Almost all of the research by MIT EECS faculty, staff, and students is carried out in interdepartmental laboratories, centers, and programs. The primary labs include the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), the Microsystems and Technology Laboratories (MTL) and the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE). For a complete list of laboratories, centers and programs at MIT, visit http://web.mit.edu/research/.
For purposes of administering the department doctoral program, research is considered to be carried out in five Graduate Areas (including three subdivisions in Computer Science: Artificial Intelligence, Systems, and Theory):
