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Exploring Networks Efficiently
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Exploring Networks Efficiently

Analysis of ant colony behavior could yield better algorithms for network communication.

How to Stay Anonymous Online
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How to Stay Anonymous Online

Riffle is a bandwidth and computation efficient communication system that guarantees anonymity among all honest clients as long as at least one server in the network...

We Know Where You Live
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We Know Where You Live

Researchers have shown that the location stamps on just a handful of Twitter posts can disclose the addresses of the poster's home and workplace to a relatively...

3-D Printing 101
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3-D Printing 101

It's been more than 30 years since the invention of 3-D printing, and yet in some ways the technology is still a frontier of unexplored potential.

When Slower Is Faster
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When Slower Is Faster

A newly published study claims that communicating vehicles will move more efficiently through intersections without traffic lights than with them. 

­ntraceable Communication – Guaranteed
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­ntraceable Communication – Guaranteed

A team of MIT researchers have developed an untraceable text-messaging system that provides a strong mathematical guarantee of user privacy.

Shoring Up Tor
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Shoring Up Tor

Researchers mount successful attacks against Tor, the popular anonymity network, and show how to prevent them.

Helping Students Stick With Moocs
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Helping Students Stick With Moocs

MIT researchers have developed a prediction model that could help identify students at risk for dropping out of massive open online courses.

Can Phone Data Detect Real-Time Unemployment?
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Can Phone Data Detect Real-Time Unemployment?

A new study shows that mobile phone data can provide rapid insight into employment levels, precisely because people's communications patterns change when they...

Six Keys to Sports Analytics
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Six Keys to Sports Analytics

The ninth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference (SSAC) was the biggest meeting yet of sports-data experts: More than 3,100 people attended the event last...

Radio Chip For the 'internet of Things'
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Radio Chip For the 'internet of Things'

Researchers have developed a circuit whose leakage power is reduced when its transmitters are idle, which could greatly extend battery life.

Researchers Generate a Reference Map of the Human Epigenome
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Researchers Generate a Reference Map of the Human Epigenome

The sequencing of the human genome laid the foundation for the study of genetic variation and its links to a wide range of diseases. But the genome itself is only...

How Information Moves Between Cultures
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How Information Moves Between Cultures

The strength of connections between languages in a network are better predictors of a language's global influence than either the population or the wealth of...

More-Flexible Digital Communication
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More-Flexible Digital Communication

Researchers have begun to describe theoretical limits on the degree of imprecision that communicating computers can tolerate, with very real implications for...

Beating Battery Drain
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Beating Battery Drain

A power-management chip from startup Eta Devices helps increase a smartphone's battery life.

Toward Optical Chips
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Toward Optical Chips

Molybdenum disulfide, a promising light source for optoelectronic chips, can be tuned to different frequencies.

Classroom Contest Yields Publishable Results
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Classroom Contest Yields Publishable Results

A classroom design competition involving cellular-networking protocols turned two teams of MIT undergraduates into co-authors of a paper published in the ACM SIGCOMM...

Going to the Red Planet
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Going to the Red Planet

Whenever the first NASA astronauts arrive on Mars, they will likely have MIT to thank for the oxygen they breathe—and for the oxygen needed to burn rocket fuel...

No-Wait Data Centers
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No-Wait Data Centers

The Fasspass network-management system has been shown to reduce data-transmission delays in a Facebook data center by 99.6 percent.

Who's Using Your Data?
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Who's Using Your Data?

Researchers at MIT are developing a protocol they call "HTTP with Accountability" (HTTPA) which will automatically monitor the transmission of private data and...
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