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{{Mergeto|MIT School of Engineering|date=August 2007}}

The '''MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems''' 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 School of Engineering, the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the Deparment of Mathematics and from the Sloan School of Management. The lab is located in the [[Dreyfoos Tower]] of the [[Stata Center]] and shares some research duties with MITs [[Lincoln Lab]] and the independent [[Charles Stark Draper LaboratoriesLaboratory]]. The current director is Prof. Vincent Chan.

The Laboratory traces its beginnings to the [[MIT Servomechanics Laboratory]], where much work on guidance systems and early computation was done during [[World War II]]. It is linked to the [[Charles Stark Draper Laboratory]] located nearby, and closely works with the [[Lincoln Laboratory]] just outside of [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]].

Affectionately called ''LIDS'', the laboratory is currently led by Professor Vincent Chan, who is [[MIT cubed]] and has hosted severalsuch luminaries over the years, such as [[Claude Shannon]] and [[David Forney]]. Current faculty include [[Robert G. Gallager]] and [[Seth Lloyd]].

==See also==