Lowering climate-harming emissions in maritime shipping
A new international consortium with maritime industry stakeholders, Center for Ocean Engineering, and IDSS will explore data-powered strategies to reduce harmful emissions, including optimizing vessel operations, finding alternative fuel sources, improving extreme weather prediction, and developing new ship designs.
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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 affiliates named 2024 Schmidt Futures AI2050 Fellows
Marzyeh Ghassemi among those honored with fellowships to advance research on beneficial AI.
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AI in health should be regulated, but don’t forget about the algorithms, researchers say
In a recent commentary, a team from MIT, Equality AI, and Boston University including senior author Marzyeh Ghassemi highlights the gaps in regulation for AI models and non-AI algorithms in health care.
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Researchers reduce bias in AI models while preserving or improving accuracy
New technique developed by researchers including senior author Marzyeh Ghassemi identifies and removes the training examples that contribute most to a machine-learning model’s failures.
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Enabling AI to explain its predictions in plain language
MIT researchers including Kalyan Veeramachaneni of IDSS and LIDS developed a system that uses large language to convert AI explanations into narrative text that can be more easily understood by users.
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Want to design the car of the future? Here are 8,000 designs to get you started.
MIT engineers including IDSS faculty Faez Ahmed developed the largest open-source dataset of car designs, including their aerodynamics, that could speed design of eco-friendly cars and electric vehicles.
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So you want to build a solar or wind farm? Here’s how to decide where.
Researchers including IDSS faculty Saurabh Amin show how detailed mapping of weather conditions and energy demand can guide optimization for siting renewable energy installations.
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What do we know about the economics of AI?
Nobel laureate and IDSS faculty Daron Acemoglu has long studied technology-driven growth. Here’s how he’s thinking about AI’s effect on the economy.
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Community policing in the Global South
International research co-led by IDSS Director Fotini Christia finds an approach lauded in the US works differently in other regions.
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