The MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), which founded in 1940, is an interdisciplinary research laboratory of

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, working on research in the areas of

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, and

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combining faculty from the

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(including the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics), the

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and the

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. The lab is located in the Dreyfoos Tower of the

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and shares some research duties with MIT's

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and the independent

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History

The laboratory traces its beginnings to the MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory in 1940, where work on guidance systems and early computation was done during

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

. Known as ''LIDS'', the laboratory has hosted several luminaries over the years, including

Claude Shannon Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001) was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, cryptographer and inventor known as the "father of information theory" and the man who laid the foundations of th ...

and David Forney. , the current acting director is Prof. Sertac Karaman.Biography of Alan S. Willsky.
''Alan S. Willsky'' was elected in 2010
as a member of

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in Electronics, Communication & Information Systems Engineering for contributions to model-based

and

statistical inference Statistical inference is the process of using data analysis to infer properties of an underlying probability distribution.Upton, G., Cook, I. (2008) ''Oxford Dictionary of Statistics'', OUP. . Inferential statistical analysis infers properties of ...

References

External links

LIDS webpage
{{Authority control Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems

History

See also

References

External links