Empowerment through mobile technology and co-design
MIT students improve the quality of life, safety, and independence of The Boston Home residents with InstaAid mobile application.
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Learn a language while you text
Graduate student's “WaitChatter” app teaches vocabulary during moments in between text and instant-message replies.
Object recognition for free
System designed to label visual scenes according to type turns out to detect particular objects, too.
One way to reduce email stress: Re-invent the mailing list
New CSAIL system lets users customize the mailing-list experience by following and blocking users and “upvoting” messages.
New MIT report details benefits of investment in basic research
Authors highlight 15 research opportunities that could help boost the U.S. economy, benefit society.
How a computer can help your doctor better diagnose cancer
Model from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory aims to automatically distinguish lymphoma subtypes.
How three MIT students fooled the world of scientific journals
A decade later, CSAIL alumni reflect on their paper generator and reveal a new fake-conference project.
Captioning at scale
Company’s more-efficient captioning system processes hundreds of video-hours per day.
Building community for EECS postdocs
Postdoctoral scholars in electrical engineering and computer science gain new perspectives as Postdoc6 comes full cycle.
Michael Stonebraker wins $1 million Turing Award
CSAIL researcher invented core database concepts, turned many into companies.
Better debugger
System to automatically find a common type of programming bug significantly outperforms its predecessors.
MIT launches three new cybersecurity initiatives
Complementary programs will address cybersecurity from the perspectives of technology, public policy, and organizational management.
Fighting inefficiencies
Senior Sheldon Trotman designs computer programs to streamline human behavior.
