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[[Image:Stata Center1.jpg|right|thumb|The Stata Center houses CSAIL and has very unusual architecture.]]
'''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]].
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:
* [[Artificial Intelligence]]
* [[Computational biology]]
* [[Computer graphics|Graphics]] and [[Machine vision|Vision]]
* [[Natural language processing|Language]] and [[Machine learning|Learning]]
* [[Theory of computation]]
* [[Robotics]]
* Systems (includes [[computer architecture]], databases, [[distributed system]]s, [[operating system]]s, programming methodology, and [[software engineering]] among others)
In addition, CSAIL hosts the [[World Wide Web Consortium]].
(Including members and alumni of CSAIL's predecessor labs.)
* [[MacArthur Fellowship|MacArthur Fellows]] [[Tim Berners-Lee]], [[Erik Demaine]], [[Daniela Rus]], [[Peter Shor]] and [[Richard Stallman]]
* [[Turing Award]] recipients [[Leonard M. Adleman]], [[Fernando J. Corbato]], [[Butler W. Lampson]], [[John McCarthy (computer scientist)|John McCarthy]], [[Marvin Minsky]], [[Ronald L. Rivest]], and [[Adi Shamir]]
* Rolf [[Nevanlinna Prize]] recipients [[Madhu Sudan]], [[Peter Shor]]
* [[Gödel Prize]] Recipients [[Shafi Goldwasser]] (two-time recipient), [[Silvio Micali]], [[Charles Rackoff]], [[Johan Håstad]], [[Peter Shor]], and [[Madhu Sudan]]
* [[Grace Murray Hopper Award]] recipients [[Robert Metcalfe]], [[Shafi Goldwasser]], [[Guy L. Steele]], and [[Danny Hillis|W. Daniel Hillis]]
* Textbook authors [[Hal Abelson|Harold Abelson]] and [[Gerald Jay Sussman]], [[Thomas H. Cormen]], [[Charles E. Leiserson]], [[Ronald L. Rivest]] and [[Clifford Stein]]
* [[Carl Hewitt]] designer of the [[Planner programming language|Planner]] programming language, founder of the [[Actor model]] of concurrent systems, and co-developer of the [[Scientific Community Metaphor]].
* [[David D. Clark]], former chief protocol architect for the Internet, and co-author with [[Jerome H. Saltzer]] (also a 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
* [[Bob Frankston]], developer (with [[Harvard]] [[MBA]] [[Dan Bricklin]]) of [[VisiCalc]], the first computer [[spreadsheet]]
* There are several prestigious spinoff companies out of the lab. For a recent list see [http://www.lcs.mit.edu/~tjg/SPINOFFS/ this link ]
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