MIT CSAIL is excited to announce the CSAIL Forum, a new weekly event series created to inspire conversation, share insights, and shape the future of computer science and artificial intelligence.
Every Tuesday from 12–1pm ET the CSAIL Forum will spotlight leading researchers and visionaries as they tackle today’s most pressing questions and tomorrow’s most promising opportunities. Each session will include a 30–40 minute talk followed by an opportunity for Q&A, encouraging participants to challenge assumptions, explore new ideas, and engage across disciplines.
This spring’s lineup features renown speakers from across CSAIL:
- April 15 – Associate Professor Phillip Isola—See past forums
- April 22 – Assistant Professor Yoon Kim—See past forums
- April 29 – No Forum (Join us for the 2025 CSAIL Alliances Annual Meeting!)
- May 6 – Assistant Professor Manish Raghavan—See past forums
- May 13 – Professor Armando Solar-Lezama- Register here.
- May 20 – Professor Dina Katabi
To make these conversations accessible to all, each talk will be recorded and shared on YouTube. Whether you're a student, researcher, or curious listener, the CSAIL Forum invites you to tune in, bring bold questions, and be part of the conversation as CSAIL builds the future of technology.
Upcoming forum:
Programming the way to better AI
Speaker: Armando Solar-Lezama, Professor and Associate Director/COO, CSAIL
Date/time: Tuesday 12:00-1:00 EDT, May 13, 2025
Live stream via Zoom: Registration required
Abstract: For decades, programming was the way through which we told machines what to do, but modern AI techniques promise new ways of creating software directly from data and natural language. But programming has a number of advantages that have enabled us to build reliable large scale computing infrastructure. In this presentation, I explain some new approaches to learn from data while preserving some of the benefits of programming, and some of their applications in domains ranging from robotics to computational biology.
Bio: https://www.csail.mit.edu/person/armando-solar-lezama
