We are in the middle of a huge boom in artificial intelligence (AI), with unprecedented investment in research, a supercharged pace of innovation and sky-high expectations. But what is driving this ...

A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a young computer science researcher (let us call him Bob) had his paper accepted to a prestigious computing-research conference. As the conference was ...

The nature of scientific progress is that it sometimes provides powerful tools that can be wielded for good or for ill: splitting the atom and nuclear weapons being a case in point. In such cases, ...

Computer science has long operated on a foundation of trust: researchers publish findings, peers verify them, and the field ...

There’s little doubt that some of the most important pillars of modern cryptography will tumble spectacularly once quantum computing, now in its infancy, matures sufficiently. Some experts say that ...

Anuja Uppuluri used to spend a lot of time scrolling social media apps dictated by algorithms designed to keep users glued to their screens no matter how mind-numbing the content. “I always had ...

Anabela Malpique has received funding from The Ian Potter Foundation and currently receives funding from The Collier Charitable Foundation. Deborah Pino Pasternak has received funding from the ...

Four Northwestern Computer Science students — Brian Chen, Kevin Hayes, Sean Rhee, and Marko Veljanovski — received honorable mentions in the Computer Research Association (CRA) 2024-2025 Outstanding ...

A Vietnamese student at Pomona College in California has been named one of just eight nationwide winners of a top U.S. computing research award, after co-authoring a paper ranked in the top 1% ...