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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The New Tech Meccas
sends information about the wearer's heartbeat to a data center, where a proprietary algorithm analyzes it for early signs of a heart attack. KarmSolar/Cairo, Egypt: Egyptian farms rely on pumping water from underground sources, which... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
focus on the development of privacy-preserving algorithms, with a particular emphasis on ML systems. These algorithms help safeguard personal data while extracting valuable insights across domains like statistical genetics, personalized... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Case Study: Bionic Banking
new to the firm: A majority of the team are computer programmers and developers, employing sophisticated algorithms to manage more than $275 million in assets. This active model would pit Alpha Architect against big banks, but with an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
sure signs of stability, and Lidya’s in-house, Portugal-based engineering team developed an algorithm that can quickly assess more than 100 data points. “We don’t do consumer loans. We’re not the best for long-term asset financing. We’re... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
employees and an algorithm to match them to employers, Apli aims to fill that gap. “We got amazing media and investor exposure, which kick-started our fundraising process and helped us raise a new round of capital in record time,” Makarov... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
Illustrations by Dan Bejar Illustrations by Dan Bejar When she began investigating Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm several years ago, Assistant Professor Shunyuan Zhang wasn’t looking for evidence that it generated discriminatory... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
algorithms and data collected from the individual student (and from other students previously) to create, according to that student's needs and knowledge, a customized road map for arriving at the individual's educational objective.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
was already awash with sophisticated algorithms employed to match people with the perfect Amazon purchase, Netflix binge, or Friday night date. Why hadn’t anyone applied these models to match people to their perfect career? MORE Polli... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 19 Dec 2024
- News
The Musts of 2024
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. I love these end-of-the-year lists where you can get recommendations from smart people about things that are worth your time and money. It always sets me up really... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Five-Star Research
In his most recent paper, Luca and his fellow authors offered a new algorithm that takes into account reviewer accuracy, stringency, and other quirks as well as changes in a restaurant’s quality over time. If the View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Business
for example, they are less interested in protecting what was previously considered proprietary information. “Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Alibaba now open-source all their algorithms to make the most of their data,” observes Karim... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
the media vertical) more profitable. A May 2011 investment memo [cowritten with former colleagues Sunil Nagaraj (MBA 2009) and David Cowan (MBA 1992)] had this to say: Peter and his team were “pioneering the use of machine learning and natural language processing View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
INK: Big News for Small Business
relationship banking and maintain that role as the trusted local advisor. What will it take to get us there? Regulation is one of the greatest concerns as we move into this next stage of innovation, but the question is not more or less regulation. We need smart... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving
Institute of MIT and Harvard to further genomic research, developing a contest that aimed to improve the benchmark algorithm set by Broad scientists, which it did, 14 times faster. Lakhani explains that when structuring an experiment, he... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Kill Groupthink
happening, Bouygues warns. To break out of our own bubbles, we need to get beyond the algorithms that decide which news to serve us, and make a more deliberate effort to hear opposing viewpoints. Expand the network. If your corporate... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Elevator Pitch: Dress Code
around each user. Leveraging AI and machine learning, the app uses a sophisticated algorithm to streamline and personalize a dynamically adaptive online feed of potential purchases based on yes or no responses to simple questions, getting... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
Tools “The good news is that small businesses are resilient. Many of them are already using apps driven by AI and algorithms to pivot their business models,” Mills adds. In her book, she coined the term “small business utopia” to describe... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
machine-learning algorithms running on massive on-demand cloud-computing platforms like Amazon Web Services. At the same time, a trifecta of trends—namely, the widespread reliance on just-in-time inventory management; the ongoing... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Data-Driven Diligence
By 2011, it had raised $166 million, allowing their unique model to finally take shape. While a traditional VC might back 15 to 20 companies over a decade, Correlation’s algorithms helped them make that many investments in as little as... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Networked Computers behind IT Payoff
the Internet Protocol (IP)." McAfee explains that because they connect people to vast pools of information, networks are extremely valuable tools for businesses. "It may well be that businesses benefit primarily not from the computer's ability to execute View Details