During a meeting of class 6.C40/24.C40 (Ethics of Computing), Professor Armando Solar-Lezama poses the same impossible question to his students that he often asks himself in the research he leads with the Computer Assisted Programming Group at MIT:
This past month Martin Rinard, MIT professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department (EECS) and CSAIL principal investigator, received the 2025 Outstanding Research Award from the ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT). The organization awarded him for his “fundamental contributions in pioneering the new fields of program repair and approximate computing.”
Imagine you’re a chef with a highly sought-after recipe. You write your top-secret instructions in a journal to ensure you remember them, but its location within the book is evident from the folds and tears on the edges of that often-referenced page.
Not sure what to think about DeepSeek R1, the most recent large language model (LLM) making waves in the global tech community? Faculty from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) are here to help!
