Using new models and big data to better understand financial risk
Bringing together engineers, data theorists, mathematicians, economists, biologists, and policy experts, IDSS is looking at financial risk through a multidisciplinary lens.
Using data from social networks to understand and improve systems
Researchers in IDSS are learning how ideas evolve over networks, quantifying the influence of individuals in networks, and making better predictions.
Big, intensive data
Assistant Professor Thomas Heldt mines critical care data to support real-time clinical decision making and improve patient care.
IDSS conversations: Caroline Uhler
Electrical engineering and computer science assistant professor is working at the intersection of genomics and computational biology.
Secure, user-controlled data
Cryptographic system would allow users to decide which applications access which aspects of their data.
Architecture symposium March 30 and 31: Exploring the campus then, now, next
Event welcomes more than 20 speakers over four sessions on designing places for inventing the future.
![“We propose that you use the carbon tax in moderation and use research subsidies for clean technology in order to make that transition [to clean technology] faster,” Daron Acemoglu says.](/sites/default/files/styles/term_page__news_article/public/images/201603/MIT-Clean-Transition.jpg?itok=9m6x46OG)
The games within the games
The world’s biggest sports analytics conference shows how theorists have changed sports.
IDSS conversations: Guy Bresler
Assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science discusses his work focusing on learning graphical models from data.
U.S., EU leaders talk Web policy and world economy at MIT
With EU vice president, U.S. secretary of commerce discusses EU-U.S. “Privacy Shield” and launches new policy program.
Wristband detects and alerts for seizures, monitors stress
Wearable tracks increased skin conductance that signals stress, helps identify dangerous seizures.
System loads Web pages 34 percent faster by fetching files more effectively
"Polaris" system from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab accelerates website load-time by decreasing network trips.
The beginning of the end for encryption schemes?
New quantum computer, based on five atoms, factors numbers in a scalable way.
Testimony: LIGO has “cracked open” a new window to the universe
MIT’s David Shoemaker testifies before Congress on the significance of LIGO.
