From toilet paper to vaccines, all eyes were on supply chain in 2020. What about 2021?
In his book The New (Ab)Normal, IDSS affiliate Yossi Sheffi details how businesses grappled with the chaos of the coronavirus pandemic – and how they can survive in 2021 and beyond.
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Preparing for the next pandemic
TPP student and former US Army medical officer Molly McGuigan models PPE need for healthcare facilities from hospitals to dentist offices.
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Dava Newman named director of MIT Media Lab
An IDSS affiliate, visionary astronautics researcher, explorer, and expert on human adaptation to space, Dava Newman will help write the next chapter of the Institute’s world-renowned research center.
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Asuman Ozdaglar named IEEE Fellow
Asuman Ozdaglar, IDSS and LIDS professor and EECS department head, is one of four from MIT named IEEE Fellow for advancing innovation in her field and for work that promotes technology to benefit society.
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A new approach to studying religion and politics
MIT political scientist Richard Nielsen combines ethnography and big data to analyze clerics and preachers in the Islamic world.
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Method finds hidden warning signals in measurements collected over time
A new deep-learning algorithm from the Data-to-AI group in LIDS could provide advanced notice when systems — from satellites to data centers — are falling out of whack.
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Solving the social dilemma
IDSS affiliate and Sloan professor Sinan Aral tries to figure out how to keep social media from ruining our world.
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Making smart thermostats more efficient
Researchers from LIDS have designed a smart thermostat that quickly learns to optimize building microclimates for both energy consumption and user preference.
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Modeling the impacts of sustainability policies
Minghao Qiu combines predictive models with real-world data to assess policy effectiveness and inform policy design.
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Seeing the values behind the numbers
In her new book “Data Action,” urban planning professor and IDSS affiliate Sarah Williams issues a call for thinking ethically about data today.
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