# MIT CSAIL
**Full Name:** MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
**Domain:** Computer Science / Artificial Intelligence / Robotics
**Doc Type:** Institution Node
**Maturity:** Developing
**Related:** [[MIT Media Lab]], [[Marvin Minsky]], [[Leela AI]], [[Team Leela]], [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]]
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## Definition
**MIT CSAIL** is MIT’s major laboratory for computer science and artificial intelligence, formed from institutional lineages that include the MIT AI Laboratory and Laboratory for Computer Science.
## Corpus Context
CSAIL anchors the technical lineage behind [[Marvin Minsky]], artificial intelligence, robotics, common-sense reasoning and the contemporary work discussed in [[Leela AI]].
## Directory Context
This institution is indexed in [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]] and [[Team Leela]]. The Team Leela relationship is analytic, not an assertion of organizational membership.
## Sources / Provenance
- [MIT CSAIL](https://www.csail.mit.edu/)