- Katabi Named MacArthur Foundation Fellow
September 25, 2013Professor Dina Katabi has been named one of the 2013 MacArthur Fellows. Often referred to as “genius grants,” the MacArthur Fellows Program awards unrestricted fellowships to individuals who have “shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction.” 
Taking a New Look at Subway Map DesignSeptember 24, 2013Dr. Ruth Rosenholtz's research group is applying the computational model they developed to better understand peripheral vision to test the usability of potential new MBTA subway maps.
MEET Builds Ties, Fosters Innovation in the Middle EastSeptember 20, 2013During a visit to Israel and Palestine in March 2013, President Barack Obama made a speech to a crowd of 2,000 young Israelis in Jerusalem in which he encouraged the nation’s youth to push for peace. In his talk, the President paid tribute to an educational program near and dear to the heart of the MIT community: The Middle East Education through Technology (MEET) program founded at MIT with CSAIL support.- CSAIL Video to Premiere at Boston Ballet Night of StarsSeptember 20, 2013CSAIL has created a video in collaboration with Boston Ballet that will have its premiere at the Boston Ballet Night of Stars on the Boston Common on Saturday, September 21st.
- Leonard Named Associate Head for Research at Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
September 19, 2013Professor John Leonard has been named the associate head for research of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, effective as of Monday, September 16, 2013. - O’Reilly Honored with Top Prize at EvoStar Conference
September 17, 2013Dr. Una-May O’Reilly has been honored with the EvoStar Award for Outstanding Contribution of Evolutionary Computation in Europe during the 2013 EvoStar conference. 
A Computer Scientist’s Approach to MedicineSeptember 13, 2013For years Dr. Stephanie Seneff has been known throughout the computer science world for her work in natural language processing. Now, she is using the novel computer science techniques she developed to better understand how drugs and environmental toxins impact human health.- Kagal Promoted to Principal Research Scientist
September 12, 2013Dr. Lalana Kagal has been promoted to the role of Principal Research Scientist, effective July 1, 2013. - Four from CSAIL Named to Massachusetts Academy of Sciences
September 09, 2013Professors and CSAIL Principal Investigators Edward Adelson, Shafi Goldwasser, Tom Leighton, and Barbara Liskov have been named 2013 Fellows of the Massachusetts Academy of Sciences. - Golland Honored with Jamieson Prize for Teaching
August 30, 2013Associate Professor Polina Golland has been honored as one of two recipients of the 2013 Jamieson Prize for Excellence in Teaching. - Team MIT Welcomes Atlas RobotAugust 27, 2013The MIT team competing in the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC), a competition sponsored by the Department of Defense to promote innovation in robotics technology for disaster-response operations, has received the multi-million dollar humanoid robot designed by Boston Dynamics for use in the competition.
- CSAIL Start-Up Acquired by GoDaddy
August 22, 2013GoDaddy has acquired CSAIL start-up company Locu, an online platform that helps promote local businesses, for $70 million. Locu was co-founded by CSAIL PhD candidate Marek Olszewski and CSAIL postdoctoral associate Stelios Sidiroglou-Douskos. - Vote for the CSAIL SXSW Panel ProposalAugust 19, 2013What are the biggest technological challenges facing today’s computer scientists? What new research is on the horizon, how will it change the way that we use computers, and what will the digital landscape look like in 10 years? If you’d like the answer to these questions and many more about the future of technology, vote for the CSAIL panel proposal at the 2014 South by Southwest (SXSW) conference.
