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Explaining the plummeting cost of solar power
Jessika Trancik and her team uncover the factors that have caused photovoltaic module costs to drop by 99 percent.
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Dimitri Bertsekas and John Tsitsiklis awarded von Neumann Theory Prize
The 2018 INFORMS John von Neumann Theory Prize was awarded to Dimitri Bertsekas and John Tsitsiklis for fundamental, sustained contributions to theory in operations research and the management sciences.
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Bridge to the future of engineering
“The new college will create new opportunities to connect with a larger community in sciences, social science, and urban planning and architecture,” says IDSS director Munther Dahleh, commenting on how the cross-disciplinary "bridge" role that IDSS plays at MIT will be expanded under the new Schwarzman College of Computing.
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Control@MIT event brings interdisciplinary systems and control community to LIDS
The Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems event hosted faculty, PIs, students, and postdocs from Harvard, Lincoln Lab, and several MIT departments.
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LIDS student wins Extraordinary Teaching and Mentoring Award
Omer Tanovic, a PhD student at the Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems, has been named the recipient of the 2018 MIT School of Engineering Graduate Student Extraordinary Teaching and Mentoring Award.
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Jessika Trancik wins 2018 Campus Sustainability Incubator Fund grant
The MIT Office of Sustainability awarded professor Trancik's team the grant for their project looking to optimize renewable energy storage systems.
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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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