Eventually it found a team led by Cynthia Barnhard, a logistics expert at America's Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which devised an elaborate algorithm that is now at the heart of eCourier's business, in much the same way that a mathematical formula drives Google's search engine.
Today, the average return in the United States on investment in company-wide information systems is 81% compared with an average of 6.3% for everything else, say researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management.
Even so, Saturday's event marks a turning point, says Massachusetts Institute of Technology's team leader, Jonathan How.
One of the industry's most enduring optimists, Lynch spent 20 years working on energy policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for International Studies, his alma mater.
As a professor in the department of brain and cognitive sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he's using a combination of mathematical modeling, computer simulation and behavioral experiments to explain how people learn new things.
Scott Gazelle, director of Massachusetts General Hospital's Institute for Technology Assessment, 90.8% of patients who had a full-body scan got a least one positive finding that led to additional testing.
These were invented by Joseph Jacobson, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's well-known Media Lab, who is one of the company's founders.
Midlevel employees tend to cash out most quickly, says Andrew Lo, a finance professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management.
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"Deemed export controls have very limited efficacy for a relatively high cost of compliance, " says Claude Canizares, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's vice president for research.
That school is flanked by Harvard Business School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management and Boston College's Carroll School of Management, among a half-dozen others.
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The award for the most copied building goes to the White House, says Yung Ho Chang, a Chinese architect and the former head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's architecture department.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Civil and Environmental Engineering department looked at the 40 largest U.S. airports and figured out which ones would be the most likely to spread a disease in the event of an outbreak in the cities they serve.
The One Laptop Per Child non-profit association, first announced by Nicholas Negroponte , founder and chairman of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media lab at the World Economic Forum last January, claims the machine will "be able to do almost everything except store huge amounts of data".
Both brothers were believed to be involved in the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus police officer during Thursday night's chaotic series of events.
In a third study published in Nature, Jeffrey Andrews-Hanna and Maria Zuber of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, and Bruce Banerdt of Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California, provide impact evidence from gravitational and topographical signatures on Mars.
These include Indiana's Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which finished last year in 21st and 27th place, respectively.
But critics would say Vioxx's problems started in 2001, two years before Kim fully took over as head of Merck research. (He had just left a job as a biologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.) A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel was reviewing a large study that proved Vioxx's big selling point: it causes fewer ulcers than cheaper, generic pain pills.
He spent years in academia, as a professor at Princeton, Stanford and New York universities and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, according to the Fed's Web site.
Almost a decade ago, Leonard Guarente at Massachusetts Institute of Technology found a gene called SIR2 in brewer's yeast that, when mutated, seemed to extend the yeast's life.
As another example, Venter points to Eric Lander , who heads the Genome Center at the Whitehead Institute (affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and is often seen as Venter's chief rival.
He and partner James Yao, a former classmate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have assayed scores of bright ideas in Asiatech's brief history.
That's not likely, said Kerry Emanuel, a professor in atmospheric sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has begun soliciting input from the university's "community" into its review into the suicide of internet activist Aaron Swartz.
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It's a very, very big number says Dan Nocera, chemistry professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that in 2007 about 4.5% of U.S. airline passengers miss connections.
Now based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US, Professor Berners-Lee invented the web's address system and layout in Switzerland in 1990, revolutionising communication through the internet.
Negroponte, who formerly headed up the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, agrees, but says Intel is thwarting sales of OLPC's XO laptop by selling a similar product, Classmate, in the same markets.
Neuroscientist Li-Huei Tsai of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said the results could offer hope to people with diseases like Alzheimer's.
Dr. Stancell earned his Bachelor's degree from the City College of New York and his Doctor of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1962, where he was subsequently offered tenure as professor.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier, 26, is shot dead on the school's Cambridge, Massachusetts, campus -- a killing authorities later link to the Tsarnaevs.
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