You Can Now Hail a Self-Driving Lyft in This U.S. City
From Wednesday, some passengers in Boston were able to hail a self-driving car through their Lyft rideshare app as part of a highly anticipated trial of autonomous vehicles in the city.
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Try this! Researchers devise better recommendation algorithm
Improved recommendation algorithm should work especially well when ratings data are “sparse.”
READ MOREDavid Simchi-Levi next Editor-in-Chief of Management Science
IDSS Professor Simchi-Levi was appointed next EiC of one of INFORMS flagship journals Management Science. Previously he was the EiC of INFORMS other leading journal, Operations Research, from 2006-2012.
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Engineering a brighter future
Optimizing the design of electricity markets could make it easier to integrate renewable energy sources into the power grid.
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Gearing up for the internet of things
Workshop brings together academia and industry to explore how to prepare next-generation wireless for machine-to-machine communication.
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Helping Mexico design an effective climate policy
MIT researchers are working with the Mexican government on carbon pricing options to meet the country’s climate goals under the Paris Agreement.
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A Q&A with IDSS PhD student and Siebel Scholar Marco Miotti
IDSS doctoral candidate Marco Miotti received a prestigious Siebel Foundation Scholarship in October 2017. He sat with us recently to share some reflections on his work, his experiences at IDSS, and the future of research.
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Why some Muslim clerics become jihadists
In his new book, political scientist Richard Nielsen proposes a “blocked ambition” hypothesis.
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IDSS Researchers Sra and Jegelka Awarded NSF BIGDATA Grant
IDSS Professor Jegelka and Research Scientist Sra have been awarded a Critical Techniques, Technologies and Methodologies for Advancing Foundations and Applications of Big Data Sciences and Engineering (BIGDATA) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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Sixteen MIT grad students are named to the Siebel Scholars class of 2018
Marco Miotti of IDSS is among the MIT students from the bioengineering, business, computer science, and energy science fields to receive the prestigious awards.
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