Research

David Clark, Senior Research Scientist at MIT CSAIL, helped design the system that connects nearly every computer on earth. As Chief Protocol Architect of the Internet from 1981 to 1989, he was there for the beginnings of the Internet. Calling the wave of AI technology an “echo” of what happened in the 80’s, Dr. Clark is cautioning, “ maybe we need to slow things down and think a bit.”

AI models are proliferating fast. There’s Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, DeepSeek, Grok, Mistral, Llama, and many more emerging every day. But which ones to work with? And why? We asked MIT CSAIL faculty and students which AI tools they’re reaching for right now. The responses showed a variety of preferences, a clear winner in one area, and a word of caution about what goes into any public model’s memory.

What happens when the team behind PlayStation meets the researchers pushing the boundaries of AI? You get The Nexus of Games and AI, a 12-part MIT Independent Activities Period (IAP) course, now available to stream.

To improve data center efficiency, multiple storage devices are often pooled together over a network so many applications can share them. But even with pooling, significant device capacity remains underutilized due to performance variability across the devices.