With models like AlphaFold3 limited to academic research, the team built an equivalent alternative, to encourage innovation more broadly.
MIT system “learns” how to optimally allocate workloads across thousands of servers to cut costs, save energy.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has found a new CEO in Jeffrey Jaffe, an MIT alumnus and tech industry stalwart. Jaffe brings with him past experience in executive roles at IBM, Bell Labs, and most recently Novell.
Founded by Tim Berners-Lee, W3C is a global consortium dedicated to pioneering standards and protocols on the World Wide Web. While Berners-Lee will stay on as Director, Jaffe's role will involve overseeing W3C's global operations and maintaining the organization's presence at the forefront of Web development. Read more about the appointment here.
Researchers found that an understudied component of computer processors is susceptible to attacks from malicious agents. Then, they developed mitigation mechanisms.
Shafi Goldwasser, MIT EECS, UC Berkeley, and Weizmann Institute of Science professor and CSAIL member, was recently awarded the 2023 Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing alongside a team of researchers for their work on “Completeness theorems for non-cryptographic fault-tolerant distributed computation.”
CSAIL principal investigator Aude Oliva has received a special research award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of a $13.1 million initiative to support "transformative research in neural and cognitive systems." One of the NSF's 16 grants will go towards Oliva's work on "algorithmically explicit neural representation of visual memorability." Specifically, Oliva will look at how humans encode information, in order to predict what elements of images make them memorable or forgettable.Her team uses complex neuro-imaging technologies to record:1) where encoding happens in the human brain (spatial scale)2) when it happens (temporal scale), and
Photos, clockwise from upper left-hand corner: David Sontag, Phillip Isola, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Arvind Satyanarayan, Song Han, Adam Belay, Manya Ghobadi, Mohsen Ghaffari, Adam Chlilapa.
Solutions to sustainability problems could be addressed through applying computational techniques, according to CSAIL researchers. This fall, the Seminar on Computational Methods for Sustainability will explore the role of computation in solving problems of sustainability, such as energy consumption, developing new chemical processes, and solving large-scale resource allocation problems. The series has been organized by CSAIL Professor Brian Williams, Postdoctoral Fellow J. Zico Kolter and Assistant Professor Youssef Marzouk.
Daniela Rus, Director of CSAIL and MIT EECS Professor, recently received the 2025 IEEE Edison Medal. The award recognizes her leadership and pioneering work in modern robotics.
AI agents could soon become indistinguishable from humans online. Could “personhood credentials” protect people against digital imposters?