By measuring a person’s movements and poses, smart clothes developed at MIT CSAIL could be used for athletic training, rehabilitation, or health-monitoring for elder-care facilities.

A study from MIT shows how coronavirus skeptics have marshalled data visualizations online to argue against public health orthodoxy about the benefits of mask mandates. Such “counter-visualizations” are often quite sophisticated, using datasets from official sources and state-of-the-art visualization methods.

The rise of big data has led to an explosion in visualizations used in news articles and scientific papers. In particular, there’s been growing interest in interactive visualizations that allow readers to dig into the data themselves. 

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".

CSAIL's Dr. Amar Gupta is developing technologies and business processes that are capable of quickly and accurately digitizing and processing financial and other documents with zero or minimal human intervention.

Technologies like robots and artificial intelligence could partner with humans, not oust them from work, research and business leaders say.

Researchers at CSAIL recently made a major development in the area of lost languages: a new system that has been shown to be able to automatically decipher a lost language, without needing advanced knowledge of its relation to other languages.