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Renewable energy and carbon pricing policies
TPP director Noelle Eckley Selin and Emil Dimanchev (TPP ’18) used linked economic and air pollution models to show how the cost of renewable energy policies that reduce air pollution can be more than offset by health care savings.
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Augmentation: the promise and possibility of human-machine collaboration
AI designed to work with humans promises to improve job quality and productivity. Hear from researchers including Institute Professor Daron Acemoglu and IDSS postdoc Morgan Frank on augmentation’s design, challenges, and benefits.
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Preparing workers for the era of artificial intelligence
Economist Daron Acemoglu joins a panel to explore how policy could improve outcomes for workers in the face of AI and automation.
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Predicting people’s driving personalities
Researchers including Sertac Karaman of LIDS have developed an algorithm integrating tools from social psychology to help autonomous vehicles predict the behaviors of human drivers.
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Majority of anti-vaccine ads on Facebook were funded by two groups
Research from IDSS alum David Broniatowski (TPP '06, ES '10) shows that 54 percent of the anti-vaccine ads on Facebook were funded by a group headed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and a California-based organization.
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LIDS student Enric Boix part of 2020 Siebel Scholar cohort
Honored for their academic achievements, leadership, and commitments to addressing crucial global challenges, the MIT students are among 93 Siebel Scholars from 16 institutions in the US, China, France, Italy, and Japan.
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Valerie Karplus receives Clean Energy Education & Empowerment award
Karplus (TPP '08, ES '11), an assistant professor at MIT Sloan and "expert on China’s energy system," was recognized by the the U.S. Department of Energy for her leadership and achievements in clean energy education.
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Blockchain isn’t as unbreakable as you think
Before exploring ways to use blockchain in business, managers should know where its vulnerabilities lie, argues IDSS affiliate and MIT Sloan professor Stuart Madnick.
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Cathy Wu wins IEEE ITSS Best PhD Dissertation Award
Wu, a LIDS faculty member who shares an appointment with IDSS and Civil and Environmental Engineering, was awarded first prize for her dissertation 'Learning and Optimization for Mixed Autonomy Systems - A Mobility Context.'
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Sustainability rating for space could help keep junk out of the sky
Space should be treated like a world heritage site argues Danielle Wood (TPP '08), who leads the Space Enabled Research Group at the M.I.T. Media Lab.
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