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Applied Machine Learning Community of Research
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This CoR brings together researchers at CSAIL working across a broad swath of application domains. Within these lie novel and challenging machine learning problems serving science, social science and computer science.
Lead [Una-May O'Reilly](/person/una-may-oreilly)
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Cognitive AI Community of Research
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This CoR aims to develop AI technology that synthesizes symbolic reasoning, probabilistic reasoning for dealing with uncertainty in the world, and statistical methods for extracting and exploiting regularities in the world, into an integrated picture of intelligence that is informed by computational insights and by cognitive science.
Lead [Gerald Sussman](/person/gerald-sussman)
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Computing & Society Community of Research
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This community is interested in understanding and affecting the interaction between computing systems and society through engineering, computer science and public policy research, education, and public engagement.
Lead [Daniel Weitzner](/person/daniel-weitzner)
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Embodied Intelligence Community of Research
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Our goal is to understand the nature of intelligent behavior in the physical world, through the study of human intelligence and the design and implementation of intelligent robots.
Lead [Jim Glass](/person/jim-glass)
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Human-Computer Interaction Community of Research
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The focus of the HCI CoR is inventing new systems and technology that lie at the interface between people and computation, and understanding their design, implementation, and societal impact.
Lead [David Karger](/person/david-karger)
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Systems Community of Research
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The Systems CoR is focused on building and investigating large-scale software systems that power modern computers, phones, data centers, and networks, including operating systems, the Internet, wireless networks, databases, and other software infrastructure.
Lead [Michael Cafarella](/person/michael-cafarella)
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Theory of Computation Community of Research
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The goal of the Theory of Computation CoR is to study the fundamental strengths and limits of computation as well as how these interact with mathematics, computer science, and other disciplines.
Lead [Vinod Vaikuntanathan](/person/vinod-vaikuntanathan)
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Vertical AI Community of Research
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This CoR takes a unified approach to cover the full range of research areas required for success in artificial intelligence, including hardware, foundations, software systems, and applications.
Lead [Martin Rinard](/person/martin-rinard)
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Visual Computing at CSAIL
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The shared mission of Visual Computing is to connect images and computation, spanning topics such as image and video generation and analysis, photography, human perception, touch, applied geometry, and more.
Lead [Jonathan Ragan-Kelley](/person/jonathan-ragan-kelley)
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Center for Deployable Machine Learning (CDML)
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The MIT Center for Deployable Machine Learning (CDML) works towards creating AI systems that are robust, reliable and safe for real-world deployment.
Lead [Aleksander Madry](/person/aleksander-madry)
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Center for the Exascale Simulation of Materials in Extreme Environments
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The Center for the Exascale Simulation of Materials in Extreme Environments (CESMIX) seeks to advance the state-of-the-art in predictive simulation by connecting quantum and molecular simulations of materials with state-of-the-art programming languages, compiler technologies, and software performance engineering tools, underpinned by rigorous approaches to statistical inference and uncertainty quantification. Our motivating problem is to predict the degradation of complex (disordered and multi-component) materials under extreme loading, inaccessible to direct experimental observation. This application represents a technology domain of intense current interest, and exemplifies an important class of scientific problems — involving material interfaces in extreme environments.
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Internet Policy Research Initiative
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Our mission is to work with policy makers and cybersecurity technologists to increase the trustworthiness and effectiveness of interconnected digital systems.
Lead [Daniel Weitzner](/person/daniel-weitzner), [David Clark](/person/david-clark), [Gerald Sussman](/person/gerald-sussman), [Hal Abelson](/person/hal-abelson), [Karen Sollins](/person/karen-sollins), [Lalana Kagal](/person/lalana-kagal)...more
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Advanced Network Architecture Group
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The challenge that motivates the ANA group is to foster a healthy future for the Internet. The interplay of private sector investment, public sector regulation and public interest advocacy, as well as the global diversity in drivers and aspirations, makes for an uncertain future.
Lead [David Clark](/person/david-clark), [Karen Sollins](/person/karen-sollins)
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Algorithms Group
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We devise new mathematical tools to tackle the increasing difficulty and importance of problems we pose to computers.
Lead [Aleksander Madry](/person/aleksander-madry), [Charles E. Leiserson](/person/ankur-moitra-removed-2023-02-02), [Costis Daskalakis](/person/charles-e-leiserson), [David Karger](/person/costis-daskalakis), [Erik Demaine](/person/david-karger), [Jonathan Kelner](/person/erik-demaine), [Michel Goemans](/person/jonathan-kelner), [Nir Shavit](/person/michel-goemans), [Piotr Indyk](/person/nir-shavit), [Ronitt Rubinfeld](/person/piotr-indyk), [Ryan Williams](/person/ronitt-rubinfeld) , [Tom Leighton](/person/ryan-williams), [Virginia Vassilevska Williams](/person/tom-leighton)...more
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Anyscale Learning for All ALFA
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Our vision is data-driven machine learning systems that advance the quality of healthcare, the understanding of cyber arms races and the delivery of online education.
Lead [Una-May O'Reilly](/person/una-may-oreilly)
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Applied Computing Group
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We design software for high performance computing, develop algorithms for numerical linear algebra, and research random matrix theory and its applications.
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Broderick Lab
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We work in the areas of statistics and machine learning.
Lead [Tamara Broderick](/person/tamara-broderick)
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Center for Brains, Minds and Machines
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Our main goal is developing a computationally based understanding of human intelligence and establishing an engineering practice based on that understanding.
Lead [Tomaso Poggio](/person/tomaso-poggio)
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Clinical Decision-Making Group
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We focus on furthering the application of technology and artificial intelligence in medicine and health-care.
Lead [Peter Szolovits](/person/peter-szolovits)
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Clinical Machine Learning Group
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Our group is interested in using machine learning and artificial intelligence to transform health care.
Lead [David Sontag](/person/david-sontag)
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Clinical and Applied Machine Learning Group (CAML)
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We develop machine learning methods inspired by real clinical applications
Lead [Adrian Dalca](/person/adrian-dalca), [John Guttag](/person/john-guttag)
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Commit Group
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We focus on finding novel approaches to improve the performance of modern computer systems without unduly increasing the complexity faced by application developers, compiler writers, or computer architects.
Lead [Saman Amarasinghe](/person/saman-amarasinghe)
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Complexity Theory Group
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Our interests span quantum complexity theory, barriers to solving P versus NP, theoretical computer science with a focus on probabilistically checkable proofs (PCP), pseudo-randomness, coding theory, and algorithms.
Lead [Michael Sipser](/person/michael-sipser), [Ronitt Rubinfeld](/person/ronitt-rubinfeld), [Ryan Williams](/person/ryan-williams) , [Shafi Goldwasser](/person/shafi-goldwasser), [Virginia Vassilevska Williams](/person/virginia-vassilevska-williams)...more
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Computation Structures Group
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Our mission is fostering the creation and development of high-performance, reliable and secure computing systems that are easy to interact with.
Lead [Armando Solar-Lezama](/person/armando-solar-lezama), [Daniel Sanchez](/person/arvind-mithal-removed-2024-10-16), [Srini Devadas](/person/daniel-sanchez)
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