Department of Computer Science, Columbia University
2012–2026
1,441 posts
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October 2026
- ‘The assertion that the AI is an autonomous being is insane’: Cyber expert says companies should face criminal charges when their AI hacks
- Kostis Kaffes Receives Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award for Second Consecutive Year
- Worries about an AI internet takeover gain new urgency among doomsday scenarios
- Building AI That Understands People
- Greta VanZetten (CC’26) Named 2026 NYC Urban Fellow
- Jeremy Klotz Takes Second Place at NSF’s ERC Perfect Pitch Competition
September 2026
- Unlocking the Possibilities of Data Streaming
- Columbia Experts Urge Calm Amid AI Panic
- Welcoming our New Faculty
- Columbia to Lead $20 Million National Research Center on Organismal Resilience
- Zishen Wan Brings AI-Native Computing Research to Columbia
- Fellowships Recognize Outstanding PhD Researchers
- Think ‘Badges,’ Not Diverging Paths: A Columbia Professor’s Advice for Finding What You Actually Want in College
August 2026
- Understanding Why Quantum Proofs Can Be More Powerful Than Classical Ones
- ChatGPT now has a space for sharing medical records. Should you?
July 2026
- Columbia University to Lead ARPA-H-Funded Effort to Transform Childbirth Through AI-Powered Maternal–Fetal Monitoring
- Columbia DAPLab at ICML 2026
June 2026
- Christos Papadimitriou Wins The Bodossaki Excellence Award
- The Theory Group Wins Big at STOC 2026
- Inside the Research Shaping Agentic Data Environments
- C++ The Documentary
May 2026
- Henning Schulzrinne Wins IEEE INFOCOM Achievement Award
- Computer Science Student Learning Center Opens its Doors
- Voices of CS: The Transition From PhD to Faculty
- Security Research Recognized at IEEE S&P 2026
- Celebrating the Class of 2026
- Computer Science Student Learning Center Opens its Doors
- Designing Games for Everyone
- Henning Schulzrinne Awarded the 2026 IEEE INFOCOM Achievement Award
- Churchill Scholar Christine Li Says Goodbye to Morningside Heights
- Building Community in Computer Science
- 5 CS Students and Alumni Recognized By the NSF-GRFP Graduate Research Fellowships
April 2026
- Voices of CS: Yizhi Huang on Nasty Noise versus Malicious Noise
- Engineering Faculty Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
- Tim Roughgarden Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Danielle Maydan and Samir Farraj Named 2026 Valedictorian and Salutatorian
- Is that Solar Panel Pointing in the Right Direction?
- Columbia College Announces 2026 Valedictorian and Salutatorian
- Rethinking How AI Agents Work in Practice
- He Designed C++ to Solve Your Code Problems
- Transforming Uncertainty: A New Path for Quantum Computing
- How Should We Prepare for the Looming Quantum Encryption Apocalypse?
- Making Games More Playable, Not Just Accessible
March 2026
- Can AI Understand Literature? Columbia Researchers Put It to the Test
- 4 Papers from CS Researchers at ASPLOS 2026
- An Interdisciplinary Project Investigates Art Images and AI
- What’s Missing for Artificial General Intelligence
- The Mind Behind C++
- Trailblazers: Shaping Internet and Video Call Technology With Professor Henning Schulzrinne
February 2026
- PhD Students Recognized with Top Fellowships
- A Budding Engineer Wants to Better Understand the Human Mind
- Columbia’s 3D Vision Technology Powers Factory Automation
- A New Complexity Theory for the Quantum Age
- A New Complexity Theory for the Quantum Age
- Three Engineering Alumni Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
- Moti Yung Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
- Luca Carloni and Junfeng Yang Elected 2025 ACM Fellows
- Teaching Future Engineers to Question AI
January 2026
- The Mind Behind the Infamous Advanced Programming: Jae Woo Lee
- Recognizing Undergraduate Leaders in Computer Science Research
- Luca Carloni and Junfeng Yang Elected ACM Fellows
- Christine Li (SEAS ’26) Named Churchill Scholar
- Meet Our New CS Faculty
- Test of Time Awards Highlight Enduring Innovation
- Why Vibe Coding Fails and How to Fix It
- Five Research Papers Accepted to FOCS 2025
- A Lion-Eat-Lion world: Caroline Smyth and Owen Terry on Creating Lion Dine
- Elias Bareinboim Elected Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
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December 2025
- What We Miss When We Talk About AI
- Hollis Lehv (SEAS ’20, MS ’21) Part of Forbes 30 Under 30
- Silicon Chips on the Brain
November 2025
- Kavya Venkatesh Wins Best Overall Award at the HackPrinceton Fall 2025
- New AI Minor Broadens Access to Artificial Intelligence Education
- Josh Alman Awarded the Benjamin Franklin NextGen Award
- Uma Girish Wants to Speed Up Quantum Computers
- Faculty Now Accepting PhD Applications for Fall 2026
October 2025
- Discover What’s Next at the 2025 Distinguished Lecture Series
- Henry Yuen Explains Quantum Computing to ABC News
- Zachary Horvitz Named Google PhD Fellow
- How Your Smartphone’s Camera Got So Good
- Building Smarter Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Junfeng Yang Awarded The 2025 Mark Weiser Award
- Why LLMs Can’t *Invent* New Science
September 2025
- A Linguist of Algorithms
- CS Researchers at SOSP 2025
- Columbia Engineering and Ethereum Foundation Launch Research Center to Advance Blockchain Infrastructure
- Where Students Connect with Research Opportunities
- Fifth Cohort of Lustgarten-Whitney Fellows Announced
- Adapting Computer Science Education to a Changing Tech Landscape
August 2025
- Showcasing Research And Insights In London
- Moti Yung Awarded The IEEE Innovation In Societal Infrastructure Award
July 2025
- Celebrating Success at ACL 2025
- Virtual Security Testbed Helps Policymakers Prepare for Real-World Threats
- Kostis Kaffes Wins 2025 Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award
- Turning Quantum Bottlenecks into Breakthroughs
- Three Faculty Members Named Teaching Professors at Columbia Engineering
- CS Researchers Win Top Honors at SIGMOD 2025
- How Do You Teach Computer Science in the A.I. Era?
June 2025
May 2025
- Celebrating the Class of 2025
- Reimagining Wireless Communication and Sensing With Laser Light
- Honoring a Pioneer: Zvi Galil on Algorithms, Academia, and Columbia Roots
- Unlikely Engineers: The Pianist And The Med Student Who Found Their Future In Code
- Kathleen McKeown Speaks the Language of Mentorship
- Brains Behind the Bots: Neuroscience’s Big Role in the future of AI
- Myths and Realities of Quantum Computing
- Where Support Meets Opportunity: Two Students Reflect On Their TA Journey
- Kavika Krishnan, SEAS ’25, On Engineering Student Council And Crisis Leadership
- Ilias Diakonikolas Wins the ACM’s Grace Murray Hopper Award
- Andrew Yang and Jennifer Oettinger Named 2025 Valedictorian and Salutatorian
- Raman Odgers Chosen As The Graduate Class Day Speaker
- Meet Columbia College’s Valedictorian and Salutatorian
- 8 CS Students and Alumni Recognized By the NSF-GRFP Graduate Research Fellowships
April 2025
- Quantum Randomness Could Create a Spoof-Proof Internet
- Voices of CS: Adam Lin
- Four Columbians Named Goldwater Scholars
- Making AI Agents Reliable, Despite Their Mistakes
- Leveling Up Accessibility in Video Games
- Evolving Leadership In The Age Of AI: 5 Takeaways For 2035
- How a Problem About Pigeons Powers Complexity Theory
March 2025
- 10 Little Ways To Tell If A Photo Or Video Is AI (For Now)
- Jason Neih Named Fellow of AAAS
- Jason Nieh Named Fellow of AAAS
- Itsik Pe’er Elected As ISCB Fellow
- AI in Action
- Amazon Nova AI Challenge accelerating the field of generative AI
- New Frontiers of AI: How Columbia Researchers Are Shaping Ethical and Impactful Innovation
February 2025
- Voices of CS: Karla Zuniga
- CS Welcomes Six New Faculty
- Zhou Yu Joins Richtech Accelerator Program
- Lydia Chilton Named Sloan Research Fellow
- Lydia Chilton Named Sloan Research Fellow
January 2025
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December 2024
November 2024
- Cryptographers Discover A New Foundation For Quantum Secrecy
- PinPoint App Selected As A Finalist in Red Bull Basement’s AI-Powered Pitch Competition
- Identifying the Potential—and Limitations—of Quantum Computers
- Meet the Scholars: PhD Students with Prestigious Fellowships
- Advancing Robotics with the Power of Touch
- Professors Seeking PhD Students: Open Positions for Aspiring Researchers
- The Art Of AI
- Cybersecurity Expert Simha Sethumadhavan On The State Of AI Cyber Regulation
- 15 Papers Accepted to EMNLP 2024
- AI in Elections: How Should Society — and Engineers — Respond?
- 8 Papers Accepted to CoRL 2024
October 2024
- Computer Scientists Establish The Best Way To Traverse A Graph
- Josh Alman Wins Packard Research Fellowship
- Digging Into The CDC’s Data On Preterm Birth
- Columbians Hack Their Way to Quantum Victory
- Josh Alman Awarded The 2024 Packard Fellowship
- AI Is Having Its Nobel Moment. Do Scientists Need The Tech Industry To Sustain It?
- Two Columbia Engineering Professors Named Simons Society Senior Fellows
- Recipients of the Blavatnik Acceleration Fund Push the Boundaries in Medicine and Engineering
- A Data Scientist’s New Vision for Medicine: An AI-Doctor Clinical Team
September 2024
- Outstanding Research and Best Paper Honors at ECCV 2024
- Navigating the Core at SEAS
- FME Fellowship Awarded to Jeannette Wing
- Inside Universities’ Love-Hate Relationship With ChatGPT
- AI Center Award Recipients Announced
August 2024
- CS Researchers Inducted To The AWE XR Hall Of Fame
- Steven Feiner Inducted Inaugural Member of the AWE XR Hall of Fame
- Can AI Truly Replicate The Screams Of A Man On Fire? Video Game Performers Want Their Work Protected
- CS@CU At ACL 2024
- Three CS Faculty Appointed to Named Professorships
- How Engineering Researchers Are Reimagining Roadways And Sidewalks
July 2024
- CS@CU At ICML 2024
- Nagish Raises $11 Million To Bring AI-Powered Phone Call Captioning App For People With Hearing Loss
- NYC’s Massive Link5G Towers Aren’t Actually Providing 5G (Yet)
- CS Professors Win Test of Time Awards
June 2024
- Turns Out, I’m Not Real: Detecting AI-Generated Videos
- Celebrating Our Retiring Faculty
- What Rights Do People Have In The Age Of Spatial Computing?
- Six Papers From the NLP & Speech Group Accepted to NAACL 2024
- Research From the Robotics and Vision Group Accepted to CVPR
- Carl Vondrick Awarded The IEEE PAMI Young Researcher Award at CVPR 2024
- David Blei Receives The ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award
- We Built A Mean Game To Test AI’s Ability To Apologise
- Cryptographers Discover A New Foundation For Quantum Secrecy
- Fourth Cohort of Lustgarten-Whitney Fellows Announced
- Soft Fabric Necklace Monitors Care Of Preterm, Low-Birth-Weight Infants
- Columbia Engineering Launches New Columbia-Dream Sports AI Innovation Center
- David Blei Awarded The 2024 John McCarthy Award
- Professor Sal Stolfo’s Allure Security Closed A $10 million Series A Funding Round
May 2024
- CS Team Triumphs At The 2024 ICPC North America Championship
- Parting Thoughts
- Three Columbia Engineering Researchers Win Amazon Research Awards
- Congratulations To The Class Of 2024
- Columbia Engineering Announces 2024 Valedictorian And Salutatorian
- Columbia Engineering Professors Win NSF Early Career Award
- David Blei Among The 2024 Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Awardees
April 2024
- CS and EE Team Wins Best Paper Award At CIDR 2024
- A Student’s Journey On The Bridge To PhD Program
- Microsoft Says It’s Cracked The Code On An Important Quantum Computing Problem
March 2024
- How Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Helps Neural Networks Compute
- University-Led AI is Key To New York’s Future
- Who Wrote This? Columbia Engineers Discover Novel Method to Identify AI-generated Text
- Large Language Models Can Do Jaw-dropping Things. But Nobody Knows Exactly Why.
