CSAIL Lab Tours

Welcome!

All public tours are suspended temporarily. Please check back again soon.

We appreciate your interest in our building and our research! Our researchers do need to be able focus on their work so some necessary restrictions on tours exist. Keep reading for ways to find out more about the lab.

The Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), occupies over 75% of MIT's World famous building by Frank Ghery, the MIT Stata Center. Also located in the Stata Center are the Linguistics and Philosophy Department and the Laboratory for Information Decision systems.

If you are interested in MIT:

Visit the MIT web site.
We highly recommend a visit to the MIT Museum
MIT offers general campus tours. For more information visit the MIT admissions web site
For teachers of K-12, please visit K-12 Outreach programs web site.

If you are interested in the architecture of the Stata Center Building

People interested in the architecture are encouraged to walk through the public spaces of the building. A Self-Guided tour is available at the Information Desk on the first floor.
Take a look at the Spotlight: Stata center web page for links to pictures and articles about the building.
Take our Virtual Tour - explore 360 degree panoramic images that you may use to 'fly through' some of the CSAIL spaces that are closed to the public.

If you are interested in the CSAIL lab and our research

Quite a bit of information about our work is available on the web. Here are some recommended places to start:
- For an overview about csail - The About the Lab page.
- For information on our 90+ principal investigators - The Principal Investigator page.
- For abstracts of many of our current research projects - The Publications web site.
- For a listing of websites maintained by individual research projects - The Research Activities page.
Take our Virtual Tour - explore 360 degree panoramic images that you may use to 'fly through' some of the CSAIL spaces that are closed to the public.
Tours and Visits to the lab. (Please request a tour/visit at least TWO WEEKS in advance.)

MIT CSAIL offers tours of its facilities to special interest groups and the general public.

Most tours will begin with a 30 minute presentation describing our lab activities including some video clips about our research. The presentation will be followed by a Walk-about the lab. (Note: This does NOT apply to any Industrial Liaison Program arrangements.)

As a supplement to a CSAIL tour we recommend a visit to the MIT Museum where some earlier CSAIL research is often featured. Current exhibits include an interactive and informative exhibit about past and present robots/computing.

CSAIL tours take between 60 and 90 minutes. They describe our mission and our on-going research. Tours include a walk through some of the facilities and various video presentations. Sometimes, live demos are also included, though due to the nature of the research conducted at the laboratory, we cannot guarantee the availability of demos on any specific visit.

Please Note: Once you have requested a tour you will receive email back from us letting you know if there is an available slot on the requested date. A tour is considered scheduled once you reply to our email. Tours slots do fill up. Tours requested with over two weeks lead-time have the best chance of being scheduled. All public tours are suspended temporarily. Please check back again soon.
- Public Tours
  
  Individuals or small groups (5 or fewer) canrequest to join a public tour.
- School Groups
  
  School Groups can request a group tour. Groups must be no larger then 20 people.
- Business/Government Groups
  
  CSAIL lab tours are aimed at a general audience, highlighting a selection of the projects going on at the lab. With sufficient advance notice, projects of special interest can sometimes be included.
  To establish collaboration with researchers at the lab, you should contact the relevant individuals directly. If you are interested in finding out about all of the current research projects at the lab and who is involved in them, please take a look at the web pages listed in the first item of this section.
- Members of the Press