Could wireless replace wearables?
CSAIL wireless technology that measures heart rate and breathing through walls has applications for personal health, baby monitors, and law enforcement.
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Achieving energy efficiency with “Local Warming”
MIT researchers develop a system that creates personalized climates around individuals — an alternative to heating entire buildings.
School of Engineering awards for 2014
Awards given to outstanding faculty, and graduate and undergraduate students
Bake your own robot
New algorithms and electronic components could enable printable robots that self-assemble when heated.
CSAIL convenes leading thinkers to discuss future of computing
"MAC50" symposium celebrates 50 years of computer science at MIT.
Spruce up your selfie
A new algorithm could transfer acclaimed photographers’ signature styles to cellphone photos.
A new kind of media theory
MIT professor Fox Harrell works to enrich the subjective and ethical dimensions of the digital media experience.
Who did what?
Techniques from natural-language processing enable computers to efficiently search video for actions.
It’s in the genes — but whose?
Genetic material hitchhiking in our cells may shape physical traits more than we thought.
Computer system automatically solves word problems
Applications could include educational tools, systems to solve practical geometry or physics problems.
CSAIL hosts Demo Day, attended by Mayor Walsh
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, local students attend the National Robotics Week event
Orienteering for robots
Algorithm for determining orientation of objects could aid robots in navigation, scene understanding.