- Columbia Relaunches Computing Honor Society Upsilon Pi Epsilon With New Student Inductees
- Here’s Who Will Advise Mayor Eric Adams On Artificial Intelligence
- Chatting about AI with our New Vice Dean of AI and Computing
February 2024
- Navigating Generative AI and its Impact on the Future of Public Discourse
- Voices of CS: Charlie Carver and Hadleigh Schwartz
- Can You Tell Which Of These Break-up Texts Are AI-Generated?
- Jeannette M. Wing Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
- Jeannette M. Wing Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
January 2024
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December 2023
- 16 Papers Accepted To NeurIPS 2023
- The Pro Gamer Who Has To Rely Upon Sound Alone
- The Race to Develop Quantum Computers
November 2023
- Team Led by Elias Bareinboim Wins $5M NSF Grant to Transform AI Decision-making
- Voices of CS: Wei Hao
- Universities Can’t Accommodate All the Computer Science Majors
- The AI Boom’s Chip Shortage Has An Unlikely Hero: The Blockchain
October 2023
- 19 PhD Students Awarded Prestigious Fellowships
- Distinguished Lecture Series 2023
- New Tool Automates the Formal Verification of Systems Software
- Christos Papadimitriou and Mihalis Yannakakis Awarded The John von Neumann Theory Prize
- Christos Papadimitriou and Mihalis Yannakakis Awarded the John von Neumann Theory Prize
- CEAL Lab Wins Impact Recognition Award at CSCW 2023
- Five Papers From The Computer Vision Group Accepted To ICCV 2023
- Baishakhi Ray Wins Most Impactful Paper At ICSME ’23
September 2023
- AI on the Brain: A Q&A with Richard Zemel
- Stephen Edwards Wins Test Of Time Award At ESWEEK ’23
- Superorder Raises $10M To Help Restaurants Maintain Their Online Presence
- How The Morning Show Rewrites the Notorious 2014 Sony Hack
- Mihalis Fest
- Papers from the Wu Lab Accepted to VLDB 2023
August 2023
- Computer Security Pioneer Steve Bellovin First to Win Two USENIX Flame Awards
- In Memoriam: Stephen H. Unger
- Your Résumé Isn’t the Only Thing Popular Job Sites Evaluate
- Yes, AI Models Can Get Worse over Time
July 2023
- CS Professors Awarded Test of Time Award at ICML’23
- CS Professors Win Research Awards from the Columbia Center of AI Technology
- Mihalis Fest 2023
- Exploring Inclusive Technology, Access for All
- Software Systems Group Wins An ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
- Computer Security Pioneer Steve Bellovin First to Win Two USENIX Flame Awards
- Ronghui Gu Awarded The 2022 VMware Systems Research Award
- IEEE Micro Top Picks From the 2022 Architecture Conferences
- AI and CRISPR Precisely Control Gene Expression
June 2023
May 2023
- Here’s how AI is being used to unlock secrets still hidden in the human brain
- Congratulations to the Class of 2023!
- Summer A & Summer B 2023 Computer Science Course Schedule
- Does AI in NYC need restrictions? Officials hold closed-door meeting to discuss
- Meet Columbia Engineering’s 2023 Valedictorian and Salutatorian
- Team Led by Columbia University Wins $20M NSF Grant to Develop AI Institute for Artificial and Natural Intelligence
- 7 Papers Accepted to ICLR 2023
April 2023
- Voices of CS: Gaurav Jain
- 7 Papers from CS Researchers Accepted to CHI 2023
- 37 Columbia Students Awarded 2023 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
- What’s AGI, and Why Are AI Experts Skeptical?
- Voices of CS: Maico Cassel dos Santos
- A Columbia Engineering Student on What’s Next for Artificial Intelligence
- Moti Yung (PhD ’88) Elected to the Academy of Arts and Sciences
- In Memoriam: Dragomir R. Radev
March 2023
- CS Experts Explore Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Security, and Cryptography Research
- Three 2022 Lustgarten-Whitney Fellows Named
- Junior Faculty Win NSF Early Career Development Awards
- What Should We Expect From ChatGPT?
- The one management skill ChatGPT can’t replace
- Columbia Engineers Use Psychology, Physics, and Geometry to Make Robots More Intelligent
- Women’s History Month Highlight: Kennedy Salamat
- John Paparrizos (PhD ’18) Wins a 2023 IEEE TCDE Rising Star Award
February 2023
- Josh Alman and Ronghui Gu Win NSF CAREER Awards
- Voices of CS: Tuhin Chakrabarty
- Netflix’s Password-Sharing Crackdown
- Ronghui Gu Named VMware Systems Research Award Recipient
- From Launching a Successful Startup to Teaching a Class on Entrepreneurship
January 2023
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December 2022
- Jim Kurose Explains the Internet in 5 Levels of Difficulty
- Shree Nayar Wins Okawa Prize
- Shree Nayar Wins Okawa Prize
- Julia Zhao (SEAS ’23) Named a Rhodes Scholar
- 12 Research Papers Accepted to EMNLP 2022
- Shih-fu Chang and Jeannette Wing Elected to the National Academy of Inventors
- Shih-Fu Chang, Elizabeth Hillman, and Jeannette Wing Elected to the NAI
- Stepping Forward: MS student Develops VR Full-Body Tracking Shoes
- 11 Papers Accepted to NeurIPS 2022
November 2022
- In Memoriam: Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. — Personal Recollections
- The Undergraduate Computer and Data Science Research Fair
- Fact check: False claim that mail-in voting is connected to bad actors, fraudulent ballots
October 2022
- Shree Nayar Elected to Indian National Academy of Engineering
- Stranger Strings: An Exploitable Flaw in SQLite
- Voices of CS: Tao Long
- Shree Nayar Elected to Indian National Academy of Engineering
- Undergraduate Computer and Data Science Research Fair
September 2022
- Let’s Bowl!
- CS Welcomes New Faculty
- Top 2023 IEEE Innovation In Societal Infrastructure Awardee Kathleen McKeown Shares Deep Insights
- 19 PhD Students Win Prestigious Fellowships
August 2022
- Get to Know Our CS Teaching Faculty
- Voices of CS: Cheng Chi
- Data Centers at Risk of Overheating as Heat Waves Become More Intense
- ACM ByteCast Podcast: Human-Centered AI Researcher and Entrepreneur Michelle Zhou
- Using Tech to Help African Farmers Collect Index Insurance Payouts
- This Self-Aware Robot Taught Itself How to Control Its Own Body
- Bringing People Together by Training Machines to Better Understand Our Differences
July 2022
- 5 Research Papers Accepted to ICML 2022
- Ronghui Gu Wins Amazon Research Award
- Computer Science Proof Unveils Unexpected Form of Entanglement
- New Computing Architecture Protects Sensitive Private Data
- Software Systems Laboratory Wins Best Paper Award at OSDI 2022
- 6 Papers from CS Researchers Accepted to NAACL 2022
- Shuran Song Wins a Best Paper Award at the Robotics Science and Systems Conference (RSS 2022)
June 2022
- Kathy McKeown Named Recipient of the 2023 IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award
- Henning Schulzrinne Wins ACM SIGCOMM Lifetime Achievement Award
- CS Researchers Present Database Research at SIGMOD 2022
May 2022
- ACL: What Comes Next for Natural Language Processing?
- Research from the NLP & Speech Group Accepted to ACL 2022
- Study Confirms Differential Privacy Was the Correct Choice for the 2020 U.S. Census
- Shuran Song Receives NSF CAREER Award
- Steven Feiner Inducted into the Inaugural Class of the IEEE Virtual Reality Academy
- Steven Feiner Inducted into the Inaugural Class of the IEEE Virtual Reality Academy
- Columbia Awarded $185 Million in Patent-Infringement Lawsuit
- Columbia University Awarded $185 Million for Patent Infringement by NortonLifeLock Inc.
- Four Columbians Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
- Alfred Aho and Toniann Pitassi Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
April 2022
- Xi Chen Wins Both 2021 Gödel Prize and Fulkerson Prize
- Columbia Engineering Professor Leads New Crypto Research Center of A16z
- North Korea, NFTs and a Hit Video Game: Inside a $500M Cryptocurrency Theft
- Christos Papadimitriou and Xi Chen Win 2022 ACM SIGecom Test of Time Awards
- Concerned Your Smartphone Is Spying on You?
- CertiK, a Web3 Security Company, Doubles Its Valuation to $2 Billion in Just 3 Months
- Baishakhi Ray Wins 2022 IEEE TCSE Award for Rising Star in Software Engineering
March 2022
- Security experts say new EU rules will damage WhatsApp encryption
- Elias Bareinboim and Christian Kroer Win ONR Young Investigator Awards
February 2022
- David Knowles Wins NSF CAREER Award
- Shuran Song and Henry Yuen Named 2022 Sloan Fellows
- Christos Papadimitriou Named Recipient of 2022 IEEE Computer Society Women of ENIAC Computer Pioneer Award
- Henry Yuen Wins NSF CAREER Award
- More than $320 million stolen in latest apparent crypto hack
- Henry Yuen, Shuran Song, and David Knowles Win 2022 NSF CAREER Award
- Elias Bareinboim Wins Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award
January 2022
- Can 5G Really Bring Down an Airplane?
- They Found a Way to Thematically Sort All of Wikipedia on a Laptop
- One Thing Leads to Another
- Tim Roughgarden Elected Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory
- Tim Roughgarden Elected Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory
- Giving Girls the Gift of Science
- Is Technology Spying On You? New AI Could Prevent Eavesdropping
- Congratulations to the Class of 2022
- Graduates of the MS Bridge First Cohort
- Voices of CS: Andrea Clark-Sevilla
- Meet Columbia Engineering’s 2022 Valedictorian and Salutatorian
- Voices of CS: Zachary Huang
- Voices of CS: Shayan Hooshmand
- Voices of CS: Didac Suris
- From Analytic Philosophy to Video Games, Mustafa Eyceoz Tries Not to Lose Sight of the Important Things
- Columbia Engineering Students Win 1st Place in NeurIPS Minecraft Challenge
- Three New Lustgarten-Whitney Fellows Named
- Quantum Q&A with PhD Student Hamoon Mousavi
- Student Spotlight: Camille-Louise Kouba Mbayo
- Dressed for Success
- Voices of CS: MS Bridge Testimonials
- Amey Pasarkar Recognized By the Computing Research Association’s (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award
- Remembering Davide Giri
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December 2021
- Columbia Team Wins Top 3 in the FG 2021 Families In the Wild Kinship Verification
- Remembering Davide Giri
- Joheen Chakraborty Wins a 2021 Distinguished Undergraduate Award from the Universities Space Research Association
- Mathematicians Transcend Geometric Theory of Motion
- CS Researchers Present at NeurIPS 2021
- AWS Is the Internet’s Biggest Single Point of Failure
- The Distinguished Lecture Series Explores the Different Ways Machine Learning is Used in Research
November 2021
- Researchers Defeat Randomness to Create Ideal Code
- Bringing High-speed Internet to More Americans
- Mechanism Design for Social Good Started as a Reading Group, Now It Launched an ACM Conference
- Elias Bareinboim and Shuran Song Win J.P. Morgan Faculty Research Awards 2021
- How Will the Infrastructure Bill Improve Internet Access for Americans?
- Shuran Song and Huy Ha Win the Best System Paper at CoRL 2021
- How 1 Person Can Expose The Identities of 1000
- Shree Nayar Named SPIE Luminary
- 11 Research Papers Accepted to EMNLP 2021
- Andrew Blumberg Elected to the American Mathematical Society
- Will People Hang Out in the Metaverse?
