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October 2026

  1. ‘The assertion that the AI is an autonomous being is insane’: Cyber expert says companies should face criminal charges when their AI hacks
  2. Kostis Kaffes Receives Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award for Second Consecutive Year
  3. Worries about an AI internet takeover gain new urgency among doomsday scenarios
  4. Building AI That Understands People
  5. Greta VanZetten (CC’26) Named 2026 NYC Urban Fellow
  6. Jeremy Klotz Takes Second Place at NSF’s ERC Perfect Pitch Competition

September 2026

  1. Unlocking the Possibilities of Data Streaming
  2. Columbia Experts Urge Calm Amid AI Panic
  3. Welcoming our New Faculty
  4. Columbia to Lead $20 Million National Research Center on Organismal Resilience
  5. Zishen Wan Brings AI-Native Computing Research to Columbia
  6. Fellowships Recognize Outstanding PhD Researchers
  7. Think ‘Badges,’ Not Diverging Paths: A Columbia Professor’s Advice for Finding What You Actually Want in College

August 2026

  1. Understanding Why Quantum Proofs Can Be More Powerful Than Classical Ones
  2. ChatGPT now has a space for sharing medical records. Should you?

July 2026

  1. Columbia University to Lead ARPA-H-Funded Effort to Transform Childbirth Through AI-Powered Maternal–Fetal Monitoring
  2. Columbia DAPLab at ICML 2026

June 2026

  1. Christos Papadimitriou Wins The Bodossaki Excellence Award
  2. The Theory Group Wins Big at STOC 2026
  3. Inside the Research Shaping Agentic Data Environments
  4. C++ The Documentary

May 2026

  1. Henning Schulzrinne Wins IEEE INFOCOM Achievement Award
  2. Computer Science Student Learning Center Opens its Doors
  3. Voices of CS: The Transition From PhD to Faculty
  4. Security Research Recognized at IEEE S&P 2026
  5. Celebrating the Class of 2026
  6. Computer Science Student Learning Center Opens its Doors
  7. Designing Games for Everyone
  8. Henning Schulzrinne Awarded the 2026 IEEE INFOCOM Achievement Award
  9. Churchill Scholar Christine Li Says Goodbye to Morningside Heights
  10. Building Community in Computer Science
  11. 5 CS Students and Alumni Recognized By the NSF-GRFP Graduate Research Fellowships

April 2026

  1. Voices of CS: Yizhi Huang on Nasty Noise versus Malicious Noise
  2. Engineering Faculty Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
  3. Tim Roughgarden Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  4. Danielle Maydan and Samir Farraj Named 2026 Valedictorian and Salutatorian
  5. Is that Solar Panel Pointing in the Right Direction?
  6. Columbia College Announces 2026 Valedictorian and Salutatorian
  7. Rethinking How AI Agents Work in Practice
  8. He Designed C++ to Solve Your Code Problems
  9. Transforming Uncertainty: A New Path for Quantum Computing
  10. How Should We Prepare for the Looming Quantum Encryption Apocalypse?
  11. Making Games More Playable, Not Just Accessible

March 2026

  1. Can AI Understand Literature? Columbia Researchers Put It to the Test
  2. 4 Papers from CS Researchers at ASPLOS 2026
  3. An Interdisciplinary Project Investigates Art Images and AI
  4. What’s Missing for Artificial General Intelligence
  5. The Mind Behind C++
  6. Trailblazers: Shaping Internet and Video Call Technology With Professor Henning Schulzrinne

February 2026

  1. PhD Students Recognized with Top Fellowships
  2. A Budding Engineer Wants to Better Understand the Human Mind
  3. Columbia’s 3D Vision Technology Powers Factory Automation
  4. A New Complexity Theory for the Quantum Age
  5. A New Complexity Theory for the Quantum Age
  6. Three Engineering Alumni Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
  7. Moti Yung Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
  8. Luca Carloni and Junfeng Yang Elected 2025 ACM Fellows
  9. Teaching Future Engineers to Question AI

January 2026

  1. The Mind Behind the Infamous Advanced Programming: Jae Woo Lee
  2. Recognizing Undergraduate Leaders in Computer Science Research
  3. Luca Carloni and Junfeng Yang Elected ACM Fellows
  4. Christine Li (SEAS ’26) Named Churchill Scholar
  5. Meet Our New CS Faculty
  6. Test of Time Awards Highlight Enduring Innovation
  7. Why Vibe Coding Fails and How to Fix It
  8. Five Research Papers Accepted to FOCS 2025
  9. A Lion-Eat-Lion world: Caroline Smyth and Owen Terry on Creating Lion Dine
  10. Elias Bareinboim Elected Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

December 2025

  1. What We Miss When We Talk About AI
  2. Hollis Lehv (SEAS ’20, MS ’21) Part of Forbes 30 Under 30
  3. Silicon Chips on the Brain

November 2025

  1. Kavya Venkatesh Wins Best Overall Award at the HackPrinceton Fall 2025
  2. New AI Minor Broadens Access to Artificial Intelligence Education
  3. Josh Alman Awarded the Benjamin Franklin NextGen Award
  4. Uma Girish Wants to Speed Up Quantum Computers
  5. Faculty Now Accepting PhD Applications for Fall 2026

