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Researchers develop virtual-reality testing ground for drones
With new system, drones navigate through an empty room, avoiding crashes while “seeing” a virtual world.
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A proposed global metric to aid mercury pollution policy
A global-scale metric to assess the impact of mercury emissions policies would help parties assess progress toward their goals to protect human health and the environment from anthropogenic emissions and releases of mercury.
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Yury Polyanskiy and David Sontag granted tenure
LIDS and SDSC affiliate faculty member Yury Polyanskiy and SDSC affiliate member David Sontag were two of seven School of Engineering professors whose tenure was announced this week.
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Celebrating 21st century statistics
MIT Statistics and Data Science Conference (SDSCon) highlights new approaches and varied applications.
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Keeping the balance: How flexible nuclear operation can help add more wind and solar to the grid
Model finds operating nuclear plants flexibly can reduce electricity costs, increase revenue for nuclear plants, and cut carbon emissions in electric power systems.
READ MORELIDS Researchers Win Best Paper Award at IEEE INFOCOM 2018
Two LIDS students and their advisor Eytan Modiano received a 2018 INFOCOM Best Paper Award for their joint paper: "Optimizing Age of Information in Wireless Networks with Throughput Constraints."
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Study: Health benefits will offset cost of China’s climate policy
A 4 percent reduction per year in carbon dioxide emissions should net $339 billion in health savings in 2030, researchers estimate.
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Using data science to improve public policy
MIT Policy Hackathon, run by students within MIT’s Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, seeks interdisciplinary solutions to societal challenges
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IDSS to launch new MicroMasters and PhD programs
Interdisciplinary doctoral program in statistics and online MicroMasters program in statistics and data science begin this fall.
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IDSS Professor Philippe Rigollet receives grant as part of global effort to map every cell in the human body on behalf of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative DAF, an advised fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation
IDSS core faculty Philippe Rigollet was one of 83 principal investigators from around the world whose project was selected for funding.
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