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2020 ACM Turing awardees Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ulman discuss their work and how it continues to influence new computer scientists.
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Columbia Engineering Team Builds First Hacker-resistant Cloud Software System
Professors Jason Nieh and Ronghui Gu build the first system to guarantee the security of virtual machines in the cloud, SeKVM could transform how cloud services are designed, developed, deployed, and trusted.
Five CS professors awarded Amazon Research Awards
Faculty from the department have been named recipients of the 2020 Amazon Research Awards.
Xi Chen Awarded the Gödel Prize
The Gödel Prize for outstanding papers in the area of theoretical computer science is sponsored jointly by the EATCS and the ACM SIGACT. Chen is recognized for his 2017 paper on constraint satisfaction problems (CSP).
Junior Faculty Awardee Profile: Lydia Chilton, PhD
Lydia Chilton talks about teaching, her journey, and creating AI tools for graphic design.
6 Papers From the Department Accepted to the EACL 2021
Six papers from CS researchers were accepted to the 16th conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational … Continue reading 6 Papers From the Department Accepted to the EACL 2021
Jason Nieh Named 2021 Guggenheim Fellow
Jason Nieh has been named a Guggenheim Fellow for this year. Guggenheim Fellowships are intended for individuals who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.
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
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