Eight from MIT elected to National Academy of Engineering
New members include the Institute’s president and the director of Lincoln Laboratory.
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Parallelizing common algorithms
Researchers revamp a common “data structure” so that it will work with multicore chips.
Optimizing optimization algorithms
Analysis shows how to get the best results when approximating solutions to complex engineering problems.
President Obama, Prime Minister Cameron announce cybersecurity competition with CSAIL
MIT, British students to face off in “Cambridge v. Cambridge” event this fall.
Software that knows the risks
Planning algorithms evaluate probability of success, suggest low-risk alternatives.
Evolutionary approaches to big-data problems
Una-May O'Reilly applies machine learning and evolutionary algorithms to tackle some of the world's biggest big-data challenges.
Inspiring a new generation of innovators
Andrew Viterbi ’56, SM ’57 has been a pioneer in wireless communications for more than half a century.
Vision system for household robots
New algorithm could enable household robots to better identify objects in cluttered environments.
Forbes hails MIT standouts in science, education, energy, technology, and health care
11 MIT affiliates and more than 30 alumni are identified as movers, makers, and game changers in their respective fields.
Five CSAIL researchers named ACM fellows
The Association for Computer Machinery cites Devadas, Grimson, Morris, Rubinfeld, and Rus as having "provided key knowledge" to computing.
Drones, Bitcoin, and robotic fish
Here are eight of the coolest things that happened at CSAIL in 2014.
Taking the grunt work out of Web development
New programming language automatically coordinates interactions between Web page components.
Could birdsong help us solve stuttering?
New CSAIL genomics work suggests vocalizing birds could tell us more about speech disorders.