Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)

MIT researchers have devised a technique that “reverse engineers” complex 3-D computer-aided design (CAD) models — breaking them down into the many individual shapes they’re made of — to make them far easier for users to customize for manufacturing and 3-D printing applications.

Customizing computer-aided design

System breaks down complex designs into easily modifiable shapes for custom manufacturing and 3-D printing.

January 2, 2019

Three co-creators of the MIT-incubated Julia programming language, (l-r) Stefan Karpinski, Viral Shah, and Jeff Bezanson, will receive the 2019 James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software. MIT Julia Lab Leader and Professor Alan Edelman is pictured at right.

Julia language co-creators win James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software

Awarded every four years, the Wilkinson Prize last came to MIT in 1999.

December 26, 2018

Josh Tenenbaum named Innovator of the Year by R&D Magazine

Professor honored for work on the nature and origins of intelligence in the human mind and applying that knowledge to build human-like intelligence in machines.

December 19, 2018

Aleksander Madry is a leader in the emerging field of building guarantees into artificial intelligence, which has nearly become a branch of machine learning in its own right.

3Q: Aleksander Madry on building trustworthy artificial intelligence

A recent MIT symposium explores methods for making artificial intelligence systems more reliable, secure, and transparent.

December 14, 2018

The RePaint system reproduces paintings by combining two approaches called color-contoning and halftoning, as well as a deep learning model focused on determining how to stack 10 different inks to recreate the specific shades of color.

Reproducing paintings that make an impression

CSAIL's new RePaint system aims to faithfully recreate your favorite paintings using deep learning and 3-D printing.

November 29, 2018

Professor and MIT Virtuality Director Fox Harrell is seeking to determine how MIT could use extended reality technologies, both on campus and beyond, to better serve human needs through artful innovation of virtual experiences.

MIT Open Learning launches Center for Advanced Virtuality

The new center will explore how MIT can use virtual reality and artificial intelligence and other technologies to better serve human needs.

November 27, 2018

The keynote address at the second annual AI and the Future of Work summit was delivered by Rosalin Acosta, Massachusetts Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development.

Artificial intelligence summit addresses impact of technology on jobs and global economy

Speakers at the summit included Massachusetts Secretary of Labor Rosalin Acosta and former Google chairman Eric Schmidt.

November 15, 2018

From 1983 to 1991, MIT partnered with IBM and the Digital Equipment Corporation to provide computer workstations for students working on aerospace engineering, language learning, educational projects, and much more.

Looking back at Project Athena

A revolutionary educational project in the 1980s put the tools of computation in students’ hands — and foreshadowed even greater changes.

November 11, 2018

Often, multiple Wikipedia editors will disagree on certain changes to articles or policies.

Why some Wikipedia disputes go unresolved

Study identifies reasons for unsettled editing disagreements and offers predictive tools that could improve deliberation.

November 6, 2018

MIT researchers describe an autonomous system for a fleet of drones to collaboratively search under dense forest canopies using only onboard computation and wireless communication — no GPS required.

Fleets of drones could aid searches for lost hikers

System allows drones to cooperatively explore terrain under thick forest canopies where GPS signals are unreliable.

November 1, 2018

MIT researchers have developed a “semantic parser” that learns through observation to more closely mimic a child’s language-acquisition process, which could greatly extend computing’s capabilities.

Machines that learn language more like kids do

Computer model could improve human-machine interaction, provide insight into how children learn language.

October 31, 2018

The new model measures distances between words with similar meanings in “word embeddings,” and then aligns the words in both embeddings that are most closely correlated by relative distances, meaning they’re most likely to be direct translations of one another.

Model paves way for faster, more efficient translations of more languages

New system may open up the world’s roughly 7,000 spoken languages to computer-based translation.

October 30, 2018

The 2018 Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellows will receive financial support and valuable experience working in DOE laboratories. They are: (l-r) Billy Moses, Kaley Brauer, Paul Zhang, and Sarah Greer.

Computational science grad students awarded U.S. Department of Energy fellowships

Kaley Brauer, Sarah Greer, William Moses, and Paul Zhang will receive DoE support to fuel research that tackles problems of national importance.

October 19, 2018

School of Engineering third quarter 2018 awards

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

October 19, 2018

A new system developed at CSAIL was shown to have stronger security guarantees than Intel's existing approach for preventing so-called "timing attacks" like Meltdown and Spectre, made possible by hardware vulnerabilities.

Defending against Spectre and Meltdown attacks

New system breaks up cache memory more efficiently to better protect computer systems against timing attacks.

October 18, 2018

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