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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 DeparmentDepartment 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 Laboratory]]. The current acting director is Prof. Alan S. Willsky.

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]].

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Affectionately called ''LIDS'', the laboratory has hosted several luminaries over the years, such as [[Claude Shannon]] and [[David Forney]]. Current faculty include [[Robert G. Gallager]] and [[Seth Lloyd]].

== See also ==

* [[Gordon S. Brown]]

== External links ==

* [http://lids.mit.edu/ LIDS webpage]

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