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 →
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 Read full story →
Julie Shah, Sandy Alexandre receive campus houseteam appointments Shah named head of house after serving as Sidney Pacific associate housemaster; Alexandre joins East Campus as associate head of house. May 26, 2016 Read full story →
MIT, Cambridge University team up for “Cambridge 2 Cambridge” hackathon Hosted by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, event featured mixed student teams tackling cybersecurity challenges. March 7, 2016 Read full story →
Marvin Minsky, “father of artificial intelligence,” dies at 88 Professor emeritus was a co-founder of CSAIL and a founding member of the Media Lab. January 25, 2016 Read full story →
The School of Science appoints six faculty to named professorships December 28, 2015 Read full story →
Deep-learning algorithm predicts photos’ memorability at “near-human” levels Future versions of an algorithm from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab could help with teaching, marketing, and memory improvement. December 16, 2015 Read full story →
Data, drones, and 3-D-printed hearts Looking back on the year that was: Highlights from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab in 2015. December 8, 2015 Read full story →