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CS Researchers Present Database Research at SIGMOD 2022
The Wu Lab, led by Eugene Wu, will talk at paper presentations, workshops, and a panel on “The Dos and Don’ts of Sharing Research.”

ACL: What Comes Next for Natural Language Processing?
Kathleen McKeown on model compression, data distribution shifts, language revitalization, and more.

Research from the NLP & Speech Group Accepted to ACL 2022
CS researchers presented their work at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2022). Faithful or … Continue reading Research from the NLP & Speech Group Accepted to ACL 2022

Study Confirms Differential Privacy Was the Correct Choice for the 2020 U.S. Census
CS researchers demonstrate that the new privacy method—using differential privacy—is more effective than the old method of swapping, and better protects the privacy of minorities.

Steven Feiner Inducted into the Inaugural Class of the IEEE Virtual Reality Academy
Steven Feiner is one of 49 scholars and innovators who have been inducted into the inaugural class of the IEEE Virtual Reality Academy. Established in 2022 by the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Community (VGTC), the IEEE Virtual … Continue reading Steven Feiner Inducted into the Inaugural Class of the IEEE Virtual Reality Academy

Columbia University Awarded $185 Million for Patent Infringement by NortonLifeLock Inc.
The jury found that CS professors Salvatore Stolfo and Angelos Keromytis of the Intrusion Detection Systems Laboratory were co-inventors of the groundbreaking cybersecurity … Continue reading Columbia University Awarded $185 Million for Patent Infringement by NortonLifeLock Inc.

Xi Chen Wins Both 2021 Gödel Prize and Fulkerson Prize
Xi Chen is one of a small number of researchers to be awarded two highly prestigious honors—the 2021 Gödel Prize and the 2021 Fulkerson Prize—in one year. He and his long-time collaborator Jin-Yi Cai, a … Continue reading Xi Chen Wins Both 2021 Gödel Prize and Fulkerson Prize

Columbia Engineering Professor Leads New Crypto Research Center of A16z
While continuing to teach at Columbia Engineering, Tim Roughgarden will serve as head of research at a16z Crypto Research
North Korea, NFTs and a Hit Video Game: Inside a $500M Cryptocurrency Theft
Another high-profile hack has raised more questions about the vulnerabilities of the blockchain.

Christos Papadimitriou and Xi Chen Win 2022 ACM SIGecom Test of Time Awards
The SIGecom Test of Time Award recognizes papers published between ten and twenty-five years ago that have significantly impacted research or applications exemplifying the interplay of economics and computation. Papadimitriou and Chen’s influential papers settled … Continue reading Christos Papadimitriou and Xi Chen Win 2022 ACM SIGecom Test of Time Awards

Concerned Your Smartphone Is Spying on You?
CS researchers have built an algorithm that blocks a rogue microphone from correctly hearing your words—in English so far—80% of the time.

CertiK, a Web3 Security Company, Doubles Its Valuation to $2 Billion in Just 3 Months
Assistant Professor Ronghui Gu’s blockchain security firm CertiK is considered a unicorn company.

Baishakhi Ray Wins 2022 IEEE TCSE Award for Rising Star in Software Engineering
Baishakhi Ray is recognized for innovative and high-quality research on software engineering and artificial intelligence, which has impacted both the academic and industrial communities.