CSAIL team puts design in your hands
Fab By Example lets you quickly create thousands of custom designs for furniture, go-carts, and more.
Department
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Origami robot folds itself up, crawls away
Prototype made almost entirely of printable parts demonstrates crucial capabilities of reconfigurable robots.
Kellis to lead MIT team in new phase of GTEx project to elucidate basis of disease predisposition
NIH-sponsored work to characterize genetic variation in human tissues with roles in diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.
Model of viral lifecycle could help in finding a cure for hepatitis B
New technique sustains virus in liver cells, allowing study of immune response and drug treatments.
Extracting audio from visual information
Algorithm recovers speech from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag filmed through soundproof glass.
Research team that includes CSAIL's Devadas receives major NSF award
Modular Approach to Cloud Security project aims to build cloud systems with multilayered security
Light pulses control graphene’s electrical behavior
Finding could allow ultrafast switching of conduction, and possibly lead to new broadband light sensors.
No-wait data centers
New system could reduce data-transmission delays across server farms by 99.6 percent.
Drone lighting
Autonomous vehicles could automatically assume the right positions for photographic lighting.
Own your own data
A new system would allow individuals to pick and choose what data to share with websites and mobile apps.
Professor Seth Teller dies at age 50
Expert on computer vision, robotics, and human-robot interaction had been on the faculty since 1994.
Researchers unveil experimental 36-core chip
Design lets chip manage local memory stores efficiently using an Internet-style communication network.
A charging solution for delivery drones: Take after our feathered friends?
New CSAIL research suggests a future where UAVs can recharge their batteries by perching on power lines.