Duflo and MIT professor Abhijit Banerjee share the prize with Michael Kremer of Harvard University for breakthrough antipoverty work.

A system designed by LIDS professor Moe Win and colleagues enables interconnected smart devices to cooperatively pinpoint their positions in noisy environments where GPS usually fails.

SDSC affiliate Dean Eckles joins fellow MIT Sloan professor (and IDSS affiliate) Sinan Aral to propose a four-step process for researchers to measure and analyze social media manipulation — and to turn that data into a defense against future manipulation

Foster is a postdoc with the MIT Institute for Foundations of Data Science (MIFODS), as well as both IDSS and SDSC. He received the best paper award for “Statistical Learning with a Nuisance Component.”

A new study co-led by political scientist and SDSC affiliate Teppei Yamamoto finds that partisan news coverage has a bigger impact on viewers without strong media preferences.