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MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
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<h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>The laboratory traces its beginnings to the MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory in 1940, where work on guidance systems and early computation was done during <a href="/facts/World_War_II/2efV5L1U">World War II</a>. </p><p>Known as <i>LIDS</i>, the laboratory has hosted several luminaries over the years, including <a href="/facts/Claude_Shannon/EremsCws">Claude Shannon</a> and <a href="/facts/Dave_Forney/dKvnKPT2">David Forney</a>. As of July 2021<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MIT_Laboratory_for_Information_and_Decision_Systems&action=edit">[update]</a>, the current acting director is Prof. Sertac Karaman.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Gordon_S._Brown/Ea8vd5m3">Gordon S. Brown</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://lids.mit.edu/">LIDS webpage</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Sertac Karaman's personal website". karaman.mit.edu. Retrieved 2023-12-21. <a href="https://karaman.mit.edu/" target="_blank">https://karaman.mit.edu/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Alan S. Willsky, Edwin Sibley Webster Retired Professor of Electrical Engineering at M.I.T. Archived 2001-07-10 at the Wayback Machine <a href="http://ssg.mit.edu/~willsky/" target="_blank">http://ssg.mit.edu/~willsky/</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Biography of Alan S. Willsky.. Archived 2007-02-08 at the Wayback Machine <a href="http://ssg.mit.edu/~willsky/bio_short.htm" target="_blank">http://ssg.mit.edu/~willsky/bio_short.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Alan S. Willsky was elected in 2010 as a member of National Academy of Engineering in Electronics, Communication & Information Systems Engineering for contributions to model-based signal processing and statistical inference. <a href="http://www.nae.edu/MembersSection/MemberDirectory/31139.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.nae.edu/MembersSection/MemberDirectory/31139.aspx</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>