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From theory to practice
... MIT News While long lines repel some people, they intrigue MIT PhD student Kuang Xu: After all, maybe there’s a way to reduce such lengthy waits. A native of Suzhou, China, who enjoys ...
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Try this! Researchers devise better recommendation algorithm
... systems at websites such as Amazon and Netflix use a technique called “collaborative filtering.” To determine what products a ... rating of a product, use not only the ratings from people with similar tastes but also the ratings from people who are similar to ...
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Startup Bringing Driverless Taxi Service to Singapore
... for developing self-driving taxis for big cities. But a comparatively small MIT spinout, nuTonomy, has entered the race somewhat ... they want to have more buses, but they cannot find people to drive buses at night,” he says. “Robotics will not put these ...
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Learning from Social Data Processing
... Online shopping is a world of behavior tracking. If you buy a shirt from one of your regular ... right model coming from social sciences trying to capture people's behavior in a meaningful manner,” he says. “We think about people's choices in a heterogeneous environment, build a model for their ...
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Tackling society’s big problems with systems theory
... help address these great challenges, MIT’s leaders decided a new approach was needed. That decision led to the creation of the new ... constant: understanding the way distributed systems of people and/or devices interact and work together, and how to optimize those ...
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“I know what you bought at Chipotle”
... into individual item costs, creating an overview of how many people are buying a specific item or service. Article Author Kim Strampel ...
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Using Vibe boards
... You can use these boards as an external display for a laptop for in-room meetings, as camera, microphone, and display for remote ... , or as a digital whiteboard to collaborate with people remotely. You don't need to create any accounts, or install any apps to ...
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Dealing with the limitations of our noisy world
MIT Professor Tamara Broderick uses a statistical approach called Bayesian inference to quantify uncertainty in an ... with them?” Broadly, her focus is on helping people understand the confines of the statistical tools available to them and, ... I really like solving real-world problems that matter to people, and Bayesian inference was being used in some of the most important ...
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Recommendation Theory
... on Neural Information Processing Systems, they’ll present a paper that applies their model to the recommendation engines that are ... and Computer Science. “It makes sense in terms of how people make decisions, exhibit preferences, or take actions. So let’s go and ...
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Celebrating the impact of IDSS
... and statistics can transcend individual disciplines and form a new holistic approach to addressing complex societal challenges has been ... “I'm very proud of what we've done and of all the people who have contributed to this. The leadership team has been phenomenal in ...