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Building community in the Hammer Society of Fellows
Second annual Hammer luncheon brings together first and second year fellows, grad students and postdocs, IDSS faculty and staff, and Phyllis Hammer, whose gift in memory of her late husband established the Fellowship.
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IDSS affiliate Esther Duflo wins Nobel Prize for Economics
Duflo and MIT professor Abhijit Banerjee share the prize with Michael Kremer of Harvard University for breakthrough antipoverty work.
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Using machine learning to hunt down cybercriminals
TPP alum Cecilia Testart, now a grad student at MIT CSAIL, is part of a team that's building a model to identify “serial hijackers” of internet IP addresses.
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Student profile: Manxi Wu, SES
A doctoral student in the Social and Engineering Systems program and a Hammer Fellow, Manxi's research focuses on the design of information and incentive mechanisms to improve the efficiency and robustness of urban systems.
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Experts urge “full speed ahead” on climate action
An MIT climate change symposium panel chaired by TPP director and IDSS/EAPS professor Noelle Selin described the state of knowledge in climate science and stressed the urgent need for action.
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System helps smart devices find their position
A system designed by LIDS professor Moe Win and colleagues enables interconnected smart devices to cooperatively pinpoint their positions in noisy environments where GPS usually fails.
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Alumni in academia: energy and climate
We’ve profiled four former TPP students -- three of whom are also IDSS PhD alumni -- whose work has involved the critical societal challenges of energy and climate change. All four are beginning new chapters in their careers as faculty members at universities across the country.
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Reaching climate solutions through negotiation
IDSS affiliate and Sloan professor John Sterman led “SimPlanet,” an event where students tried a new computer simulation to reveal climate outcomes of different policy decisions.
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How “information gerrymandering” influences voters
“The structure of information networks can really fundamentally influence the outcomes of elections,” says David Rand, IDSS affiliate, associate professor at MIT Sloan, and co-author of the paper detailing the study.
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A four-step plan for fighting social media manipulation in elections
MIT Sloan professors and IDSS affiliates Sinan Aral and Dean Eckles propose a four-step process for researchers to measure and analyze social media manipulation -- and to turn that data into a defense against future manipulation.
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