Columbia Experts Urge Calm Amid AI Panic
More transparency is needed, experts say.
Research and News
Welcoming our New Faculty
Zhuo Zhang and Zishen Wan are among the researchers and innovators who have recently joined Columbia Engineering.
Columbia to Lead $20 Million National Research Center on Organismal Resilience
Professor Itsik Pe’er and Associate Professor Eugene Wu have been selected to help lead the National Synthesis Center for Organismal Resilience (NSCORE), a multidisciplinary research center that will bring together biologists and computer scientists to … Continue reading Columbia to Lead $20 Million National Research Center on Organismal Resilience
Zishen Wan Brings AI-Native Computing Research to Columbia
Computing systems now have to keep pace with increasingly capable artificial intelligence (AI). Robots, agentic AI, autonomous systems, and other … Continue reading Zishen Wan Brings AI-Native Computing Research to Columbia
Think ‘Badges,’ Not Diverging Paths: A Columbia Professor’s Advice for Finding What You Actually Want in College
Associate Professor Brian A. Smith has four Columbia degrees. How did he find his path, and what advice does he have for the rest of us, who are looking for one as well?
Columbia University to Lead ARPA-H-Funded Effort to Transform Childbirth Through AI-Powered Maternal–Fetal Monitoring
Associate Professor Xia Zhou serves as co-lead principal investigator and technical co-lead to develop HARMONI—an AI-powered wearable monitoring system designed to give clinicians continuous, objective insight into the health of mother and baby during labor.
Columbia DAPLab at ICML 2026
DAPLab affiliates have a strong presence at Forty-Third International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026), in Seoul, South Korea. With papers across the main conference, posters, and workshops that spans agents, data systems, reliable AI, … Continue reading Columbia DAPLab at ICML 2026
The Theory Group Wins Big at STOC 2026
CS researchers earned two Best Paper Awards and 17 papers accepted to the 58th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of … Continue reading The Theory Group Wins Big at STOC 2026
Inside the Research Shaping Agentic Data Environments
Artificial intelligence (AI) agents are rapidly reshaping how people interact with data, software, and digital systems. As these technologies become … Continue reading Inside the Research Shaping Agentic Data Environments
C++ The Documentary
Some technologies fade into history. Others evolve, adapt, and endure. C++ belongs firmly in the latter category. More than four … Continue reading C++ The Documentary
Henning Schulzrinne Wins IEEE INFOCOM Achievement Award
Schulzrinne is honored for advancing the protocols and technologies behind modern internet communication.
Security Research Recognized at IEEE S&P 2026
Papers from CS researchers have been accepted to the 47th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P 2026), a … Continue reading Security Research Recognized at IEEE S&P 2026
Engineering Faculty Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Tim Roughgarden is among the newly elected members of the Academy for 2026.
Is that Solar Panel Pointing in the Right Direction?
A new technique uses a single image to forecast — and maximize — the energy a solar panel will produce over a year.
He Designed C++ to Solve Your Code Problems
Bjarne Stroustrup discusses how C++ was meant to bridge high-level abstractions with low-level system control, the criticisms some have of memory safety and null pointers (and how to address these problems in your code), and … Continue reading He Designed C++ to Solve Your Code Problems
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