COP26 is bringing many calls for action. Some are already taking action.
“One of the really important aspects of addressing climate change is bringing everyone into the discussion,” says Jessika Trancik, IDSS core faculty.
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School of Science appoints 11 faculty members to named professorships
Ankur Moitra, an IDSS core faculty member and the director of the SDSC, is now the Norbert Wiener Professor of Mathematics.
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Satellites Can Spy a Menace in West Africa: Invasive Flowers
Danielle Wood, TPP alumna, is part of a team that has published findings showing how Earth observation technologies can map and monitor hard-to-reach areas to inform local decisionmaking.
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Avoiding shortcut solutions in artificial intelligence
A new method in a paper from researchers including IDSS affiliates Suvrit Sra and Stefanie Jegelka forces a machine learning model to focus on more data when learning a task, which leads to more reliable predictions.
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Making machine learning more useful to high-stakes decision makers
Findings could be applied to high-risk fields where humans use machine learning models to help them make decisions, but lack data science experience, says LIDS principal research scientist Kalyan Veeramachaneni.
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Chronicles of the epic mission to deliver Covid vaccines to the world
“A Shot in the Arm,” a new book from IDSS affiliate Yossi Sheffi, reveals lessons about overcoming global threats.
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How AI could solve supply chain shortages and save Christmas
Stress testing with AI-powered simulations can identify issues before they happen, says IDSS core faculty David Simchi-Levi.
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Climate experts: Clean tech is here, now we need people power
“Thanks to policy investments over the last decade, we have a toolset available of mature technologies that [are] cheap and ready to scale, including wind and solar power,” said Jesse Jenkins, IDSS alumnus.
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3 Questions: Administering elections in a hyper-partisan era
MIT professor of political science and IDSS affiliate Charles Stewart III discusses the status of US election administration.
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MIT Collaborates with Biogen on Three-Year, $7 Million Initiative to Address Climate, Health, and Equity
“Our work with Biogen has allowed us to make progress on key questions that matter to human health and well-being under climate change,” said IDSS core faculty Noelle Selin.
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