- Untangling Quantum Information at Columbia
October 2021
- PAR Program Offers Peer-Support to PhD Applicants
- Adam Li Named a Computing Innovation Fellow
- Auto-scans of phones would violate data privacy, say security experts
- Vishal Misra Develops Revolutionary Search Tool for Data-Hungry ESPN Cricket Fans
September 2021
- Martha Kim and Baishakhi Ray Named Provost Awardees
- New Encryption Technique Better Protects Photographs in the Cloud
- Spring 2021 Amazon Research Awards recipients announced
- Voices of CS: Giannis Karamanolakis
- Congratulations to Columbia’s College Bowl-Winning CHAMPIONS!
- How Next-Generation Models Will Leverage Big Data and AI for More Accurate Estimates of Future Climate
- SEAS Introduces Newest MOOC Specialization: First Principles of Computer Vision
- 12 CS Students Win Prestigious Fellowships
August 2021
- CS Welcomes Three New Faculty
- 7 Papers Accepted to COLT 2021
- Computer Scientists Discover Limits of Major Research Algorithm
- Research from the Security & Privacy Group Accepted to USENIX 2021
- David Blei Wins Test of Time Award
- 13 Papers From the NLP and Speech Group Accepted to the ACL-IJCNLP 2021
- Getting the message
- Xi Chen Wins the Fulkerson Prize
- Xi Chen Wins the Fulkerson Prize
- Most States Require Signature Verification for Mail Ballots
July 2021
- Getting the Message
- Papers from CS Researchers Accepted to SIGDIAL 2021
- 13 Research Papers Accepted to ICML 2021
- The Science of Spotting a Liar
- Software Systems Laboratory Wins Best Paper Awards at the OSDI and USENIX ATC Conferences
- AI: What Lies Ahead
- AI Learns to Predict Human Behavior from Videos
June 2021
- Confluent IPO: Remaking The Massive Database Industry
- Making Our Computers More Secure
- 9 Papers From CS Researchers Accepted to CVPR 2021
- 7 CS Papers Accepted to NAACL 2021
- Shuran Song named 2021 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow
- SeKVM Makes Cloud Computing Provably Secure
- A simple model of the brain provides new directions for AI research
May 2021
- Getting Down to Basics
- Columbia Engineering Team Builds First Hacker-resistant Cloud Software System
- Five CS professors awarded Amazon Research Awards
- Xi Chen Awarded the Gödel Prize
- Xi Chen Awarded the Gödel Prize
- Junior Faculty Awardee Profile: Lydia Chilton, PhD
April 2021
- Congratulations to the Class of 2021
- 6 Papers From the Department Accepted to the EACL 2021
- Meet Columbia Engineering’s 2021 Valedictorian and Salutatorian
- Jason Nieh Named 2021 Guggenheim Fellow
- Shree Nayar Wins Funai Achievement Award
- Shree Nayar Wins Funai Achievement Award
- A. M. Turing Award Honors Innovators Who Shapred the Foundations of Programming Language Compilers and Algorithms
- Jason Nieh Named 2021 Guggenheim Fellow
March 2021
- Turing Award Goes to Creators of Computer Programming Building Blocks
- Alfred Aho Wins the 2020 ACM Turing Award
- How Do You Change the Face of the Entertainment Industry?
- The Languages That Defy Auto-Translate
- Carl Vondrick Wins NSF Award
- Carl Vondrick Wins NSF CAREER Award
- ‘Shark Tank’: Mark Cuban ‘Looks Up To’ the Founder of Hopscotch – So He Invested $550,000 in Her App That Teaches Kids to Code
February 2021
- Video Games Have Never Been More Accessible
- Voices of CS: MS Bridge Student Testimonials
- Toyota Research Institute Launches Next Phase of Collaborative Research With Diverse Roster of World‑Class Academic Institutions
- Cross-disciplinary Research Highlighted in This Year’s Distinguished Lectures Series
- Moti Yung Named Recipient of the 2021 IEEE Computer Society Women of ENIAC Computer Pioneer Award
- Papers That Explore Novel Methods to Use Artificial Intelligence Accepted to AAAI 21
- North Korea-Backed Hackers Targeting Security Researchers
- Columbia Center of AI Technology Announces Faculty Research Awards and Two PhD Student Fellowships
January 2021
- Q&A: Jihye Kwon on PhD Research Projects
- Maritza Johnson (PhD ’12) To Lead New Center For Data, AI and Society At The University of San Diego
- How She Made It
- Zhou Yu and Henry Yuen Join the Department
- Columbia Engineers Built Basic Empathy into a Robot
- Papers from the Theory Group Accepted to SODA ’21
- Robot Displays a Glimmer of Empathy to a Partner Robot
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December 2020
- Three CS Students Recognized By The Computing Research Association
- How Russian Spy Games Moved Online: Massive Breach Shows How Espionage is Carried Out in the 21st Century
- Study finds diversity in data science teams is key in reducing algorithmic bias
- NSF Funds a Robot Teleoperation System that Could Transform the Manufacturing Workforce
- Hobbyist Cryptographers Seemingly Solve Infamous Zodiac Killer Cipher
- How To Launch a Start-up While You’re Still In College
- Joheen Chakraborty (CC ’22) Receives an Honorable Mention From the USRA Distinguished Undergraduate Awards
- 13 Papers From the Department Accepted to NeurIPS 2020
- How a Peer-Led Class is Making Computer Science More Equitable
- The Most Significant Security Innovations of 2020
- Starting Up Right
November 2020
- Yang Tang (PhD ’20) Wins a Best Student Paper Award
- Natural Language Processing Papers Accepted to EMNLP 2020
- As The Pandemic Spread, So Did Esports
- Election Security Experts Contradict Trump’s Voting Claims
- Why Apple Designed the M1 Chip
- Papers from the Theory Group Accepted to FOCS 2020
- New Tool Detects Unsafe Security Practices in Android Apps
- Two Students are Inaugural Recipients of Lustgarten-Whitney Family Fellowships
- Helping First Responders Respond Faster
October 2020
- Student-led Initiative Aims to Help Applicants of the PhD Program
- Why the iPhone Mini Is Just the Right Size
- Research by CS Undergrad Published in Cell
- Heroes of Natural Language Processing
- Heidelberg Laureate Forum Fellows
- Computer Scientists Break Traveling Salesperson Record
- Make a Difference for CS Students on Giving Day
- “I thought I could be useful and do my small part to help.”
September 2020
- Concerns about masks and facial-recognition software
- We’re not ready for AI, says the winner of a new $1 Million AI prize
- Baishakhi Ray Named VMware Early Career Faculty Award Recipient
- WiCS’ Plans For The Year
- Rocco Servedio Wins 2020 Great Teacher Award
- 18 CS Students Win Prestigious Fellowships
August 2020
- Tuesday Topics with Alumni
- New Machine Learning Tool Predicts Devastating Intestinal Disease in Premature Infants
- Demystifying the Dissertation: PhD Research Discussions
- Privacy-preserving Contact Tracing
- Fed Up With Corporate Cybersecurity Failures, Consumers Want CEOs Punished
July 2020
- Raymond Fei’s (PhD ’19) Dissertation Earns an Honorable Mention at SIGGRAPH 2020
- Machine Learning Papers Accepted to ICML 2020
- Bridging the Technology Gap
- Speech and Natural Language Processing Papers Accepted to the ACL 2020
June 2020
- Research Vignette: Generalization and Interpolation
- CS Theory Papers Accepted to STOC 2020
- ‘I Beat Cancer Twice, Toured The World And Now Have A Show In Vegas’
- Turn the Table on Phishers and Scammers to Protect Your Brand
- Paper on Training Data Debugging Accepted to SIGMOD 2020
- New Twitter Feature Challenges Users to Read Articles Before Sharing
- Discovering How The Brain Works Through Computation
- Codecademy Started as a Columbia University Programming Club — Now a Reported 45 Million People Use the Site to Learn How to Code for Cheap
May 2020
- CS Researchers Receive Test of Time Awards
- SEAS MS 2020
- SEAS UGrad 2020
- General Studies 2020
- Columbia College 2020
- Barnard 2020
- DSI Director Jeannette Wing to Receive Honorary Degree from Sweden’s Linköping University
- Congratulations to the Class of 2020
- Tal Malkin Named Fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research
- Making the Case for More Women in Computer Science
- Columbia College Announces 2020 Valedictorian and Salutatorian
- Emoting While Remoting
April 2020
- Mihalis Yannakakis Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Katy Gero Wins Best Paper Award at CHI 2020
- Junior Faculty Awardee Profile: Brian Smith, PhD
- Can’t File for Unemployment? Don’t Blame Cobol
- Mihalis Yannakakis Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Meet Columbia Engineering’s 2020 Valedictorian and Salutatorian
- CS Team Headed to ICPC World Championship
- A Virtual Way for Students to Feel Connected to Columbia
- Memes Still Aren’t Accessible to People Who Are Blind. What’s Being Done About It?
- Protecting Customers From Phishing Scams During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Lessons Learned by NYC Makers Producing Personal Protective Equipment for Medics
- Zoom Security: the Good, the Bad, and the Business Model
March 2020
- Coronavirus Scams: 7 Ways Criminals Prey On Your Fear Of The Pandemic
- How Will The Coronavirus Affect Energy Use In America?
- Ben Horowitz (SEAS ’88) profiled on Business Insider
- Mihalis Yannakakis Named Recipient of the 2020 EATCS Award
February 2020
- What AI Still Can’t Do
- CS Undergrads Recognized by the Computing Research Association
- Can AI Help Doctors Predict and Prevent Preterm Birth?
- CS Alum Jim Kurose (PhD ’84) Elected to National Academy of Engineering
January 2020
- This is What an Iranian Cyberattack on the US Would Look Like
- The Distinguished Lecture Series Explores the Latest in CS Research
- Data Science Institute Seed Grants Support Interdisciplinary Research Across Columbia
- The risk of an Iran cyberattack is up after missile strike on Iraqi military bases with US troops
- Engineering the Future of Cultural Preservation
- Zach van Schouwen (SEAS ’08) profiled on GeekWire
- One way Iran could retaliate on the United States: Cyber attacks
- Papers from the Theory of Computing Group Accepted to SODA 2020
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December 2019
- CS Alumni part of Forbes 30 under 30
- Eric Risser (MS ’09) Sells Software Company for Millions
- Q&A : Nora Wixom on visual effects
- Salvatore Stolfo and Jason Nieh Elected 2019 ACM Fellows
- 21 papers from CS researchers accepted to NeurIPS 2019
- When Does Failure Become a Good Thing?
November 2019
- Baishakhi Ray Receives 2019 IBM Faculty Award
- Movement and Flow: Simulating Complexity of Fluids and Strands in the Virtual World
- Getting Ready for the New Economy of Heterogeneous Computing
- DeepXplore: Automated Whitebox Testing of Deep Learning Systems
- Four Papers from the Theory Group Accepted to FOCS 2019
- WiCS Goes to Grace Hopper 2019
October 2019
- CS Team Wins the ICCV 2019 Learning-to-Drive Challenge
- Theory of Computation
- Machine Learning at Columbia
- Steven Nowick Bids Farewell to the CS Department
- Christos Papadimitriou Awarded the Harvey Prize
- Building Certified Concurrent OS Kernels
- CS Professors Part of the Inaugural J.P. Morgan Faculty Research Awards
- Graphics and User Interfaces Lab Wins at NYC Media Lab Summit
September 2019
- CS Welcomes Three New Faculty Members
- Ioannis Paparrizos’ (PhD ’18) Dissertation Earns an Honorable Mention at SIGKDD 2019
- Daniel Hsu Recipient of 2019 Faculty and Research Engagement Program (FREP)
- Elegantly Complex
- Eugene Wu Wins NSF CAREER Award
- Eugene Wu Wins NSF CAREER Award
August 2019
- ‘Robocalls are a scourge.’ Phone companies pledge to combat them in deal with states
- 11 Graduate Students Selected for Prestigious Fellowships
- An Interdisciplinary Approach to Artificial Intelligence
- From Thesis Project to a Multi-Million Dollar Company
- Your Social Security Number Has Already Been Hacked. Why Do We Still Have Them?
