MITEI’s 2019 Annual Research Conference highlights “energy at scale” and engagement as levers of decarbonization
IDSS professor Jessika Tranick joined faculty, students, and research staff from IDSS, MIT, and beyond to discuss the urgency of the climate crisis, collaborating on decarbonization, and the role of policy in combatting global temperature rise.
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Cybersecurity Experts Are Leaving the Federal Government. That’s a Problem.
The departures leave critical infrastructure, elections, data, and networks vulnerable, argues TPP alum and Tufts professor Josephine Wolff.
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Caroline Uhler and Elchanan Mossel receive Simons Investigator Awards
Uhler, a faculty member of IDSS, LIDS, and EECS, received her award for the 'Mathematical Modeling of Living Systems.' Mossel, a faculty member of IDSS and Mathematics and a LIDS affiliate, received his award for theoretical math.
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Tracking emissions in China
New research from IDSS alum and MIT Sloan professor Valerie Karplus evaluates the impact of new air pollution standards on sulfur dioxide emissions by coal-burning power plants in China.
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Solutions For Economic Inequality From 2019 Nobel Prize Winners
Nobel Prize in Economics winners Esther Duflo, an IDSS affiliate, and Abhijit Banerjee discuss tackling tricky global challenges like economic inequality. Includes an excerpt from their book "Good Economics for Hard Times."
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A pioneer of wearable technology explains how it can connect instead of divide us
IDSS affiliate Sandy Pentland says businesses, governments, and individuals can design for more meaningful interaction by using sophisticated mobile sensors and big data to detect hidden patterns of human interaction.
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Model beats Wall Street analysts in forecasting business financials
A research team led by Devavrat Shah has built a model that outperforms Wall Street experts at predicting a company's sales using limited, noisy data like anonymized credit card transactions.
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See the future of global warming in less than one second
A new online interface called En-ROADS, created by a team including IDSS affiliate and MIT Sloan professor John Sterman, is a free climate solution simulator that can show effects of various climate policies.
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Mitigating the methane impacts of using natural gas
A new study from IDSS professor Jessika Trancik examines how natural gas can serve as a bridge toward a lower-emissions future — but also as a contributor to greenhouse gas emissions.
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What a drone sees
Sertac Karaman and his team at LIDS use virtual reality to train drones to navigate tricky terrain without the risk of colliding with physical objects.
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