Current Projects
The Tabulator project is a generic Semantic Web data browser. Using outline and table modes, it provides a way to browse RDF data.
Policy Aware Web, funded by NSF, a collaboration between MINDSWAP and DIG to work toward creating discretionary, rules-based access for the World Wide Web.
The Transparent Accountable Datamining Initiative (TAMI) Project, funded by NSF, is creating technical, legal, and policy foundations for transparency and accountability in large-scale aggregation and inferencing across heterogeneous information systems.
News
- 2 April 2008: MIT Undergraduates - summer UROP openings are available for CSAIL Hacker Heaven. DIG has two UROP projects with CSAIL funding: "Addressing Privacy Leakage from Search Engine Logs" and "Advanced Web Application: Tabulator".
- 21 March 2008: Daniel Weitzner is interviewed in an NPR Science Friday broadcast on Online Privacy.
- 25 February 2008: Daniel Weitzner testifies at US Federal Communications Commission hearing on Net Neutrality and Broadband Network Management. [slides][webcast]
- 1 March 2007: Tim Berners-Lee offers testimony to the United States House of Representatives Internet and Telecommunications Subcommittee hearing on the Future of the World Wide Web.
- 8-12 January 2007: Semantic Web Bootcamp, and MIT IAP course taught by Tim Berners-Lee with special guests Jim Hendler, m c schraefel and Daniel Weitzner.
- 28 August 2006: Report on TAMI/Portia Workshop on Privacy and Accountability published. (See Feigenbaum and Weitzner (eds.), "Report on the 2006 TAMI/Portia Workshop on Privacy and Accountability.")
Events
- PORTIA-TAMI sponsored Workshop on Privacy and Accountability: 28-29 June 2006 at MIT CSAIL
Group Members
- Hal Abelson, PI
- Tim Berners-Lee, Director and PI (blog)
- Dan Connolly (blog)
- Sandro Hawke (blog)
- Lalana Kagal
- Gerry Sussman, PI
- Ralph Swick
- Daniel Weitzner, Director and PI (blog)
Students
- Ian Jacobi(PhD)
- Ted Taiho Kang (MEng)
- Ilaria Liccardi(WSRI Exchange Student, Fall 08)
- Kenny Luck (U)
- Oshani Seneviratne (PhD)
Visiting Fellows
- James Hendler (RPI)
- Joe Pato (HP)
- K. Krasnow Waterman
- mc schraefel (Soton)
Alumni
- Au Yeung Ching Man, Albert (WSRI Exchange Student, Fall 08)
- Robert Hoffman (Visiting Fellow)
- Yosi Scharf (MEng, 2008)
- Joe Presbrey (Undergrad, 2008)
- Chris Hanson
- Eric Miller (blog)
- Jesus Arias Fisteus (Visiting Scientist)
- Carlos Delgado Kloos (Visiting Scientist, 2005-2006)
- Joyce Chen (UROP, 2006)
- Lydia Chilton (UROP, 2006)
- Austin Chu (UROP, 2005)
- Shashi Kant (SM, 2005)
- Rob Crowell (U)
- Ruth Dhanaraj (UROP) (blog)
- Amal Dorai (UROP, 2005)
- Claudio Falcon (U)
- James D. Hollenbach (UROP)
- Christopher Johnson (MSRP, 2005)
- Harvey Jones (MS, 2007)
- Adam Lerer (UROP)
- Akhil Shashidhar (UROP, 2004)
- David Sheets (UROP)
- Ryan Wagner (MEng, 2004)
- George Huo (UROP, 2003)
- Emmanuel Pietriga (Post Doc, 2001-2002 & 2003)
MIT Students: We are interested in working with students at any level, UROP, MEng, or PhD. Send email and come talk to us. More...
Selected Publications and Courses
- T. Berners-Lee, W. Hall, J. Hendler, N. Shadbolt, D. Weitzner, Creating a Science of the Web. SCIENCE VOL 313, 11 AUGUST 2006.
- Weitzner, Abelson, Berners-Lee, Hanson, Hendler, Kagal, McGuinness, Sussman, Waterman, Transparent Accountable Data Mining: New Strategies for Privacy Protection,; MIT CSAIL Technical Report MIT-CSAIL-TR-2006-007 [DSpace handle] (27 January 2006).
- Weitzner, Hendler, Berners-Lee, Connolly, Creating the Policy-Aware Web: Discretionary, Rules-based Access for the World Wide Web
- Design Issues: Technical and philosophical notes on web architecture. A series of notes about how the web actually works and how to design new technology.
- MIT 6.805 - Ethics and Law on the Electronic Frontier (co-taught with Hal Abelson and Mike Fischer)
- MIT 6.898 - Notions & Notations of the Semantic Web (Fall 2006)
- Semantic Web Bootcamp, (IAP) Tim Berners-Lee with special guests Jim Hendler and m c schraefel.
Semantic Web Live
- SWAP: Semantic Web Application Platform is the codebase which we have been using as a platform for our research. Includes tutorial and development of the N3 language and the cwm general purpose semantic web tool.
- SIMILE
Past Projects
Semantic Web Advanced Development, funded by DARPA under the DAML program, creating and distributing core components that form the basis for the Semantic Web.
Semantic Web Application Platform for the Mobile Ecosystem (SwapMe), funded by Nokia Research Center, is a joint project of MIT CSAIL and Nokia Research Center Cambridge. The goals of SwapMe are to build systems that offer users flexible, content-, and policy-aware means to access and manipulate information and environments.
SIMILE, funded by the Mellon Foundation, is a joint project conducted by the W3C, MIT Libraries, and MIT CSAIL. SIMILE seeks to enhance inter-operability among digital assets, schemata / vocabularies / ontologies, metadata, and services.
Visiting DIG
DIG is located on the MIT Campus in the State Center
If you need hotel accommodations while visiting us, the Kendall Hotel and the Cambridge Marriot are within a two block walk. Use this list a complete listing of hotels and contact information.
Contact Us
- Address
- Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- The Stata Center 5th floor room 32G-524
32 Vassar Street
Cambridge MA 02139 - (directions)
- Phone
- +1 (617) 253 5702
- Fax
- +1 (617) 258 5999
- Virtual
- IRC