- CS Papers Accepted to ACL 2019
July 2019
- Fadi Biadsy (PhD ’11) Develops Tool to Help People with Atypical Speech Patterns
- Rising Star Q&A: Natasha Shamis
- Forget Touchscreens: This Case Controls a Smartphone with Buttons and Dials
- Decades-Old Computer Science Conjecture Solved in Two Pages
- Facebook’s Digital Money Could Mean Fabulous Wealth. Or Not.
- The Data Life Cycle
- The WuLab Presents Work at SIGMOD/PODS 2019
- David Blei Wins Simons Investigator Award
June 2019
- Four Papers on Computer Science Theory Accepted to STOC 2019
- Google Turns to Retro Cryptography to Keep Data Sets Private
- Multi-mobile (M2) Computing System Makes Android and iOS Apps Sharable on Multiple Devices
- A New Way to Answer “What Ifs?”
- How Surveillance Cameras Could Be Weaponized With A.I.
- Facial Recognition Technology Ramps Up, But Lacks “Checks and Balances”
- Research That Studied Data From Social Media, Automatic Summarization, and Spatial Relations Accepted to NAACL 2019
May 2019
- Steve Nowick to Host the 2019 NY Scientific Data Summit
- What Can You Do With a Computer Science Degree?
- Research By CS Teams Part of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2019
- You May Be Able to Find Invisible Malware, But the Fix Is Hard
- Tal Malkin Awarded Columbia University Presidential Teaching Award
- Five CS graduates awarded the Jonathan Gross Prize
- CS major Alexandre Lamy named Columbia Engineering 2019 Valedictorian
- Computer-Human Interaction Papers Delve into Livestreaming, Visual Design, and Creative Writing
April 2019
- Rebecca Wright Receives the ACM-SIGACT Distinguished Service Award
- Walmart Experiments With AI To Monitor Stores In Real Time
- The Images That Could Help Rebuild Notre-Dame Cathedral
- You’re About to Get Fewer Robocalls. But Maybe Not for Long.
- Three Computer Science Professors Win NSF Career Awards
- Computer Science Professor Suman Jana Wins NSF Career Award
- Computer Science Professor Baishakhi Ray Wins NSF Career Award
- A Podcast on Women in CS by Women in CS
- The Art and Science of Star Wars
- Tim Roughgarden And David Knowles Join The Department
- Kathy McKeown Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- The CS Distinguished Lecture Series Hosts Thought-Provoking Sessions
- Eleni Drinea Recognized for Excellence in Teaching
- Startup Ravn, Led By Jake Bullock (GS ’17) Is TechCrunch Top Pick From Y Combinator Winter 2019 Batch
- DevFest Returns For A Week Of Learning And Coding
- No AI In Humor: R2-D2 Walks Into A Bar, Doesn’t Get The Joke
March 2019
- Roxana Geambasu and Daniel Hsu Chosen for Google Faculty Research Awards Program
- New App Can Secure All Your Saved Emails
- Metamorphic Testing of Driverless Cars
- 5G Is Speedy, But Does It Also Raise The Stakes On Privacy, Security, Potential Abuse?
- Inside Google’s Rebooted Robotics Program
- CS Researchers Create Technology That Helps Developers with App Performance Testing
- Columbia Welcomes Rebecca Wright as Inaugural Director of Barnard’s CS Program
- Finding Ways To Study Cricket
February 2019
- Computer Science Professor Omri Weinstein Wins NSF Career Award
- CS Student to Present at Google Cloud Next ’19
- Beyond Worst-Case Analysis
- As 5G Technology Expands, So Do Concerns Over Privacy
- Columbia Advances To ICPC World Finals
- Using DNA Databases To Find Your Distant Relatives? So Is The FBI.
- According to Ancestry, I’ve suddenly become a lot more British
- Exploring The Intersection Of AI And Philosophy
January 2019
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December 2018
- Nieh and Rubenstein Elevated To IEEE Fellow
- CS professors elected 2018 ACM Fellows
- CS Professors elected 2018 ACM Fellows
- Rachel Wu (SEAS ’19) Chosen To Present At Google’s Annual Women Engineers Summit
- How taking a home genetics test could help catch a murderer
November 2018
- These technologies are improving video game accessibility for the blind
- The promise of (practically) ‘serverless computing’
- CS undergrad, Alyssa Hwang (SEAS ’20), Presented Her Research at Columbia, Harvard and Stanford Research Conferences
- Midterm Elections: How Politicians Know Exactly How You’re Going To Vote
- WiCS at the 2018 Grace Hopper Celebration
October 2018
- Four papers from Columbia at Crypto 2018
- The Tiny Chip That Powers Up Pixel 3 Security
- New Data Science Method Makes Charts Easier to Read at a Glance
- Your DNA, Identified by the DNA of Others
- How Can We Keep Genetic Data Safe?
- A Man Of 3 Worlds: The Russian-American Billionaire Giving Millions To U.S. and U.K. Universities
- Was There a Connection Between a Russian Bank and the Trump Campaign?
- New algorithms developed by CS researchers at FOCS 2018
September 2018
- Women in Technology Initiative Addresses Gender Gap
- The HTC Exodus Blockchain Phone Comes Into Focus
- QAnon Is Trying To Trick Facebook’s Meme-Reading AI
- An AI Pioneer, And The Researcher Bringing Humanity to AI
- Verizon sees 5G revolutionizing everything from surgery to education to transportation — so it’s opening high-tech labs in 4 cities by end of year
- The 5G Race: China and U.S. Battle to Control World’s Fastest Wireless Internet
- Don’t want the police to find you through a DNA database? It may already be too late.
- CS Welcomes New Faculty
- A murdered teen, two million tweets and an experiment to fight gun violence
August 2018
- A Monitor’s Ultrasonic Sounds Can Reveal What’s on the Screen
- AI For Humanity: Using AI To Make A Positive Impact In Developing Countries
- WuLab to present research on a query engine that supports tracking and querying lineage
- 5G & IoT: Cousins Not Siblings
- Bjarne Stroustrup Named Recipient of the John Scott Award
- Universal Method to Sort Complex Information Found
July 2018
- This tiny antenna could help future phones get ready for 5G speeds
- Nine papers from CS researchers are part of SIGGRAPH 2018
- Internal documents show how Amazon scrambled to fix Prime Day glitches
- CS students find Americans wrongly included in Twitter list linked to the Russian Internet Research Agency
- ‘Lighter’ Can Still Be Dark by Olivia Winn and Smaranda Muresan Bags Best Short Paper at ACL 2018
- Two CS Professors Elected to Taiwan’s Academia Sinica
- Experts Disagree on Top Applications for 5G
- DeepTest: automated testing of deep-neural-network-driven autonomous cars
- Why Does the Internet Suck?
- Eugene Agichtein (PhD ’05) wins Test of Time award at SIGIR 2018
- Blockchain Smart Contracts: More Trouble Than They Are Worth?
- Facebook let phone makers get data trove on users and friends
- What’s all the C Plus Fuss? Bjarne Stroustrup warns of dangerous future plans for his C++
- How a California Banker Received Credit for His Unbreakable Cryptography 130 Years Later
- ‘The real horror is not knowing what to believe’: Scenes from the Fake News Horror Show
- CS alum Yin Qi part of MIT’s 35 Innovators under 35 for face recognition platform
May 2018
- Top CS graduates awarded Jonathan Gross Prize
- Interview with Henning Schulzrinne on the coming COSMOS testbed
- In discrete choice modeling, estimating parameters from two or three—not all—options
- Steven Feiner featured in video showcasing early 5G use cases at Verizon’s NYC 5G incubator
- False starts in search for Golden State Killer reveal the pitfalls of DNA testing
- Scott Pruitt’s new ‘secret science’ proposal is the wrong way to increase transparency
- Mihalis Yannakakis elected to National Academy of Sciences
April 2018
- Here’s How Amateur Sleuths And Police Investigators Used DNA Websites To Find The Golden State Killer
- Ozzie Ozzie Ozzie, oi oi oi! Tech zillionaire Ray’s backdoor crypto for the Feds is Clipper chip v2
- With $5.7M DARPA grant, Simha Sethumadhavan will lead effort to build security into hardware-software interface
- CS major Michael C. Tong named Valedictorian, Columbia Engineering Class of 2018
- Social media algorithms discriminating against women: Study
- Steven Feiner receives 2018 SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award
- How social networking sites may discriminate against women
- Clever Technique Can Hide Secret Messages in the Most Unassuming Text
- Helvetica Is Now An Encryption Device
- Here’s Why We Need To Democratize Artificial Intelligence
- FontCode: Hiding information in plain text, unobtrusively and across file types
- Julia Hirschberg elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Paper coauthored by Henning Schulzrinne earns Test of Time Award at IEEE INFOCOM
- Luca Carloni and Georgia Karagiorgi (Physics) are among 2018 RISE awardees
- Christos Papadimitriou and Mihalis Yannakakis receive $1.2M NSF grant
- Not the usual hackathon: Five Columbia students travel to Rome for the Vatican’s VHacks competition
- The Pulse interviews Brian Smith on making racing games accessible to people with vision loss
March 2018
- Maynard Marshall Ball awarded IBM PhD Fellowship
- Always Out of Balance
- 2002 paper by Michael Collins earns Test-of-Time award at NAACL
- Moti Yung receives IEEE 2018 Computer Society W. Wallace McDowell Award
- DevFest draws 1300 beginner, intermediate, and experienced coders
- New model reveals forgotten influencers and ‘sleeping beauties’ of science
- Racing Auditory Display helps blind people play racing games as well as the sighted
- For blind gamers, equal access to racing video games
- Peter Allen and Eugene Wu selected for Google Faculty Research Awards
- When Did Americans Stop Marrying Their Cousins? Ask the World’s Largest Family Tree
- The 13 Million People in Your Family Tree
- Quantitative analysis of population-scale family trees with millions of relatives
- Crowdsourced family tree yields new insights about humanity
- What We Really Learned From Mueller’s Indictment Of Russian Trolls Is That Internet Providers Know Everything
February 2018
- Telcos may cash in on loopholes in Trai regulation, warn experts
- When AI Steers Us Astray
- Interview with Xi Chen, coauthor of Complexity Dichotomies for Counting Problems
- Columbia team to compete in ACM-ICPC World Finals in Beijing
- 3D Printing May Be the Key to Affordable Data Storage Using DNA
- Donald F. Ferguson joins department as Professor of Practice
- Paper coauthored by Eugene Agichtein earns test-of-time award at WSDM 2018
- Three faculty promoted to Associate Professor
- New cryptocurrencies offer better anonymity, new security challenges
- With Amazon Research Award, Eugene Wu will add interactivity and adversarial generation to entity matching
- Bjarne Stroustrup named recipient of 2018 IEEE-CS Computer Pioneer Award
January 2018
- Ansaf Salleb-Aouissi named an EAAI 2018 New and Future AI Educator
- Changing the color of 3-D printed objects
- Video of “From Potential to Promise – Developing Scholars, one Eureka moment at a time,” a talk given by Professor Rajiv Gandhi (Rutgers) January 22
- Finding food poisoning cases via Yelp reviews
- In direct comparison, an asynchronous network-on-chip design outperforms a leading-edge commercial synchronous chip
- Shih-Fu Chang, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, named ACM Fellow
- DNA makes an appearance
- Is Yelp the next diagnostic tool for foodborne illness?
