News
Dan Huttenlocher named inaugural dean of MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
Dan Huttenlocher SM ’84, PhD ’88 has been named the first dean of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing. A member of Cornell’s computer science faculty, Huttenlocher is the founding dean of Cornell Tech.
READ MORE
Student profile: Julia Milton, TPP
A dual Technology and Policy/AeroAstro student, Julia's research focuses on developing sensors and metrics for remote telehealth systems -- helpful in remote regions, essential for astronauts in space.
READ MORE
LIDS Student Conference
The 24th annual LIDS Student Conference featured plenary speakers, a career panel, and student presentations on topics like Optimization and Algorithms, Networks, Machine Learning and Statistics, and Control Theory and Applications.
READ MORE
MIFODS hosts workshop on theoretical foundations of deep learning
The NSF-supported MIT Institute for Foundations of Data Science (MIFODS) held an interdisciplinary workshop led by Statistics and Data Science Center affiliate Aleksander Madry aimed at tackling the underlying theory behind deep learning.
READ MORE
Hamsa Balakrishnan on reimagining the future of transportation
IDSS affiliate Hamsa Balakrishnan is the associate head of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. She is also the director of Transportation@MIT, where she is reimagining the scope of transportation research at MIT to include opportunities presented by data, intelligence, and autonomy.
READ MORE
Casey Evans named to Aviation Week’s “20 Twenties” of 2019
A Technology and Policy Program student, Casey Evans is one of three MIT grad students recognized by Aviation Week for her academic performance, civic contributions, and research.
READ MORE
Six IDSS faculty awarded promotions
IDSS congratulates Hamsa Balakrishnan, Guy Bresler, Tamara Broderick, Dean Eckles, Stefanie Jegelka, and Suvrit Sra on reaching new career milestones.
READ MORE
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.
READ MORE
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.
READ MORE
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.
READ MORE