MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, or
CSAIL, is an interdisciplinary research laboratory at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, formed on
July 1,
2003 by the merger of
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and
MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. CSAIL is the largest such laboratory at MIT, both in terms of the scope of its research and in terms of the number of members. The director of CSAIL is Prof. Rodney Brooks.
Research activities
CSAIL's research activities are organized around a number of semi-autonomous research groups, each of which is headed by one or more professors or research scientists. These groups are divided up into seven general areas of research:
In addition, CSAIL hosts the
World Wide Web Consortium.
Famous CSAIL Members, Affiliates, and Alumni
(Including members and alumni of CSAIL's predecessor labs.)
- MacArthur Fellows Tim Berners-Lee, Erik Demaine, Daniela Rus, and Richard Stallman
- Turing Award recipients Leonard M. Adelman, Fernando J. Corbato, Butler W. Lampson, John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Ronald L. Rivest, and Adi Shamir
- Grace Murray Hopper Award recipients Robert Metcalfe, Daniel S. Bricklin, Shafi Goldwasser, Guy L. Steele, and W. Daniel Hillis
- Textbook authors Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman, Charles E. Leiserson
- David D. Clark, former chief protocol architect for the Internet, and co-author with Jerome H. Saltzer (CSAIL member) and David P. Reed of the influential paper "End-to-End Arguments in Systems Design" (see End-to-end principle)
- Seymour Papert, inventor of the Logo programming language
- Joseph Weizenbaum, creator of the ELIZA computer-simulated therapist
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