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CSAIL Professor Patrick Winston’s work creating a computer system that can think and reason like a human has been profiled on the Public Radio International program Studio 360.
Scientific American has named the self-aware computing concept pioneered by Project Angstrom researchers as one of the “10 World Changing Ideas” in the magazine’s December 2011 edition.
MIT has launched a new online learning initiative dubbed “MITx”. Professor Anant Agarwal, director of CSAIL, is leading the development of the MITx open learning software.
Several CSAIL researchers were awarded an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Sigcomm Best Paper Award for their publication, “They Can Hear Your Heartbeats: Non-Invasive Security for Implanted Medical Devices.”
CSAIL Principal Investigator and Professor Arvind has unveiled a new system that enables hardware designers to specify, in a single programming language, all the functions they want a device to perform.
CSAIL Principal Investigator Manolis Kellis, an associate professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has been awarded the 2011 Niki Award by the Athens Information Technology (AIT) Center of Excellence for Research and Education.
The development of a simple computing platform called Beehive at Microsoft Research has become the foundation of a new course at MIT: 6.173 Multicore Systems Laboratory.
Check out a video of the FastRunner being developed by CSAIL Principal Investigator Russ Tedrake in collaboration with researchers at the Florida Institute of Human and Machine Cognition.
CSAIL graduate student Hariharan Shankar Rahul won the MIT $100K Elevator Pitch Contest last week with a business plan for a new Wi-Fi optimization system MegaMIMO, which he developed along with CSAIL Principal Investigator Dina Katabi and CSAIL graduate student Swarun Kumar.
CSAIL Senior Research Scientist David Clark has been presented with the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) Lifetime Achievement Award for his significant contributions to the development of the Internet.
CSAIL Principal Investigator Harold (Hal) Abelson has been named the recipient of the 2012 SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education.
Four new papers co-authored by researchers from Associate Professor Manolis Kellis' Computational Biology group at CSAIL unveil a new high-resolution picture of the human genome that should prove useful in better understanding human biology and disease.
David Culler, professor and chair of Computer Science at UC Berkeley,will be speaking on information technology’s role in enabling a sustainable energy infrastructure this Thursday, October 20 at 3 p.m. in the Kiva seminar room (32-G449) at CSAIL.
In August, researchers from academia and industry gathered to discuss the past, present and future of the field of computer vision during the Frontiers in Computer Vision Workshop at the Stata Center.
The CalTech/MIT Voting Technology Project (VTP) is holding a one-day seminar called Election Integrity: Past, Present and Future this Saturday, Oct. 1 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Stata Center.
CSAIL Professor Regina Barzilay’s work has been a driving force for change in developing computer systems that can comprehend natural human language and not just code.
On Thursday, September 15 at 3 p.m., the Seminar on Computational Methods for Sustainability commences with Professor Sanjay Sarma speaking on Infrared Street Scanning.
This summer CSAIL welcomes a world-renowned economist and the lab’s first full-time member from Sloan: Professor Andrew Lo, the Harris & Harris Group Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management and director of MIT’s Laboratory for Financial Engineering.
Stephen Colbert took a stab at operating a micro aerial vehicle with a smart phone Wednesday evening when Associate Professor Mary (Missy) Cummings was a featured guest on The Colbert Report.
Two flying robots developed in Professor Daniela Rus’ Distributed Robotics Lab are enjoying some time in this spotlight the summer as they perform at the Joyce Theater with the modern dance company Pilobolus.
A computer system developed by Associate Professor Regina Barzilay, her graduate student S.R.K Branavan and David Silver of University College London has demonstrated the ability to learn language through playing a complex computer game.
CSAIL members enjoyed a successful Annual Review Meeting last week featuring two days of invigorating research presentations, spirited discussion, a warm welcome for pending Director Anant Agarwal and a moving tribute to Director Victor Zue, who is stepping down at the end of the month.
Professor William Freeman has been appointed an associate department head of MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, effective July 1.
Members of CSAIL’s Industry Affiliates Program (IAP) gathered in the Stata Center recently for the program’s two-day long Annual Meeting showcasing the breadth and diversity of research underway at the lab.
CSAIL graduate student Mario Bollini of Professor Daniela Rus' Distributed Robotics Lab is currently programming the PR2 robot to bake chocolate chip cookies.
Eight CSAIL members were recently honored for their outstanding contributions to the lab with School of Engineering Infinite Mile Awards for Excellence.
Professor Leslie Pack Kaelbling and Professor Tomas Lozano-Perez are taking a new approach to robotic planning: Breaking down the tasks the robot must perform into smaller, simpler steps.
The National Academy of Sciences has honored Joshua Tenenbaum, an associate professor of Cognitive Science and Computation and a principal investigator at CSAIL, with a Troland Research Award.
Students in Professor Daniela Rus' 6.141 Robotics: Science and Systems I course demonstrated robots that could locate, grasp, collect and build structures with colorful blocks last week.
CSAIL members welcomed the crowds that descended upon the MIT campus on Saturday, April 30 for the Under the Dome Open House celebration with live demonstrations and exhibits in the Gates Tower lobby.
Professor Michael Jordan of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley wrapped up the 2010-2011 Dertouzos Lecturer Series Thursday evening with a look at his work with “Statistical Inference of Protein Structure and Function.”
