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The Nutritious Supply Chain: Optimizing Humanitarian Food Aid
... agency fighting hunger worldwide, reaching around 80 million people with food assistance in 75 countries each year. To deal with the ... and functional areas. This presentation describes a mixed integer linear programming model that simultaneously optimizes the food ...
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Empowering African farmers with data
... LIDS faculty member Munther Dahleh is part of a new MIT IDSS research collaboration that aims to use better prediction to ... (see original article ) With a couple billion more people estimated to join the global population in the next few decades, world ...
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Spotting objects amid clutter
Robots currently attempt to identify objects in a point cloud by comparing a template object — a 3-D dot representation of an ... a three-dimensional cloud of data, reminiscent of how some people can make sense of a densely patterned “Magic Eye” image if they ...
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Crowdsourcing Information in Informal Supply Chains
... formal contracts. In such informal working environments, people make decisions based on information that is exchanged through informal ... policies and show that information sharing emerges as a subgame-perfect Nash equilibrium that is welfare-improving for all ...
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LIDS student Ian Schneider to be first graduate of IDSS Social & Engineering Systems (SES) doctoral program
... for an Evolving Power System.’ This success marks a major milestone for the Social & Engineering Systems doctoral program: its ... either analyze or design mechanisms that make sense for both people and the systems at the same time.” Schneider is also an alum of ...
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GW6 Research Summit
... and encouragement during their degree. First 50 people to sign up will be eligible for food reimbursement during the event, and all participants will be entered in a raffle for GW6 Summit Swag! All members of the MIT community are encouraged ...
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The Societal Impacts of Algorithmic Decision-Making
... Algorithms and AI systems are used to make decisions about people in a variety of contexts, including lending, hiring, and healthcare. Algorithms ...
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Tales From the Trenches of Foundation
... mathematics of probability have to do with the real world?' People don't like that kind of question. They seem to find it an attack, like ... well, too bad. I'll talk about the mathematics of flipping a coin, shuffling cards, generating random numbers, and using MCMC for serious ...
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Displacement and Return: How Social Media Captures Migration Decisions Syria
... war has resulted in the displacement of several million people now residing inside Syria as internally displaced or in neighboring ... Since monitoring refugee return in war prone areas is a complex, expensive and sometimes dangerous task, the use of social media may ...
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Designing AI for Racial Equity: Translating Ethics into Practice
... data-based systems like AI/ML should avoid unjust impacts on people, especially those from historically marginalized populations. But even ... is gaining greater academic, industry, and public attention a core challenge persists: how do we operationalize these ideas in the design, ...