HUBweek shines spotlight on Kendall Square’s innovation ecosystem MIT community plays central role in Greater Boston’s third annual festival of ideas and innovation. October 2, 2017 Read full story →
A deep dive into research SuperUROP gives undergraduates the chance to immerse themselves in a year-long research project with supportive mentors to guide the way. June 22, 2017 Read full story →
New funding enables work on Internet policy and cybersecurity for key infrastructure Work made possible by grants from the Internet Policy Research Initiative. May 19, 2017 Read full story →
Hacking discrimination Student teams develop technology-based tools to address racism and bias. May 16, 2017 Read full story →
Eric Schmidt visits MIT to discuss computing, artificial intelligence, and the future of technology Former Google CEO, now chairman of parent company Alphabet, speaks to students as part of fireside chat with CSAIL Director Daniela Rus. May 4, 2017 Read full story →
Tim Berners-Lee wins $1 million Turing Award CSAIL researcher honored for inventing the web and developing the protocols that spurred its global use. April 4, 2017 Read full story →
Seven MIT researchers win 2017 Sloan Research Fellowships Faculty from four MIT departments among 126 selected from across the U.S. and Canada. February 21, 2017 Read full story →
Fadel Adib joins Media Lab faculty Adib is directing a new research group at the Media Lab, aiming to uncover, analyze, and engineer natural and human-made networks. January 27, 2017 Read full story →
Taming data System finds and links related data scattered across digital files, for easy querying and filtering. January 19, 2017 Read full story →
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. December 8, 2016 Read full story →
Four MIT students named 2017 Marshall Scholars Matthew Cavuto, Zachary Hulcher, Kevin Zhou, and Daniel Zuo will pursue two years of study in the U.K. November 28, 2016 Read full story →
Nancy Lynch named associate head of Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Expert in distributed computing to join department leadership. September 7, 2016 Read full story →
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 Read full story →
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 Read full story →
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 Read full story →