- Sick Yelpers Lead Inspectors To Tainted NYC Restaurants
- Blockchain or Blockheads? Bitcoin Mania Mints Believers and Skeptics
- Researchers create system to track foodborne illnesses from online restaurant reviews
- How augmented reality can have its thrills
- Iretiayo Akinola (advisor Peter Allen) named a 2018 Microsoft Research PhD fellow
- Undergrad Hamed Nilforoshan earns inaugural Snap Inc. Research Scholarship
- Chip flaws will be with us for a while
- 5G’s Olympic Debut
- Julia Hirschberg and Shih-Fu Chang coauthor article on best practices to support postdocs
- 10 ways AI will impact the enterprise in 2018
- Bjarne Stroustrup to receive the 2018 Charles Draper Prize for Engineeering
- Searching for documents when you don’t know the language: Kathy McKeown to lead effort with $14M IARPA grant
- CryptoKitties have the digital currency world purring
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December 2017
- Three teams of students from Computing in Context (Policy) submit proposals to Atos IT Challenge
- Steven Feiner in panel discussion on AR/VR at NYC Media Lab’s Exploring Future Reality event
- Augmented Reality’s Real Power Will Come From Substance, Not Flash
- “The internet should be a platform where ideas matter, not money.”
- Steven Feiner’s lab among first to participate in Verizon’s NYC 5G incubator
- Welcome to The Future, A Place Where Everyone Knows Your Genetic Code
- Allison Bishop on a Reddit AMA discussed role of storytelling in science
- Is source code inspection a security risk? Maybe not, experts say
- NYC company, with an assist from Columbia online teaching, is training AI talent in places few other companies think to look
- What the December 14th net neutrality vote really means
- Congratulations to current and former faculty and alumni on being named ACM Fellows
- Panel on net neutrality discussed upcoming repeal of net neutrality rules
- Steven Feiner and Salvatore Stolfo elevated to IEEE Fellow
- New media artist Amir Baradaran awarded two art grants to rethink storytelling and artistic authorship in an age of AR/AI
- Steven Bellovin among those calling for government agency to investigate cybersecurity incidents
- Why W1004? The Lowdown on Professor Cannon’s Introduction to Computer Science and Programming in Java
- First “Frontiers in Robotics” Conference Highlights Columbia Research and Innovation
November 2017
- New software can verify someone’s identity by their DNA in minutes
- Steven Feiner receives a Career Impact Award from IEEE ISMAR
- Steven Bellovin among 54 tech experts raising concerns about using AI for extreme vetting
- Hackers Don’t Need Wi-Fi to Steal Your Data
- Henning Schulzrinne named to North American Numbering Committee
- Computer Science and Interdisciplinary Collaboration at Columbia: Projects in Two Labs
- Columbia team earns 2nd-place at NYU cybersecurity applied research competition
- Changxi Zheng part of team creating a cheap way to boost and secure Wi-Fi networks
- A New Way to Find Bugs in Self-Driving AI Could Save Lives
- What is the cyber kill chain? Why it’s not always the right approach to cyber attacks
- Ansaf Salleb-Aouissi to give keynote at Artificial Intelligence & Inclusion Symposium
- Phone sensors can save lives by revealing what floor you are on
- Dingzeyu Li, lead author of best paper at UIST, selected to UIST Doctoral Symposium
- Paper coauthored by Steven Feiner earns inaugural Early Innovator Award at ISWC 2017
October 2017
- CS students among volunteers teaching computer science in Ghana
- DeepXplore earns Best Paper Award at ACM 2017 SOSP
- Robots With Artificial Intelligence Become Racist and Sexist—Scientists Think They’ve Found a Way to Change Their Minds
- First white-box testing model finds thousands of errors in self-driving cars
- Researchers unveil tool to debug ‘black box’ deep learning algorithms
- Invisible, machine-readable AirCode tags make tagging objects part of 3D-fabrication process
- Peter Allen on robots in medicine, in the home, and overcoming barriers to robot ubiquity
- Using DNA to Sketch What Victims Look Like; Some Call It Science Fiction
- 37 from Columbia and Barnard attend bigger-than-ever Grace Hopper Celebration
- Lydia Chilton on computational design: Combining human creativity with computation
- Yaniv Erlich at World’s Top 50 Innovators from the Industries of the Future
- Alfred Aho honored by NEC C&C Foundation with 2017 C&C Prize
- Regina Barzilay, CS PhD’03, receives MacArthur “genius grant”
- Women and computer science at Columbia
- Yaniv Erlich receives Young faculty Award from DARPA
- Why Science Turned on the DNA Mogul Championing Genetic Privacy
- Team from Steven Feiner’s lab wins Grand Prize at NYC Media Lab Summit
- Making DNA Data Storage a Reality
- Nakul Verma joins the department, bringing expertise and experience in machine learning
- Devices shown to be vulnerable via remote CLKSCREW attack on energy management system
September 2017
- ‘Hello? Hello?’ Annoying hang-up calls flood N.J. phones
- Kempner: Why cyber muggers keep winning (and we keep losing)
- Bjarne Stroustrup awarded 2017 Faraday Medal
- Columbia researchers earn one of three Best Paper Awards at UIST 2017
- Priya Pai awarded Women Forward in Technology Scholarship
- Geneticists Pan Paper That Claims to Predict a Person’s Face from DNA
- Human Longevity Study Sparks Questions About Face Prediction Claims, Data Sharing, Role of Preprints
- Yaniv Erlich rebuts Craig Venter’s claim to predict faces from DNA
- New book by Venkat Venkatasubramanian tackles income inequality
- Christos Papadimitriou: Four decades of exploring the boundaries of computation
- Researchers earn best paper award at SIGDIAL
- Luca Carloni on the coming engineering renaissance in chip design
- Love of computer science inspires undergrad to seek projects that make a positive impact
August 2017
- Cryptographers and Geneticists Unite to Analyze Genomes They Can’t See
- MIT’s Robogami lets you design custom 3D printed robots from standard, folding parts in minutes
- Columbia speech researchers present four papers in August
- Kunal Mahajan, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise intern, wins Best-in-Class competition
- Eitan Grinspun is part of team democratizing robots
- Researchers earn Distinguished Paper Award at USENIX Security 2017
- David Blei named Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- MIT and Columbia researchers introduce InstantCAD plug-in for faster and easier component design
- Hackers Can Now Store Malware on DNA
- Bjarne Stroustrup elected Honorary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge
- David Blei with Padhraic Smyth on the essence of data science
- Genome-wide association studies, minus the Winner’s Curse, are shown to be reliable and replicable
- Embedded Technologies: Power From the People
July 2017
- MIT, Columbia researchers develop InstantCAD plug-in for rapidly optimizing 3D printable designs
- Meta’s goal to replace cubicles with holograms is subject of Bloomberg article
- Tool lets designers interactively edit and optimize CAD models
- How hands-free computing is shaping the future
- Columbia student to compete in C2C Cybersecurity Competition
- Ansaf Salleb-Aouissi receives provost award to build MOOC chatbot
- Scientists have managed to put a GIF inside a living organism’s DNA
- Luca Carloni is part of team revolutionizing brain-computer interfaces
- Paper by Columbia researchers named best paper at Computational Complexity Conference
- Julia Hirschberg gives Fillmore Lecture at Linguistic Institute
- Two alumni are on Forbes’ list of 20 technologists driving China’s AI revolution
- What’s Challenging in Big Data Now: Integration and Privacy
June 2017
- Turkish deputies to get new phones to ‘secure conversation privacy’
- Why Columbia University Ranks High in Computer Science
- João P. Cerqueira and Thomas J. Repetti earn Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship
- Why you should care about SOA again
- Steven Bellovin on jurisdiction and the internet
- Securing the Cloud
- Alexandr Andoni on The Geometry of Similarity Search
- Leafsnap app is featured on stage at Apple’s WWDC keynote
- Author Interview: Allison Bishop on the learning opportunities of math-based fantasy
May 2017
- Henning Schulzrinne: In defining 5G, learn lessons of previous technologies
- Animating wet hair: Researchers model interplay of forces between liquid and hair
- Microsoft Has a Plan to Add DNA Data Storage to Its Cloud
- Jonathan Gross Prize recognizes top CS graduates
- Lauren Wilcox (PhD’13) named to inaugural class of the ACM Future of Computing Academy
- Query logs put to new uses in data analysis: democratizing interfaces and tracking sources of errors
- Top students in computer science receive awards
- Jeannette Wing joins Department, will lead Data Science Institute
- CS major Noah Jacob Zweben is valedictorian for SEAS Class of 2017
April 2017
- Lessons that 5G should learn from other technologies
- Dustin Tran selected for Google PhD Fellowship
- Allison Bishop delivers the talk “In Pursuit of Obfuscation”
- Engineering Icons: David E. Shaw is uncovering secrets of human biology
- David Blei awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
- Eitan Grinspun teaches the online course Animation and CGI Motion
- Airbnb fans and critics both correct in home sharing debate
- Researcher Says 9 in 10 Smart TVs Vulnerable to Broadcast-based Attacks
- Visiting Random Sites to Confuse Trackers Won’t Protect Your Privacy
- DSI’s Frontiers in Computing Systems, chaired by Steven Nowick, holds inaugural symposium
March 2017
- No, We Can’t Say Whether Cancer Is Mostly Bad Luck
- Undergrads Millie Yang and Spencer Yen earn engineering fellowships from KPCB
- Startup cofounded by undergrad Mathew Pregasen renders math script from plain English
- Universities dive into VR research
- Computer Science Department establishes Jonathan Gross Prizes to recognize top CS graduates
- Lights! Camera! Algorithms? Columbia Magazine features research of Eitan Grinspun
- Awesome people: Kathy McKeown profiled in natural language processing blog
- What if Quantum Computers Used Hard Drives Made of DNA?
- 5 ways deep learning improves your daily life
- What the CIA WikiLeaks dump tells us: Encryption works
- IBM inches toward human-like accuracy for speech recognition
- WikiLeaks’s CIA hacking trove doesn’t live up to the hype
- WikiLeaks’s statement that CIA can bypass encryption in apps is misleading, says Steven Bellovin
- Yaniv Erlich and Dina Zielinski answer questions in Reddit AMA
- Minnesota government computer systems: Old, at risk and pricey to fix
- Omri Weinstein on information, communication, and computation
- Study describing efficient method for storing information in DNA garners wide press coverage
- Study coauthored by Yaniv Erlich describes maximizing data-storage capacity of DNA molecules
- EyeStyle, a PhD side project, is accepted into two accelerator programs
- Game theory says publicly shaming cyberattackers could backfire
February 2017
- Congress May Lack Technical Expertise to Properly Investigate Russian Hacking
- Oscar-winning Jungle Book incorporates effects made possible by Eitan Grinspun
- Ilias Diakonikolas (PhD’11) receives Sloan Research Fellowship
- Three faculty receive Google Research Awards
- What Can You Do With the World’s Largest Family Tree?
- Do-Not-Call list doesn’t work anymore
- AI’s Factions Get Feisty. But Really, They’re All on the Same Team
- Ang Cui (PhD’15) and the security vulnerabilities of office equipment
- Code-Dependent: Pros and Cons of the Algorithm Age
- Dingzeyu Li awarded Adobe Research Fellowship
- Julia Hirschberg elected to the National Academy of Engineering
- Steven Bellovin & coauthors call for new surveillance laws to reflect internet’s complexity
- Startup cofounded by Apoorv Agarwal (PhD’16) is featured in Forbes
- Daniel Bauer joins department as lecturer, adding strength in NLP and AI
- Dragomir Radev joins the Yale Computer Science faculty
January 2017
- Study coauthored by Yaniv Erlich uses DNA from family members to map risk factors
- Fast Company article references paper coauthored by John Paparrizos
- Popular Photography profiles Shree Nayar
- Ansaf Salleb-Aouissi is teaching an online course in artificial intelligence
- CNN Money profiles former CS student Moawia Eldeeb (BS’15)
- Shree Nayar’s sheet camera is one of GE Reports’ “16 Coolest Things On Earth In 2016”
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December 2016
- Weathering the storm of genetic data
- IEEE Micro magazine selects “Evaluation of an Analog Accelerator for Linear Algebra” as a top pick
- Undergrads Terra Blevins, Ruoxin (Amy) Jiang, and Jun Ho Yoon recognized for research
- Women and computer science at Columbia
- Droice’s drug prescription analyzer: From idea to hospital-wide rollout in less than 12 months
- Eran Tromer, a visiting research scientist at Columbia, is featured in Spectrum article
- Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C++ and visiting Columbia professor
- Creative, extreme engineering
- Solution to JIT-ROP cyber attacks: Scramble code quickly
- Allison Bishop delivers TEDx talk
- Vladimir Vapnik awarded the IEEE John von Neumann Medal
November 2016
- Lifelike hair in Moana relies on animation techniques developed by Eitan Grinspun
- Julia Hirschberg and Luca Carloni elevated to IEEE Fellow
- HiPEAC experts on security threats and solutions
- Back to analog computing: Columbia researchers merge analog and digital computing on a single chip
- David Williams-King is lead author of a paper describing Shuffler, a method for scrambling code to foil cyber-attacks
- Paper coauthored by Dan Rubenstein wins Best Paper award at CoNEXT
- With $2.5M ONR grant, Suman Jana to lead broad research effort to secure cyber-physical systems
- Disease-carrying mutations target of mega-sized human genome data crunchers
- Making computer science accessible to Columbia’s wider student population
- Unlocking big genetic data sets
- Jewelry collection incorporates technology created at Columbia University
October 2016
- Should the FBI Hack Botnet Victims to Save the Internet?
