Uncovering the mechanism of our oldest anesthetic
MIT researchers reveal brainwave changes in patients receiving nitrous oxide, or “laughing gas.”
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MIT’s Bitcoin-Inspired “Enigma” Lets Computers Mine Encrypted Data
On Tuesday, a pair of bitcoin entrepreneurs and the MIT Media Lab revealed a prototype for a system called Enigma, designed to achieve a decades-old goal in data security known as “homomorphic" encryption
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Woman in Technology
A high-school outreach program first brought Tamara Broderick to MIT in 2002. Now she’s back, as an assistant professor in EECS.
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Videos from MIT Statistics Symposium available online
The symposium provided a forum for discussing some of the challenges and opportunities that are redefining 21st-century statistics.
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Suiting Up
Space-suit engineer Dava Newman, SM ’89, PhD ’92, heads to Washington, D.C., as NASA’s deputy administrator
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Can phone data detect real-time unemployment?
A study co-authored by MIT researchers shows that mobile phone data can provide rapid insight into employment levels, precisely because people’s communications patterns change when they are not working.
READ MOREOpinion: Statistics and the new Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
Fostering a culture of statistics should be a key priority for IDSS
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Deans announce new Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
MIT-wide effort aims to bring the power of data to the people.
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