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Fleets of drones could aid searches for lost hikers
System designed by MIT researchers, including Jonathan How of LIDS, allows drones to cooperatively explore terrain under thick forest canopies where GPS signals are unreliable.
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Study: Impact of mercury-controlling policies shrinks with every five-year delay
A new study by TPP director Noelle Selin and Hélène Angot, a former IDSS postdoc, finds that the longer countries wait to reduce mercury emissions, the less effective any emissions-reducing policies will be when they are eventually implemented.
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IDSS conference explores data disruption in the retail sector
Industry and academic leaders discussed how retailers are personalizing sales and delivering unique customer experiences — with the help of machine learning, predictive analytics, and artificial intelligence.
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Election Insights 2018: On Civil Society and Democracy
IDSS and Economics professor Daron Acemoglu offers his perspective on the 2018 election: "What is written in a constitution can take a nation only so far unless society is willing to act to protect it."
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Model paves way for faster, more efficient translations of more languages
IDSS affiliate Tommi Jaakkola and CSAIL researchers have developed a model leveraging a metric in statistics, called Gromov-Wasserstein distance, that could lead to faster, more efficient language translations.
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Celebrating the legacy of Michael Hammer and the new Hammer Fellowship
MIT senior leaders and IDSS faculty, staff, and students joined Phyllis Thurm Hammer and her family and friends in a celebration marking the launch of the new Hammer Society of Fellows.
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How should autonomous vehicles be programmed?
A new survey developed by MIT researchers, including Media Lab professor and IDSS affiliate Iyad Rahwan, reveals global preferences and regional variations concerning the ethics of autonomous vehicles. Their paper, “The Moral Machine Experiment,” has been published in Nature.
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Truth, lies, and tribal voters
A look at recent insights about fake news from MIT researchers, including IDSS affiliates Adam Berinksy, Sinan Aral, David Rand, and Teppei Yamamoto.
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HUBweek Policy Hackathon delivers solutions to local challenges
Citizens and data scientists produce actionable recommendations for high-priority Boston-area issues at an IDSS student-run event during Boston's annual ideas festival.
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Refining the “science” of political science
IDSS affiliate Teppei Yamamoto studies political cause and effect, including a project with fellow IDSS affiliate Adam Berinsky examining the effects of news media on political views.
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