- Dan Rubenstein and Vishal Misra are part of $8M DARPA award to defend US power grid from attacks
- Welcome to DNA.Land: Trait Prediction, A Breast Cancer Research Collaboration, And a Facebook Group
- Symbiote technology created by Ang Cui and Salvatore Stolfo named one of Popular Science’s “Best of What’s New”
- In Science interview, Yaniv Erlich summarizes progress to date of DNA.Land
- Researchers Developing Camera to See Around Corners
- Salvatore Stolfo on the future of security
- Detecting significant events in US diplomatic cables
- DNA data storage technique approaches the theoretical maximum
- The next step in technology: Augmented Reality
September 2016
- Steven Bellovin is this year’s recipient of the ESORICS Outstanding Research Award
- Steven Feiner and his students earn prizes at NYC Media Lab Demos
- Has Pokemon Go Triggered the Adoption of Augmented Reality?
- Paper by Julia Hirschberg and Agustín Gravano earns Best Paper Award
- Computing in Context, a computer science course for liberal arts majors, expands with new SIPA track
- Alison Chang, CS’16, featured in #PayItForward campaign video for Girls Who Code
- Microsoft’s Top Lawyer Becomes a Civil Rights Crusader
- Columbia Creates Data Set Cleaner
- An interview with John Paparrizos: Hunting early signs of pancreatic cancer in web searches
- Nature article cites Yaniv Erlich’s research on privacy risks in sharing genetic information
- New weapons in the fight against 2.4 billion robocalls
- Yaniv Erlich featured in Through the Wormhole (Science TV) hosted by Morgan Freeman
- An interview with Sarah Ita Levitan: When changes in speech can indicate lies
- The Do-Not-Call List Has a Gaping Hole
- Eugene Wu and team develop interactive data cleaning tool for building better prediction models.
- Henning Schulzrinne appointed FCC’s Senior Advisor for Technology
August 2016
- Suzanna Schmeelk, CS PhD student, receives seat at Heidelberg Laureate Forum
- Hacking the Kazakh way, top-down
- Researchers create audio counterpart of QR codes, RFID tags
- Paper coauthored by Luren Wang, a CS master’s student, proposes more secure password manager
- Meron Gribetz, former AR student, named ‘Innovator under 35’ by MIT Technology Review
- DNA.Land founders Yaniv Erlich and Joe Pickrell take questions in Reddit AMA
- Spiking genomic databases with misinformation could protect patient privacy
- A chat with Internet pioneer and SIP coauthor Henning Schulzrinne
- Is the future of photography plastic, bendable, and self-charging?
- Forbes’ Future Of Photography video looks at two cutting-edge cameras from Shree Nayar’s lab
- Steven Bellovin and other authors of “Keys Under Doormats” are among winners of 2016 Pioneer Awards
- Lack of Encryption Leads to Large-Scale Cookie Exposure
- Hacking America: An unchecked amendment could threaten Americans’ privacy and security
- DNA.Land updates its ancestry report to provide more detailed, precise information
- Keenan Crane featured in Wired article on using auxetics to design and fabricate 3D objects
- Team led by Eitan Grinspun is creating software for Hod Lipson’s 3D food printer
July 2016
- Shree Nayar’s flexible sheet camera is one of 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
- Kathleen McKeown among Columbia researchers unveiling new technology Aug. 7-12
- Steven Nowick launches working group on massive-scale computing systems
- It’s a Computing Revolution in the Liberal Arts
- Limiting the undesired impact of cyber weapons
- Columbia researchers presenting eight papers at this year’s SIGGRAPH
- Kathy McKeown, Vishal Misra, Junfeng Yang invited to speak at Microsoft Faculty Summit
- Pokémon GO craze shows that augmented reality is hitting its stride
- Acoustic voxels: Manipulating sound waves makes possible acoustic tagging and encoding
- Researchers embed 3D prints with acoustic meta-data that manipulates the production of sound
- Modular acoustic filters simplify design of mufflers, musical instruments, audio tags
- Paper coauthored by Changxi Zheng is Best Paper at Symposium on Computer Animation
- Flexible lens array enables wrap-around camera
- Computer Science student Cecilia Reyes awarded Google Journalism Fellowship
- Jingren Zhou, CS PhD’04 (advisor Ken Ross), named chief scientist for Alibaba Cloud
- Columbia University computer scientists presented three papers at DAC 2016
- NimbleDroid developers lists five common issues that slow Android apps.
June 2016
- In IEEE Spectrum, Gil Zussman reports breakthrough on full-duplex chip
- It’s time to lock the door on backdoors
- Machine learning is a kind of AI, says Kathy McKeown.
- Leveraging cue selection in RGBD images for more accurate and faster segmentation
- Dynamic Topic Models, coauthored by David Blei, earns Test of Time Award at ICML @ NYC
- Columbia University computer scientists present three papers at STOC 2016
- NYT: John Paparrizos working with Microsoft scientists finds cancer clues in search queries
- Method reduces VR sickness by subtly altering user’s field of view in response to “motion”
- Martha Kim receives Borg Early Career Award
- Shree Nayar’s eternal camera is one of Popular Science’s top 10 innovations of 2016
- Adam Cannon and Jae Woo Lee recognized for teaching excellence
- 6 in 10 of you will share this link without reading it, a new, depressing study says
- Is there a cure for motion sickness in VR?
- Virtual reality sickness ‘tackled with field of view trick’
- Columbia Researchers Tease Solution for VR Motion Sickness
- New method can fight virtual reality sickness
- Friends who share news on Twitter help it go viral
- Meron Gribetz gives TED talk on his startup’s AR headset
- Columbia researchers develop way to combat VR sickness
- Emily Stolfo, CS’06, named 31st most active woman in open source
- Bob Coyne gives a tour of WordsEye, a CS startup that translates natural language into 3D scenes.
- Minimize memory moves for greener data centers
- Steven Bellovin & coauthors draft call for surveillance laws to reflect Internet’s complexity
- Lydia Chilton, a researcher in HCI and crowdsourcing, to join department in 2017.
- Angelos Keromytis, currently at DARPA, talks about new cybersecurity methods.
- Photos, text, and geotags from Instagram profiles reveal demographic information
- Adam Cannon receives Great Teacher Award from The Society of Columbia Graduates
May 2016
- Students’ paper earns ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
- Harshit Saxena is on team advancing to final round of Columbia Venture
- Phone Scam ‘Onslaught’ Has Authorities Scrambling
- CS student Linxi (Jim) Fan is class valedictorian
- Will This Augmented Reality Machine Really Replace Your PC?
- Bill Would Prevent Expansion of Government Hacking Powers
- Michael Collins is a main developer behind Google’s Parsey McParseface
- Theoretical computer scientist Omri Weinstein to join department in 2017.
- Flexible Camera Could Change the Way We Take Photos
April 2016
- SIAM News honors David Johnson
- Yaniv Erlich delivers talk at TEDxDanubia
- ZDNet calls Thinking Security a “masterclass” for security officers
- As providers roll out zero-rated services, it’s time to re-define net neutrality, says Vishal Misra
- Bendy Lenses Will Change Everything about Cameras As We Know Them
- Peter Allen and Yaniv Erlich awarded provost grants
- TechTimes interviews Bob Coyne about WordsEye, an online tool that creates 3D scenes from user-supplied text.
- David Blei and Michael Collins among top 50 most influential CS authors: Semantic Scholar
- Rocco Servedio awarded NSF grant to study limits of computing
- Scientists Developed A Thin And Flexible Camera; Captures A 360-Degree Views
- You might not recognize the camera of the future
- Of Course Congress Is Clueless About Tech–It Killed Its Tutor
- Flexible Camera Wraps Around Objects to Capture 360-Degree Views
- Wallpaper Camera Can Wrap a 360-degree view
- Even when big data has been stripped of personal details, privacy is not guaranteed, researchers say
- This flexible camera takes crazy images
- Bendable Cameras One Step Closer to Reality
- Flexible camera can wrap around surface for 360-degree view
- Bendable ‘wallpaper’ cameras are right around the corner
- Researchers at Columbia University Working on Wallpaper Cameras to Improve Surveillance
- Social media apps can disclose identity of anonymous users through location data
- Location Data on Social Media Apps can Disclose Identity of Anonymous Users
- Location Data From Just Two Apps Is Enough To Identify You
- Wallpaper Camera Wraps Around Any Surface
- Location data on two apps enough to identify someone
- Location Data From Just Two Apps Is Enough To Identify You, Says Study
- Geotagged posts on just two phone apps can reveal your identify
- Big Brother? He’s in your pocket
- Even Anonymous Users Can Be Identified With Only Two Pieces Of Data From Social Media Apps
- Location data from just two of your apps is enough to reveal your identity
- Flexible sheet camera bends to give a new field of view
- Location data from two social networks is enough to identify you
- The Location Data From Just Two Of Your Apps Is Enough To Identify You
- This Flexible Sheet Camera Captures Images of What It’s Wrapped Around
- Roxana Geambasu at MIT discusses her work building transparency tools that expose how online data is used in targeting ads.
- Unconventional sheet camera bends to any surface while producing high-quality images
- eLife publishes article describing Ubiquitous Genomics, a class that gives students hands-on experience using mobile DNA sequencers
- Birdsnap app identifies bird species from uploaded images
- Why are SIM cards still a thing?
- Paper coauthored by Fang-hsiang Su voted People’s Choice for Best Position Paper at WICS
- Computer Scientists Want to Make Robots Forget Their Bad Data
- Method to break image CAPTCHAs leverages deep learning
- Pokemon Go will be augmented reality’s killer app Pikachu sticks the landing
March 2016
- As Apple Doubles Down on Encrypted Phones, Google Sits on Its Design for a “Digital Safe”
- Fooling The Machine, The Byzantine Science of Deceiving Artificial Intelligence
- Prototypes from Columbia Vision Laboratory show potential of computational photography
- Teaching Systems to Forget Data
- Wikipedia Doesn’t Realize It’s the Developing World’s Internet Gatekeeper
- Data Science Day (April 6) to feature lightning talks by CS professors.
- DNAdigest interviews DNA.Land
- Suman Jana, Protecting security and privacy in an age of perceptual computing
- Wikipedia Doesn’t Realize It’s the Developing World’s Internet Gatekeeper
- Paper by Ajoy Fernandes and Steven Feiner is best paper at IEEE 3DUI 2016
- As Apple Doubles Down on Encrypted Phones, Google Sits on Its Design for a “Digital Safe”
- Allison Bishop earns NSF CAREER award
- New information extraction techniques
- Technology solutions to unwanted calls
- Specialized hardware for meeting demands of big data
- In an article on NASA’s plan to use augmented reality in space, The Week interviews Steven Feiner.
