{{Short description|Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA}}
The '''MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems''' ('''LIDS'''), which founded in 1940, is an interdisciplinary research laboratory of [[MIT]], working on research in the areas of [[communications system|communications]], [[control theory|control]], and [[digital signal processing|signal processing]] combining faculty from the [[MIT School of Engineering|School of Engineering]] (including the [[MIT School of Engineering#Aeronautics and Astronautics|Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics]]), the [[MIT Mathematics Department|Department of Mathematics]] and the [[MIT Sloan School of Management]]. The lab is located in the [[Ray and Maria Stata Center#Description|Dreyfoos Tower]] of the [[Ray and Maria Stata Center|Stata Center]] and shares some research duties with MIT's [[Lincoln Laboratory]] and the independent [[Draper Laboratory]].
The laboratory was founded in 1940 as the '''Servomechanisms Laboratory''', changed its name to the '''Electronic Systems Laboratory''' in 1959, and to its current name in 1978.
