Research and News

A new technique uses a single image to forecast — and maximize — the energy a solar panel will produce over a year.

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

Co-led by Henry Yuen, a new multi-university grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research will examine whether larger quantum operations could reduce errors and make future quantum computers more practical.

As video games continue to evolve, so does the push to make them more inclusive. But accessibility still often means … Continue reading Making Games More Playable, Not Just Accessible

Large language models can process vast amounts of text—but their ability to interpret nuance, hidden meaning, and nonlinear storytelling remains an open question.

Researchers from the department are presenting their work at the ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and … Continue reading 4 Papers from CS Researchers at ASPLOS 2026

A research project backed by Kathy McKeown aims to advance both computational understanding and humanistic interpretation of how multimodal models generate and understand art images through probing of a model’s latent space. 

Vishal Misra discusses his latest research on how LLMs work under the hood and explains what’s actually required for AGI: the ability to keep learning after training and the shift from pattern matching to understanding cause … Continue reading What’s Missing for Artificial General Intelligence

One of the most influential programming languages in history was created by Columbia professor Bjarne Stroustrup, almost by accident.

Henning Schulzrinne is a pioneer in the development of internet and video calling technology. His work on voice-over-IP helped lay the foundation for the tools millions of people use every day to talk, meet, and … Continue reading Trailblazers: Shaping Internet and Video Call Technology With Professor Henning Schulzrinne

How research that began in the lab is transforming factory automation.

In the Ethical and Responsible Artificial Intelligence classroom, the discussion about artificial intelligence (AI) drifted quickly from lecture slides to … Continue reading Teaching Future Engineers to Question AI