CSAIL - MIT

Notes Richard Feynman '39 took for his high school calculus class (early 1930s), v/Physics Today & Melinda Baldwin.

"A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind." — Joseph Weizenbaum

The earliest known written use of the word "byte" is from a paper published in 1956 by IBM’s Werner Buchholz.

Less commonly used is the word for a half-byte: a "nibble."

https://bit.ly/3HuVfNk

Many AI tools impacting patient care may be operating outside of FDA oversight.

To change that, MIT researchers recommend increased public disclosure, structured dialogue between industry & regulators, & updated FDA guidance: https://bit.ly/4fDjIz5

Daniela Rus, CSAIL Director & MIT Prof., & Regina Barzilay, MIT Prof. & CSAIL principal investigator, have been named 2026 Tech Power Players by The Boston Globe.

Full list: http://globe.com/tech50

Happy birthday to Web inventor & MIT Professor Emeritus Tim Berners-Lee! Things besides the WWW that didn’t exist before TBL:
- Apple
- Google
- Facebook
- YouTube
- Instagram
- Netflix
- Uber
- Spotify
- & many other technologies we use today

Image v/Sotheby's

In case of fire, save your code first.

Image v/igor_os777 on X

The evolution of Apple logos over 50 years, v/theapplehub on X.

"Collaborative Battleship" game has revealed that AI agents are better at answering questions than asking them.

CSAIL & SEAS had LMs play together, where Monte Carlo inference strategies helped small agents outpace the largest models at ~1% of the cost: https://bit.ly/4afOE4T