MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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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 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 .
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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 , Peter Shor and Richard Stallman
Turing Award recipients Leonard M. Adleman , Fernando J. Corbato , Butler W. Lampson , 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 W. Daniel Hillis
Textbook authors Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman , Thomas H. Cormen , Charles E. Leiserson , Ron Rivest and Cliff Stein
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 this link (http://www.lcs.mit.edu/~tjg/SPINOFFS/ )
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