[whitenoice]

Well MIT CSAIL is an acronym for AI Lab :) and it was founded in 1959. Here is an old link which lists schools particularly strong in different domains of AI - https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/faqs/ai/old_ai_general...

[cs702]

In some ways, MIT needs to catch up. For example, here's a list of deep learning research groups put together by Bengio's group at Montreal as of Oct 2016: http://deeplearning.net/deep-learning-research-groups-and-la... -- MIT is missing from the list.