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Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
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Professor Dina Katabi wins Association for Computing Machinery Prize in Computing
Katabi receives prestigious honor and $250,000 cash prize for her contributions to wireless systems.
April 4, 2018 -
School of Engineering first quarter 2018 awards
Faculty members recognized for excellence via a diverse array of honors, grants, and prizes over the last quarter.
April 3, 2018 -
Professor Tom Leighton wins 2018 Marconi Prize
Akamai co-founder honored for pioneering content delivery network services industry.
March 22, 2018 -
Soft robotic fish swims alongside real ones in coral reefs
Made of silicone rubber, CSAIL’s “SoFi” could enable a closer study of aquatic life.
March 21, 2018 -
The autonomous “selfie drone”
Alumni’s video-capturing drone tracks moving subjects while freely navigating any environment.
March 13, 2018 -
Custom carpentry with help from robots
CSAIL’s robotic system minimizes dangerous sawing, helps users customize furniture.
February 28, 2018 -
Private browsing gets more private
New system patches security holes left open by web browsers’ private-browsing functions.
February 22, 2018 -
MIT Sandbox’s first acquired startup gives back
Augmented-reality startup Escher Reality, which recently sold to Niantic, gives back to the program that helped it launch.
February 21, 2018 -
Eight MIT researchers win 2018 Sloan Research Fellowships
Faculty from six MIT departments among 126 selected from across the U.S. and Canada.
February 15, 2018 -
Programming drones to fly in the face of uncertainty
CSAIL's NanoMap system enables drones to avoid obstacles while flying at 20 miles per hour, by more deeply integrating sensing and control.
February 12, 2018 -
Automating materials design
With new approach, researchers specify desired properties of a material, and a computer system generates a structure accordingly.
February 2, 2018 -
Institute launches the MIT Intelligence Quest
New Institute-wide initiative will advance human and machine intelligence research.
February 1, 2018 -
Changing the color of 3-D printed objects
CSAIL system uses custom ink and ultraviolet light to repeatedly change an object's color.
January 29, 2018 -
3Q: D. Fox Harrell on his video game for the #MeToo era
The computer scientist’s group has designed a game that gets players to reflect on sexual misconduct in the workplace.
January 19, 2018 -
Three EECS professors join leadership team
Saman Amarasinghe and Joel Voldman are named associate department heads; Nancy Lynch is associate department head for strategic directions, a new post.
January 12, 2018 -
Unlocking marine mysteries with artificial intelligence
Students put their AI software for underwater vehicles to the test on the Charles River.
December 14, 2017 -
Computer systems predict objects’ responses to physical forces
Results may help explain how humans do the same thing.
December 13, 2017 -
Four from MIT named 2017 Association for Computing Machinery Fellows
Professors Goldwasser, Lozano-Perez, Micali, and Sipser honored for "providing key knowledge" to computing.
December 11, 2017 -
Reading a neural network’s mind
Technique illuminates the inner workings of artificial-intelligence systems that process language.
December 10, 2017 -
How badly do you want something? Babies can tell
Ten-month-old infants determine the value of a goal from how hard someone works to achieve it.
November 23, 2017