For more than 50 years, CSAIL has pioneered new approaches to computing that improve how people work, play, and learn.

AI action plan recommendations from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL). MIT CSAIL has been pioneering the future of computing and AI for over six decades.

Our leadership cultivates collaboration that promotes our mission to improve computing for the world.

CSAIL has helped shape the backbone of our modern world: the World Wide Web, RSA encryption, and much of the underlying tech for the ARPANet and the Internet.

CSAIL is always looking for talented, passionate people to join our lab.

CSAIL is the largest lab at MIT, with the highest percentage of faculty who are members of the National Academies.

CSAIL and its predecessors have a rich history of lab publications. The entire historical record of our publications are hosted by MIT's DSpace service.

Hundreds of companies have spun out of CSAIL, from Akamai and Dropbox to Boston Dynamics and iRobot.

CSAIL in housed in the whimsical Stata center, a building reflective of our students - creative, inventive, and unconventional.

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Over the years our lab has been blessed to have been graced by the presence of so many thoughtful, brilliant, boundary-pushing computer scientists - some of whom are no longer with us. Below are some of the pioneers and visionaries have made the work we do today possible.