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The MIT Welcome Center is closed until January 5. The Admissions Office is available to answer questions by phone or email, but will be closed on Thursday, December 18 from 1–4 PM.

When people think of MIT, they think of computers, robots, and internet—CSAIL is all of those things.

The Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is the largest research laboratory at MIT and one of the world’s most important centers of information technology research. Tim Berners-Lee, credited with inventing the World Wide Web, is a Professor Emeritus at CSAIL.