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3 Questions: Anuradha Annaswamy on building smart infrastructures
Using a combination of control theory, cognitive science, economic modeling, and ... hinges on uncertainty. How does cloudy weather affect a grid powered by solar energy? How do we ensure that electricity is delivered ... Theory shows that if you can use pricing as an incentive, people are much more loss-averse so they would be willing to walk a bit extra ...
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Artificial data give the same results as real data — without compromising privacy
... to access the data they would like to work with. In a paper presented at the IEEE International Conference on Data Science and ... test approaches without breaching the privacy of the real people — including their friends and family — who are using their ...
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Data diversity
... for Information and Decision Systems have designed a new algorithm that makes it much more practical to select diverse subsets ... problem. But this model previously hasn’t been practical. People came up with all kinds of approximations for the problem, but none of ...
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3 Questions: New MIT major and its role in fighting climate change
... Sciences, respectively. The two helped oversee the launch of a new joint degree program in climate system science and engineering. ... The students at MIT are among the most passionate and driven people out there. I'm really excited to see what kind of innovations and ...
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Investigating at the interface of data science and computing
Guy Bresler, a newly-tenured associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering ... Article MIT News A visual model of Guy Bresler’s research would probably look something like a ... MIT is. I have this mental list of more than 20 people here who I would love to have lunch with every single week and ...
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An interdisciplinary approach to fighting climate change through clean energy solutions
... goal in the fight against climate change, and will require a switch from current, greenhouse-gas producing energy sources (such as coal ... and we can apply them to power and energy problems. Other people at LIDS are working on energy too, so there is growing momentum to ...
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A faster way to teach a robot
... LIDS Affiliate Member Pulkit Agrawal, have developed a technique that enables a human to efficiently fine-tune a robot that failed ... users. They first conducted a study in which they asked people if counterfactual explanations helped them identify elements that could ...
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Moving beyond games
... When Mengdi Wang SM ‘10 PhD ’13 was a graduate student at LIDS she took a course on poker. Mengdi played often at ... insurance companies to optimize the treatment plan for people receiving knee replacement surgery, the only data available were several ...
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ML 2.0: Machine learning for many
... As the momentum builds, developers will be able to set up a ML [machine learning] apparatus just as they set up a database," says Max ... learning. We want to make ML useful to a broad swath of people,” he adds. In the next five years, we are likely to see an ...
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System trains driverless cars in simulation before they hit the road
... Article MIT News A simulation system invented at MIT to train driverless cars creates a ... motion of the pixels to capture the movement of the cars and people, and other moving objects, in the scene. “This is equivalent to ...