IDSS – MIT INSTITUTE FOR DATA, SYSTEMS, AND SOCIETY

Watch short video about “Data Science: Data to Insights”

Learn more about this online course, presented by IDSS and MIT Professional Education, which launched again on May 30, 2017.
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LIDS Smart Urban Infrastructures Workshop highlights emerging research

Speakers from academia, industry, and government discuss the evolution of smart urban systems.
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IDSS / MIT News
Leading with Data

Seven MIT faculty—including Emery Brown, Munther Dahleh, and Sandy Pentland—talk about advancing health in a data-rich era.
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MIT Spectrum
Data, Systems, and Society: Video about IDSS

Data is everywhere in our daily lives—and it can tell us a lot about society's most complex problems. Munther Dahleh describes the vision for IDSS.
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News

MIT News Office | August 14, 2017

Case study suggests new approach to urban water supply

Sarah Fletcher, PhD candidate in IDSS and TPP alum, is the lead author of a paper that suggests an alternate approach to water planning.

MIT Technology Review | August 11, 2017

An Algorithm Trained on Emoji Knows When You’re Being Sarcastic on Twitter

New algorithm from Iyad Rahwan and student teaches network to use emoji and language to determine emotion.

MIT News Office | August 6, 2017

New AI algorithm monitors sleep with radio waves

Paper (co-authored by Tommi Jaakkola) presents new way to monitor sleep stages.

Upcoming

September 8, 2017

Stochastics and Statistics Seminar
Andrej Riteski (Princeton University)

September 15, 2017

Stochastics and Statistics Seminar
Yuri Polyanskiy (MIT)

September 22, 2017

Stochastics and Statistics Seminar
Amir Dembo (Stanford University)

September 29, 2017

Optimal lower bounds for universal relation, and for samplers and finding duplicates in streams
Jelani Nelson (Harvard University)

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