From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. this Saturday, April 30 check out Under the Dome, MIT's campus-wide Open House held in celebration of the Institute's 150th anniversary.
Assistant Professor Jonathan Kelner and CSAIL PhD student Bernhard Haeupler will be the recipients of Best Paper awards at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC)in June.
Professor Erik Demaine’s artwork, created in collaboration with CSAIL Visiting Scientist Martin Demaine, has also been selected as part of the Smithsonian’s 40 under 40: Craft Futures exhibition, which will run July 20, 2012-February 3, 2013.
As part of MIT's 150th anniversary, the symposium Computation and the Transformation of Practically Everything offered a look into the past and a glimpse into the future of the impact of computation on everything from business to finance, communication, entertainment, medicine and much, much more.
CSAIL is not only at the forefront of computer science and artificial intelligence research, but is also a leader in providing underserved communities access to digital technology.
This summer, three CSAIL faculty members are teaching courses as part of MIT's Professional Education program. These Short Programs, which meet for two to five sessions, offer business professionals an opportunity to learn firsthand from top experts in academia.
"Lino Tagliapietra: Glass Magician," the debut art film of Professor Erik Demaine and CSAIL Visiting Scientist Martin Demaine, will be screened tomorrow evening (Wednesday, April 6) from 6:00- 7:00 p.m. in 6-120, along with Bert Haanstra's Glas, and excerpts from the PBS documentary Time of Lino.
A multidisciplinary university research initiative (MURI) led by CSAIL Associate Professor Russ Tedrake will bring together a diverse group of researchers to develop a bird-sized, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), thanks to an Office of Naval Research Grant. The vehicle will be capable of navigating both urban and forest environments using vision-based control.
Professor Frans Kaashoek, an associate director of CSAIL and a leader of the Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems Group, has been named the 2010 recipient of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences.
Thanks to Bedford-based iRobot, the Japanese government will now have four robots, capable of doing everything from measuring radiation levels to clearing debris, to assist in combating the ongoing nuclear crisis and in clean-up efforts following the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck on March 11.
Three new papers, co-authored by Associate Professor Manolis Kellis (head of the Computational Biology Group at CSAIL), appeared in the March 23 edition of Nature reporting three large studies of gene regulation in the human and fly genomes.
Shafi Goldwasser, the RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and a principal investigator at CSAIL, has been named the 2011 winner of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Emanuel R. Piore Award.
Patrick H. Winston, the Ford Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science at MIT and a CSAIL principal investigator, has been named a 2011 MacVicar Faculty Fellow in recognition of his outstanding dedication to undergraduate education at MIT.
In a recently released paper, Associate Professor Scott Aaronson proposes an experiment that could help prove the effectiveness of quantum over classical computers.
Professor Ronald L. Rivest has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the RSA Conference, a global seminar for information security professionals.
In the quest to maintain a continuous doubling of computing power, CSAIL is leading the way, thanks to a grant from the U.S. Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Using a Microsoft Kinect video game system in conjunction with ROS (open-source Robot Operating Software developed by Willow Garage), Systems Robotics Engineer Garratt Gallagher has created Customizable Buttons, a program that operates in a magical manner.
Dive deep into the advent of computation and the field’s monumental impact this spring during Computation and the Transformation of Practically Everything, a symposium being held as part of MIT’s 150th anniversary celebrations and organized by CSAIL.
When the theme music for Jeopardy! fades into the background tonight and the race for the buzzer begins, Watson, IBM’s question answering computing system, will be relying on several ideas and algorithms, including ones originally developed at CSAIL by Principal Research Scientist Boris Katz.
Eric Grimson - a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT, the Bernard Gordon Professor of Medical Engineering, head of the Institute’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a principal investigator at CSAIL - has been named the next chancellor of MIT.
CSAIL played host to an entourage of high-level United States government officials on Thursday, February 10 when Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn, III, visited the lab to learn about the latest advances in computer science.
In collaboration with CSAIL and Zepheira, LLC, MIT Libraries has been awarded a $650,000 grant from the United States Library of Congress to create a new version of Exhibit.
A new program developed by CSAIL’s Spoken Language Systems Group parses user reviews on sites like Yelp, extracts pertinent information and then organizes it for easy accessibility.
Chevron, the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and Thermopylae Sciences & Technology (TST) are the newest additions to CSAIL’s Industry Affiliates Program (IAP).
Research by CSAIL Principal Investigator Ruth Rosenholtz offers a new mathematical model for how the brain summarizes information received from the retina.
CSAIL Principal Investigator Patrick Henry Winston is hosting “How To Speak” this Friday from 11 a.m.- 12 p.m. in room 6-120 as part of MIT’s Independent Activities Period.
Researchers are invited to attend the fifth Scene Understanding Symposium (SUnS’11), which will feature speakers and presentations focusing on scene understanding and special cognition, object recognition, attention, visual search and much more.
MIT EECS PhD students are invited to apply for a Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QInF), which will be awarded to students presenting fresh ideas for new research.
In the never-ending quest for how to disseminate large amounts of information as quickly and efficiently as possible, CSAIL postdoc Keren Censor-Hillel has discovered a way to avoid the information traffic jams bottlenecks often create in ad-hoc networks.
On Friday, January 28, from 9 a.m.- 6 p.m., members of the research and industry communities will gather for the Fourth Annual New England Database Summit (NEDB), which will be held in room 32-123 at the Stata Center.
