Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)

A study by MIT researchers has uncovered a new way of telling how well people are learning English: tracking their eyes.

Gauging language proficiency through eye movement

Study tracks eye movement to determine how well people understand English as a foreign language.

May 22, 2018

Delta Electronics Professor of Computer Science Regina Barzilay (left) gives a tutorial on the fundamentals of machine learning.

Applying machine learning to challenges in the pharmaceutical industry

MIT researchers and industry form new consortium to aid the drug discovery process.

May 17, 2018

Cleverly dividing information among multiple servers lets an MIT system protects the privacy of contributors to genomic databases in a way that is much more computationally efficient than standard cryptographic techniques.

Protecting confidentiality in genomic studies

Cryptographic system could enable “crowdsourced” genomics, with volunteers contributing information to privacy-protected databases.

May 7, 2018

A team of MIT researchers tested MapLite on a Toyota Prius outfitted with a range of LIDAR and IMU sensors.

Self-driving cars for country roads

Today’s autonomous vehicles require hand-labeled 3-D maps, but CSAIL’s MapLite system enables navigation with just GPS and sensors.

May 7, 2018

At CSAIL Suresh conducts research on personalized medicine and the societal implications of machine learning.

Building AI systems that make fair decisions

Harini Suresh, a PhD student at MIT CSAIL, studies how to make machine learning algorithms more understandable and less biased.

April 24, 2018

Vinod Vaikuntanathan is an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science and a principal investigator in CSAIL.

Vinod Vaikuntanathan wins Edgerton Faculty Award

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science faculty member is honored for his innovative work in cybersecurity and his engaging teaching style.

April 23, 2018

Left to right: Sitan Chen, Lillian Chin, and Suchita Nety have been awarded 2018 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans.

Three MIT graduate students awarded 2018 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

Award honors immigrants’ contributions to the United States.

April 17, 2018

To create complete road maps companies like Google often have to have employees take existing aerial images with incomplete information and manually fill in the gaps.

A new way to automatically build road maps from aerial images

“RoadTracer” system from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory could reduce workload for developers of apps like Google Maps.

April 17, 2018

CSAIL PhD student Amy Zhang led the development of the new Squadbox tool.

Using friends to fight online harassment

CSAIL’s “Squadbox” uses “friendsourcing” to better support targets of cyberbullying.

April 5, 2018

Aude Oliva (right), a principal research scientist at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Dan Gutfreund (left), a principal investigator at the MIT–IBM Watson AI Laboratory and a staff member at IBM Research, are the principal investigators for the Moments in Time Dataset, one of the projects related to AI algorithms funded by the MIT–IBM Watson AI Laboratory.

Artificial intelligence in action

At the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, researchers are training computers to recognize dynamic events.

April 4, 2018

MIT Professor Dina Katabi works on wireless systems for health-care monitoring.

Professor Dina Katabi wins Association for Computing Machinery Prize in Computing

Katabi receives prestigious honor and $250,000 cash prize for her contributions to wireless systems.

April 4, 2018

School of Engineering first quarter 2018 awards

Faculty members recognized for excellence via a diverse array of honors, grants, and prizes over the last quarter.

April 3, 2018

MIT Professor Tom Leighton has won the 2018 Marconi Prize for his fundamental contributions to technology and the establishment of the content delivery network (CDN) industry.

Professor Tom Leighton wins 2018 Marconi Prize

Akamai co-founder honored for pioneering content delivery network services industry.

March 22, 2018

Using its undulating tail and a unique ability to control its own buoyancy, SoFi can swim in a straight line, turn, or dive up or down.

Soft robotic fish swims alongside real ones in coral reefs

Made of silicone rubber, CSAIL’s “SoFi” could enable a closer study of aquatic life.

March 21, 2018

Skydio, a San Francisco-based startup founded by three MIT alumni, is commercializing an autonomous video-capturing drone — dubbed by some as the “selfie drone” — that tracks and films a subject, while freely navigating any environment.

The autonomous “selfie drone”

Alumni’s video-capturing drone tracks moving subjects while freely navigating any environment.

March 13, 2018

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