Research

Beloved professor conducted pioneering research on imbuing machines with human-like intelligence, including the ability to understand stories.

Speakers — all women — discuss everything from gravitational waves to robot nurses

MIT researchers joined Cambridge Rindge and Latin School students for a two-day event focused on future-ready skills.

How management training can prevent an unhealthy lab culture

Machine learning system aims to determine if an information outlet is accurate or biased.

Google AI’s Jeff Dean has a seemingly straightforward objective: he wants to use a collection of trainable mathematical units organized in layers to solve complicated tasks that will ultimately benefit many parts of society.

October 1, 2018 - Jeff Dean of Google gave a CSAIL seminar titled "Deep Learning to Solve Challenging Problems."

Agarwal is recognized for making education more accessible to people around the world, via edX open-source online platform.

CSAIL system could help athletes, dancers, and others better analyze how they move

MIT professor Daniela Rus speaks on social media and misinformation spurred by global disasters with University of Washington professor Kate Starbird

MIT CSAIL neural network could be used by coaches to help players see themselves using the correct form

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

CSAIL’s “Squadbox” uses “friendsourcing” to better support targets of cyberbullying.

The Imagination, Computation, and Expression Laboratory at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has released a new video game called Grayscale, which is designed to sensitize players to problems of sexism, sexual harassment, and sexual assault in the workplace.

This week it was announced that MIT professors and CSAIL principal investigators Shafi Goldwasser, Silvio Micali, Ronald Rivest, and former MIT professor Adi Shamir won this year’s BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards in the Information and Communication Technologies category for their work in cryptography.

Neural networks, which learn to perform computational tasks by analyzing huge sets of training data, have been responsible for the most impressive recent advances in artificial intelligence, including speech-recognition and automatic-translation systems.

Hyper-connectivity has changed the way we communicate, wait, and productively use our time. Even in a world of 5G wireless and “instant” messaging, there are countless moments throughout the day when we’re waiting for messages, texts, and Snapchats to refresh. But our frustrations with waiting a few extra seconds for our emails to push through doesn’t mean we have to simply stand by.

February 8, 2017 - Bill Thies of Microsoft Research India gave a Dertouzos Distinguished Lecture titled "Frugal Innovations for a Developing World."

Every language has its own collection of phonemes, or the basic phonetic units from which spoken words are composed. Depending on how you count, English has somewhere between 35 and 45. Knowing a language’s phonemes can make it much easier for automated systems to learn to interpret speech.In the 2015 volume of Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, CSAIL researchers describe a new machine-learning system that, like several systems before it, can learn to distinguish spoken words. But unlike its predecessors, it can also learn to distinguish lower-level phonetic units, such as syllables and phonemes.

By crunching 130 million mouse-clicks, two CSAIL researchers have developed a machine-learning model that can predict with surprising accuracy whether or not a MOOC student will drop out of a given course.