About CSAIL

The MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, or CSAIL, is the largest interdepartmental laboratory on campus, with over eight hundred members and ninety-plus principal investigators. CSAIL members come from seven academic departments, the majority of whom are from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. CSAIL is also home to the World Wide Web Consortium, a group devoted to developing interoperable technologies to realize the full potential of the Web.

CSAIL conducts long-term research in both computer science and artificial intelligence. It is organized into three areas of study:
Artificial Intelligence – the understanding and development of living and artificial systems capable of intelligent reasoning, perception and behavior;
Systems – the discovery of common principles, models, metrics, and tools of computer systems, both hardware and software; and
Theory – the study of the mathematics of computation and its applications.