CSAIL created a new method to computationally optimize the shape and control of a robotic manipulator for a specific task.

MIT EECS professor Jonathan Ragan-Kelley received ACM SIGGRAPH'S 2021 Significant New Researcher Award, for his “outstanding contributions to systems and compilers in rendering and computational photography,” according to ACM’s press release. 

Scientists from CSAIL came up with a way to better navigate the complexity of supporting computer program instructions. Their tool “VeGen” (pronounced “vegan”) automatically generates compiler plugins to effectively use more complicated instructions.