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'''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 AI Lab|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]]. CSAIL is housed at the [[Stata Center]], designed by [[Frank Gehry]].

===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 [[professor]]s or research scientists. These groups are divided up into seven general areas of research:

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In addition, CSAIL hosts the [[World Wide Web Consortium]].

===Famous CSAIL members, affiliates, and alumni===

(Including members and alumni of CSAIL's predecessor labs.)

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*There are several prestigious spinoff companies out of the lab. For a recent list see [http://www.lcs.mit.edu/~tjg/SPINOFFS/ this link ]

===See also===

*[http://www.csail.mit.edu/ CSAIL's official Web page]

*[[Project MAC]]