Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)

Learn a language while you text

Graduate student's “WaitChatter” app teaches vocabulary during moments in between text and instant-message replies.

May 14, 2015

Photo of green apples, in front of a camera with viewfinder showing green apples

Removing reflections from photos taken through windows

New algorithm exploits multiple reflections in individual images to distinguish reflection from transmission.

May 11, 2015

The first layers (1 and 2) of a neural network trained to classify scenes seem to be tuned to geometric patterns of increasing complexity, but the higher layers (3 and 4) appear to be picking out particular classes of objects.

Object recognition for free

System designed to label visual scenes according to type turns out to detect particular objects, too.

May 8, 2015

One way to reduce email stress: Re-invent the mailing list

New CSAIL system lets users customize the mailing-list experience by following and blocking users and “upvoting” messages.

April 27, 2015

How a computer can help your doctor better diagnose cancer

Model from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory aims to automatically distinguish lymphoma subtypes.

April 23, 2015

A new memory-access protocol assigns every memory address to a single path (green) through a data structure known as a tree. But a given node of the tree will often lie along multiple paths (blue).

Cloud security reaches silicon

System for defending against memory-access attacks implemented in chips.

April 23, 2015

How three MIT students fooled the world of scientific journals

A decade later, CSAIL alumni reflect on their paper generator and reveal a new fake-conference project.

April 14, 2015

Two-dimensional images of human faces (top row) and front views of three-dimensional models of the same faces, produced by both a new MIT system (middle row) and one of its predecessors (bottom row).

Graphics in reverse

Probabilistic programming does in 50 lines of code what used to take thousands.

April 13, 2015

Captioning at scale

Company’s more-efficient captioning system processes hundreds of video-hours per day.

April 8, 2015

MIT graduate students Elena Glassman and Jeremy Scott

Reviewing online homework at scale

System clusters similar student programs together, so instructors can identify broad trends.

March 30, 2015

Munther Dahleh and Rose Faghih at a Postdoc6 workshop

Building community for EECS postdocs

Postdoctoral scholars in electrical engineering and computer science gain new perspectives as Postdoc6 comes full cycle.

March 25, 2015

Michael Stonebraker wins $1 million Turing Award

CSAIL researcher invented core database concepts, turned many into companies.

March 25, 2015

Integer overflows occur when a computer tries to store too large a number in the memory space reserved for it. The leading digits are discarded — much as they are when a car odometer turns over.

Better debugger

System to automatically find a common type of programming bug significantly outperforms its predecessors.

March 24, 2015

MIT launches three new cybersecurity initiatives

Complementary programs will address cybersecurity from the perspectives of technology, public policy, and organizational management.

March 13, 2015

Better machine learning

Kalyan Veeramachaneni tackles some of the biggest bottlenecks holding back the data science industry.

February 24, 2015

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