Data diversity
Preserving variety in subsets of unmanageably large data sets should aid machine learning.
Department
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Making big data manageable
Technique shrinks data sets while preserving their fundamental mathematical relationships.
Helping policy and technology work together
Engineering grad student Keertan Kini is working to strengthen the intersection of policy and technology.
Four CSAIL researchers named ACM fellows
Association for Computer Machinery cites Erik Demaine, Fredo Durand, William Freeman, and Daniel Jackson for having "provided key knowledge" to computing.
Henry Smith awarded IEEE Noyce Medal
Professor emeritus of electrical engineering recognized for contributions to field of nanofabrication.
“Google Docs” for life sciences accelerates discovery
Cloud-based platform assists in managing, sharing data facilitates research.
Learning words from pictures
System correlates recorded speech with images, could lead to fully automated speech recognition.
Design your own custom drone
CSAIL system lets users design and fabricate drones with a wide range of shapes and structures.
Face to face with "The Enemy"
Visiting Artist Karim Ben Khelifa creates immersive experiences using virtual and augmented reality to humanize soldiers in global conflicts.
Four MIT students named 2017 Schwarzman Scholars
Alix de Monts, Lisa Ho, Anita Liu, and Melody Liu will study for one year at Tsinghua University in China.
Computer learns to recognize sounds by watching video
Machine-learning system doesn’t require costly hand-annotated data.
Harder, better, faster, stronger
The MIT Formula SAE team takes a great leap forward to build their 2017 race car.
Creating videos of the future
Given a still image, CSAIL deep-learning system generates videos that predict what will happen next in a scene.
Meeting of the minds for machine intelligence
Industry leaders, computer scientists, and venture capitalists gather to discuss how smarter computers are remaking our world.
Toward X-ray movies
Low-power tabletop source of ultrashort electron beams could replace car-size laboratory devices.