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Algorithms & Theory

Foundational work that includes complexity, parallel computing and game theory

AI & Machine Learning

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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Project

Alloy

Software Design Group
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

28 Group Results

Research Group

Advanced Network Architecture Group

The challenge that motivates the ANA group is to foster a healthy future for the Internet. The interplay of private sector investment, public sector regulation and public interest advocacy, as well as the global diversity in drivers and aspirations, makes for an uncertain future.
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Clark

David Clark

Karen Sollins

Karen Sollins

Leads

Clark

David Clark

Karen Sollins

Karen Sollins

Research Areas

Security & Cryptography
Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Wireless

Lead

Clark

David Clark

Karen Sollins

Karen Sollins

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Clark

David Clark

Karen Sollins

Karen Sollins

Research Group

Cryptography and Information Security Group

We seek to develop techniques for securing tomorrow's global information infrastructure by exploring theoretical foundations, near-term practical applications, and long-range speculative research.

Leads

Goldwasser

Shafi Goldwasser

Micali

Silvio Micali

Rivest

Ronald Rivest

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Vinod Vaikuntanathan

Lampson

Butler Lampson

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory
Security & Cryptography

Impact Areas

Cybersecurity
Wireless

Lead

Goldwasser

Shafi Goldwasser

Micali

Silvio Micali

Rivest

Ronald Rivest

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Vinod Vaikuntanathan

Lampson

Butler Lampson

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

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Lalana Kagal

Karen Sollins

Karen Sollins

Gerald Sussman

Gerald Sussman

Research Areas

AI & Machine Learning
Human-Computer Interaction
Security & Cryptography

Impact Areas

Big Data
Cybersecurity
Internet of Things
Transportation

Lead

Weitzner

Daniel Weitzner

Abelson

Hal Abelson

Clark

David Clark

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Lalana Kagal

Karen Sollins

Karen Sollins

Gerald Sussman

Gerald Sussman

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90 Project Results

Project

Alloy

Software Design Group
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
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 & Machine Learning
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

Arabic Language Processing

Spoken Language Systems Group
The Arabic language is spoken by over one billion people around the world. Arabic presents a variety of challenges for speech and language processing technologies. In our group, we have several research topics examining Arabic, including dialect identification, speech recognition, machine translation, and language processing.
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Jim Glass

Leads

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Ramy Baly

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Yonatan Belinkov

Mitra Mohtarami

Mitra Mohtarami

Research Areas

AI & Machine Learning
Human-Computer Interaction
Shon
Jim Glass

Project

Automated Attack Tree Generation for Critical Infrastructure

Model-Based Embedded and Robotics Systems Group
Using AI methods, we are developing an attack tree generator that automatically enumerates cyberattack vectors for industrial control systems in critical infrastructure (electric grids, water networks and transportation systems). The generator can quickly assess cyber risk for a system at scale.
Howard Shrobe

Howard Shrobe

Leads

Howard Shrobe

Howard Shrobe

Research Areas

Security & Cryptography

Impact Areas

Cybersecurity
 
Howard Shrobe

Howard Shrobe

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Automatic Speech Recognition

Spoken Language Systems Group
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has been a grand challenge machine learning problem for decades. Our ongoing research in this area examines the use of deep learning models for distant and noisy recording conditions, multilingual, and low-resource scenarios.

Leads

Hao Tang

Hao Tang

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Wei-Ning Hsu

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David Harwath

MIT CSAIL Spoken Language Systems PhD student

Sameer Khurana

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Di-Chia Chueh

Jim Glass

Jim Glass

Research Areas

AI & Machine Learning
Human-Computer Interaction

Impact Areas

Big Data
Education
Entertainment
Health Care
Internet of Things

Project

Computational Knitting: Patterning and Shaping for Everyone

Computational Fabrication Group
Knitting is the new 3d printing. It has become popular again with the widespread availability of patterns and templates, together with the maker movements. Lower-cost industrial knitting machines are starting to emerge, but we are still missing the corresponding design tools. Our goal is to fill this gap.

Alexandre Kaspar

Leads

Alexandre Kaspar

Research Areas

Graphics & Vision
Human-Computer Interaction

Impact Areas

Entertainment
Manufacturing
 

Alexandre Kaspar

Project

Culturally-Grounded Virtual Identities: A Case Study in a Qatari Context

Imagination, Computation, and Expression Laboratory (ICE Lab)
Mixed-methods qualitative (interviews and coding) and computational (AI) approach to understanding relationships between social identities, cultural values, and virtual identity technologies (e.g., online profiles and avatars).
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D. Fox Harrell

Leads

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D. Fox Harrell

Research Areas

Human-Computer Interaction

Impact Areas

Education
Entertainment
 
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D. Fox Harrell

66 People Results

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PI
Core/Dual

Adam Chlipala

Associate Professor
Programming languages, formal methods, security & privacy, systems
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RM 32-G842

Lead

Kami: A Modular Deductive Hardware Verification Platform
Compilation Using Correct-by-Construction Program Synthesis
Programming Languages & Verification
Hemiola: Structural Design and Proof of Cache-Coherence Protocols

Member

Compilation Using Correct-by-Construction Program Synthesis
Programming with spaces
Computation Structures Group
FSCQ: File-system verification
Programming languages, formal methods, security & privacy, systems
Joseph DelPreto

Joseph DelPreto

Graduate Student
Works on human-robot interaction using muscle and brain signals.
Joseph DelPreto
RM 32-376A

Lead

Supervising Robots with Muscle and Brain Signals
Brain-Controlled Robots
Distributed Robot Garden
Robot Compiler
SoFi - The Soft Robotic Fish
Soft Robotic Hand
Using Muscle Signals to Lift Objects with Robots

Member

Distributed Robotics Laboratory
Using Muscle Signals to Lift Objects with Robots
Works on human-robot interaction using muscle and brain signals.
Gregory Falco

Gregory Falco

Postdoctoral Associate
Dr. Falco is a hacker and expert in IoT and IIoT cybersecurity.
Gregory Falco
Dr. Falco is a hacker and expert in IoT and IIoT cybersecurity.
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

Wait-learning: Intelligent Systems for Making Productive Use of Wait Time
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
speech and language processing

47 News Results

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Security & Cryptography

AI Policy Congress – Part 1 Governance Challenges

On January 15, 2019, the MIT Internet Policy Research Initiative (IPRI) and Quest for Intelligence (QI) hosted the first MIT AI Policy Congress. The conference brought together global policymakers, technical experts, and industry executives to discuss the impact of AI across sectors, with panels on transportation and safety, manufacturing and labor, healthcare, criminal justice and fairness, national security and defense, and international perspectives.

AI Policy Congress – Part 1 Governance Challenges

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Security & Cryptography Cybersecurity

MIT engineering students team up with Georgetown lawyers-in-training on internet privacy legislation

Every spring, engineering students from MIT and law students from Georgetown University overcome the distance between their institutions and disciplines in a semester-long flurry of virtual classroom meetings and late-night Google hangout sessions, culminating in presentations to policy experts in DC.

MIT engineering students team up with Georgetown lawyers-in-training on internet privacy legislation