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TPP and SES students win awards at annual Technology, Management, and Policy Consortium
Ian Schneider, an alum of the Technology and Policy Program (TPP) and current Social and Engineering Systems (SES) PhD student, won Senior Paper. The Junior Paper award went to Nathaniel Fruchter, a current TPP student.
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Chip upgrade helps miniature drones navigate
Low-power design will allow devices as small as a honeybee to determine their location while flying.
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Method man
Alberto Abadie refines the tools of economics — and gets some interesting results along the way.
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Fabrication of new materials: Designing “recipes” using artificial intelligence
Professors Stefanie Jegelka (left) and Elsa Olivetti have developed a new method of formulating procedures for making novel materials for energy and other applications. Key to their method is a natural language processing system that can quickly search thousands of articles in past journals and pick out descriptions of procedures for making specific types of materials.
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MITx MicroMasters Program in Statistics and Data Science opens enrollment
Program offers path to an accelerated master’s degree at seven universities.
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LIDS Researchers Win 2018 ACM MobiHoc Best Paper Award
LIDS faculty members Sertac Karaman and Eytan Modiano, along with LIDS student Rajat Talak, received the 2018 ACM MobiHoc Best Paper Award for their paper, "Optimizing Information Freshness in Wireless Networks under General Interference Constraints.”
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IDSS and IDSS-affiliated graduates were awarded 22 doctoral degrees, 36 Masters of Science, 13 Masters of Engineering, and 6 undergraduates were awarded bachelor’s degrees with a Minor in Statistics and Data Science.
READ MORELIDS Student Matthew Brennan Wins Best Student Paper Award at COLT 2018
The paper, "Reducibility and Computational Lower Bounds for Problems with Planted Sparse Structure,” was coauthored by LIDS student Matthew Brennan, LIDS professor Guy Bresler, and RLE postdoc Wasim Huleihel.
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Keeping data fresh for wireless networks
Algorithm provides networks with the most current information available while avoiding data congestion.
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LIDS Prof. Luca Carlone and colleagues win IEEE ‘Transactions on Robotics’ Best Paper Award
The award recognizes “On-Manifold Preintegration for Real-Time Visual-Inertial Odometry” as the best paper published in 2017 in the IEEE Transactions on Robotics journal.
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