Anant Agarwal is the Director of CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) and a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.  He leads the Carbon group, which focuses on research involving operating systems and architectures for manycores and clouds. He is also a founder and CTO of Tilera Corporation which created the Tile multicore processor. Agarwal holds a Ph.D. from Stanford and a bachelor's from IIT Madras. He led the development of Raw – an early tiled multicore processor, Sparcle – an early multithreaded microprocessor, and Alewife – a scalable multiprocessor. He also led the VirtualWires project at MIT and was the founder of Virtual Machine Works, which took the VirtualWires technology to market. Agarwal won the Maurice Wilkes prize for computer architecture, and MIT’s Smullin and Jamieson prizes for teaching. He holds a Guinness World Record for the largest microphone array based on Raw, and is an author of the textbook “Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits."

Randall Davis received an AB from Dartmouth (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) in 1970 and a PhD from Stanford in artificial intelligence in 1976. He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1978, and from 1979-1981 held an Esther and Harold Edgerton Endowed Chair. He served for five years as associate director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), and for four years as a research director of CSAIL.

He has been one of the seminal contributors to the field of knowledge-based systems, playing a central role in the development of several systems. His current research involves developing advanced tools that permit natural multimodal interaction with software, via sketching, gesture and speech, particularly for computer-aided design. He and his group have produced multimodal interaction systems in a variety of domains, including physics, chemistry, software, electrical circuits and others.

He has also been active in the area of intellectual property and software. In 1990, he served as expert to the Court in Computer Associates v. Altai, a case that produced the abstraction, filtration, comparison test for software copyright. He served on the panel run by the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Academy of Science in 1991 that resulted in Intellectual Property Issues in Software. A 1994 paper in the Columbia Law Review analyzed the difficulties in applying intellectual property law to software and proposed a number of remedies. 

He has served as an expert in a variety of cases involving software, including the investigation by the Department of Justice of the Inslaw matter, where he investigated allegations of copyright theft and cover-up by the FBI, the National Security Agency, the Drug Enforcement Agency, the United States Customs Service and the Defense Intelligence Agency. From 1998-2000 he served as the chairman of the National Academy of Sciences study on intellectual property rights and the information infrastructure titled The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age (National Academy Press, 2000). 

Neville Hogan is director of the Newman Laboratory for Biomechanics and Human Rehabilitation and a founder and director of Interactive Motion Technologies Inc. His research interests include motor neuroscience, rehabilitation engineering and robotics.

Peter Szolovits has taught at MIT for more than 35 years as a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.

He has served on journal editorial boards and as program chairman and on the program committees of national conferences. He has been a founder of and consultant for several companies that apply AI to problems of commercial interest.

He received his bachelor's degree in physics and his PhD in information science from Caltech. Szolovits was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies and is a fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the American College of Medical Informatics and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He also serves as a member of the National Research Council's Computer Science and Telecommunications Board.

Russ Tedrake is the X Consortium Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab.

In 2008, he received an NSF CAREER award, the MIT Jerome Saltzer award for undergraduate teaching, and was named a Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellow.

Tedrake received his BSE in computer engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1999, and his PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT in 2004, working with Sebastian Seung. After graduation, he joined the MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences as a postdoctoral associate. He has also spent time at Microsoft, Microsoft Research and the Santa Fe Institute.

Seth Teller earned a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1992. His focus was on accelerated rendering of complex architectural environments. After postdoctoral fellowships at the Computer Science Institute of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Institute of Computer Science and Princeton University's Computer Science Department, Teller joined MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the Lab for Computer Science and the Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1994. (In 2004, the two labs merged into CSAIL, MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.)

At CSAIL, Teller heads the Robotics, Vision, and Sensor Networks group (RVSN), where his research focuses on enabling machines to become aware of their surroundings and interact naturally with people. Some of his lab's recent projects include: hand-held and body-worn devices that provide navigation assistance indoors; a voice-commandable robotic wheelchair; a self-driving Land Rover; and an unmanned outdoor forklift commanded through speech and gestures.