama may finally be coming to a close.
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Nsa Surveillance Makes For Strange Bedfellows
The controversy over U.S. government surveillance has produced a king-size collection of strange bedfellows. Beneath the covers one finds both amusing ironies and...
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Vending Machines Get Smart to Accommodate the Cashless
More than 40 percent of U.S. adults say they can go a week without paying for something with cash, according to a survey conducted by Rasmussen Reports last year...
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How Big Data Could Help Identify the Next Felon—or Blame the Wrong Guy
Think of it as big data meets "Minority Report."
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Onstar, Garmin Try to Keep Pace With Waze, Other Free Navigation Apps
When Tim Nixon’s sons want to figure out how to get somewhere in their cars, they turn their iPhones sideways, attach them to their windshields with a suction cup...
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Makerbot Sells Out to 3D Printing's Old Guard For $403 Million
The 3D printing industry turned downright frothy Wednesday as Stratasys agreed to acquire the startup MakerBot for about $403 million.
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The Tech Company Lawyers Who Stand Between You and Government Snoops
The in-house legal teams at Silicon Valley companies are usually associated with intellectual property disputes, anti-trade spats, and the maneuvering around initial...
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Spies Like s: How We All Helped Build Prism
It used to be that the National Security Agency and its ilk had to pay through the nose for the latest in spying technology.
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Drone Nation: A New Industry Takes Flight
By 2025 the drone industry will employ 100,000 people and be worth $82 billion globally, according to the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International...
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Fixing America's Patent Problem Means Going Beyond Trolls
The so-called patent troll has become one of the tech industry’s favorite monsters in recent years, and on Tuesday the Obama administration announced it would ...
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Charlie Rose Talks to Tumblr's David Karp
What made you decide that this was the right time to sell—and that Yahoo! was the right buyer?
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In China, Big Data Is Becoming Big Business
With 1.3 billion people, a quickly expanding urban economy, and rising rates of Internet and smartphone penetration, China generates an immense amount of data annually...
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Inside Google's Secret Lab
Last February, Astro Teller, the director of Google's secretive research lab, Google X, went to seek approval from Chief Executive Officer Larry Page for an unlikely...
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China's Cyberspies Outwit Model For Bond's Q
Among defense contractors, QinetiQ North America is known for spy-world connections and an eye-popping product line.
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Netflix, Reed Hastings Survive Missteps to Join Silicon Valley's Elite
On a normal weeknight, Netflix accounts for almost a third of all Internet traffic entering North American homes. That's more than YouTube, Hulu, Amazon.com, HBO...
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Infer Promises More Sales Through Better Math
It’s hard to take Vik Singh seriously as he talks about his mathematical formula to boost almost any company's sales.
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It's Getting Harder to Make Money on Youtube
Despite success stories about YouTube sensations such as Jenna Marbles, the vast majority of the site's users probably don’t think of it as a place to earn money...
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Struggling Cities, From Detroit to New Orleans, See Startups as Saviors
After graduating from the University of Michigan, Greg Schwartz worked in New York at Warner Music Group as director of digital business.
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Facebook Fatigue Among Teens Should Freak Out Marketers
Uh oh. Teens are growing tired of Facebook and YouTube, new research shows, a falling-out that has the potential to trigger a wide-ranging effect on retail, fashion...
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