March 24, 2017
In the power grid, supply and demand need to match exactly. If consumers demand more power than producers can supply, or if producers provide more power than consumers need, the result can be rolling blackouts.
March 20, 2017
John Tsitsiklis, an MIT professor of electrical engineering and computer science, has been appointed director of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), and associate director of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, effective April 1. Tsitsiklis has previously served
March 17, 2017
Brian Jones, the System Administrator for LIDS, was the winner of a 2017 MIT Excellence Award for Serving the Client, which he received in a campus-wide ceremony on March 16, 2017.
March 7, 2017
Caroline Uhler has been awarded a 2017 Sloan Research Fellowship. These fellowships have been awarded since 1955 and were concieved to honor "early-career scholars whose achievements mark them as the next generation of scientific leader
March 7, 2017
Sertac Karaman has been awarded the 2017 Young Investigator Award by the Office of Naval Research. The Young Investigator Program "seeks to identify and support academic scientists and engineers who are in their first or second full-time tenure-track or tenure-track-equivalent academic appointme
