Research

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Algorithms & Theory

Foundational work that includes complexity, parallel computing and game theory

AI & ML

Spanning natural language processing, deep-learning, computer vision and more

Computational Biology

Understanding disease via epigenomics, gene regulation and bioinformatics

Computer Architecture

How CPUs, memory and other systems are designed and organized

Graphics & Vision

Teaching computers to interpret, create and animate visual data

Human-Computer Interaction

Software and hardware that let us naturally interact with technology

Programming Languages & Software Engineering

From compilers and verification to software design and engineering

Robotics

Vision, actuation, sensing and manipulation of machines

Security & Cryptography

Developing technologies to prevent and recover from cyber-attacks

Systems & Networking

From distributed systems and databases to wireless

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9 Group Results

Research Group

Algorithms Group

We devise new mathematical tools to tackle the increasing difficulty and importance of problems we pose to computers.

Leads

Daskalakis

Costis Daskalakis

Erik Demaine

Erik Demaine

Goemans

Michael Goemans

Indyk

Piotr Indyk

Karger

David Karger

Jonathan Kelner

Jonathan Kelner

Leighton

Tom Leighton

Professor Charles E. Leiserson

Charles E. Leiserson

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Aleksander Madry

Moitra-headshot

Ankur Moitra

Rubinfeld

Ronitt Rubinfeld

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Nir Shavit

RWilliams-headshot

Ryan Williams

VWilliams-headshot

Virginia Vassilevska Williams

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Impact Areas

Big Data
Cybersecurity
Energy
Wireless

Lead

Daskalakis

Costis Daskalakis

Erik Demaine

Erik Demaine

Goemans

Michael Goemans

Indyk

Piotr Indyk

Karger

David Karger

Jonathan Kelner

Jonathan Kelner

Leighton

Tom Leighton

Professor Charles E. Leiserson

Charles E. Leiserson

Madry-headshot

Aleksander Madry

Moitra-headshot

Ankur Moitra

Rubinfeld

Ronitt Rubinfeld

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Nir Shavit

RWilliams-headshot

Ryan Williams

VWilliams-headshot

Virginia Vassilevska Williams

Community of Research

Computing & Society Community of Research

This community is interested in understanding and affecting the interaction between computing systems and society through engineering, computer science and public policy research, education, and public engagement.
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Weitzner

Daniel Weitzner

Leads

Weitzner

Daniel Weitzner

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory
AI & ML
Human-Computer Interaction
Security & Cryptography
Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Big Data
Cybersecurity
Health Care
Internet of Things
Transportation
Wireless

Lead

Weitzner

Daniel Weitzner

Abelson
Berners-Lee
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Weitzner

Daniel Weitzner

Research Center

Internet Policy Research Initiative

Our mission is to work with policy makers and cybersecurity technologists to increase the trustworthiness and effectiveness of interconnected digital systems.
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Leads

Weitzner

Daniel Weitzner

Abelson

Hal Abelson

Clark

David Clark

Kagal-headshot

Lalana Kagal

Karen Sollins

Karen Sollins

Gerald Sussman

Gerald Sussman

Research Areas

AI & ML
Human-Computer Interaction
Security & Cryptography

Impact Areas

Big Data
Cybersecurity
Internet of Things
Transportation

Lead

Weitzner

Daniel Weitzner

Abelson

Hal Abelson

Clark

David Clark

Kagal-headshot

Lalana Kagal

Karen Sollins

Karen Sollins

Gerald Sussman

Gerald Sussman

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Community of Research

Vertical AI Community of Research

This CoR takes a unified approach to cover the full range of research areas required for success in artificial intelligence, including hardware, foundations, software systems, and applications.
Amarasinghe
Regina Barzilay
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Rinard

Martin Rinard

Leads

Rinard

Martin Rinard

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory
AI & ML
Graphics & Vision
Programming Languages & Software Engineering
Security & Cryptography
Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Big Data
Cybersecurity
Health Care
Internet of Things
Transportation
Wireless

Lead

Rinard

Martin Rinard

Amarasinghe
Regina Barzilay
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Rinard

Martin Rinard

13 Project Results

Project

Alloy

Software Design Group
Human-Computer Interaction Community of Research
Alloy is a language for describing structures and a tool for exploring them. It has been used in a wide range of applications from finding holes in security mechanisms to designing telephone switching networks. Hundreds of projects have used Alloy for design analysis, for verification, for simulation, and as a backend for many other kinds of analysis and synthesis tools, and Alloy is currently being taught in courses worldwide.
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Daniel Jackson

Leads

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Daniel Jackson

Research Areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Programming Languages & Software Engineering
Security & Cryptography

Impact Areas

Big Data
Cybersecurity
Education
Transportation
Wireless
 
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Daniel Jackson

Project

An Interlock for Self Driving Cars

Software Design Group
Computer-Aided Programming
Vertical AI Community of Research
Human-Computer Interaction Community of Research
Self-driving cars are likely to be safer, on average, than human-driven cars. But they may fail in new and catastrophic ways that a human driver could prevent. This project is designing a new architecture for a highly dependable self-driving car.
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Daniel Jackson

Solar-Lezama

Armando Solar-Lezama

Leads

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Daniel Jackson

Solar-Lezama

Armando Solar-Lezama

Research Areas

AI & ML
Human-Computer Interaction
Programming Languages & Software Engineering
Robotics
Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Transportation
 
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Daniel Jackson

Solar-Lezama

Armando Solar-Lezama

Project

Artificial Social Intelligence for Successful Teams (ASIST)

Computation Structures Group
Computational Cognitive Science Group
Model-Based Embedded and Robotics Systems Group
Our goal is to develop a socially intelligent team coacher agent that helps humans communicate, strategize, and work together efficiently.

