How healthy is the U.S. voting system?
Professor Charles Stewart III explains why the U.S. electoral system is strong and how MIT research is making the voting process even more seamless.
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Why have solar energy costs fallen?
MIT team awarded U.S. Department of Energy grant to investigate cost reductions in solar energy systems.
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MRIs for fetal health
Algorithm could help analyze fetal scans to determine whether interventions are warranted.
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Automating big-data analysis
With new algorithms, data scientists could accomplish in days what has traditionally taken months.
READ MOREIDSS announces new student council
In order to facilitate connections and provide an open environment for discussion, IDSS has assembled a new student council. Ali Jadbabaie, director of the Sociotechnical Systems Research Center (SSRC) will serve as the council's faculty advisor.
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Leading with Data
Seven MIT faculty—including Emery Brown, Munther Dahleh, and Sandy Pentland—talk about advancing health in a data-rich era.
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International Policy Lab issues second annual call for proposals to faculty and researchers
“IPL support was essential in responding to a request by the White House EOP for input ahead of the Paris climate negotiations on the rate and determinants of clean energy technology innovation,” says Jessika Trancik, the Atlantic Richfield Career Development Assistant Professor of Energy Studies at the Institute for Data, Systems and Society.
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3Qs with Fotini Christia and Ali Jadbabaie on researching sociopolitical change
Borders between disciplines at MIT have proven increasingly permeable in recent years. Now, with the new Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), researchers in the social sciences have a powerful platform for collaborating with peers in engineering and the natural sciences.
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Analyzing the 2016 election: Insights from 12 MIT scholars
Experts from MIT SHASS (including Charles Stewart III) weigh in on topics from polling to rhetoric to individual campaign issues.
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MIT economist & IDSS Launch Event keynote speaker Bengt Holmström wins Nobel Prize
Bengt Holmström has been named a winner of the 2016 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for his work on contract theory.
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