Paper co-authored by TPP alum Yi Xue and Prof. Richard Larson wins award
A 2015 paper co-authored by TPP alum Yi Xue and Professor Richard Larson won the Best Paper of the Year Award from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, published in the Monthly Labor Review.
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People are worried Trump will stop climate progress. The numbers suggest he can’t.
Opinion piece by Jessika Trancik takes a look at the potential for disruption of global climate progress.
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Meeting of the minds for machine intelligence
Industry leaders, computer scientists, and venture capitalists gather to discuss how smarter computers are remaking our world.
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MIT at COP22
At UN Climate Change Conference, MIT's attendees—including some affiliated with IDSS—share insights on implementing climate commitments.
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Deep Thinking About Interconnections
Profile of IDSS director Munther Dahleh, emphasizing research in areas of the power grid, abstract modeling, and mitigating network failures.
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For Hotels, Online Reviews Really Matter to the Bottom Line
Researchers, including Sinan Aral, find that hotel ratings changes on popular review platforms lead to changes in demand and price.
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Seeking to inform India’s climate policy choices
Arun Singh (TPP student) shares energy-economic modeling research at UN Climate Change Conference. (One of Singh's advisors is Valerie Karplus, a TPP and Engineering Systems PhD alum.)
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Tackling society’s big problems with systems theory
Ali Jadbabaie seeks to optimize large-scale systems, from social networks to teams of people or devices.
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Opinion piece by Maimuna Majumder, an Engineering Systems PhD candidate.
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Whose Life Should Your Car Save?
Op-ed co-written by Iyad Rahwan looks at an ethical dilemma related to self-driving cars.
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