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Victor Zue will direct CSAIL
02-14-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Victor Zue, co-director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), will become sole director of the lab, effective July 1.
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