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.
New findings could point the way to “valleytronics”
Researchers clear hurdles toward a new kind of 2-D microchip using different electron properties.
CSAIL opens lab to 150 local students for Hour of Code
Robots, virtual visit from will.i.am aim to get kids excited about programming.
Computers that teach by example
New system enables pattern-recognition systems to convey what they learn to humans.
New 2-D quantum materials for nanoelectronics
MIT team provides theoretical roadmap to making 2-D electronics with novel properties.