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 [[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 MITs [[Lincoln LabLaboratory]] and the independent [[Charles Stark Draper Laboratory]]. The{{As of|2014|07}}, 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]].
AffectionatelyKnown calledas ''LIDS'', the laboratoryLaboratory has hosted several luminaries over the years, such asincluding [[Claude Shannon]] and [[Dave Forney|David Forney]].
