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Keeping data fresh for wireless networks
Algorithm provides networks with the most current information available while avoiding data congestion.
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LIDS Prof. Luca Carlone and colleagues win IEEE ‘Transactions on Robotics’ Best Paper Award
The award recognizes “On-Manifold Preintegration for Real-Time Visual-Inertial Odometry” as the best paper published in 2017 in the IEEE Transactions on Robotics journal.
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IDSS faculty recognized at “EECS Celebrates” event
Three IDSS faculty members — Professors Robert Berwick, Devavrat Shah, and John Tsitsiklis — were recognized recently at EECS Celebrates, the annual awards event recognizing outstanding accomplishments of faculty, students, and staff in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS).
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Caroline Uhler awarded J-WAFS seed grant for research on climate impacts on agriculture
The Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab (J-WAFS) awards seed grants to catalyze solutions-oriented research in water and food systems.
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LIDS student receives graduate teaching award
LIDS student Igor Kadota received the Aeronautics and Astronautics Graduate Teaching Assistantship Award, given annually to a graduate student "for conspicuous dedication and skill in helping fulfill a subject's educational objectives."
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Researchers develop virtual-reality testing ground for drones
With new system, drones navigate through an empty room, avoiding crashes while “seeing” a virtual world.
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A proposed global metric to aid mercury pollution policy
A global-scale metric to assess the impact of mercury emissions policies would help parties assess progress toward their goals to protect human health and the environment from anthropogenic emissions and releases of mercury.
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Yury Polyanskiy and David Sontag granted tenure
LIDS and SDSC affiliate faculty member Yury Polyanskiy and SDSC affiliate member David Sontag were two of seven School of Engineering professors whose tenure was announced this week.
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Celebrating 21st century statistics
MIT Statistics and Data Science Conference (SDSCon) highlights new approaches and varied applications.
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Keeping the balance: How flexible nuclear operation can help add more wind and solar to the grid
Model finds operating nuclear plants flexibly can reduce electricity costs, increase revenue for nuclear plants, and cut carbon emissions in electric power systems.
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