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April 8, 2021
Caroline Uhler blends machine learning, statistics, and biology to understand how our bodies respond to illness. -
February 9, 2021
A new algorithm offers insights into consumer spending by identifying what someone purchased from only the bill total. -
December 21, 2020
A smart thermostat quickly learns to optimize building microclimates for both energy consumption and user preference. -
December 18, 2020
A new deep-learning algorithm could provide advanced notice when systems — from satellites to data centers — are falling out of whack. -
July 27, 2020
Four EECS associate professors are among 8 in the School of Engineering who have been granted tenure. -
July 18, 2020
C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute awards $5.4 million to top researchers to steer how society responds to the pandemic. -
June 29, 2020
Professor Yury Polyanskiy It is our great pleasure to share that LIDS professor Yury Polyanskiy received the IEEE Information Theory Society’s 2020 James L. Massey Award. The award recognizes -
June 8, 2020
Longtime professor of electrical engineering was also a transformative director of the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decisions Systems. -
May 18, 2020
Isolat, a volunteer collaboration organized by the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, informs coronavirus policy by analyzing data associated with the pandemic. -
November 17, 2016
Industry leaders, computer scientists, and venture capitalists gather to discuss how smarter computers are remaking our world. -
October 21, 2016
With new algorithms, data scientists could accomplish in days what has traditionally taken months. -
August 5, 2016
Robert Berwick, professor of computer science and engineering and computational linguistics, delivers lecture on the evolution of human language. -
April 5, 2016
ACM SIGMETRICS announced the selection of Professor John Tsitsiklis, Clarence Joseph LeBel Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, as 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. -
March 11, 2016
Assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science discusses his work focusing on learning graphical models from data. -
March 1, 2016
New book by Noam Chomsky and Robert Berwick explores how people acquired unique language skills. -
February 4, 2016
Constantinos Daskalakis adapts techniques from theoretical computer science to game theory. -
December 17, 2015
Devavrat Shah, along with co-authors Vivek Farias of MIT Sloan and Srikanth Jagabathula of NYU Stern, received the Revenue Management and Pricing section prize at INFORMS, for their paper, “A Nonparametric Approach to Modeling Choice with Limited Data.” -
December 17, 2015
The 2015 Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization was presented to Professor Caroline Uhler in an award ceremony on November 20, 2015. -
December 9, 2015
Highest award bestowed by IEEE honors exceptional contributions to the field of data communications. -
July 10, 2015
MIT professors’ choice-modeling software predicts customer preferences for retailers. -
April 9, 2015
Munther Dahleh, the William A. Coolidge Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, will head a new Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) to be launched on July 1. Offering a range of cross-disciplinary academic programs, including a new undergraduate minor in statistics, IDSS will be home to faculty from the Engineering Systems Division (ESD), the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems(LIDS), and the current Sociotechnical Systems Research Center (SSRC). Read more. -
October 21, 2014
Using Bayesian regression, Devavrat Shah, member of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (LIDS) and recent graduate student Kang Zhang have identified patterns from five months of price data from all major Bitcoin exhanges — enabling them to predict the price of Bitcoin — thereby allowing them to double their investment over a 50 day period. Read more.CSAIL, LIDS, InfoSys, AI, Connections -
June 26, 2014
Three EECS faculty members were recently the recipients of major awards. Dimitri Bertsekas received the 2014 American Automatic Control Council Richard Bellman Heritage Award, Rodney Brooks received the 2014 Engelberger Robotics Award for Leadership and the 2015 IEEE Robotics and Automation Award, and Sanjoy Mitter received the 2015 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award. Read more. -
June 11, 2014
EECS faculty member, Robert Berwick, principal investigator in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) has teamed with MIT Linguistics and Philosophy professor Shigeru Miyagawa to reinforce the thesis that human language development is based on bird song and other primates communication. Read more. -
May 30, 2014LIDS researcher pairs new sensor and algorithm for faster data intake and potentially nimbler robots
Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) research scientist Andrea Censi has paired a neuromorphic sensor with lightening speed camera data intake with a new algorithm to give robots a new enhanced sensory system. Read more.
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