MIT Sloan conference to focus on big data
IDSS faculty Andrew Lo and Sandy Pentland and IDSS executive director Elizabeth Bruce will speak at “Big Data: Shaping the Future of Latin America” in Bogotá, Colombia on May 26.
READ MOREThe political hurdles facing a carbon tax—and how to overcome them
Coverage of working paper by Jesse Jenkins (TPP alum and Engineering Systems PhD candidate) and Valerie Karplus (TPP and Engineering Systems alum).
READ MORENew study by Andrew Lo on a trading strategy based on views posted on Twitter
A new working paper overseen by Andrew Lo indicates a trading strategy based on views posted on Twitter prior to Federal Reserve policy meetings regularly turned a profit.
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New technologies challenge old assumptions about the electric grid
MIT Technology & Policy Program alum and Engineering Systems PhD student Jesse Jenkins talks to WNPR about the new MITEI Utility of the Future study.
READ MOREVictor Chernozhukov among six MIT faculty members elected to the AAAS
Victor Chernozhukov, professor of economics and core faculty member of IDSS, is among six MIT faculty members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Self-driving cars, meet rubber duckies
A spring class taught by Andrea Censi and Liam Paull aims to create a fleet of 50 duckie-adorned, self-driving taxis that can navigate the roads of a model city with just a single on-board camera and no pre-programmed maps.
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Cambridge-based startup to soon test its driverless car tech
Startup nuTonomy (led by Emilio Frazzoli) seeks to develop autonomous cars.
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How network effects hurt economies
Daron Acemoglu and colleagues have found cases where industry-specific problems lead to six-fold declines in production across the U.S. economy as a whole.
READ MOREIDSS and Thomson Reuters collaborate to advance innovation in data science, finance, and risk analytics
IDSS announces a new collaboration with Thomson Reuters. As a founding industry member of IDSS and a founding sponsor of IDSS’s finance initiative, Thomson Reuters will work with IDSS to advance innovation and research in applications of big data in the finance sector, including understanding, measuring, and mitigating financial risk.
READ MOREJohn Tsitsiklis Receives 2016 ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award
John N. Tsitsiklis, Clarence J. Lebel Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, is 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.
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