- Portable DNA Sequencer MinION Helps Build the Internet of Living Things
- David S. Johnson: In Memoriam
- The Eternal Camera
- NimbleDroid speeds up Android apps
- Harshit Saxena and teammates win Grand Prize at Cornell Data Science Hackathon
- Best Paper at FOCS 2015
- Lede Program
- Computer Engineering Program
- Data Science Institute
- Steven Bellovin: Rubio Oversimplifies FBI-Apple Battle
- NimbleDroid Improves Startup Time in the NYTimes Android App
- Three from Computer Science named Sloan Research Fellows
- Papers presented at EMNLP 2015 (linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP)
- In a data age, teach more statistics, less calculus
- Steven Bellovin named first Technology Scholar by Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
- Topic modeling
- WikiLeaks offers to shield tech firms from CIA hacking tools
- DI-BOSS, the First Digital Building Operating System
- NimbleDroid: Automated performance analysis for every build of your app
- Bigshot: A Camera for Experiential Learning
- WordsEye: Text-to-scene generation
- Headlines From the Future: What If the FBI Beats Apple in Court?
- Author interview: Steven Bellovin on Thinking Security
- New robots can iron clothes perfectly
- Apple, the FBI, and the Internet of Things: Your whole house is open to attack
February 2016
- Hate ironing? Meet the robot with built-in ‘wrinkle analysis’ that can do it for you
- Experts: The FBI’s iPhone-Unlocking Plan for Apple is Risky
- Robots Can Now Flawlessly Iron Clothes
- Apple Still Holds the Keys to Its Cloud Service, but Reluctantly
- If Apple Creates an iPhone Backdoor, It Immediately Becomes a Hacking Target
- Ironing robot removes wrinkles
- Note-taking app by Gideon Mendels & Eden Dolev wins prizes at DevFest
- Cambits: The 3D Printed Camera You Can Reconfigure Yourself
- Cambits: A modular imaging system for building cameras
- Research lab begins testing modular imaging system that rearranges into different cameras
- Edward Snowden defends Apple in fight against FBI
- Daniel Hsu named one of “AI’s 10 to watch”
- Yaniv Erlich will be participating at SXSW March 11
- Cambits modular imaging system can transform into many different cameras
- Vishal Misra: Indian regulators lead in upholding net neutrality
- Technology Scholar Appointed by Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
- Columbia Spectator profiles Allison Lewko for her work in encrypting data so the data is still usable. Lewko, who initially wanted to be a novelist, studied cryptography
- ASME article describes evolution of Shree Nayar’s eternal camera
- How engineers are working to preserve the past
- Telcos may cash in on loopholes in Trai regulation, warn experts
- India deals Facebook’s free service a mortal blow with open-Internet ruling
- India’s New Open Internet Law Is Stronger Than the United States’
- Prof. Steve Feiner’s Research Featured in Technology Review Article
- Luca Carloni is a guest editor of special IEEE Proceedings
- Jonathan Gross retires after 47 years of teaching and research at Columbia
- Two CS undergrads, awarded $2,000, are building an app to track student health
- Kelsey D’Souza awarded 2015 Delphix Technology Scholarship for Women
- Julia Hirschberg and David Blei elected 2015 ACM Fellows
January 2016
- CS Students Win Google’s Borg Scholarship
- Yunsung Kim, Alison Chang, and Robert Ying recognized for research
- The Data Science Institute and the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics to host conference February 5 on privacy, big data, and predictive modeling.
- The future of DNA sequencing is already in the classroom
- In Governance Now, Vishal Misra argues that Free Basics violates net neutrality
- Vishal Misra sees Indian regulators’ brutal letter as “devastating” blow to Facebook
- Kathryn Angeles earns fellowship for student affairs officers
- Spatial Computing article, coauthored by Steven Feiner, is CACM cover story
- “Lot to learn before 5th generation network is launched,” says Henning Schulzrinne.
- When it comes to Net Neutrality, apples are equal to oranges
- Facebook just announced support for PGP, an encrypted mail standard. It sounds good, but there are major usability issues as Steve Bellovin points out in a blog post.
- What can be done to protect disk drive firmware from attacks such as those launched by the so-called Equation Group?
- Another day, another data breach
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December 2015
- Why tech-savvy Indians are mad at Mark Zuckerberg
- Facebook Free Basics: The top arguments in the latest Net Neutrality debate
- It’s a battle for internet freedom
- Vishal Misra argues Free Basics violates principle of net neutrality.
- The problem with encryption backdoors? Anyone can get in
- When the NSA Is a Hacker’s Best Friend
- Joseph Traub, founder of Columbia’s Computer Science department, remembered in NetWorld’s notable 2015 deaths in technology, science & inventions.
- Vishal Misra named IEEE Fellow
- Politicians may dream of shutting down the Web, but experts say it’s difficult, if not impossible. “The Internet is inherently decentralized,”
- Heming Cui, CS PhD’14, receives Croucher Innovation Award
- This Algorithm Will Try to Predict Which Gang Threats on Twitter Turn into IRL Violence
- Researchers find repetitive DNA provides a hidden layer of functional information
- Should people have access to their own genomic data?
- WalletHub asked Simha Sethumadhavan and other security experts for advice on avoiding and recovering from identity theft.
- Why Silicon Valley Won’t Enlist in Anti-Terror Fight
- In Genome-Wide Analysis, Researchers Link Short Tandem Repeats to Gene Expression Variations
- Whether, and How, to Give DNA Data Back
- Kazakhstan Moves to Tighten Control of Internet Traffic
- Asked to comment on a possible congressional committee to investigate how encryption affects law enforcement, Steven Bellovin warns that any such committee must include technologists.
- CS startup WordsEye sees spike in signups after Washington Post and other media outlets cover its technology to convert text to 3D scenes.
- Over 10,000 have uploaded their genome data to DNA.Land, a crowd-sourcing website that taps genome info for scientific research. The site was launched
- Dragomir Radev, PhD’99 and visiting professor at Columbia, is elected ACM Fellow
- Computer Science Department adds two lecturers to faculty
- Right time, right place: A collaborative approach for accurate context-awareness in mobile apps and ads
November 2015
- Paper by Jessica Ouyang and Kathy McKeown earns notable mention for data set
- 3D printed ‘zoolophones’ produce specific sounds
- Blaming Snowden for Paris Is Typical Government Finger-pointing, Says Greenwald
- Paris Attacks Have Encryption Debate Resurfacing Despite No Hard Evidence Terrorists Used Encrypted Communications
- Paris Attack Could Renew Debate Over Encrypted Messaging Apps
- ‘Nasty’ Bug In MetroPCS Site Left Personal Data of Subscribers Open to Hackers
- Yale Center for Research Computing tackles data problems
- Chad Jenkins to speak as part of Distinguished Lecture series
- Alexandr Andoni | Advancing the algorithmic foundations of massive data
- Exploring the acoustic nature of objects
- Using big data to power an energy revolution
- Columbia University to lead NSF-funded project for Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub
- In this pre-SIGGRAPH Asia interview, Steven Feiner discusses augmented reality, its history and evolution, the current challenges, and its non-entertainment uses.
- A team of researchers led by Changxi Zheng has developed a computational method for designing original musical instruments that generate user-specified sounds.
- Special lecture by Dermot Turing hosted by Computer Science Depart. and Data Science Institute
October 2015
- Yaniv Erlich selected to speak at Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium
- You Need Geniuses At MIT, Harvard, And Columbia To Make An Animal-Shaped Xylophone
- Researchers develop algorithm to 3-D print vibrational sounds
- Christos Papadimitriou to speak as part of Distinguished Lecture series
- Columbia Spectator article covers DNA.Land, a new website set up by Columbia professor Yaniv Erlich and Joseph Pickrell to crowdsource genomic data for scientific research.
- Let’s talk about that NSA Diffie-Hellman crack
- DNA.Land pooling crowdsourced direct-to-consumer genome data for research
- Columbia computer scientists present four papers at FOCS
- Adrian Tang & John Demme honored at Hot Chips conference with a best poster award
- Why Data Breaches Often Are Worse Than They First Sound
- Side-channel attacks in web browsers: practical, low-cost, and highly scalable
- The Crowdsourcing Site That Wants to Pool Our Genomes
- New York Team Crowdsources Genomic Data Through DNA.Land
- New tool Sunlight expands tracking of personal data on the Web
- New tool expands tracking of personal data on the Web
- Ashkenazi Jews all come from a founding population of about 350 people
- The FBI’s request for single-warrant, remote computer searches: Examining the technical issues
- Eugene Wu | Fast, accurate enough for the human in the loop: Visualizing and interacting with big data sets
- Alec Jacobson wins SGP Software Award
September 2015
- Paper by PhD student Aaron Bernstein and Cliff Stein wins best paper award at ICALP
- News ComputingEmbedded Systems Embedded Anti-Malware Defends Against Cisco IP Phone Hack
- In a far-ranging interview, Henning Schulzrinne discusses technology issues and the evolution of networking, what he learned as the FCC’s Chief Technologist,
- Human-Like Facebook Is Using Our Data To Build The ‘World’s Best’ Artificial Intelligence Lab
- The Best New Defense in Cyber Security can be found on…Printers
- Coloring Complex 3D Printed Objects
- How close is machine learning to artificial intelligence?
- Columbia CS class among first students to experiment with mobile DNA sequencing device
- Security experts: Real-time wiretapping a possibility on iMessage
- Steven Nowick awarded NSF grant to develop asynchronous on-chip interconnection networks
August 2015
- First-aid Kit for Users of Hacked Ashley Madison Sex Cheating Site
- Columbia computer science grads are second highest paid among other computer science grads according to research firm PayScale.
- In Memoriam: Joseph F. Traub
- Vishal Misra goes before Indian Parliament Committee to present views on net neutrality
- Record Cafe: Zero-rated plans can be used to kill innovation
- What constitutes Net Neutrality?
- Henning Schulzrinne named recipient of 2016 IEEE Internet Award
- A Trail of Evidence Leading to AT&T’ Partnership with the NSA
- This Startup Can Steal Data by Hacking Your Printer
- The Voting Booth of Sperm and Egg Donor Anonymity
- Big data analysis of state of the union remarks changes view of American History
- Papers presented at SIGGRAPH 2015
July 2015
- Steven Nowick presents work on asynchronous on-chip networks at two national study groups
- Fiat Chrysler to recall 1.4 million vehicles in U.S. to prevent hacking
- Xi Chen is 2015 Winner of the EATCS Presburger Award
- Kuwait Prepares to Enter a Brave New World With Mandatory DNA Registry of All Residents
- An Algorithmic Sense of Humor? Not Yet.
- Why Are Computers So Bad At Jokes?
- Camera design: Prototype self-powered camera uses off-the-shelf components
- Security Experts Oppose Government Access to Encrypted Communication
- Google ads suggest higher paying jobs to men. Is the algorithm sexist?
- Probing the Dark Side of Google’s Ad-Targeting System
- Alfred Aho awarded honorary doctorate from University of Toronto
June 2015
- Henning Schulzrinne named ACM Fellow and recognized by ITC with service award
- Bjarne Stroustrup Awarded AITO Dahl-Nygaard Prize, and Named a Fellow of the Computer History Museum
- Machine learning applied to cancer: A PhD student doubles the number of breast cancer drivers
- America’s Most Hated Dinnertime Interruption is Facing New Test
- Password Manager LastPass Warns of Breach
- Columbia computer scientists presenting four papers at STOC 2015
- U.S. Senators discuss harassing phone calls exposed in 13 Investigates report
- Alexandr Andoni will join the CS faculty as an associate professor starting in July. He is a theoretical computer scientist with broad interests in the algorithmic foundations of massive data.
- Changxi Zheng wins NSF CAREER Award
May 2015
- The long life of a quick ‘fix’
- It’s been a year of cyberintrusions, capped off this week by IRS data being stolen from 100,000 accounts. Was it “hacking” or simply “inauthorized access”? Does it matter?
- Dolling up 3D 0bjects One Paint Job at a Time
- Towards Self-Powered Cameras earns Best Paper at International Conference on Computational Photography
- Plane safe? Hacker case points to deeper cyber issues
- Self-powered video cameras soon
- Martha Kim and Shree Nayar among those receiving honors at SEAS Class Day
- NACLO: Introducing students to computational linguistics through logic and language puzzles
- Plane hacked, manipulated mid-flight, security researcher claims
- Steve Nowick will be the keynote speaker at the IEEE System Level Interconnect Prediction Workshop. The talk is entitled Asynchronous and GALS NoC’s for Scalable High-Performance Computer Systems .
