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How ‘credibility-enhancing displays’ can boost sales and drive people to action
Research from David Rand, an IDSS affiliate and associate professor of management science and brain and cognitive sciences at MIT Sloan, found that residents were far more likely to purchase solar panels when approached by solar ambassadors who had already installed them on their own houses.
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Want to squelch fake news? Let the readers take charge
A new study co-authored by IDSS affiliate David Rand shows that crowdsourced judgments about the quality of news sources may effectively marginalize false news and other kinds of online misinformation.
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Filling the gaps in a patient’s medical data
IDSS affiliate Tommi Jaakkola and fellow CSAIL researchers have developed a model that can assimilate multiple types of patient health data to help doctors make decisions with incomplete information.
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How AI is changing knowledge work
The MIT Tech Review interviews Tom Malone, Sloan management professor, IDSS affiliate, founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, and author of Superminds: The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together.
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Ask a TA: Everything You Need to Know About MIT xPRO’s Online Data Science Course
Eric Bradford, an MIT undergrad majoring in computer science, shares a behind-the-scenes look as a TA for our online course 'Data Science and Big Data Analytics: Making Data-Driven Decisions.'
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School of Engineering welcomes new faculty
IDSS welcomes Cathy Wu, a joint appointment with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, this summer. Suvrit Sra also joined IDSS and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 2018.
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Hastings takes AeroAstro’s reins
AeroAstro Professor and IDSS core faculty member Daniel E. Hastings became head of the MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics Department on Jan. 1.
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Online Education is Paving a Smoother Path to Earning Data Science Skills
Statistics and Data Science Center director Devavrat Shah writes for InsideBIGDATA about the role online education has to play in helping organizations build data science skills and teams -- so they can mine their data for insights and make better decisions.
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Building trustworthy artificial intelligence
Statistics and Data Science Center affiliate Aleksander Madry compares AI to a sharp knife: a useful but potentially hazardous tool that society must learn to wield properly.
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“Climate change will not wait for us”
Updates and reflections from the UN Climate Change Conference, where MIT researchers share knowledge and tools to help nations meet Paris Agreement targets, and students and alumni of our Technology and Policy Program wrestle with the difficulty and importance of climate action.
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