Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)

Adriana Schulz, an MIT PhD student in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, demonstrates the InstantCAD computer-aided-design-optimizing interface.

Reshaping computer-aided design

CSAIL’s InstantCAD allows manufacturers to simulate, optimize CAD designs in real-time.

July 24, 2017

Pic2Recipe, an artificial intelligence system developed at MIT, can take a photo of an entree and suggest a similar recipe to it.

Artificial intelligence suggests recipes based on food photos

Given a still image of a dish filled with food, CSAIL team's deep-learning algorithm recommends ingredients and recipes.

July 20, 2017

Watch 3-D movies at home, sans glasses

CSAIL system converts 3-D movies into a more TV-friendly format.

July 12, 2017

This figure shows a 36-tile Jenga system that’s running four applications. Jenga gives each application a custom virtual cache hierarchy.

Using chip memory more efficiently

System for generating ad hoc “cache hierarchies” increases processing speed while reducing energy consumption.

July 7, 2017

A new system dubbed Fractal achieves 88-fold speedups through a parallelism strategy known as speculative execution.

Practical parallelism

System enables large speedups — as much as 88-fold — on common parallel-computing algorithms.

June 30, 2017

Neural networks learn to perform computational tasks by analyzing large sets of training data. But once they’ve been trained, even their designers rarely have any idea what data elements they’re processing.

Peering into neural networks

New technique helps elucidate the inner workings of neural networks trained on visual data.

June 29, 2017

A new computer system predicts the products of chemical reactions. “The vision is that you’ll be able to walk up to a system and say, ‘I want to make this molecule.’ The software will tell you the route you should make it from, and the machine will make it,” says professor Klavs Jensen.

Computer system predicts products of chemical reactions

Machine learning approach could aid the design of industrial processes for drug manufacturing.

June 27, 2017

One of the researchers' quadcopter drones with wheels.

Drones that drive

CSAIL team’s system of quadcopters that fly and drive suggest another approach to developing flying cars.

June 26, 2017

Researchers have created a universal algorithm for folding origami shapes that guarantees a minimum number of seams.

Origami anything

New algorithm generates practical paper-folding patterns to produce any 3-D structure.

June 21, 2017

Researchers at MIT and other institutions have devised a way to boost the quality of low-resolution patient MRI scans so they can be used for large-scale studies. Images produced by their algorithm, shown in the center column, are much closer to high-resolution scans shown in the right column. In the left column are images produced by a different technique for improving low-resolution scans.

New technique makes brain scans better

Boosting quality of patient MRIs could enable large-scale studies of stroke outcome.

June 20, 2017

Researchers at MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital have designed a new system that can efficiently search through hundreds of hours of video of laparoscopic surgeries to identify relevant events and visual features.

Shrinking data for surgical training

Technique that reduces video files to one-tenth their initial size enables speedy analysis of laparoscopic procedures.

June 16, 2017

A GelSight sensor attached to a robot’s gripper enables the robot to determine precisely where it has grasped a small screwdriver, removing it from and inserting it back into a slot, even when the gripper screens the screwdriver from the robot’s camera.

Giving robots a sense of touch

GelSight technology lets robots gauge objects’ hardness and manipulate small tools.

June 5, 2017

PhD student Danielle Olson believes we can make digital information-sharing more natural and interpersonal, by creating immersive media to better understand each other’s feelings and backgrounds.

Danielle Olson: Building empathy through computer science and art

CSAIL PhD student creates immersive media to help users understand each other’s backgrounds and feelings.

May 30, 2017

At graduate school in Berkeley, professor Armando Solar-Lezama found himself part of a small community of researchers working on “program synthesis,” or the automatic generation of computer programs. His thesis project was a language called Sketch, which lets programmers describe program functionality in general terms and automatically fills in the computational details. After graduating from ...

Armando Solar-Lezama: Academic success despite an inauspicious start

Initially turned down by nearly every college he applied to, the computer scientist cleared his own path to MIT.

May 25, 2017

New research shows that the Zika virus circulated in many regions of the Americas for several months before cases of infection were detected.

Zika virus likely circulated in Americas long before its detection

Analysis of largest collection of Zika genomes to date reveals trajectory and evolution of the virus.

May 24, 2017

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