CSAIL's Sabrina Neuman has found a way to fight the mismatch between a robot’s “mind” and body. The method, called robomorphic computing, uses a robot’s physical layout and intended applications to generate a customized computer chip that minimizes the robot’s response time.
CSAIL's Alan Edelman and Sam Madden have been elected as fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Both faculty members are "recognized as the top 1 percent for their outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology and/or outstanding service to ACM and the larger computing community".
Gary Gensler, FinTech@CSAIL Faculty Co-Director, has been selected by President-elect Joe Biden to serve as the chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Antonio Torralba, faculty head of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making within the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and the Thomas and Gerd Perkins Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has been selected as a 2021 Fellow by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).