Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)

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.

Connoisseur of chaosWhere other roboticists try to suppress the complex dynamics of mechanical systems, Russ Tedrake exploits them, to make control more efficient and versatile.

Making crowdsourcing easierA new system for crowdsourcing database operations spares the user from worrying about the computational details but improves cost effectiveness.

Soft autonomous robot inches along like an earthwormFlexible design enables body-morphing capability.

New router enhances the precision of woodworkingHandheld device precisely follows a digital plan with minimal guidance from a user.

Sana AudioPulse wins Mobile Health Challenge

Writing graphics software gets much easierA new programming language for image-processing algorithms yields code that’s much shorter and clearer — but also faster.

Jackson’s ‘Dark Machines’ exhibit on display at MIT Museum

New aircraft capable of fast, accurate and repeatable flightCSAIL's Robot Locomotion Group unveils new computer-controlled aircraft that can perform knife-edge turns.

Zue honored with IEEE speech and audio processing award

Berger named ISCB fellowApplied mathematics, computer science professor honored for contributions in computational biology and bioinformatics.

Glasses-free 3-D TV looks nearerA new method for producing multiple-perspective 3-D images could prove more practical in the short term than holography.

Searching genomic data fasterBiologists’ capacity for generating genomic data is increasing more rapidly than computing power. A new algorithm will help them keep up.

Sharing data links in networks of carsA new algorithm lets networks of Wi-Fi-connected cars, whose layout is constantly changing, share a few expensive links to the Internet.

Communication scheme makes popular applications ‘gracefully mobile’New MIT software keeps tens of thousands of people logged into remote computers from mobile devices, but the underlying technology could improve a host of other programs.

All things big and small: the brain’s discerning taste for sizeNew research shows brain has distinct regions for identifying different sized objects.

System improves automated monitoring of security camerasNew approach uses mathematics to reach a compromise between accuracy, speed.

MIT, Intel unveil new initiatives addressing ‘big data’An Intel research center based at MIT will be the cornerstone of a new research project dubbed ‘bigdata@CSAIL.’