MIT CSAIL Slide Deck

CSAIL OVERVIEW & ENGAGEMENT

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY COMPUTER

SCIENCE & ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LABORATOY

CSAIL HISTORY

Formation of CSAIL

CSAIL formed in 2003 from a merger of two powerhouse MIT labs: The Lab for Computer Science (LCS) and the Artificial Intellig ence Laboratory (AI), which were founded in1963 and 1959 respectively.

CSAIL OVERVIEW: RECENT CONTRIBUTIONS

CSAIL OVERVIEW: RECENT CONTRIBUTIONS

CSAIL OVERVIEW: RECENT CONTRIBUTIONS

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AUTONOMY

• Self-driving cars in the snow

• Smart surfaces for IoT devices

• AI identifies new antibiotic

• Building microprocessors from carbon nanotubes

SECURITY

• Privacy-preserving contact tracing for COVID-19

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VISUALIZE

• Data visualizations for the blind

• Brain-scan templates for faster medical image analysis

• Changing the color of 3D-printed objects

CSAIL:

A World-Leading Computer Science Lab

CSAIL: A WORLD LEADING COMPUTER SCIENCE LAB

LARGEST LAB at MIT

• 1200+ Members

• 120+ PIs

• ~$80M Research Volume

• 900+ Active Projects

DISTINGUISHED FACULTY & RESEARCHERS

• 5 Schools and 9 Departments

• 99 Professional Society Fellows

• 45 NAE/NAS/IM Members

• 23 AAS

• 9 MacArthur Fellows

• 9 Turing Awards

Nevalinna Prizes

Millennium Technology Award

1 Order of the British Empire- Knight Commander

OUR STUDENTS

• 1000+

• PhD MEng and undergraduate through UROPS

• 26 disciplines

• 500+ startups

CSAIL RESEARCHERS

CSAIL: A WORLD LEADING COMPUTER SCIENCE LAB

9 Communities of Research (CoR’s) and Their Leaders

Applied ML - Una-May O’Reilly

Cognitive AI- Gerald Sussman

Computing & Society- Daniel Weitzner

Embodied Intelligence- John Leonard

HCI- Stefanie Mueller

Systems- Sam Madden

Vertical AI- Martin Rinard

Visual Computing- Ruth Rosenholtz

Theory of Computation- Costis Daskalakis

CSAIL: COLLABORATE, COMPUTE, CREATE

Our Mission

CSAIL: Collaborate. Compute. Create. Cutting-edge research. Educate the best students. Solve significant societal problems.

CSAIL is committed to pioneering new approaches to computing that will bring about positive changes in the way people around the globe live, play, and work.

CSAIL: IMPACTFUL WORKS –DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY

Applications: Industry Verticals

Advanced & Intelligent

Manufacturing

Cyber Security

Financial

Pharmaceutical & Health Tech

Media

Defense

Space

Smart Buildings/ Smart Cities

Telecomm

Transportation/ Automotive

Retail

Wireless Technologies

Customer Experience Energy

Speech Technologies

Food/ Agribusiness

CSAIL: RECENT SPIN-OUTS

Secure AI Labs (SAIL) helps companies share sensitive data and valuable algorithms by protecting them from misuse during analysis. Using new encryption technology patented at MIT, companies control how, where and when their data and algorithms are used, making it safe and easy to sell their data and algorithms to third parties without added liability.

Inkbit has developed a new generation of 3D printers powered by machine vision and machine learning. Our system can print with high-performance polymers and can integrate external components, such as electronics, into 3D printed parts. Our mission is to enable volume manufacturing of functional, multi-material parts

Einblick is not just another analytics platform. It is a radical departure from contemporary data workflow solutions, visual business intelligence tools, and data programming environments. Itis the first platform to democratize prescriptive analytics.

CSAIL RESEARCH: OPEN SOURCE CONNECTIONS

Aurum

Large scale data discovery to help find relevant data across disparate data sets.

Result: datasets ‘on demand’ from across the organization.

CodeCarbonCopy

Automatic code reuse. The system makes modifications necessary to transplant code from one program into another. The programmer can select the code from one program and an insertion point in a second program, and the system will automatically make modifications necessary—such as changing variable names to integrate the code into its new context.

Result: automating code development.

Drake Is a collection of tools for analyzing the dynamics of robots and building control systems for them, with a heavy emphasis on optimization-based design/analysis. Drake aims to simulate even very complex dynamics of robots(e.g. including friction, contact, aerodynamics, ...), but always with an emphasis on exposing the structure in the governing equations.

Result: shedding light into the ‘black box’

Pensieve

Pensieve trains a neural network model that selects bitrates for future video chunks based on observations collected by client video players.

Result: reduce video re-buffering..

CSAIL ALLIANCES:

Your Gateway to CSAIL

CSAIL: HOW TO CONNECT

Determine your goals

Alliances is the broad umbrella that encompasses all engagement paths. The right path depends on your priorities.

