Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)

Seymour Papert was a world-renowned visionary in education and a founding faculty member of the MIT Media Lab.

Professor Emeritus Seymour Papert, pioneer of constructionist learning, dies at 88

World-renowned mathematician, learning theorist, and educational-technology visionary was a founding faculty member of the MIT Media Lab.

August 1, 2016

A fourth-year PhD student in electrical engineering and computer science, Ariel Anders works beside a light-therapy box recently installed at MIT.

In Stata Center phone booths, "light-therapy" aims to brighten moods

Graduate student who suffered from seasonal affective disorder (SAD) develops MindHandHeart Innovation Fund project.

July 29, 2016

English is the most used language on the Internet, and globally most of the people who speak or write in English are non-native speakers. A new database of annotated English sentences written by non-native speakers could help improve how computers handle the spoken or written language of non-native English speakers.

First major database of non-native English

Resource could yield linguistic insights, practical applications for non-native English speakers.

July 29, 2016

A new prototype display could show 3-D movies to any seat in a theater, with no eyewear required.

New movie screen allows for glasses-free 3-D at a larger scale

Prototype display enables viewers to watch a 3-D movie from any seat in a theater.

July 25, 2016

JuliaCon attendees gather in the amphitheater outside of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

JuliaCon draws global users of a dynamic, easy-to-learn programming language

Now three years old, the Julia programming language is helping to solve problems in areas such as economic modeling, spaceflight, and bioinformatics.

July 18, 2016

Robert Fano's work on information theory and time-sharing computers were vital precursors to today's computing technologies.

Robert Fano, computing pioneer and founder of CSAIL, dies at 98

Professor emeritus helped launch field of information theory and developed early time-sharing computers.

July 15, 2016

A new system that can anticipate room assignments and suggest which nurses to assign to patients for C-sections and other procedures provided satisfactory recommendations to nurses 90 percent of the time.

Robot helps nurses schedule tasks on labor floor

System from Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab suggests where to move patients and who should do C-sections.

July 13, 2016

“It’s intuitive that if a bunch of people are randomly walking around an area, the number of times they bump into each other will be a surrogate of the population density,” says Cameron Musco, an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science. “What we’re doing is giving a rigorous analysis behind that intuition, and also saying that the estimate is a very good estim...

Exploring networks efficiently

Analysis of ant colony behavior could yield better algorithms for network communication.

July 13, 2016

Researchers at MIT and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have developed a new anonymity scheme that provides strong security guarantees but uses bandwidth much more efficiently than its predecessors.

How to stay anonymous online

Network can protect users’ anonymity if all but one of its servers are compromised.

July 11, 2016

A new database interface looks like a spreadsheet. Users don’t need to know database scripting languages such as SQL to create new database queries.

Democratizing databases

With a new tool, any competent spreadsheet user can construct custom database interfaces.

July 8, 2016

Unlocking the past with the future of imaging

New grants help MIT Libraries, DMSE, and CSAIL push the boundaries of examining artifacts.

July 7, 2016

Fireworks lit up the night sky and MIT's campus on July 4.

Scene at MIT: Independence Day spectacular

July 6, 2016

A unique reflection of MIT's Building 32, the Ray and Maria Stata Center

Scene at MIT: Reflections on Stata

June 29, 2016

From MIT CSAIL: The left-most column shows the frame before the action begins, with the algorithm's prediction below it. The right columns show the next frames of the video.

Teaching machines to predict the future

Deep-learning vision system from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab anticipates human interactions using videos of TV shows.

June 21, 2016

The researchers’ compiler takes as input differential equations and translates them into voltages and current flows across an analog chip.

Analog computing returns

New analog compiler could help enable simulation of whole organs and even organisms.

June 20, 2016

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