MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory - Research Activities

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:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computational biology
  • Graphics and Vision
  • Language and Learning
  • Theory of computation
  • Robotics
  • Systems (includes computer architecture, databases, distributed systems, networks and networked systems, operating systems, programming methodology, and software engineering among others)

In addition, CSAIL hosts the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

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