- PhD takes 1 million photos of Boston skyline over 5 yearsJanuary 12, 2016If a picture’s worth a thousand words, than Adrian Dalca is one seriously verbose researcher. Over the last five years, the CSAIL PhD student has been snapping away at the Boston skyline from his MIT apartment, taking approximately one million shots with an assortment of GoPros, phone cameras and...
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CSAIL's World Wide Web consortium wins an Emmy!January 09, 2016The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the global web-standards organization housed at CSAIL, received a Technology & Engineering Emmy Award on Friday for its work to make video content more accessible with text captioning and subtitles. The Emmy recognizes W3C’s Timed Text Markup Language (TTML... -
Team joins $10 million NSF grant to combat software bugsJanuary 07, 2016The next time a software maker tells you to update your favorite computer application immediately to fix serious defects or patch gaping security holes, don’t lose faith. Help is on the way. A team including associate professor Adam Chlipala of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence... -
Two researchers named to Forbes' "30 Under 30" listJanuary 05, 2016NBA All-Star Steph Curry. "Star Wars" actor John Boyega. Platinum-selling rapper Fetty Wap. And, of course, CSAIL researchers Abe Davis and Teasha Feldman-Fitzthum.Okay, those last two might not be household names, but they were among the select few picked to be part of Forbes "30 under 30" list,... -
Could this app make you a better driver?January 05, 2016Want to improve Boston’s recently-confirmed reputation for having the worst drivers in the country? Fortunately, now there’s an app for that. Mobile-based telematics — apps and hardware that measure driving behaviors — may be the future of safer roads. Increasingly, people are using these... -
Computer model matches humans at predicting how objects moveJanuary 04, 2016We humans take for granted our remarkable ability to predict things that happen around us. For example, consider Rube Goldberg machines: One of the reasons we enjoy them is because we can watch a chain-reaction of objects fall, roll, slide and collide, and anticipate what happens next. But how do...
