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The MIT Computer
Science and
Artificial
Intelligence
Laboratory
was formed
on July 1st,
2003. It is
an interdepartmental
laboratory
which includes
faculty from
Electrical
Engineering
and Computer
Science, Mathematics,
Brain and
Cognitive
science, Aeronautics
and Astronautics,
Ocean Engineering,
the Biological
Engineering
Division and
the Harvard-MIT
Division of
health Sciences
and technology.
CSAIL is also
the home of
the World
Wide Web Consortium.
CSAIL was
formed by
the merger
of the Laboratory
for Computer
science (LCS)
and the Artificial
Intelligence
laboratory
(AI), each
of which had
sprung from
Project Mac,
itself founded
on July 1st,
1963.
The primary
mission of
CSAIL is research
in both computation
and artificial
intelligence,
broadly construed.
It is organized
into four
broad research
areas:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Systems
- Theory
More specific
research topics
include, but
are not limited
to, algorithms,
computational
models for
molecular
biology, computer
architecture,
cryptography,
data-bases,
distributed
systems, geometric
algorithms,
graphics,
human motor
control, machine
learning,
natural and
spoken language,
networks,
operaing systems,
parallel systems,
programming
languages,
prosthetics,
robotics,
scientific
computing,
security and
privacy, semantic
web, software,
synthetic
biology, theory
of computation,
verification,
and vision.
Much of the
research at
CSAIL is done
as projects
by one faculty
member plus
their undergraduate,
graduate,
and post-doctoral
students.
Sometimes
two or three
faculty members
work together
on larger
projects.
And sometimes
a very large
number of
faculty work
together on
a large collaborative
thrust, such
as the Oxygen
Project for
pervasive
human centered
computing.
We are currently
developing
collaborative
thrusts in
healthcare
and in computing
and biology.
Research
at CSAIL is
sponsored
by a large
number of
US government
agencies and
a wide spectrum
of US and
international
companies.
Sponsors include
DARPA, NSF,
NASA, CIA,
NIH, ONR,
AFOSR, Hewlett
Packard, Microsoft,
NTT, Nokia,
Philips, Acer,
Delta Electronics,
ITRI, Sun,
IBM, Ford,
Intel, and
Honda.
In March
2004, CSAIL
moved into
the Dreyfoos
and Gates
towers of
the Ray and
Maria Stata
Center on
the MIT campus.
Students
interested
in working
on specific
CSAIL
projects should contact
the faculty
member in
charge of
the project
to learn about
available
UROP opportunities.
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