The MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing announced its first two named professorships, beginning July 1, to Frédo Durand and Samuel Madden in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). These named positions recognize the outstanding achievements and future potential of their academic careers.

MIT CSAIL researchers say improving computing technology after Moore's Law will require more efficient software, new algorithms, and specialized hardware.

A group of researchers in MIT’s Computer Science and Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), working with the MIT spinoff Mobi Systems, are aiming to help level demand across the entire health care network by providing real-time updates of hospital resources, which they hope will help patients, EMTs, and physicians quickly decide which facility is best equipped to handle a new patient at any given time.

Tonya Hall speaks with Dr. Una-May O'Reilly, MIT IBM Watson AI lab, to learn more about the current status of artificial adversarial intelligence and the strengths of adversarial dynamics over model-based malware detectors.

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) announced that MIT professors Ronitt Rubinfeld and Joshua Tenenbaum were among their new 2020 members. The new class of more than 250 members recognizes the outstanding achievements of individuals in academia, the arts, business, government, and public affairs.

Ultorg's founder and CEO Eirik Bakke proposes a solution to arbitrary relational databases. The relational database is now 50 years old, yet remains primarily a tool for programmers.

It can be hard to keep track of all the numbers, statistics, and charts swirling around the internet -- we’re inundated with information that can be rapidly disseminated and dissected. To carve through some of the sludge, here’s a selected highlight of recent computer science related efforts to fight COVID-19. 

A company, founded by Marilyn Matz SM ’80 and CSAIL's Michael Stonebraker, helps pharmaceutical companies, research institutes, and biotech companies turn data into insights.