In creating Moana and other animated movies, artists at Walt Disney Animation Studios use techniques developed by Grinspun and his students to give characters lifelike hair that flows, bounces, and twists.
“Whenever a new topic becomes popular in NLP, we find out that Kathy worked on it ten years ago.”
Encryption is strong in WhatsApp, Signal, and other apps, Bellovin explains in a blog post, forcing the CIA to hack the endpoints (phones) and collect data before it is encrypted.
Their paper, published last week in Science, describes a DNA storage method capable of encoding 215 petabytes in a single gram of DNA. It is believed to be the highest-density data-storage device ever created.
The approach—scalable, highly robust, and resistant to errors—is 60% more efficient than previous DNA storage strategies and approaches 90% of the theoretical maximum amount of information per nucleotide.
Animation techniques developed by Grinspun and his students rely on the geometry of physics and computer algorithms to simulate how plants and trees move in response to the wind or the swinging of monkeys.
The Atlantic cites research led by Yaniv Erlich in creating a genetic tree of 13M people for studying migration, life spans, and other patterns. The work, still under peer review, was posted to bioRxiv.
Paper published in Harvard Journal of Law & Technology shows how technology blurs line between metadata and private content, eroding protections codified in pre-internet communications.
In a Nature Genetics article, researchers describe genotyping family members (rather than a patient), making it easier to collect DNA … Continue reading Study coauthored by Yaniv Erlich uses DNA from family members to map risk factors
Part of edX’s graduate-level MicroMasters series, the course gives everyone access to the same high level of AI instruction that Columbia’s on-campus students receive.
Fabricated in Columbia’s Computer Vision Lab, the camera—a sheet of adaptive lenses—bends to change the field of view. Thin and deformable, it can wrap around objects and still produce high-quality images.
Part 2 of Making computer science accessible to Columbia’s wider student population. Update: This article was originally posted December 2016. … Continue reading Women and computer science at Columbia
An expert in side-channel attacks, Tromer is a co-inventor of the cryptographic protocol of the Zcash privacy-preserving digital currency.
Stroustrup talks about his career path, his role in creating and continuing to improve C++, and technological changes across industries, particularly in financial services.
Eitan Grinspun talks to former NASA astronaut Professor Michael Massimino about research done in the Computer Graphics lab.
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