Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)

Demaine named Presburger Award recipientProfessor Erik Demaine was cited for his contributions to computational geometry and data structures.

Teaching robots lateral thinkingNew algorithms could help household robots work around their physical shortcomings.

Beefing up public-key encryptionMIT researchers show how to secure widely used encryption schemes against attackers who have intercepted examples of successful decryption.

Liskov named Charter Fellow of National Academy of Inventors

Humans and robots work better together following cross-trainingSwapping of roles improves efficiency as well as robots’ confidence and humans’ trust.

MIT engineers elected to national academyThree engineers are among this year’s 69 new National Academy of Engineering members.

Big medical dataAt the intersection of medicine and computer science, researchers look for clinically useful correlations amid mountains of information.

Research update: Multiple steps toward the ‘quantum singularity’Over three days in December, four research groups announced progress on a quantum-computing proposal made two years ago by MIT researchers.

Clark and Sollins receive Test of Time AwardMIT researchers honored for their paper 'Tussle in Cyberspace: Defining Tomorrow’s Internet.'

Guaranteed delivery — in ad hoc networksA new algorithm for message dissemination in decentralized networks is faster than its predecessors but, unlike them, guarantees delivery.

Students develop assistive technologiesUndergraduate teams create helpful phone apps and devices for people with disabilities.

Dennis awarded IEEE John von Neumann MedalPresented annually for outstanding achievements in computer-related science and technology

New online learning tool brings 'the crowd' into homework assignments

Sibling powerSiblings Andrew and Jennifer Barry have not only managed to maintain a close friendship into their adult years, but are also both studying robotics at CSAIL

Department snapshot: Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceEECS places renewed emphasis on interdisciplinary research, partnerships with alumni and industry, and experiential learning.

Speeding algorithms by shrinking dataA new approach to processing ‘big data’ creates succinct representations of huge data sets, so that existing algorithms can handle them efficiently.

Zue awarded Okawa PrizeHonored for work in speech science and spoken-language systems

Mining physicians’ notes for medical insightsA new approach to algorithmically distinguishing words with multiple possible meanings could help find useful data in electronic medical records.

CSAIL and QCRI announce new research collaboration

3 Questions: A Web for everyoneJudy Brewer leads the Web Accessibility Initiative, which developed standards that help make the Web accessible to people with disabilities.

MIT's CSAIL launches new center to tackle the future of wireless and mobile technologiesWill address major technical challenges facing wireless field, bring together academia and industry

Automatic building mapping could help emergency respondersA prototype sensor array that can be worn on the chest automatically maps the wearer’s environment, recognizing movement between floors.

Deciphering the language of transcription factorsA new method identifies the precise binding sites of transcription factors — proteins that regulate the production of other proteins — with 10 times the accuracy of its predecessors.

Researchers identify biochemical functions for most of the human genomeNew map provides a reference for interpreting function of disease-associated regions.

Mapping neurological diseaseNew algorithm can analyze information from medical images to identify diseased areas of the brain and connections with other regions.