How likely is it that your mail-in ballot won’t get counted?
“The greatest risks of voting by mail are voters’ own mistakes,” writes IDSS affiliate Charles Stewart III.
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Mobility Systems Center funds low-carbon transportation research projects
IDSS professor Jessika Trancik will study hydrogen mobility systems. IDSS affiliate Jinhua Zhao, now co-director of the Mobility Systems Center, will assess the impacts of Covid-19 on urban mobility.
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Modeling the impact of testing, tracing, and quarantine
A new model built by researchers including SSRC visiting researcher Esteban Moro and IDSS/Media Lab professor Sandy Pentland suggests a plan to keep Covid-19 within the capacity of the healthcare system while enabling the reopening of economic activities.
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Research priorities to support local climate policy
Researchers can play a critical role in supporting local efforts to reduce emissions by co-designing research priorities with local policymakers, writes IDSS professor Jessika Trancik with IDSS researchers Morgan Edwards and Magdalena Klemun.
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Water cooler moments don’t have to disappear in the virtual workplace
MIT Sloan professor and IDSS affiliate Thomas Malone discusses Minglr, a new videoconferencing platform he co-created that replicates the type of chance meetings that happen at in-person conferences.
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Anti-racism in technology and policy design
Media Lab researcher Kate Turner explores how critical race theory can influence science — and how science can inform policy — as an IDSS Research to Policy Engagement Initiative Fellow.
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Causal impact of masks, policies, and behavior on the early spread of Covid-19
A study led by IDSS and Economics professor Victor Chernozhukov suggests that nationally mandating face masks could have reduced pandemic deaths in the US.
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An automated health care system that understands when to step in
SES student Hussein Mozannar, working with Statistics and Data Science Center affiliate David Sontag, has developed a machine learning system that looks at chest X-rays to diagnose pneumonia — but also knows when to defer to a radiologist.
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How hype proliferates
IDSS affiliate and MIT Sloan professor Sinan Aral examines social media’s impact on health, the economy, and democracy.
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Evaluating battery revenues for offshore wind farms using advanced modeling
In a collaboration with MITEI, LIDS principal research scientist Audun Botterud and LIDS postdoc Mehdi Jafari aim to improve the models that estimate battery revenue in renewable energy storage systems.
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