Computer Science News
Stanford team combines logic, memory to build a 'high-rise' chip
Monday, December 15, 2014
Stanford researchers are building layers of logic and memory into skyscraper chips that are smaller, faster, cheaper – and taller.
Four Stanford Engineering professors named IEEE fellows
Friday, December 5, 2014
Thomas Lee, Sanjay Lall, Boris Murmann and Christos Kozyrakis were recognized for their extraordinary achievements in engineering.
Stanford team creates computer vision algorithm that can describe photos
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Computers only recently began to get the software needed to discern unknown objects; now machine learning takes computer vision to the next level with a system that can describe objects and put them into context. Could this lead to better visual search?
Three influential innovators named Stanford Engineering Heroes
Monday, November 10, 2014
Distinguished Stanford engineers honored for their impact on our lives and the world.
Stanford system combines software with human intelligence to improve translation
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Using software to suggest word choices makes professional translators more productive in the $34-billion-a-year market for foreign language translation.
Alex Aiken named chair of Computer Science
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Aiken, whose research focuses on programming languages and software verification, takes over a thriving department with the most undergraduate majors at Stanford.
Stanford team looks to take crowdsourcing to a new level
Monday, August 25, 2014
Stanford engineers are working on a system that dynamically assembles and manages paid experts.
Why you should care how I learn: Eric Smalls at TEDx Stanford
Monday, June 30, 2014
Computer science student talks about the limits of classroom learning and the benefits of branching out.
Handing out gold stars can boost participation in online courses
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Stanford study uses badges to make students more engaged, while also revealing more about the behaviors of those who enroll in MOOCs.
Engineering student combines legal and computing acumen to make a big public impact
Thursday, June 12, 2014
Lawyer and computer science student Jonathan Mayer works with a fellow doctoral candidate to discredit NSA claims about phone metadata.
Stanford Engineering and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism announce Magic Grants to transform the world of media
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Grants will fund eight groups of students, faculty and post-docs to develop media technologies that could transform how stories are discovered and told.
Stanford’s Balaji Prabhakar: 'Doesn’t anybody care about this traffic?'
Monday, May 5, 2014
Prabhakar, a Stanford professor of electrical engineering and computer science, tackles gridlock by encouraging drivers to avoid peak commute times.
Stanford Engineering Professor wins ACM Presidential Award
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Stanford Engineering Professor Mehran Sahami is lauded for leading group that developed the most recent guidelines for computer science undergraduate curricula in the United States and around the world.
Computer scientists learn to predict which photos will 'go viral' on Facebook
Thursday, April 3, 2014
Researchers can forecast the ultimate popularity of a Facebook photo by watching how fast it is shared.
Stanford lab yields new privacy-based social network
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
With rising public interest in what developers refer to as the "privacy economy," a new app allows users to control their personal data.
Stanford students show that phone record surveillance can yield vast amounts of information
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Two computer science graduate students have found that the NSA's mass collection of phone records can yield much more information about people's private lives than the U.S. government claims.
Stanford to offer new undergraduate majors integrating humanities, computer science
Friday, March 7, 2014
Faculty Senate approves two "joint majors" on a pilot basis, bringing computer science together with English and music. More joint proposals are expected.
Stanford researchers create a new technique to study how we inherit disease
Thursday, March 6, 2014
By sequencing the DNA of the offspring, scientists can now determine which traits came from each parent during the gene-shuffling process of fertilization.
Silicon Valley women star in video series urging young women to study computing
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Produced by female undergraduates at Stanford, the she++ Video Library is meant to inspire young women to pursue careers in technology.
Michael Levitt to offer first public seminar since being awarded the Nobel Prize
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Stanford professor will speak about the “Birth & Future of Multi-Scale Modeling of Macromolecules” at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday, March 12 in Building 320, Room 105.
Stanford engineers create a software tool to reduce the cost of cloud computing
Friday, February 28, 2014
Just as Netflix uses an algorithm to recommend movies we ought to see, their system suggests how to use computing resources at data centers more efficiently.
Stanford scientists tested free text-analysis tool on the web
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Experiment had allowed users to drag and drop text into a linguistic analysis tool powered by machine learning.
Stanford engineering professor wins third technical Oscar
Thursday, January 9, 2014
Computer scientist Pat Hanrahan shares this latest honor with two of his former students who now work for Google; the trio created tools for making computer-generated films such as “Avatar” and “Monsters University” more realistic.
Pulse founders exemplify Silicon Valley startup culture
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Engineering alums Ankit Gupta and Akshay Kothari developed mobile news aggregation app Pulse as Stanford students.
Letter from the Dean
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Stanford engineers have always tackled the biggest challenges, and the past academic year was no exception.
