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Teaching Robots to Teach Other Robots
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Teaching Robots to Teach Other Robots

Most robots are programmed using one of two methods: learning from demonstration, in which they watch a task being done and then replicate it, or via motion-planning...

Toward 'valleytronic' Devices For Data Storage or Computer Logic Systems
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Toward 'valleytronic' Devices For Data Storage or Computer Logic Systems

Researchers have discovered a new way of using laser light to tune electronic energy levels in two-dimensional films of crystal.

Taming Data
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Taming Data

An international team of computer scientists has developed Data Civilizer, a system that automatically finds connections among many different data tables and allows...

Split-Second Data Mapping
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Split-Second Data Mapping

Running on GPUs instead of CPUs, the MapD database-analytics platform queries and maps billions of data points in milliseconds.

Making Big Data Manageable
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Making Big Data Manageable

Technique shrinks data sets while preserving their fundamental mathematical relationships.

Learning Words From Pictures
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Learning Words From Pictures

A system that correlates recorded speech with images could lead to fully automated speech recognition.

How Data Can Help Change the World
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How Data Can Help Change the World

Speakers at last week's IDSS conference explored how data can be brought to bear on global challenges.

Faster Parallel Computing
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Faster Parallel Computing

A new programming language called Milk delivers fourfold speedups on memory access problems common in the age of big data.

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.

Secure, ­ser-Controlled Data
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Secure, ­ser-Controlled Data

Cryptographic system would allow users to decide which applications access which aspects of their data.

A New Quantum Approach to Big Data
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A New Quantum Approach to Big Data

Some problems remain daunting and impractical for the most powerful modern supercomputers. Now, researchers have developed a new approach that would use quantum...

Automating Big-Data Analysis
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Automating Big-Data Analysis

The 'Data Science Machine' developed by MIT researchers aims to find predictive patterns in raw data. The new system finished ahead of 615 of the 906 human teams...

Recommendation Engine Better Predicts Customers' Buying Preferences
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Recommendation Engine Better Predicts Customers' Buying Preferences

Infinite Analystics' recommendation software analyzes data from multiple sources to provide a more personalized online-buying experience.

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...

To Handle Big Data, Shrink It
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To Handle Big Data, Shrink It

MIT researchers have developed an algorithm that finds the smallest possible approximation of an original matrix or data table while guaranteeing reliable computations...

MIT to Launch Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
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MIT to Launch Institute for Data, Systems, and Society

MIT is creating a new institute that will bring together researchers working in the mathematical, behavioral, and empirical sciences to capitalize on their shared...

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...

Software Links School Technology and Strategies to Student Achievement
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Software Links School Technology and Strategies to Student Achievement

BrightBytes has developed data-analytics software for schools that links the implementation of classroom technologies, and other strategies, to student achievement...

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...

Tackling the 'achilles' Heel' of Oled Displays
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Tackling the 'achilles' Heel' of Oled Displays

An inkjet-printing system could cut manufacturing costs enough to enable the mass-production of large-screen, flexible OLED displays.
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