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News 2012

• Kaelbling Named MacVicar Faculty Fellow
  March 21, 2012
  Leslie Pack Kaelbling, the Panasonic Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and a principal investigator at CSAIL, has been named a 2012 MacVicar Faculty Fellow.
• Agarwal to lead MIT's Open Learning Enterprise
  March 16, 2012
  Professor Anant Agarwal has been named director of a new unit of MIT created to advance MIT’s online-learning initiative.
• Wong Speaks on Importance of Pursuing Passions
  March 13, 2012
  Earlier this month, MIT alumna Andrea Wong chronicled her journey from MIT undergraduate to President of International Production for Sony Pictures Television as part of CSAIL’s Dertouzos Lecturer Series.
• NSF Honors Aaronson with Alan T. Waterman Award
  March 9, 2012
  The National Science Foundation (NSF) has named Professor Scott Aaronson, a principal investigator at CSAIL, as one of two recipients of this year’s Alan T. Waterman Award.
• CSAIL Faculty Offering Summer Courses
  March 6, 2012
  This summer, three CSAIL faculty members are teaching courses as part of MIT's Professional Education program.
• First 'MITx' course starts March 5
  March 3, 2012
  The first course to be offered through MITx, 6.002x: Circuits and Electronics, starts Monday, March 5.
• Liskov named to National Inventors Hall of Fame
  March 1, 2012
  The National Inventors Hall of Fame has named Professor Barbara Liskov as one of its 2012 inductees.
• New CSAIL Research Could Help Secure the Cloud
  February 27, 2012
  Researchers from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) aim to develop a new system that would help the cloud identify and recover from an attack almost instantaneously.
• Matusik Named Sloan Research Fellow
  February 24, 2012
  The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has named Associate Professor Wojciech Matusik a Sloan Research Fellow for 2012.
• Kearns Speaks on Social Computation Research
  February 22, 2012
  Professor Michael Kearns detailed six years of his experiments in social computation last week when he came to CSAIL to speak as part of the annual Dertouzos Lecturer Series.
• New Navigation System Allows Robots to Explore Alone
  February 16, 2012
  A new system developed by researchers at CSAIL could one day allow robots to navigate uncertain environments without input from humans.
• 'MITx' Enrollment Underway
  February 13, 2012
  Enrollment is now underway for the first course to be offered through MIT’s new online learning initiative, MITx.
• Dennis Selected for ACM SIGOPS Hall of Fame
  February 9, 2012
  Professor Emeritus Jack Dennis, a principal investigator at CSAIL, has been inducted into the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Operating Systems (SIGOPS) Hall of Fame.
• New Multicore Seminar Series Announced
  February 7, 2012
  Announcing a new CSAIL Multicore Software Seminar Series - a forum for researchers and developers interested in software for multicore machines.
• CSAIL Student Invention Featured on Discovery Channel
  February 3, 2012
  Stephan Boyer, an undergraduate student at CSAIL, has been featured on the Discovery Channel riding the electric, self-balancing unicycle he created at MIT.
• A Taste of Computer Science
  January 31, 2012
  Researchers at CSAIL are sampling the world of taste testing.
• Learn More About CSAIL's Students
  January 26, 2012
  Ever wondered about CSAIL's students and what inspires them to undertake such challenging and exciting computer science research?
• Agarwal Dreams Big
  January 24, 2012
  CSAIL Director Anant Agarwal is focused on designing the computer chips, and the super computers, of the future.
• Katabi and Indyk Develop Groundbreaking Algorithm
  January 18, 2012
  MIT CSAIL Principal Investigators Dina Katabi and Piotr Indyk have developed a new algorithm that improves on the fast Fourier transform (FFT).
• CSAIL Olympics Underway
  January 17, 2012
  CSAIL’s own version of the Olympics kicks off this afternoon at 4:30 pm in the G9 lounge.
• Golland's Journey to MIT
  January 12, 2012
  CSAIL Principal Investigator Polina Golland’s interest in MIT was cultivated early, according to a new MIT News article chronicling her work.
• CSAIL students named ‘Computer Science Rockstars’
  January 9, 2012
  The PhenomList has showcased several CSAIL students as “MIT Computer Science Rockstars”.
• CSAIL Student Designs Self-Balancing Unicycle
  January 4, 2012
  CSAIL undergraduate student Stephan Boyer can often be seen zooming around campus on a partially self-balancing electric unicycle he built called the “Bullet.”