The magazine of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
In this issue you will find articles on our Assistant Director for Administration Debbie Wright, graduate students Ermin Wei and Mesrob Ohanessian, research scientist Ketan Savla, Professor David Forney, LIDS Advisory Committee member Manfred Morari, and alums Sridevi Sarma and Martin Wainwright.
We are about to complete another exciting year at LIDS. This was a particularly special year because of the MIT150 celebrations...
It happens in the blink of an eye. A press of the 'Enter' key returns Google search results almost instantaneously. Video chats easily collapse...
From "Likes" on Facebook to five-star movie ratings on Netflix and uploaded images in Google Photos, our world is virtually leaking raw data.
It's not everyday that a lab develops a new science. But that's exactly what's happening at LIDS, where research scientist Ketan Savla...
Ermin Wei is one of the newest members of LIDS, yet she's already had a taste of how her ideas in distributed optimization could change technology.
While Sridevi Sarma was a post-doc in the prestigious neuroscience lab led by Emery Brown in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences department at MIT...
When Manfred Morari looks back over the 35 years of his career, he will tell you that his graduate school years, spent under his advisor George Stephanopoulos...
"When we observe the complex world around us, it is inevitable that we leave a good part of the possibilities unseen."
I am the Assistant Director for Administration. This means that I have primary responsibility for all financial, personnel, grants management...