Technique helps robots find the front door
Engineers including Jonathan How of LIDS have developed a navigation method that enables a robot to use clues in its environment to plan out a route to its destination.
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Better autonomous “reasoning” at tricky intersections
Researchers including Sertac Karaman from the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) have built a model that alerts driverless cars when it’s safest to merge into traffic at intersections with obstructed views.
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Baghdadi’s Martyrdom Bump
Will the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi undermine the popularity of his ideas? Data analyzed from jihadi websites suggests no, say IDSS Associate Director Ali Jadbabaie, IDSS affiliate Rich Nielsen, and former IDSS postdoc Santiago Segarra.
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TPP Alumni Profile: Josephine Wolff
"TPP has fundamentally shaped my understanding of how regulators and governments around the world deal with the threats and risks posed by emerging technologies," says Wolff (TPP ’12, ES ’15), a researcher and professor of cybersecurity policy.
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System prevents speedy drones from crashing in unfamiliar areas
Developed by IDSS/LIDS professor Jonathan How and colleagues, the 'FASTER' model continuously logs collision-free “back-up” paths that slightly deviate from its initial fast flight path.
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Helping autonomous vehicles see around corners
LIDS professor Sertac Karaman and colleagues have developed a system for autonomous vehicles that senses tiny changes in shadows on the ground.
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Building community in the Hammer Society of Fellows
Second annual Hammer luncheon brings together first and second year fellows, grad students and postdocs, IDSS faculty and staff, and Phyllis Hammer, whose gift in memory of her late husband established the Fellowship.
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IDSS affiliate Esther Duflo wins Nobel Prize for Economics
Duflo and MIT professor Abhijit Banerjee share the prize with Michael Kremer of Harvard University for breakthrough antipoverty work.
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Using machine learning to hunt down cybercriminals
TPP alum Cecilia Testart, now a grad student at MIT CSAIL, is part of a team that's building a model to identify “serial hijackers” of internet IP addresses.
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Student profile: Manxi Wu, SES
A doctoral student in the Social and Engineering Systems program and a Hammer Fellow, Manxi's research focuses on the design of information and incentive mechanisms to improve the efficiency and robustness of urban systems.
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