Modern processors are fast in part because they guess. Rather than waiting to find out which way a program will branch, a chip predicts the likely path and races ahead. When the guess is right, time is saved. When it's wrong, the work is discarded, but traces of it linger, and since the Spectre vulnerability was disclosed in 2018, attackers have known how to read those traces to pull secrets out of memory they should never see.
Imagine a bottle of hazardous chemicals sitting on a laboratory shelf that changes its appearance to alert scientists that its lid is not properly secured, potentially preventing a dangerous spill.
Daniela Rus, Director of MIT CSAIL and the Panasonic Professor of Computer Science, has received the 2026 High-Tech Prize of the Bavarian Minister-President for her contributions to robotics, artificial intelligence, and autonomous systems.
Khosla Ventures focuses on high-risk, high-impact investments across artificial intelligence (AI), climate change, sustainability, enterprise, consumer, fintech, digital health, and frontier technologies. In this tech talk, Khosla Ventures will be leading conversations with one of their ventures, Foundry Robotics. Join the team over lunch to learn more about Foundry Robotics and their technology, opportunities to work at Foundry Robotics, Khosla Ventures, and more of Khosla Ventures' portfolio companies.
In his recent conversation on Building 32, MIT CSAIL Senior Research Scientist David Clark tells a story from 1995 when he got into a conversation with an economist and friend of his. “He said, ‘David, you have to understand the internet is about routing money, and routing packets is a side effect. And you screwed up the money routing protocols.’ And I said, ‘I didn't design any money routing protocols.’ And he said, ‘that's what I said.’”
Join CSAIL Alliances Member Citadel Securities for a tech talk, followed by networking. This session is intended for PhD Students. More info coming soon!
