Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) is committed to addressing complex societal challenges by advancing education and research at the intersection of statistics, data science, information and decision systems, and social sciences.

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MIT Technology Review | April 24, 2025

Cheaper buildings, courtesy of mud

Builders pour concrete into temporary wooden molds. MIT researchers including IDSS faculty Lawrence Sass invented a way to make them out of on-site soil instead.

MIT Political Science | April 17, 2025

Adam Berinsky awarded Carnegie fellowship

The MIT Political Science professor and IDSS faculty among cohort of fellows who will focus on building a body of research on political polarization.

Stochastics and Statistics Seminar Series

Tractable Agreement Protocols

Aaron Roth (University of Pennsylvania)
E18-304
IDSS Distinguished Seminar Series

TBD

Laura Doval (Columbia University)
MIT Building E18, Room 304

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