How network effects hurt economies
Daron Acemoglu and colleagues have found cases where industry-specific problems lead to six-fold declines in production across the U.S. economy as a whole.
READ MOREIDSS and Thomson Reuters collaborate to advance innovation in data science, finance, and risk analytics
IDSS announces a new collaboration with Thomson Reuters. As a founding industry member of IDSS and a founding sponsor of IDSS’s finance initiative, Thomson Reuters will work with IDSS to advance innovation and research in applications of big data in the finance sector, including understanding, measuring, and mitigating financial risk.
READ MOREJohn Tsitsiklis Receives 2016 ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award
John N. Tsitsiklis, Clarence J. Lebel Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, is the recipient of the 2016 ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award, in recognition of his fundamental contributions to decentralized control and consensus, approximate dynamic programming, and statistical learning.
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IDSS announces new minor in statistics and data science
Through six subjects, MIT’s new minor in statistics and data science will provide students with a working knowledge base in statistics, probability, and computation, and develop their ability to perform data analysis.
READ MOREIDSS and Booz Allen Hamilton collaborate to advance research and education in data science
(IDSS) announces Booz Allen Hamilton as a founding industry member—collaborating with IDSS in support of its mission to address complex challenges by advancing education and research at the intersection of statistics, data science, information and decision systems, and social science.
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IDSS presents April 8th workshop: “Data, Analytics, and Risk in Finance”
This workshop will focus on opportunities for big data and predictive analytics in finance and economics, including new approaches to modeling, measuring, and understanding risk.
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Startup bringing driverless taxi service to Singapore
MIT spinout nuTonomy is developing a fleet of driverless taxis to serve as a more convenient form of public transit while helping reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the densely populated city-state of Singapore. Emilio Frazzoli is co-founder and chief technology officer of nuTonomy.
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IDSS Conversations: Caroline Uhler
Electrical engineering and computer science assistant professor is working at the intersection of genomics and computational biology.
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Paper by Paul Grogan and Olivier de Weck selected for award at SCS Annual Simulation Symposium
"Collaborative Design in the Sustainable Infrastructure Planning Game," by Paul Grogan and Olivier de Weck, has been selected for the best paper award at the upcoming SCS (Spring Simulation Multi-Conference) Annual Simulation Symposium (ANSS), April 3-6 in Pasadena, CA.
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Communicating vehicles could ease through intersections more efficiently
New paper co-authored by Emilio Frazzoli suggests that sensor-laden vehicles that communicate with each other could allow twice as much traffic to use the roads.
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