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Case Study Summary (PDF)
How Much Information? Case Studies on Scientific Research at MIT

Stuart Madnick, John Norris Maguire Professor of Information Technology, MIT Sloan School of Management & Professor of Engineering Systems, MIT School of Engineering

MacKenzie Smith, Associate Director of Technology, MIT Libraries

Kate Clopeck, Masters of Science, Technology and Policy Program, MIT

June 2009

This summary follows six detailed case studies, which describe the data generation,
growth, retention, and sharing trends at MIT for the fields of:

• Biological Oceanography
• Chemistry/Chemical Engineering
• Climate Change
• Materials Science and Engineering
• Neuroimaging
• Physics