By Joshua Bolkan, Campus Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) will be home to the Intel Science and Technology Center (ISTC) for Big Data. CSAIL will also launch a new initiative called bigdata@CSAIL to study “data collections that are too big, growing too fast, or are too complex for existing information technology systems to handle,” according to information released by the school. In an effort to make big data more useful to society, bigdata@CSAIL is designed to develop new techniques for collecting, storing, sharing, processing, analyzing, and sharing big data through collaborations between experts in academia, industry, and government. With a focus on areas such as finance, medicine, security, and social media, CSAIL will build new systems “from the ground up” to deal with the “data deluge,” according to Laboratory Director Daniela Rus.
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