MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS)

IDSS and One League are thrilled to announce our latest partnership supporting our shared mission to democratize access to transformative, world-class education for the most high-potential changemakers of the world. Learn more about our partnership at https://lnkd.in/eeWzqPkY. Together with IDSS, One League offers the Generative AI & Data Science Fellowship and the MBA with a Generative AI & Data Science Track — empowering professionals with the expertise to harness AI responsibly, drive innovation, and lead effectively in a rapidly evolving global landscape. The program offers opportunities for career-shaping mentorship from One League and the ability to learn directly from MIT teaching staff and attend exclusive MIT IDSS events and seminars. Admissions for the 2026 cohort are now open. Learn more and apply at https://one-league.org/dsf.

A new approach developed by researchers including IDSS faculty Luca Carlone could help a search-and-rescue robot navigate an unpredictable environment by rapidly generating an accurate map of its surroundings. https://bit.ly/3WDIswu

Nobel laureate on why she became an economist, which tools and interventions have shown success in reducing poverty, and the role of public-private collaboration in solving seemingly intractable problems. https://bit.ly/4nd49yd

Celebrating 50 years of impact, MIT’s Technology and Policy Program Looks to the Future Bringing together voices from around the world, the MIT Technology and Policy Program (TPP) marked its 50th anniversary with a landmark symposium celebrating a half-century of education, research, and impact — while looking ahead to the defining technology policy issues of the future. Read more! https://lnkd.in/e9a4fFvH MIT Technology and Policy Program MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS)

Bringing together voices from around the world, the MIT Technology and Policy Program (TPP) marked its 50th anniversary with a landmark symposium celebrating a half-century of education, research, and impact — while looking ahead to the defining technology policy issues of the future. https://bit.ly/47ej2vx #technology #policy

Our work on offline and online settings of RL from human feedback (RLHF) with KL-regularization —a widely used objective function in LLM alignment to human preferences— under the ϵ-local differential privacy (ϵ-LDP) model. We provide optimality by providing a matching lower bound in offline setting and logarithmic regret bounds in online setting. https://lnkd.in/dT9-DBpv with Yulian Wu, Rushil Thareja, Praneeth Vepakomma and Francesco Orabona MBZUAI (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence), KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology), MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), MIT Schwarzman College of Computing

Through our education partnership with UTEC - Universidad Tecnológica, over 100 learners in Uruguay now hold the MIT MicroMasters Program in Statistics and Data Science credential. In addition to in-demand skills in #datascience and #machinelearning, these accomplished practitioners can bring complex problem-solving ability to challenges in many domains. IDSS had the pleasure of welcoming several of them, along with program staff, on a visit to our campus this month. https://lnkd.in/eh_AaC8r

Nuclear propulsion in commercial shipping is one of the most promising solutions for green shipping. It is also a central theme of the MIT Maritime Consortium and today we announce the first of its kind nuclear safety handbook for commercial shipping, the result of an excellent collaboration between multiple Massachusetts Institute of Technology units: Center for Ocean Engineering, MIT Naval Construction and Engineering, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, MIT Technology and Policy Program, and MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), with valuable input by key industry stakeholders: American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), Capital Clean Energy Carriers Corp. and HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co., Ltd. (HD KSOE). At maritime.mit.edu you can also find a detailed ship design study for retrofitting a 12,000 TEU container ship, coupled with a rigorous techno economic analysis supported by real world data provided by Capital Clean Energy Carriers Corp. that shows strong financial benefits under various emission tax scenarios. Very thankful to all our innovation and founding members for their strong supoort and to Anne Wilson for writing the MIT News Article! Many more results coming soon on the technology, policy and social perception of nuclear in the commercial shipping world! Fotini Christia, Anthony Valiaveedu, Nat Edmonds, Koroush Shirvan, Jacopo Bouongiorno, Jose Izurieta, Andrew Gillespy, Christopher MacLean #nuclearpropulsion #shipbuilding #decarbonization #maritime https://lnkd.in/e7RKzHcX

MIT Technology and Policy Program (TPP) students Anthony Valiaveedu and Nat Edmonds are among the co-authors of this first-of-its-kind handbook, which serves to guide the design safety for civilian nuclear ships. https://bit.ly/470s6UG #maritime #nuclear

MIT’s Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy brings together natural and social scientists for an integrated approach to climate challenges, headed by inaugural faculty director and IDSS faculty Noelle Selin https://bit.ly/47ecICU