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Systems, privacy, inventor of the World Wide Web

1 News Results matching all criteria

Tim Berners-Lee was honored with the Turing Award for his work inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and "the fundamental protocols and algorithms [that allowed] the web to scale."

Computer Architecture Big Data Cybersecurity Education Energy Entertainment Health Care Internet of Things Wireless

May 02 '18

From Utopia to Dystopia in 29 Short Years

May 2, 2018 - Sir Tim Berners-Lee of MIT gave a Dertouzos Distinguished Lecture titled "From Utopia to Dystopia in 29 Short Years."

From Utopia to Dystopia in 29 Short Years

3 Group Results

Research Group

Computation Structures Group

Our mission is fostering the creation and development of high-performance, reliable and secure computing systems that are easy to interact with.

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Leads

Srini Devadas

Daniel Sanchez

Armando Solar-Lezama

Arvind

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Wireless

Lead

Srini Devadas

Daniel Sanchez

Armando Solar-Lezama

Arvind

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Research Group

Programming Languages & Verification

Mission: improve the software and hardware development process by replacing ugly development techniques with beautiful ones

Secret weapon: applied mathematical logic, including computer theorem proving (especially Coq) and type systems

Adam Chlipala

Leads

Adam Chlipala

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Adam Chlipala

Community of Research

Systems Community of Research

The Systems CoR is focused on building and investigating large-scale software systems that power modern computers, phones, data centers, and networks, including operating systems, the Internet, wireless networks, databases, and other software infrastructure.

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Sam Madden

Leads

Sam Madden

Research Areas

Programming Languages & Verification

Impact Areas

Lead

Sam Madden

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Sam Madden

5 Project Results

Project

High-Assurance Hardware

Tools for building digital hardware with machine-checked proofs of correctness

Adam Chlipala

Leads

Adam Chlipala

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Adam Chlipala

Project

Kami: A Modular Deductive Hardware Verification Platform

A framework to support implementing, specifying, verifying, and compiling hardware designs, modularly

Adam Chlipala

Leads

Adam Chlipala

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Spoken Language Systems Group

Adam Chlipala

Project

Low-Power Speech Processing Circuits

The creation of low-power circuits capable of speech recognition and speaker verification will enable spoken interaction on a wide variety of devices in the era of Internet of Things.

Leads

Research Areas

Human-Computer Interaction

Impact Areas

Project

Tiramisu Compiler

Commit Group

A polyhedral compiler for expressing image processing, DNN, and linear/tensor algebra applications

Saman Amarasinghe

Leads

Saman Amarasinghe

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Saman Amarasinghe

Project

Using Bitcoin to prevent identify theft

System piggybacks on the digital currency’s security protocols to thwart hijacked servers.

Srini Devadas

Leads

Srini Devadas

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Big Data

Simit: A Language for Computing on Sparse Systems

Srini Devadas

12 People Results

PI
Core/Dual

Saman Amarasinghe

Professor

Compilers, architectures, software engineering

E saman@csail.mit.edu

T 253-8879

Lead

Commit Group

Tiramisu Compiler

Member

Taco: The Tensor Algebra Compiler

Halide

OpenTuner: An Extensible Framework for Program Autotuning

Program Performance Prediction with Deep Learning

Vertical AI Community of Research

Compilers, architectures, software engineering

PI
Core/Dual

Tim Berners-Lee

Professor

Systems, privacy, inventor of the World Wide Web

E timbl@w3.org

T 253-5702

Lead

Decentralized Information Group

World Wide Web Consortium

Solid: Social Linked Data

Member

Kami: A Modular Deductive Hardware Verification Platform

Systems, privacy, inventor of the World Wide Web

PI
Core/Dual

Adam Chlipala

Associate Professor

Programming languages, formal methods, security & privacy, systems

E adamc@csail.mit.edu

T 324-8439

Lead

Compilation Using Correct-by-Construction Program Synthesis

Programming Languages & Verification

Hemiola: Structural Design and Proof of Cache-Coherence Protocols

High-Assurance Software

High-Assurance Hardware

High-Assurance Cryptography

Member

Compilation Using Correct-by-Construction Program Synthesis

Programming with spaces

FSCQ: File-system verification

Systems Community of Research

Programming languages, formal methods, security & privacy, systems

Peter Deutsch

Graduate Student

E pwd@mit.edu

PI
Core/Dual

Srini Devadas

Professor

Architectures, security, computer-aided design

E devadas@csail.mit.edu

T 253-0454

Lead

Using Bitcoin to prevent identify theft

Secure Demand Paging for Trusted Execution Environments

Scaling strong anonymity

Return of the Byzantine Generals

Member

Sanctum Secure Processor

A new way of handling all-to-all broadcast

Architectures, security, computer-aided design

Jamey Hicks

Research Affiliate

E jamey.hicks@accelerated.tech

Member

Risk-aware Network Resource Allocation

PI
Core/Dual

Howard Shrobe

Principal Research Scientist

Architectures, cybersecurity, web policy

E hes@csail.mit.edu

T 253-7877

Lead

RADMAX

Automated Attack Tree Generation for Critical Infrastructure

Securing IoT

Cognitive AI Community of Research

Artificial Social Intelligence for Successful Teams (ASIST)

Uhura: Personal Assistant that Manages Risk

Member

Internet Policy Research Initiative

Architectures, cybersecurity, web policy

PI
Core/Dual

Gerald Sussman

Professor

Artificial intelligence, supercomputers

E gjs@csail.mit.edu

T 253-5874

RM 32/ 32-G508/ G514

Lead

Sussman Lab

The Car Can Explain!

Member

Cognitive AI Community of Research

Internet Policy Research Initiative

Artificial intelligence, supercomputers

PI
Core/Dual

Daniel Weitzner

Principal Research Scientist

Web policy, cybersecurity, web architecture

E djweitzner@csail.mit.edu

T 253-8036

Lead

Keys Under Doormats

Pervasive Parallelism with the Swarm Architecture

Member

Data Systems Group

Web policy, cybersecurity, web architecture

Mengjia Yan

Assistant Professor

Harware Security, Computer Architecture

E mengjia@csail.mit.edu

Harware Security, Computer Architecture

Victor Ying

Graduate Student

Computer architecture, parallel computing, programming models

E victory@mit.edu

Lead

Computer architecture, parallel computing, programming models

PI
Core/Dual

Nickolai Zeldovich

Associate Professor

Operating systems, hardware, programming languages

E nickolai@csail.mit.edu

T 253-6005

Lead

Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems

Scaling Filesystems To Many Cores

Vuvuzela: Metadata private messaging

Perennial

Member