Consumer-friendly makers
Media Lab alumni’s success with “smart” gaming blocks led to an acquisition deal to make consumer drones.
Better how-to videos
System recruits learners to annotate videos, increasing their educational value.
Keeping health care clean
Startup’s smart devices track hand-washing in hospitals to help reduce the spread of infection.
Parallelizing common algorithms
Researchers revamp a common “data structure” so that it will work with multicore chips.
Qubits with staying power
Technique greatly extends duration of fragile quantum states, pointing toward practical quantum computers.
Telling stories using computer science
Senior Shannon Kao’s knack for storytelling informs her research in computer graphics.
Optimizing optimization algorithms
Analysis shows how to get the best results when approximating solutions to complex engineering problems.
President Obama, Prime Minister Cameron announce cybersecurity competition with CSAIL
MIT, British students to face off in “Cambridge v. Cambridge” event this fall.
Evolutionary approaches to big-data problems
Una-May O'Reilly applies machine learning and evolutionary algorithms to tackle some of the world's biggest big-data challenges.
A week at MIT
Workshop on quantitative methods in biology draws diverse undergrads from across the country.
Inspiring a new generation of innovators
Andrew Viterbi ’56, SM ’57 has been a pioneer in wireless communications for more than half a century.
Toward quantum chips
Packing single-photon detectors on an optical chip is a crucial step toward quantum-computational circuits.
Five CSAIL researchers named ACM fellows
The Association for Computer Machinery cites Devadas, Grimson, Morris, Rubinfeld, and Rus as having "provided key knowledge" to computing.
Taking the grunt work out of Web development
New programming language automatically coordinates interactions between Web page components.