Sertac Karaman receives IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Early Career Award
Karaman honored "for contributions to motion planning and control algorithms for robots and autonomous vehicles."
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Driverless platoons
Paper co-authored by Sertac Karaman indicates autonomous trucks that drive in packs could save time and fuel.
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Data diversity
Researchers, including Stefanie Jegelka and Suvrit Sra, recently presented a new algorithm that makes the selection of diverse subsets much more practical.
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MIT Energy Initiative report provides guidance for evolving electric power sector
Experts call for regulatory, policy, and market transformation to realize potential of distributed energy technologies. (Ignacio Pérez-Arriaga is one of the study's PIs, and a number of IDSS students are on the research team.)
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Evaluating voter experience
Research from Charles Stewart III finds that wait times at polls in the 2016 election improved significantly in several key states.
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Study: Mobile-money services lift Kenyans out of poverty
Tavneet Suri is co-author of a new paper showing that mobile-money services have had notable long-term effects on poverty reduction in Kenya—especially among female-headed households—and have inspired a surprising occupation shift among women.
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Why You’re Not Getting Value from Your Data Science
Piece by Kalyan Veeramachaneni considers what it might take for businesses to realize the full potential of their data repositories with machine learning.
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MIT announces MITx MicroMasters program in development economics, with path to full master’s degree
Esther Duflo co-created this program with Abhijit Banerjee and Ben Olken.
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Four MIT students named Schwarzman Scholars
TPP student Alix de Monts selected as a Schwarzman Scholar and will pursue a year of study and leadership training at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
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