Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)

To create complete road maps companies like Google often have to have employees take existing aerial images with incomplete information and manually fill in the gaps.

A new way to automatically build road maps from aerial images

“RoadTracer” system from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory could reduce workload for developers of apps like Google Maps.

April 17, 2018

CSAIL PhD student Amy Zhang led the development of the new Squadbox tool.

Using friends to fight online harassment

CSAIL’s “Squadbox” uses “friendsourcing” to better support targets of cyberbullying.

April 5, 2018

Aude Oliva (right), a principal research scientist at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Dan Gutfreund (left), a principal investigator at the MIT–IBM Watson AI Laboratory and a staff member at IBM Research, are the principal investigators for the Moments in Time Dataset, one of the projects related to AI algorithms funded by the MIT–IBM Watson AI Laboratory.

Artificial intelligence in action

At the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, researchers are training computers to recognize dynamic events.

April 4, 2018

MIT Professor Dina Katabi works on wireless systems for health-care monitoring.

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

MIT Professor Tom Leighton has won the 2018 Marconi Prize for his fundamental contributions to technology and the establishment of the content delivery network (CDN) industry.

Professor Tom Leighton wins 2018 Marconi Prize

Akamai co-founder honored for pioneering content delivery network services industry.

March 22, 2018

Using its undulating tail and a unique ability to control its own buoyancy, SoFi can swim in a straight line, turn, or dive up or down.

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

Skydio, a San Francisco-based startup founded by three MIT alumni, is commercializing an autonomous video-capturing drone — dubbed by some as the “selfie drone” — that tracks and films a subject, while freely navigating any environment.

The autonomous “selfie drone”

Alumni’s video-capturing drone tracks moving subjects while freely navigating any environment.

March 13, 2018

PhD student Adriana Schulz was co-lead on AutoSaw, which lets nonexperts customize different items that can then be constructed with the help of robots.

Custom carpentry with help from robots

CSAIL’s robotic system minimizes dangerous sawing, helps users customize furniture.

February 28, 2018

Generally, a browser won’t know where the data it downloaded has ended up. Even if it did, it wouldn’t necessarily have authorization from the operating system to delete it.

Private browsing gets more private

New system patches security holes left open by web browsers’ private-browsing functions.

February 22, 2018

Escher Reality, co-founded by Ross Finman in the MIT Sandbox, was recently acquired by augmented-reality (AR) giant Niantic — and plans to give back to the program that helped it launch. The startup is developing a platform that allows cross-platform, fully multiplayer AR games that save digital objects in the real world.

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

CSAIL's NanoMap system allows drones to fly in congested environments such as forests.

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

New software identified five different families of microstructures, each defined by a shared “skeleton” (blue), that optimally traded off three mechanical properties.

Automating materials design

With new approach, researchers specify desired properties of a material, and a computer system generates a structure accordingly.

February 2, 2018

At a time of rapid advances in intelligence research across many disciplines, the MIT Intelligence Quest will encourage researchers to investigate the societal implications of their work as they pursue hard problems lying beyond the current horizon of what is known.

Institute launches the MIT Intelligence Quest

New Institute-wide initiative will advance human and machine intelligence research.

February 1, 2018

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