CSAIL launches new five-year collaboration with iFlyTek
Lab will work with Chinese company on research in artificial intelligence, language processing, and human-computer interaction.
MIT engineers build smart power outlet
Design can “learn” to identify plugged-in appliances, distinguish dangerous electrical spikes from benign ones.
Teaching robots how to move objects
PhD candidate and Amazon Robotics Challenge winner Maria Bauza helps to improve how robots interact with the world.
Artificial intelligence senses people through walls
Wireless smart-home system from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory could monitor diseases and help the elderly “age in place.”
On a mission to build the uncrashable car
Ryan Eustice PhD '05 and his team at the Toyota Research Institute are using artificial intelligence technologies to develop a car incapable of causing accidents.
MIT announces leadership of its Quest for Intelligence
Faculty from across the Institute tapped to lead new initiative in human and machine intelligence.
An unexpected ambition borne from MIT experience
Annamarie Bair, a premed student turned computer science major, is drawn to the promise of artificial intelligence and health care.
Revolutionizing everyday products with artificial intelligence
Mechanical engineering researchers are using AI and machine learning technologies to enhance the products we use in everyday life.
AI-based method could speed development of specialized nanoparticles
Neural network could expedite complex physics simulations.
Teaching chores to an artificial agent
Activity simulator could eventually teach robots tasks like making coffee or setting the table.
Making driverless cars change lanes more like human drivers do
Algorithm computes “buffer zones” around autonomous vehicles and reassess them on the fly.
Researchers develop virtual-reality testing ground for drones
With new system, drones navigate through an empty room, avoiding crashes while “seeing” a virtual world.
Celebrating 21st century statistics
MIT Statistics and Data Science Conference highlights new approaches and varied applications.
Self-driving cars for country roads
Today’s autonomous vehicles require hand-labeled 3-D maps, but CSAIL’s MapLite system enables navigation with just GPS and sensors.
Building AI systems that make fair decisions
Harini Suresh, a PhD student at MIT CSAIL, studies how to make machine learning algorithms more understandable and less biased.