Research
Shree Nayar Wins Funai Achievement Award
Shree K. Nayar has been awarded the prestigious Funai Achievement Award from the Information Processing Society of Japan for his seminal work on computer vision and computational imaging. Nayar will receive the award at the Forum on Information … Continue reading Shree Nayar Wins Funai Achievement Award
Alfred Aho Wins the 2020 ACM Turing Award
Alfred V. Aho, Lawrence Gussman Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, has won the 2020 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) A.M. Turing Award, known informally as the “Nobel Prize of computing.” Professor Aho is being recognized for fundamental … Continue reading Alfred Aho Wins the 2020 ACM Turing Award
Carl Vondrick Wins NSF CAREER Award
Assistant Professor Carl Vondrick has won the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development award for his proposal program to develop machine perception systems that robustly detect and track objects even when they disappear … Continue reading Carl Vondrick Wins NSF CAREER Award
Toyota Research Institute Launches Next Phase of Collaborative Research With Diverse Roster of World‑Class Academic Institutions
Shuran Song and Carl Vondrick are among the awardees chosen for their artificial intelligence (AI) research. The program aims to use AI for societal good.
Cross-disciplinary Research Highlighted in This Year’s Distinguished Lectures Series
The Distinguished Lecture series brings computer scientists to Columbia to discuss current issues and research that are affecting their particular fields. … Continue reading 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
The award recognizes Moti Yung’s significant contributions to the field of cryptography, specifically, coinventing malicious cryptography and pioneering contributions to distributed cryptosystems.
Papers That Explore Novel Methods to Use Artificial Intelligence Accepted to AAAI 21
Research from the department was accepted to the 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. The conference promotes research in artificial … Continue reading Papers That Explore Novel Methods to Use Artificial Intelligence Accepted to AAAI 21
Columbia Center of AI Technology Announces Faculty Research Awards and Two PhD Student Fellowships
CS researchers are among the recipients of the inaugural awards from the Columbia Center of Artificial Intelligence Technology (CAIT). Amazon is providing $5 million in funding over five years to support research, education, and outreach … Continue reading Columbia Center of AI Technology Announces Faculty Research Awards and Two PhD Student Fellowships
Zhou Yu and Henry Yuen Join the Department
The computer science department welcomes two new faculty members. These new CS faculty are facilitating research and learning in natural … Continue reading Zhou Yu and Henry Yuen Join the Department
Papers from the Theory Group Accepted to SODA ’21
Six papers from CS researchers were accepted to the ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA ’21). The conference focuses on … Continue reading Papers from the Theory Group Accepted to SODA ’21
Robot Displays a Glimmer of Empathy to a Partner Robot
A Columbia Engineering robot has learned to predict its partner robot’s future actions and goals based on just a few initial video frames. The study is part of a broader effort to endow robots with … Continue reading Robot Displays a Glimmer of Empathy to a Partner Robot
NSF Funds a Robot Teleoperation System that Could Transform the Manufacturing Workforce
Professors Shuran Song, Steve Feiner, and Matei Ciocarlie are developing a novel platform to enable factory workers to work remotely.
13 Papers From the Department Accepted to NeurIPS 2020
Researchers from the Theory, Security & Privacy, and Machine Learning groups will present their papers at the 34th Conference on … Continue reading 13 Papers From the Department Accepted to NeurIPS 2020
Natural Language Processing Papers Accepted to EMNLP 2020
Six papers from the Speech & NLP group were accepted to the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) conference. Generating … Continue reading Natural Language Processing Papers Accepted to EMNLP 2020
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