- A Crazy Way to Add Intricate Color to 3-D Printed Creations
- Precision Hydrographic Printing: A Fascinating New Way to Precisely Add Color to 3D Prints
- Watch this Futuristic Vat of Water Paint a Cat
- Microbiomes raise privacy concerns
- At Conference on Internet Governance and Cyber-Security, Steven Bellovin is part of panel on mitigating cyber-risks, and Henning Schulzrinne moderates discussion of Cyber-security and the Internet of Things.
- 3-D Print and Rubik’s Cube-ify Almost Anything
- Algorithm turns virtually any 3D object into a twisty-jointed puzzle similar to a Rubik’s cube. A video shows how it auto-generates rotation axes and interlocking pieces for 3D fabrication.
- Video of new computational hydrographic printing method—which aligns physically a color texture onto a 3D surface with a precision never before attained—draws 100,000+ YouTube views in 5 days.
- Tony Jebara is featured in BBC report on advances in artificial intelligence—and the possible dangers. He explains what is meant by artificial intelligence and what machines lack currently.
- Self-Powered Surveillance Camera Developed
April 2015
- Chasing real security: An interview with Allison Bishop
- Mohit Gupta, a research scientist in Computer Vision lab, is part of a team that created a low-cost 3-D camera that (unlike the Kinect) uses precise single-point scanning but in a fast, efficient way.
- The Wall Street Journal runs piece on Shree Nayar’s self-powered camera. An accompanying video explains how an image sensor inside the camera takes in light and transfers it into energy.
- Lucas Kowalczyk awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- Columbia Spectator cites “Computing in Context” as one effort at Columbia and Barnard to promote digital humanities. The course, taught by Adam Cannon, teaches coding basics
- Indistinguishability obfuscation for secure software
- JavaScript CPU cache snooper tells crooks EVERYTHING you do online
- Martha Kim, in this month’s issue of MIT Technology Review , cites the need for new computer architectures. Without fundamental changes, it is becoming increasingly awkward
- New Browser Hack Can Spy On Eight Out Of Ten PCs
- In interview with Business Standard, Vishal Misra argues that Indian regulators should focus efforts on maximizing consumer benefits
- ‘Eternal’ camera can take pictures forever
- World’s first self-powered video camera developed
- This Eerie Video Was Shot by a Self-Powered Camera
- The World’s First Self-Powered Video Camera Can Record Forever
- This terrifying video was filmed with the world’s first self-powered camera
- A video produced by a self-powered camera
- Google Fiber has Internet providers scrambling to improve their service
- Ditched! Will Flipkart bailing out force Airtel to scrap the zero charge plan?
- Vishal Misra pens opinion piece arguing that (India telecom) Airtel’s new Zero service (which offers select Internet services for free but demands payment for others) violates net neutrality.
- Henrique Teles Maia awarded NSF Graduate Research and GEM Fellowships
March 2015
- Shree Nayar and 250 other inventors were formally inducted into the National Academy of Inventors.
- Augmented reality gets to work—and gets past the “Glassholes”
- Moawia Eldeeb and Joshua Augustin raise $1.85M for SmartSpot
- Universal Newborn Genome Sequencing and Generation Alpha
- Where Did Computers’ Brains Come From?
- Computer science professors to present new work at the Data Science Institute’s Data on a Mission . Presenting March 31 will be Peter Allen, Yaniv Erlich,
- It’s 2015: Do you know where your genetic data are?
- 23andMe Wants to Make Drugs—Here’s What That Could Mean in 10 Years
- Privacy-Infringing Information Sharing Won’t Stop Data Breaches
- The CIA Campaign to Steal Apple’s Secrets
- State has DNA databases from cradle to jail
February 2015
- ISPs, Lobbyists, and Everybody Else React to FCC Net Neutrality Decision
- Vishal Misra, interviewed about FCC vote to preempt laws limiting municipal Internet, cites a bleak competitive landscape.
- In a wide-ranging interview on the O’Reilly Data show, David Blei traces the evolution of topic modeling, touching on its origins,
- Will the FCC’s vote ensure an open Internet? An interview with Vishal Misra
- Work done by Vishal Misra as part of his PhD thesis (at UMass Amherst) to be deployed on almost all cable modems.
- ‘Mere’ Customer Contact Information Is Actually Gold to Hackers
- Henning Schulzrinne joins Advisory Board of PeerJ Computer Science,
January 2015
- Yaniv Erlich’s work on genetic privacy is covered this month in Science magazine.
- The Internet of Everything Goes to School
- Steven Nowick is interviewed on Cisco’s “The Network” about the state of IoE (Internet of Everything) education at Columbia.
- Simha Sethumadhavan appointed by FCC to Downloadable Security Technology Advisory Committee (DSTAC),
- Why President Obama’s Plan Just Might Fix the Internet
- Steven Bellovin takes issue with the White House’s proposed measures to fix cybersecurity.
- Peter Allen’s lab, filled with robot prototypes, is featured on CBS News.
- Next big energy saver. Di-BOSS saves enough energy at NYC building to power 102 US homes for a month.
- DNA Test That Distinguishes Identical Twins May Be Used in Court for First Time
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December 2014
- Experts Are Still Divided on Whether North Korea Is Behind Sony Attack
- A Bigshot with a big goal: Get kids thinking
- Did the DPRK hack Sony? Steven Bellovin weighs in on the debate.
- Adam Cannon receives provost funding for Computing in Context
- Danfei Xu wins CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award
- 5 Cyber Monday Tips For Hacker-Proof Shopping
November 2014
- Sal Stolfo is interviewed on Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast about a range of security-related topics,
- eBrevia, which relies on natural-language processing technology developed at Columbia’s Computer Science department, raises $1.5M.
- An interview with Kathy McKeown: Automatically describing disasters
- Shree Nayar is interviewed about the ambitious teaching goals of Bigshot,
- First-of-its-kind course exposes liberal-arts majors to big ideas in computing.
- Want the attention of the audience? Introduce a new gesture
- Kaitlin Huben is interviewed about her path to computer science
- Key Takeaways from Cyber Maryland IoT Security Conference
- U.S., European authorities strike against Internet’s black markets
- Site ranks Columbia’s computer science department the third most innovative in the US.
- How NOT to do remote PC searches: Experts explain tech dangers of Rule 41 changes
October 2014
- Cyber Attacks Likely to Increase
- The Big Bang of Social Networking
- Net neutrality is all good and fine; the real problem is elsewhere.
- Attendees of the Computation + Journalism Symposium 2014,
- Adam Cannon interviewed about the changing landscape of computer science education,
- Roxana Geambasu appears on The Leonard Lopate Show
- Stop worrying about mastermind hackers. Start worrying about the IT guy.
- FBI Director: Encryption Will Lead to a ‘Very Dark Place’
- Is DNA Sequencing Impacting Our Understanding of Diseases?
- Untangling how cables coil
September 2014
- Simulation technology designed for Hollywood can be used as predictive tool for understanding fundamental engineering
- Meet the Computer that Can Outsmart IBM’s Watson
- Security Experts Expect ‘Shellshock’ Software Bug in Bash to Be Significant
- Dropbox acquires KBVT, a visual-recognition company,
- Roxana Geambasu, just named one of Popular Science’s Brilliant Ten,
- The Brilliant Ten of 2014
- Dropbox Acqui-Hires KBVT’s Computer Vision Geniuses To Mine Its Photos
August 2014
- XRay Makes Digital Data Transparent
- XRay: A New Tool for Tracking the Use of Personal Data on the Web
June 2014
- Columbia Engineering Stars at Sigmetrics 2014
- In Sync: Columbia Engineering Team First to Run iOS Apps on Android Platform
- Jason Nieh, Nicolas Viennot, and Edward Garcia win the Ken Sevcik Outstanding Student Paper Award for PlayDrone
- Roxana Geambasu awarded Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship
- This Is New York: Shree Nayar, Inspiring the Next Generation of Engineers
May 2014
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October 2013
- Big Analogue Data – why bigger isn’t always better
- NYU-Poly Cyber Security Judges Tap Top Student Teams in Hardware Hacking and Protection
- NSA’s Own Hardware Backdoors May Still Be a “Problem from Hellâ€
August 2013
July 2013
- US must fix secret Fisa courts, says top judge who granted surveillance orders
- Privacy advocates call on government to rein in NSA
- Verizon Call Logs Controversy: No Such Thing As Too Much Information
- Research by Prof. Misra and colleagues predicted Internet disputes, say more to come
May 2013
- Rocco Servedio receives Presidential Teaching Award
- Don Ferguson wins Egleston Medal
- WordsEye Team wins grand prize for the New York State Business Plan Competition
March 2013
February 2013
- Ang Cui and Sal Stolfo offer defense against Cisco IP Phone Hack
- Startup Offers to Protect Printers, Phones, and Other Devices from Hackers
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December 2012
- Scientific American Staff Picks: Prof. Belhumeur’s “Leafsnap” among 10 Apps for Your Smart Phone or Tablet
- Angelos Keromytis Named ACM Distinguished Scientist
- Cliff Stein elected ACM Fellow
- Changxi Zheng one of Forbes’ “30 under 30” Innovators in Science
- Off Hook VoIP Phone Security Vulnerability Affects Some Cisco Models
- Itsik Pe’er and colleagues demonstrate new approach to analyze genetic data
- Custom Chips Could Be the Shovels in a Bitcoin Gold Rush
November 2012
- Security experts are working to thwart a potentially devastating cyberattack
- A New Robo Surgeon Requires Just One Incision
October 2012
- Al Aho addresses Dennis Ritchie Tribute at Bell Labs
- Symposium for Joseph Traub’s 80th Birthday Celebration
- NJ parks offers digital tree guides
- Trees Explained With The Click Of A (Smart)Phone
- NJ park offers digital tree guides
- Union County trees go high tech with digital ID tags
- Trees Explained With The Click Of A (Smart) Phone
- Company uses Kathy McKeown’s research to win Startup America/DEMO Competition
- Union County installs digital tree identification signs in Lenape Park
- Leafsnap Scientists
- El cabello perfecto tiene “su ciencia”
September 2012
- Big bangs theory: Unlocking the secrets of great hair
- Have Hackers Won?
- Changxi Zheng joins the department
August 2012
- Making Magic With Computer Science and Art
- Vasilis Pappas wins Microsoft’s Blue Hat Honors
- Steve Bellovin named FTC Chief Technologist
July 2012
- Kathy McKeown to direct new Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering
- The Frightening Things You Hear at a Black Hat Conference
- Hacking attacks on printers still not being taken seriously
- Shih-Fu Chang named Richard Dicker Professor of Telecommunications
- Computer Virus Warning
- Prof. Bellovin: Computer Virus Warning (ABC News)
June 2012
May 2012
- Michael Collins a Finalist in the New York Academy of Sciences’ 2012 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists
- Ang Cui wins International Cup special prize from Kaspersky Labs
- Faculty win multiple major grants
April 2012
- Silver Lining Systems, founded by Profs. Misra & Rubinstein and grad Reich, raises $2 million, has offices in New York and Cambridge
- Prof. Kaiser awarded NSF grant to achieve software reliability without true test oracles
- Columbia University and Semiconductor Research Corporation Breathe New Life into Scalability by Integrating Voltage Regulators Directly onto ICs
- Hirschberg, Collins, McKeown, and Diab win $7M Defense Grant
- In Memoriam: Dave Waltz (1943-2012)
- Bloomberg Businessweek: Ph.D. Cand. Leon Wu on Green Design
- FedEx’s Electric Vehicle Experiment
- The Human Voice, as Game Changer
March 2012
- Recent grads Bubinski and Sims featured in NY Times
- David L. Waltz, Computer Science Pioneer, Dies at 68
- A Spelling Champ Whose E-U-O-N-Y-M Should Have Been ‘Joy’
- Replacing Passwords with Behavior