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Report outlines keys to election security
IDSS affiliate and Political Science professor Charles Stewart III has co-authored a report calling for ballot paper trails and other resilient practices to avoid election hacking.
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Social Physics: Reinventing Analytics to Better Predict Human Behaviors
The research of IDSS and Media Lab professor Alex ' Sandy' Pentland shows that predicting human behavior requires the ability to frequently analyze relatively small data sets collected over short periods of time.
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A game changer takes on cricket’s statistical problem
Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems alumnus and CSAIL lecturer Jehangir Amjad uses statistical methods to predict likely outcomes with limited data.
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Reducing false positives in credit card fraud detection
Model developed by researchers at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) extracts granular behavioral patterns from transaction data to more accurately flag suspicious activity.
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Why the Data Marketplaces of the Future Will Sell Insights, Not Data
Data is recognized as a business asset, but we lack efficient ways to price it, says IDSS director Munther Dahleh. He proposes a marketplace that bases the cost of data on the financial value it generates.
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Pablo Parrilo Appointed Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor
The appointment is a senior faculty chaired professorship given in recognition of his outstanding contributions and achievements in both teaching and research.
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Asu Ozdaglar Appointed School of Engineering Distinguished Professor of Engineering
The former LIDS director and current head of EECS is recognized for her outstanding teaching, leadership, and contributions to her field.
READ MORE![MIT political scientist In Song Kim has overseen the launch of LobbyView.org, a website that connects the activities of lobbyists, firms, and politicians, so that people “can understand how legislative politics [actually] works in the U.S.,” as Kim puts it.](https://idss.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MIT-3Q-Lobbying-01_0.jpg)
Database shines a bright light on Washington lobbying
In Song Kim’s LobbyView.org makes it simple to follow the path of money in politics.
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LIDS Welcomes Visiting Scholar Abbas El Gamal Fall 2018
Professor El Gamal visits from Stanford's Department of Electrical Engineering. While at LIDS for the semester, he has co-organized the Topics in Information and Inference seminar with Professor Devavrat Shah.
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Study: Adding power choices reduces cost and risk of carbon-free electricity
Research from Nestor Sepulveda (TPP '16, now a doctoral student in Nuclear Engineering), Jesse Jenkins (TPP '14, ESD '18), and Fernando de Sisternes (TPP '10, ESD '14) provides guidelines for curbing greenhouse gas emissions.
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