Projects

Projects of the NEXT Initiative encompass a wide variety of categories.

NEXT Projects

1. 24-Hour Knowledge Factory (日本語)
   The sun never sets on the 24-Hour Knowledge Factory. The goal of this project is to develop new processes and systems that will realize continuous, round-the-clock development of knowledge and intellectual property.

1. Professional Services Outsourcing Initiative
   Research on PROFESSIONAL OUTSOURCING at MIT Sloan School of Management: Analysis of Strategic, Economic, Technical, and Organizational Aspects.

1. Medical and Pharmaceutical Information
   The aim of this project is to develop medical knowledge portal which provides users access to medical textbooks, enhanced with latest medical literature that is customized to the medical professionals interest and role.

1. Datamining Initiative
   The total inventory level of the concerned medical distribution organization could be decreased from over a billion dollars to about half-a-billion dollars (reduction by 50 percent) using the method developed by the group.

1. Winbank Check Processing
   The project, headed by Dr. Amar Gupta, focuses on developing Intelligent Character Recognition technology for automating recognition of handwritten numerals on bank checks.

1. System to Process Bankchecks Automatically
   This is a prototype of a check processing system designed to facilitate the clearing process that needs to occur when a check is deposited in a bank different than the one that it is drawn on.

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