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Climate resilience in Massachusetts
This year’s IDSS student-run MIT Policy Hackathon challenged teams to help the Commonwealth mitigate the impacts of flooding on low-income communities.
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MIT researchers develop an efficient way to train more reliable AI agents
The technique developed by researchers including IDSS faculty Cathy Wu and SES student Sirui Li could make AI systems better at complex tasks that involve variability.
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Empowering systemic racism research at MIT and beyond
IDSS researchers in the MIT Initiative on Combatting Systemic Racism are building an open data repository to advance research on racial inequity in domains like policing, housing, and health care.
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MIT Energy and Climate Club mobilizes future leaders to address global climate issues
SES student and co-president Thomas Lee assists the club treasurer, supports the club's leadership team for next spring’s Energy Conference, and guides the industry Sponsorships team.
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Shaping a Better Process for Crisis Interventions
A new paper co-authored by SES and IDPS student Marie-Laure Charpignon utilizes a case study of researchers and scholars' reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic to offer pathways for future collaboration in addressing emergent crises.
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AI could lead to inconsistent outcomes in home surveillance
Research supported by the IDSS Initiative on Combatting Systemic Racism finds that large language models make inconsistent decisions about whether to call the police when analyzing surveillance videos.
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Study: When allocating scarce resources with AI, randomization can improve fairness
Introducing structured randomization into decisions based on machine-learning model predictions can address inherent uncertainties while maintaining efficiency, says study from group including senior author and SDSC faculty Ashia Wilson and SES student and lead author Shomik Jain.
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Fotini Christia named next IDSS Director
As an Associate Director of IDSS, Christia has chaired the SES PhD program, directed the Sociotechnical Systems Research Center, and co-led the Initiative on Combatting Systemic Racism.
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The 2024 graduates of IDSS
Congrats to the IDSS graduates of 2024, from our PhDs in Social & Engineering Systems, Master's students in the Technology and Policy Program, and the undergrad and grad students in the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center.
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Building a community of practice for women in data science
The Women in Data Science (WiDS) Cambridge 2024 conference centered the need for more data science skills in cross-disciplinary work addressing violent conflict and other societal issues.
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