- Shah and Gombolay Receive Best Paper Award
August 16, 2013Assistant Professor Julie Shah and graduate student Matthew Gombolay have been honored as the recipients of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Best Intelligent Systems Paper Award for 2012. Shah and Gombolay were recognized for their paper "A Uniprocessor Scheduling Policy for Non-Preemptive Task Sets with Precedence and Temporal Constraints," which they presented at the AIAA Infotech@Aerospace Conference last year. - Daskalakis & Students Honored with Best Paper Award
August 13, 2013Associate Professor Constantinos Daskalakis and his students Alan Deckelbaum and Christos Tzamos won the Best Paper Award and the Best Student Paper Award at the 2013 ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce for their paper “Mechanism Design via Optimal Transport”. - Rus to Discuss Future of Robotics during White House Google+ Hangout
August 07, 2013Join CSAIL Director Daniela Rus this Friday, August 9 at 2:00 PM EDT as she talks about the future of robotics during a “We the Geeks” Google+ Hangout session hosted by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Rus and other pioneering scientists – including Rodney Brooks, former CSAIL director and president of Rethink Robotics - will discuss how robots can help transform everything from school classrooms to the factory floor, and operating rooms to the way we explore the Solar System. - Agarwal Talks edX, Online Learning on ‘The Colbert Report’
August 05, 2013Professor Anant Agarwal appeared on the July 24 edition of The Colbert Report, a satirical late-night comedy show hosted by comedian Stephen Colbert. Agarwal, a former director of CSAIL, is the president of edX, the not-for-profit online learning enterprise founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). - Researchers Develop New Method for Understanding Network Connections
August 01, 2013In a new paper appearing in the August edition of Nature Biotechnology, Associate Professor Manolis Kellis and colleagues from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), and the Broad Institute, describe a new algorithm that can infer direct dependencies in a network. - Three from CSAIL Named to ‘AI’s 10 to Watch’ List
July 29, 2013Three CSAIL roboticists have been named to IEEE Intelligent Systems’ 2013 list of “AI’s 10 to Watch”, which celebrates 10 rising stars in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). The CSAIL members named to the list are: Nora Ayanian, Finale Doshi-Velez and Stefanie Tellex. - Freeman Receives Test of Time Award
July 25, 2013Professor William Freeman has been honored with the Test of Time Award for his paper "Orientation Histograms for Hand Gesture Recognition,” co-written by Michal Roth in 1995. The award was presented at the 2013 IEEE Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition Conference in Shanghai, China. 
CSAIL Researchers Develop New Ways to Streamline, Simplify 3D PrintingJuly 23, 2013New CSAIL research to be presented at the 2013 SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference could transform the field of 3D printing.- New Research Sheds Lights on Unsigned Judicial OpinionsJuly 15, 2013A study published in the Stanford Technology Law Review by a group of scholars at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University uses machine learning algorithms to provide new evidence for authorship of unsigned judicial decisions.
- Indyk Named Simons Investigator
July 09, 2013The Simons Foundation has announced that Professor Piotr Indyk has been selected as a Simons Investigator. Indyk is one of 13 mathematicians, theoretical physicists and computer scientists named as 2013 Simons Investigators and one of two professors at MIT selected for the honor. - Rus Elected to Massachusetts Women’s Forum
July 08, 2013CSAIL Director Daniela Rus has been elected to the Massachusetts Women’s Forum (MWF). Founded in 1991, the Forum aims to bring together females leaders across industries and sectors to enrich and enhance professional development, encourage exposure to a broad spectrum of ideas, provide opportunity for new relationships and to validate the contributions women are making to the State of Massachusetts. - CSAIL Members Inducted into Internet Hall of FameJuly 02, 2013Several CSAIL members were recently inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame, which aims to publicly recognize a distinguished and select group of visionaries, leaders and luminaries who have made significant contributions to the development and advancement of the Internet.
Team MIT Completes First Hurdle in DARPA Robotics ChallengeJune 27, 2013A team from MIT has advanced to the next stage of the prestigious DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC), a competition sponsored by the Department of Defense to promote innovation in robotics technology for disaster-response operations. The MIT team beat out more than one hundred other teams in the first stage of the competition – the Virtual Robotics Challenge (VRC) – to gain one of six prized spots in the next stage of the competition, slated for December 2013.- Harrell Awarded Tenure
June 24, 2013The Executive Committee of the MIT Corporation has announced that D. Fox Harrell has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure, effective July 1, 2013. - Aaronson Receives Tenure
June 20, 2013Scott Aaronson has been awarded tenure by the Executive Committee of the MIT Corporation effective July 1, 2013. Aaronson, the TIBCO Career Development Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and a member of the Theory of Computation and Complexity Theory groups at CSAIL, came to MIT in 2007 following postdoctoral appointments at the Institute of Advanced Study and the University of Waterloo, Ontario. - Rus Named to Computing Community Consortium Council June 18, 2013Professor Daniela Rus, director of CSAIL, has been appointed to the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council. Rus was appointed following recommendation from the Computing Research Association (CRA), in consultation with the National Science Foundation (NSF), and was one of five new members named to the CCC Council.
- Bradley Honored with Richard J. Caloggero Award
June 17, 2013The MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science has honored Britton 'Bryt' Bradley with the Richard J. Caloggero Award. The award was presented at EECS’ annual awards and recognition celebration on Sunday, May 19, 2013. - A Special Thank-You To UP ParticipantsJune 14, 2013CSAIL and Pilobolus would like to thank all the sponsors and participants who made the May 19 performance of UP: The Umbrella Project possible.
