Youssef Marzouk teaches in front of a classroom

Making computation come alive
MIT News | January 06, 2022

A new course from SDSC core faculty Youssef Marzouk teaches students how to use computational techniques to solve real-world problems.


illustration of a network being corrupted by green slime

Systems scientists find clues to why false news snowballs on social media
MIT News | December 15, 2021

A new model co-authored by IDPS-SES graduate student Chin-Chia Hsu shows that the more polarized and hyperconnected a social network is, the more...


a diagram of the difficulties AI software may have distinguishing the image of a cow from the landscape around it

Avoiding shortcut solutions in artificial intelligence
MIT News | November 02, 2021

A new method in a paper from researchers including SDSC core faculty Suvrit Sra and Stefanie Jegelka forces a machine learning model to focus on ...


Photos of the eleven faculty appointed to named professorships

School of Science appoints 11 faculty members to named professorships
MIT News | November 01, 2021

Ankur Moitra, director of the SDSC, is now the Norbert Wiener Professor of Mathematics.


Joshua Angrist

MIT economist Joshua Angrist shares Nobel Prize
MIT News | October 11, 2021

SDSC affiliate cited for work building the foundations of “natural experiments” in economic research



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