The MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) is an interdisciplinary research laboratory of
MIT
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, working on research in the areas of
communications
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,
control
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, and
signal processing
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combining faculty from the
School of Engineering
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(including the
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics), the
Department of Mathematics and the
MIT Sloan School of Management
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. The lab is located in the
Dreyfoos Tower of the
Stata Center
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and shares some research duties with MIT's
Lincoln Laboratory
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and the independent
Draper Laboratory.
History
The laboratory traces its beginnings to the
MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory, where work on guidance systems and early computation was done during
World War II
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.
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, and cryptographer known as a "father of information theory".
As a 21-year-old master's degree student at the Massachusetts I ...
and
David Forney. , the current acting director is Prof.
Alan S. Willsky.
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as a member of National Academy of Engineering
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in Electronics, Communication & Information Systems Engineering for contributions to model-based signal processing
Signal processing is an electrical engineering subfield that focuses on analyzing, modifying and synthesizing '' signals'', such as sound, images, and scientific measurements. Signal processing techniques are used to optimize transmissions, ...
and statistical inference
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.
See also
* Gordon S. Brown
Gordon Stanley Brown (August 30, 1907 in Australia – August 23, 1996 in Tucson, Arizona) was a professor of electrical engineering at MIT. He originated many of the concepts behind automatic-feedback control systems and the numerical control of ...
References
External links
LIDS webpage
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