- Porter-Nichols Honored with MIT Excellence Award
June 13, 2013Janie Porter-Nichols, a financial assistant at CSAIL, has been honored as a recipient of the 2013 MIT Excellence Award. Porter-Nichols was recognized with the “Bringing Out The Best” award for her dedication and many years of service to CSAIL. - Devadas Honored at Design Automation Conference
June 10, 2013Professor Srini Devadas has been honored for his significant contributions to the Design Automation Conference (DAC) and his impact on the course of DAC’s history. - Celebrating CSAIL's Graduates
June 07, 2013On Friday, June 7th, the Institute will hold its 147th commencement ceremony. We here at CSAIL would like to join the speaker, Drew Houston ‘05, in wishing our graduates luck on the next leg of their journey. - CSAIL Members Invited to Inaugural Ph.D. Symposium
June 03, 2013CSAIL members are invited to attend CSAIL’s inaugural Ph.D. Symposium to be held on Wednesday, June 5 at 1:00 p.m. in the Kirsch Auditorium (32-123). - Hassanieh Honored With Graduate Student Achievement Award
May 29, 2013Haitham Hassanieh, a graduate student in Professor Dina Katabi’s Networks@MIT research group at CSAIL, has been awarded the MIT Arab Student - Quanta and CSAIL Enjoy Evening at Fenway
May 28, 2013Earlier this month, CSAIL welcomed members of Quanta Computer and Quanta Research Cambridge (the research and development division of Quanta Computer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts) for a project review meeting to discuss ongoing research efforts and future collaborations between the organizations. - Celebrating the Life of CSAIL Visiting Scientist Kanako MiuraMay 23, 2013On Sunday, May 19, MIT visiting scientist Dr. Kanako Miura, 36, died after being struck by a motor vehicle while riding her bicycle in Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood.
- Community Invited to View Mechanical Invention Through ComputationMay 20, 2013Shape-shifting objects, expandable machinery and transformable robots will all be on display this spring during an exhibit of student projects from the new MIT course Mechanical Invention through Computation.
- Wireless Researchers Hosting ‘Game-Jam’May 13, 2013From Friday, May 17 through Sunday, May 19, a group of CSAIL researchers is hosting a location-based, Android “Game-Jam,” a two-day event dedicated to bringing game developers together to build a host of mobile games that will aid in this research.
- MIT Members Invited to Color Nighttime Sky with Pilobolus & UP: The Umbrella Project
May 08, 2013MIT students, faculty and staff are invited to come light up the Cambridge sky during the second performance of UP: The Umbrella Project on Sunday, May 19 at 7:45 p.m. at Jack Barry Field. - CSAIL Graduate Honored with ACM Award for Work With Wireless InterferenceMay 07, 2013Assistant Professor Shyamnath Gollakota, an MIT graduate who completed his doctoral research in Professor Dina Katabi’s Networks@MIT research group at CSAIL, has won the 2012 Doctoral Dissertation Award presented by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
- Agarwal and Lo Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
April 28, 2013Professor Anant Agarwal and Professor Andrew Lo are two of 198 new members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. - Madden, Solar-Lezama and Cheung Win CIDR Best Paper AwardApril 25, 2013Professor Samuel Madden, Assistant Professor Armando Solar-Lezama and CSAIL graduate student Alvin Cheung have been honored for their work with the Best Paper Award at the 2013 Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR).
- Honoring Officer Sean Collier
April 22, 2013In the wake of last week's tragic events, MIT has announced plans to honor MIT Officer Sean Collier, who was killed in the line of duty on Thursday, April 18. At CSAIL, we wish to express our heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of Officer Collier. - Balakrishnan Explains Cellphone Disruptions Following Marathon Bombings
April 18, 2013In an article in the April 17 edition of The Boston Globe, Professor Hari Balakrishnan, CSAIL principal investigator and co-director of the MIT Center for Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing (Wireless@MIT), explains that many cellphone users experienced service issues following the Boston Marathon bombings because wireless networks were overwhelmed. - Amarasinghe Honored with Most Influential Paper Award
April 16, 2013Professor Saman Amarasinghe was named the winner of the Most Influential Paper Award at the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (GCO). - Demaines Selected for Guggenheim Fellowship
April 11, 2013The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced that Professor Erik Demaine and CSAIL Visiting Scientist Martin Demaine have been named 2013 Guggenheim Fellows for their work in origami from wood, plastic, metal, and glass. - Indyk and Katabi Win Top ACM honors
April 09, 2013The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced that it is honoring Professor Piotr Indyk and Professor Dina Katabi for their innovations in computing technology. - Agarwal Named Top 15 Education Innovator April 04, 2013Professor Anant Agarwal, president of edX and a principal investigator at CSAIL, was named to the Forbes list of top 15 education innovators.
