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Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)

Computation lies at the heart of understanding all systems. CSAIL studies this vast, compelling field to unlock the secrets of intelligence, extend the power of machines, and explore human/machine interactions.
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Doctoral Thesis: Deeper Learning at Scale with Roleplaying Systems

CSAIL
Provably exact artificial intelligence for nuclear and particle physics

MIT-led team uses AI and machine learning to explore fundamental forces.

CSAIL, AI
Regina Barzilay wins $1m Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Squirrel AI Award

MIT professor announced as award’s first recipient for work in cancer diagnosis and drug synthesis.

CSAIL, AI, Systems, Theory, Big Data, bio-EECS
Helping robots avoid collisions

Realtime Robotics has created a controller that helps robots safely move around on the fly.

CSAIL, Robotics
Three new career development chairs appointed within EECS

This summer has seen three new career development chairs appointed within the EECS faculty: Kevin Chen, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, and Mengjia Yan. Meet the new chairs here.

CSAIL, InfoSys, ApplPhysDev, Biomed, Systems, Theory, Connections, Cybersecurity, Nanotech, Robotics
EECS Welcomes Five New Faculty Members in Fiscal Year 2020

CSAIL, RLE, Biomed, Systems, Theory, bio-EECS, Connections, Cybersecurity, Nanotech, Robotics
Shrinking deep learning’s carbon footprint

Through innovation in software and hardware, researchers move to reduce the financial and environmental costs of modern artificial intelligence.

CSAIL, MTL, RLE
Data systems that learn to be better

Storage tool developed at MIT CSAIL adapts to what its datasets’ users want to search.

CSAIL
Can a quantum strategy help bring down the house?

Study finds quantum entanglement could, in principle, give a slight advantage in the game of blackjack.

CSAIL
An automated health care system that understands when to step in

Machine learning system from MIT CSAIL can look at chest X-rays to diagnose pneumonia — and also knows when to defer to a radiologist.

CSAIL
Algorithm finds hidden connections between paintings at the Met

A team from MIT helped create an image retrieval system to find the closest matches of paintings from different artists and cultures.

CSAIL
A Fast Track for Machine Learning

Tamara Broderick scaling challenges of Bayesian inference

CSAIL, AI
MIT Schwarzman College of Computing announces first named professorships

Honorees will receive additional support to pursue their research and develop their careers.

CSAIL
Faculty receive funding to develop artificial intelligence techniques to combat Covid-19

C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute awards $5.4 million to top researchers to steer how society responds to the pandemic.

CSAIL, LIDS
Learning the ropes and throwing lifelines

PhD student Geeticka Chauhan draws on her experiences as an international student to strengthen the bonds of her MIT community.

CSAIL, Biomed, bio-EECS
New glove lets you incorporate real-life objects into virtual worlds

Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) companies have been working for years on developing systems that can incorporate real-life objects into their digitized worlds. With that in mind, a team from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab has developed a smart glove that can detect your hand pose, as well as distinguish between more than 30 different household objects.

CSAIL, AI, Robotics
Bonnie Berger one of three from MIT elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2020

Faculty member Bonnie Berger elected by peers for outstanding contributions to research.

CSAIL
Visualizing the world beyond the frame

Researchers test how far artificial intelligence models can go in dreaming up varied poses and colors of objects and animals in photos.

CSAIL, AI
Reducing delays in wireless networks

Congestion control system could help streaming video, mobile games, and other applications run more smoothly.

CSAIL
MIT conference reveals the power of using artificial intelligence to discover new drugs

Inaugural AI Powered Drug Discovery and Manufacturing Conference drew pharmaceutical companies, government regulators, and pioneering drug researchers.

CSAIL
Automating the search for entirely new “curiosity” algorithms

Researchers show that computers can “write” algorithms that adapt to radically different environments better than algorithms designed by humans.

CSAIL
A foolproof way to shrink deep learning models

Researchers unveil a pruning algorithm to make artificial intelligence applications run faster.

CSAIL, MTL
One from EECS named to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Professor Rubinfeld is among more than 250 new members of the prestigious honor society.

CSAIL
Professor Daniela Rus named to White House science council

CSAIL director and MIT Schwarzman College of Computing deputy dean of research will serve on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

CSAIL
Satyanarayan selected for NSF career award

Arvind Satyanarayan has been awarded the distinguished NSF career award for his project “Effective Interaction Design for Data Visualization.”

CSAIL