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The desire for assistance is often offset by a fear of displacement.
It’s difficult enough to connect thousands of office workers, even with leading-edge technologies; it’s quite another challenge, however, when workers may be on a construction site or at a utility plant on different continents.
In IT circles, it’s common to talk about next-generation technologies, business transformation and the rapid pace of change. Usually, those discussions are in the future tense. It’s clear, however, that the next generation is unfolding now — and not just at leading-edge tech firms.
Blockchain can help secure digital transactions while also protecting user privacy Note: Professor Alex Pentland of MIT’s Media Lab, will host a panel on Big Data 2.0: Next-Gen Privacy, Security, and Analytics, at the upcoming MIT CIO Symposium on May 18. This article focuses on one aspect of his work. The exponential growth of mobile […]
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Professor Erik Brynjolfsson Sponsor: Thomson Reuters In this research project, we will develop a method for predicting the trajectory and future importance of an academic paper; and an academic dashboard that predicts the trajectories of individual researchers. We plan to utilize data from Thompson Reuters, Google scholar, SSRN, and the Mathematics Genealogy Project. We […]
Professor Erik Brynjolfsson and Shachar Reichman Sponsor: Suruga Bank We intend to develop a model that incorporates search query volumes into financial products (e.g. loans and deposits) demand predictions. We will train the model on public financial data (interest rates, income distribution, geographic location and etc). We will quantify the improvements offered by our […]
Professor Glen Urban Sponsor: Suruga Bank In the fall of 2013 we will finish the simplified iPhone Smart Move app and will build a series of Android apps to meet the requirement of the Android phone suppliers. We plan on a sample size of 1,500 movers in Japan in the winter of 2013. We […]