Fly me to the moon
Graduating TPP student Becca Browder is taking her research on commercial spaceports to a new job at SpaceX – and has worked for years to get an MIT experiment on the moon.
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On a quest through uncharted territory
Math professor and new SDSC director Ankur Moitra seeks algorithms with provable guarantees, to pin down the mechanisms of machine learning.
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Celebrating IDSS 2021 graduates
IDSS congratulates our almost 100 grads — from SES, TPP, the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Statistics, the minor in Statistics and Data Science, and students affiliated with LIDS.
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The potential of artificial intelligence to bring equity in health care
Nearly 1,400 joined the AI for Health Care Equity Conference that explored new AI technologies as a platform for change, co-organized by the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
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Paths from research to impact: a year of collaborative research on Covid-19
IDSS hosted a day-long workshop exploring different ways that data-driven research from MIT and beyond impacted pandemic policy.
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New algorithms show accuracy, reliability in gauging unconsciousness
To help anesthesiologists optimize drug doses, researchers led by Emery Brown trained algorithms to make predictions about whether a patient was unconscious based on EEG readings of brain rhythms.
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To understand race in Africa today, look to the past, panelists say
With speakers from Sudan, Nigeria, South Africa, and the United States, including IDSS affiliate Tavneet Suri, an online discussion sought to position racial justice in an international context.
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Helping robots collaborate to get the job done
MIT researchers, including IDSS core faculty Jonathan How, have designed an algorithm to ensure the fruitful cooperation of information-gathering robot teams.
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Confronting Disinformation Spreaders on Twitter Only Makes It Worse
According to the study, co-authored by IDSS affiliate faculty David Rand, being corrected online only escalates the behavior of original posters.
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Anesthesia doesn’t simply turn off the brain — it changes its rhythms
A uniquely deep and detailed study of how the commonly used anesthetic propofol causes unconsciousness comes from a collaboration of labs and researchers, including IDSS core faculty Emery Brown.
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