Leads

Howard Shrobe

Howard Shrobe

Williams

Brian Williams

Katz

Boris Katz

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Zhutian Yang

Research Areas

Computer Architecture
Human-Computer Interaction
Robotics

Impact Areas

Health Care
Transportation
Wireless

Project

Safety Standards for Autonomous Vehicles

Distributed Robotics Laboratory
In this project, we aim to develop a framework that can ensure and certify the safety of an autonomous vehicle. By leveraging research from the area of formal verification, this framework aims to assess the safety, i.e., free of collisions, of a broad class of autonomous car controllers/planners for a given traffic model.

Leads

Lucas_Pic

Lucas Liebenwein

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Wilko Schwarting

Rus

Daniela Rus

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory
Robotics

Impact Areas

Transportation

11 People Results

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R. David Edelman

Director, Project on Technology, Economy & National Security
Machine learning, cybersecurity, governance
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T 258-6389
Machine learning, cybersecurity, governance
Jim Glass

PI
Core/Dual

Jim Glass

Senior Research Scientist
speech and language processing
Jim Glass
T 253-1640
RM 32-G444

Lead

Spoken Language Systems Group
Designing Information-Rich Embedding Spaces
Unsupervised Learning of Interpretable Representations from Sequential Data
Fact-Checking and Reasoning
Speaker Verification and Diarization
Automatic Speech Recognition
Language and Dialect Identification

Member

Using Computers to Eat Healthier
Low-Power Speech Processing Circuits
Crossing the Vision-Language Boundary
Unsupervised Speech Processing
Arabic Language Processing
Health-related Biomarkers from Speech
Community Question Answering
Understanding Language Representations in Deep Learning Models
Embodied Intelligence Community of Research
speech and language processing
Russ Tedrake

PI
Core/Dual

Russ Tedrake

Professor
Robotics, machine learning, motion planning and control
Russ Tedrake
T 253-1778
RM 32-380B

Lead

Robot Locomotion Group
Localizing External Contact Using Proprioceptive Sensors
Tactile and Physical Perception
Soft Contact Modeling
Self-Driving Vehicles

Member

Tactile and Physical Perception
Task-Driven Co-Optimization Of Articulated Robots
Center for Deployable Machine Learning (CDML)
Embodied Intelligence Community of Research
Robotics, machine learning, motion planning and control
Williams

PI
Core/Dual

Brian Williams

Professor
Robotics, autonomy, artificial intelligence, machine learning
Williams
T 253-2739
RM 32-227

Lead

Model-Based Embedded and Robotics Systems Group
RADMAX
Geordi: A Driver's Assistant for Risk-bounded Maneuvering
Robots Adapting to Human Intent
Risk-aware Network Resource Allocation
Uhura: Personal Assistant that Manages Risk
Artificial Social Intelligence for Successful Teams (ASIST)

Member

Cognitive AI Community of Research
Robotics, autonomy, artificial intelligence, machine learning

24 News Results

System directs camera-equipped drones to maintain framing of an aerial shot.
Algorithms & Theory AI & ML Graphics & Vision Robotics Entertainment Transportation

Cinematography on the fly

In recent years, a host of Hollywood blockbusters — including “The Fast and the Furious 7,” “Jurassic World,” and “The Wolf of Wall Street” — have included aerial tracking shots provided by drone helicopters outfitted with cameras. Those shots required separate operators for the drones and the cameras, and careful planning to avoid collisions. But a team of researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and ETH Zurich hope to make drone cinematography more accessible, simple, and reliable.

Cinematography on the fly

Researchers at MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratories have built a low-power chip specialized for automatic speech recognition. With power savings of 90 to 99 percent, it could make voice control practical for relatively simple electronic devices.
AI & ML Human-Computer Interaction Energy Internet of Things Manufacturing

Voice control everywhere

The butt of jokes as little as 10 years ago, automatic speech recognition is now on the verge of becoming people’s chief means of interacting with their principal computing devices. In anticipation of the age of voice-controlled electronics, MIT researchers have built a low-power chip specialized for automatic speech recognition. Whereas a cellphone running speech-recognition software might require about 1 watt of power, the new chip requires between 0.2 and 10 milliwatts, depending on the number of words it has to recognize.

Voice control everywhere

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Algorithms & Theory AI & ML Systems & Networking Big Data Energy

What better wind-speed prediction can do for the energy industry

When a power company wants to build a new wind farm, it generally hires a consultant to make wind speed measurements at the proposed site for eight to 12 months. Those measurements are correlated with historical data and used to assess the site’s power-generation capacity.This month CSAIL researchers will present a new statistical technique that yields better wind-speed predictions than existing techniques do — even when it uses only three months’ worth of data. That could save power companies time and money, particularly in the evaluation of sites for offshore wind farms, where maintaining measurement stations is particularly costly.

What better wind-speed prediction can do for the energy industry