CSAIL team puts design in your hands
Fab By Example lets you quickly create thousands of custom designs for furniture, go-carts, and more.
Research team that includes CSAIL's Devadas receives major NSF award
Modular Approach to Cloud Security project aims to build cloud systems with multilayered security
A market for emotions
With emotion-tracking software, Affectiva attracts big-name clients, aims for “mood-aware” Internet.
No-wait data centers
New system could reduce data-transmission delays across server farms by 99.6 percent.
Own your own data
A new system would allow individuals to pick and choose what data to share with websites and mobile apps.
Traffic lights: There’s a better way
MIT researchers develop an improved system for timing of urban lights to minimize commuting times.
Researchers unveil experimental 36-core chip
Design lets chip manage local memory stores efficiently using an Internet-style communication network.
CSAIL convenes leading thinkers to discuss future of computing
"MAC50" symposium celebrates 50 years of computer science at MIT.
A new kind of media theory
MIT professor Fox Harrell works to enrich the subjective and ethical dimensions of the digital media experience.
Parallel programming may not be so daunting
“Lock-free” parallel algorithms may match performance of more complex “wait-free” algorithms.
U.S. News ranks MIT’s graduate program in Engineering No. 1; Sloan is No. 5 business school
Institute’s programs rank first in 7 engineering, 5 science, and 3 business fields.
Smarter caching
Cleverer management of the local memory banks known as ‘caches’ could improve computer chips’ performance while reducing their energy consumption.
Expanding our view of vision
New brain-scanning technique allows scientists to see when and where the brain processes visual information.
A computer scientist's approach to medicine
Stephanie Seneff is using the novel natural language processing techniques she developed to better understand how drugs and environmental toxins impact human health.