Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)

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.’

Daskalakis wins Microsoft Faculty Fellowship

Daniela Rus named CSAIL directorEECS professor to become new leader of MIT’s largest interdepartmental laboratory.

New mathematical framework formalizes oddball programming techniquesLoop perforation — speeding up programs by skipping instructions — is just one method that gets rigorous mathematical treatment in a new paper.

Thwarting the cleverest attackersSavvy hackers can steal a computer’s secrets by timing its data storage transactions or measuring its power use. New research shows how to stop them.

Abelson honored as outstanding educatorWins ACM's Karl V. Karlstom Award

The robot revolution is just beginningRodney Brooks outlines his vision of the future to student entrepreneurs.

Time magazine names Lo, Sadoway among the world’s ‘most influential’ peopleSeveral MIT alumni also named to annual list.

Lynch named Athena LecturerProfessor honored for advances in distributed systems that enable dependable Internet and wireless network applications.

13 faculty members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Getting to the root of geneticsManolis Kellis uses computational techniques to decipher human disease.

Chips as mini InternetsThe data-routing techniques that undergird the Internet could increase the efficiency of multicore chips while lowering their power requirements.

All in a day’s work: Design and print your own robotMIT project, funded with $10 million NSF grant, could transform robotic design and production

Self-sculpting sandNew algorithms could enable heaps of ‘smart sand’ that can assume any shape, allowing spontaneous formation of new tools or duplication of broken mechanical parts.

Anant Agarwal named director of new unit to advance MITxInstructor of inaugural 6.002x course will step down as CSAIL director.

Letter to the community on appointment of Open Learning Enterprise director

Guiding robot planes with hand gesturesMIT researchers are developing a system that would allow aircraft-carrier crews to direct autonomous planes using ordinary hand gestures.