October 2025

  1. Discover What’s Next at the 2025 Distinguished Lecture Series
  2. Henry Yuen Explains Quantum Computing to ABC News
  3. Zachary Horvitz Named Google PhD Fellow
  4. How Your Smartphone’s Camera Got So Good
  5. Building Smarter Brain-Computer Interfaces
  6. Junfeng Yang Awarded The 2025 Mark Weiser Award
  7. Why LLMs Can’t *Invent* New Science

September 2025

  1. A Linguist of Algorithms
  2. CS Researchers at SOSP 2025
  3. Columbia Engineering and Ethereum Foundation Launch Research Center to Advance Blockchain Infrastructure
  4. Where Students Connect with Research Opportunities
  5. Fifth Cohort of Lustgarten-Whitney Fellows Announced
  6. Adapting Computer Science Education to a Changing Tech Landscape

August 2025

  1. Showcasing Research And Insights In London
  2. Moti Yung Awarded The IEEE Innovation In Societal Infrastructure Award

July 2025

  1. Celebrating Success at ACL 2025
  2. Virtual Security Testbed Helps Policymakers Prepare for Real-World Threats
  3. Kostis Kaffes Wins 2025 Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award
  4. Turning Quantum Bottlenecks into Breakthroughs
  5. Three Faculty Members Named Teaching Professors at Columbia Engineering
  6. CS Researchers Win Top Honors at SIGMOD 2025
  7. How Do You Teach Computer Science in the A.I. Era?

June 2025

  1. Four Professors Recognized with Test of Time Awards

May 2025

  1. Celebrating the Class of 2025
  2. Reimagining Wireless Communication and Sensing With Laser Light
  3. Honoring a Pioneer: Zvi Galil on Algorithms, Academia, and Columbia Roots
  4. Unlikely Engineers: The Pianist And The Med Student Who Found Their Future In Code
  5. Kathleen McKeown Speaks the Language of Mentorship
  6. Brains Behind the Bots: Neuroscience’s Big Role in the future of AI
  7. Myths and Realities of Quantum Computing
  8. Where Support Meets Opportunity: Two Students Reflect On Their TA Journey
  9. Kavika Krishnan, SEAS ’25, On Engineering Student Council And Crisis Leadership
  10. Ilias Diakonikolas Wins the ACM’s Grace Murray Hopper Award
  11. Andrew Yang and Jennifer Oettinger Named 2025 Valedictorian and Salutatorian
  12. Raman Odgers Chosen As The Graduate Class Day Speaker
  13. Meet Columbia College’s Valedictorian and Salutatorian
  14. 8 CS Students and Alumni Recognized By the NSF-GRFP Graduate Research Fellowships

April 2025

  1. Quantum Randomness Could Create a Spoof-Proof Internet
  2. Voices of CS: Adam Lin
  3. Four Columbians Named Goldwater Scholars
  4. Making AI Agents Reliable, Despite Their Mistakes
  5. Leveling Up Accessibility in Video Games
  6. Evolving Leadership In The Age Of AI: 5 Takeaways For 2035
  7. How a Problem About Pigeons Powers Complexity Theory

March 2025

  1. 10 Little Ways To Tell If A Photo Or Video Is AI (For Now)
  2. Jason Neih Named Fellow of AAAS
  3. Jason Nieh Named Fellow of AAAS
  4. Itsik Pe’er Elected As ISCB Fellow
  5. AI in Action
  6. Amazon Nova AI Challenge accelerating the field of generative AI
  7. New Frontiers of AI: How Columbia Researchers Are Shaping Ethical and Impactful Innovation

February 2025

  1. Voices of CS: Karla Zuniga
  2. CS Welcomes Six New Faculty
  3. Zhou Yu Joins Richtech Accelerator Program
  4. Lydia Chilton Named Sloan Research Fellow
  5. Lydia Chilton Named Sloan Research Fellow

January 2025

  1. Undergrads Dive Into Research Projects
  2. Voices of CS: Jeremy Klotz
  3. Drafting The Blueprint For AI At Columbia Engineering
  4. CS Alumni Part Of Forbes’ 30 Under 30
  5. Research Papers From The Theory Group At ITCS 2025
  6. Revolutionizing Computation with Next-Generation Algorithms

December 2024

  1. 14 Papers Accepted to NeurIPS 2024
  2. Voices of CS: Purva Tendulkar

November 2024

  1. Cryptographers Discover A New Foundation For Quantum Secrecy
  2. PinPoint App Selected As A Finalist in Red Bull Basement’s AI-Powered Pitch Competition
  3. Identifying the Potential—and Limitations—of Quantum Computers
  4. Meet the Scholars: PhD Students with Prestigious Fellowships
  5. Advancing Robotics with the Power of Touch
  6. Professors Seeking PhD Students: Open Positions for Aspiring Researchers
  7. The Art Of AI
  8. Cybersecurity Expert Simha Sethumadhavan On The State Of AI Cyber Regulation
  9. 15 Papers Accepted to EMNLP 2024
  10. AI in Elections: How Should Society — and Engineers — Respond?

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