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Shaping the Commerce of Sport: MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference starts...
What is the secret to building a team around a superstar? What is the future of ticket selling at sporting events? What’s the best way to engage the modern sports fan? These are just three of the...
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Digital solutions for Africa: The 2018 MIT Sloan Africa Innovate Conference...
Africa. In many ways it has a long way to travel to compete as a peer in the contemporary global marketplace. But from another perspective, the population is highly motivated to find solutions to...
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AI can forge richer human-to-human interactions
In the digital marketplace, online chat has become a key asset to consumers and companies alike, allowing sales personnel to help customers make decisions and resolve issues in real time. Enter Vee24....
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What do we [really] want from technology?
Erik Brynjolfsson, Schussel Family Professor of Management and director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, and Andrew McAfee, principle research scientist at the MIT Center for Digital...
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The light and shade of AI
How much artificial intelligence (AI) can you pack into a Manhattan apartment? How much could it improve your life? When digital expert Pieter Nel, SF ’14, moved into his new place in 2017, he decided...
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Deep mind thinking about AI and ML
Companies that know how to harness machine learning and artificial intelligence are clear winners in the 21st century economy. And, arguably, few companies on Earth rival Google for its ingenuity in...
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Eat–or shun–that apple pie? Check your DNA
Fredric Abramson, SF ’77, has an extensive background in genetics, biology, entrepreneurship, and the law. All paths converge at his most recent startup, Digital Nutrition, which is using AI and...
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Intentional analytics
How fresh is your data? Do you know why you gathered it in the first place? Is there a rhyme to your reason when it comes to analytics? Abhi Yadav, SF ’13, launched the MIT spinout ZyloTech because he...
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The social media chain reaction
It’s one thing for our culture to develop an awareness of the power of microtargeting on social media—influencing people to buy a certain product or vote in favor of or against a certain candidate or...
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The Real Winners in the Cryptocurrency Battle
Alin Dragos, SF ’17, Head of Strategic Partnerships at the MIT Digital Currency Initiative (DCI), doesn’t read the current narrative of cryptocurrency innovations as a battle among competing token...
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