Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)

Researchers including MIT professor Daniela Rus (left) and research scientist Stephanie Gil (right) have developed a technique for preventing malicious hackers from commandeering robot teams’ communication networks. To verify the theoretical predictions, the researchers implemented their system using a battery of distributed Wi-Fi transmitters and an autonomous helicopter.

Security for multirobot systems

New technique could protect robot teams’ communication networks from malicious hackers.

March 16, 2017

MIT senior Daniel Zuo fell in love with algorithms his first year at MIT. “It was exactly what I was looking for,” he says with a smile. “I took every algorithms course there was on offer.”

Daniel Zuo: Creative approaches to connectivity

MIT senior and Marshall Scholar will pursue research on algorithms to improve computer networks.

March 16, 2017

William Souillard-Mandar ’12, MEng ’15 (left); Professor Randall Davis; and their team have created a fast, inexpensive way to improve cognitive testing.

New AI tool improves cognitive testing

Digital pen plus speedy data analysis developed at MIT and tested at Lahey Hospital improves a classic test that helps detect cognitive impairment.

March 10, 2017

The Wikum interface from MIT provides readers with detailed summaries of online discussions.

Cutting down the clutter in online conversations

“Wikum” system from CSAIL researchers provides readers with detailed summaries of online discussions.

March 9, 2017

A new system from CSAIL uses EEG brain signals to detect if a person notices robots making a mistake.

Brain-controlled robots

CSAIL system enables people to correct robot mistakes using brain signals.

March 6, 2017

Researchers from MIT’s Microsystems Technologies Laboratories (MTL) have designed a new power converter that maintains its efficiency at currents ranging from 100 picoamps to 1 milliamp, a span that encompasses a millionfold increase in current levels.

Researchers devise efficient power converter for internet of things

Design reduces converter’s resting power consumption by 50 percent.

February 17, 2017

"Dedicated, smart people [can] contribute so much to our nation, but also to making the world a better place."

Featured video: Tackling science and technology together

MIT faculty reflect on why international collaboration benefits science, engineering, and technology for all.

February 13, 2017

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.

Voice control everywhere

Low-power special-purpose chip could make speech recognition ubiquitous in electronics.

February 13, 2017

“This is a great class of new NAE members who are affiliated with MIT,” says Ian A. Waitz, dean of the School of Engineering and the Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Eight MIT faculty elected to the National Academy of Engineering

New members have made advances in artificial skin, wireless communications, nanotechnology, hydrology, and cancer treatment.

February 10, 2017

Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory are trying to improve automated planners by giving them the benefit of human intuition. By encoding the strategies of high-performing human planners in a machine-readable form, they were able to improve the performance of competition-winning planning algorithms by between 10 and 15 percent on a challenging set of prob...

Researchers add a splash of human intuition to planning algorithms

Incorporating strategies from skilled human planners improves automatic planners’ performance.

February 7, 2017

MIT Professor Tom Leighton (left) and the late Danny Lewin SM '97 have been named to the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

Professor Tom Leighton and Danny Lewin SM ’98 named to National Inventors Hall of Fame

Akamai founders honored for applying algorithms to solve web congestion.

February 2, 2017

PhD candidate Mohammad Ghassemi (left) and graduate student Tuka Alhanai's system can detect the tone of a conversation using a wearable device.

Wearable AI system can detect a conversation's tone

Coupled with audio and vital-sign data, deep-learning system could someday serve as a “social coach” for people with anxiety or Asperger’s.

February 1, 2017

“Everybody said it was going to be too hard, that you’d have to change the whole compiler,” MIT professor Charles E. Leiserson says. “And these guys basically showed that conventional wisdom to be flat-out wrong.”

Optimizing code

Modifying the “middle end” of a popular compiler yields more-efficient parallel programs.

January 30, 2017

Fadel Adib has joined the Media Lab faculty to head the new research group Signal Kinetics.

Fadel Adib joins Media Lab faculty

Adib is directing a new research group at the Media Lab, aiming to uncover, analyze, and engineer natural and human-made networks.

January 27, 2017

Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have designed a new system that automatically handles caching of database queries for web applications written in the web-programming language Ur/Web.

Faster websites with fewer bugs

System that automatically handles database caching in server farms increases speed and reliability.

January 20, 2017

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