TECHNOLOGY STARTUP RESEARCH TALENT

CSAIL: PATHS OF ENGAGEMENT

CSAIL Alliances Program

Research

Initiatives

Startup Connect Professional Programs

Sponsored Research

Thought Leadership Visiting Industry Research

There are many ways to connect with the lab. From simple to complex, there is a path for every engagement.

To stay connected, join the Alliances mailing list to learn about upcoming events, professional programs, and new research from the lab.

Follow us on our social platforms:

Twitter/X: @csail_alliances

LinkedIn: MIT CSAIL Alliances

YouTube: MIT CSAIL Alliances

Soundcloud | iTunes | Spotify: MIT CSAIL Alliances

CSAIL: BENEFITS OF CONNECTING WITH THE LAB

• Access

• New Technology

• Licensing: Open Source & Other

• Recruiting Students & Alumni

• Networking: Researchers, Students, Startups and Other Members

• Embedded Researcher

• Startups

• Talent Development /Professional Programs

• Thought Leadership

• Workshops: Technology Adoption

• Briefings: Latest Disruptive Research

• Ideas/Innovation

• MIT Connections

CSAIL: INDUSTRY COLLAB RESEARCH INITIATIVES

Research initiatives are separately funded-industry consortia models that include:

•Small group (generally 8-12 companies)

•Extremely close interaction with researchers and students in a focused area

•A seat on the board enabling input on research, hosted talks, events etc.

•3-7 projects generally funded per year

•White papers written by researchers for initiative

•Access to meetings, papers, and other resources from all initiatives

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MACHINE LEANRING APPLICATIONS

Bringing new applications, workforce development and technological vision to industry.

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MIT’s FUTURE OF DATA

Developing privacy-preserving tools and research at MIT that will help shape the future of data governance.

NEXT GENERATION

SOFTWARE EFFICENCY

Advancing the future of efficient software options and facilitating the transition of fundamental academic knowledge to real-world technological solutions.

CSAIL: FOR BROAD CONNECTIONS

CSAIL Alliances Program

The foundational program for all CSAIL industry engagement

•Across the entire lab (all 60 research groups)

•Access to conferences, talks, workshops

•Assistance with recruiting within the lab

•Courses & discounts

•Startup connections

•Member-only website access with student database and research locator tool

•Industry visitor eligibility

CSAIL

All the benefits of CAP plus…

•Research connections in a specific topic

•Executive board involvement shaping the research projects

•Input on project funding 3

•Open source license to projects when available, access to all other initiatives’ meetings, papers, projects, etc. (with the exception of not voting/decision rights), and all the benefits of CAP

CSAIL ALLIANCE ANNUAL MEETING

01 Meeting

03 Days of Research & Connections

•Typically held in the spring/ early summer

•The opportunity to network with other industry leaders

•Report out from researchers on all the latest technological and innovative advances

•Small group meetings with individual researchers on high impact topics

•A student poster reception to connect with students and their research

•A startup showcase featuring CSAIL startups

All Alliance Programs Together

CSAIL ALLIANCES: ENGAGEMENT WITH CSAIL

Opportunities to engage with CSAIL

•Alliances Program

•Research Initiatives: MachineLearningApplications(MLA),

NextGenerationSoftwareEfficency and Future ofData (FOD)

•Visiting Researchers

•Student Recruiting

•Student Fellowships

•Sponsored Research

•Technology Transfer-Open Source or TLO License

•Startups

•Learning: Talent Development Courses

•Philanthropy

CSAIL ALLIANCES: ENGAGEMENT WITH CSAIL

CSAIL ALLIANCES: MEMBER COMPANIES

CSAIL ALLIANCES: MEMBER COMPANIES BY COUNTRY

MEET THE TEAM

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Lori Glover Managing Director, Global Strategic Alliances Executive Director, MachineLearningApplications@CSAIL Executive Director, MIT Future of Data

Jessica Gibson Assistant Director, Marketing and Communications gibsonj@csail.mit.edu

Matt Busekroos Operations Coordinator mmbusekroos@csail.mit.edu

Audrey Woods Digital Presence Content Writer woodsa@mit.edu

Nate Caldwell Video Production and Digital Media Specialist natecald@csail.mit.edu

Julia Pallis Digital Media Specialist jpallis@mit.edu

Glenn Wong Associate Director, Business Development and Client Relations glennw@mit.edu

Philip Arsenault Client Relations Manager pmarsena@csail.mit.edu

Callie Mathews Partnerships and Professional Programs Manager cmathews@csail.mit.edu

Christiana Kalfas Client Relations Coordinator ckalfas@csail.mit.edu

Jeff Mantegia Client Relations Coordinator jwmantei@mit.edu

Nicole Hoffman Senior Administrative Assistant nicolem@csail.mit.edu