DNA.Land updates its ancestry report to provide more detailed, precise information
Started by Yaniv Erlich & Joseph Pickrell, DNA.Land lets people donate their genome data for scientific research.
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Team led by Eitan Grinspun is creating software for Hod Lipson’s 3D food printer
The software predicts what a 3D-printed shape will look like after being cooked for a specific time at set temperatures.
Kathleen McKeown among Columbia researchers unveiling new technology Aug. 7-12
She is coauthor of three papers that incorporate natural language processing to speed and automate tasks.
Limiting the undesired impact of cyber weapons
Steven Bellovin, Susan Landau, and Herbert S. Lin examine the technical requirements and policy implications of targeted cyber attacks.
Kathy McKeown, Vishal Misra, Junfeng Yang invited to speak at Microsoft Faculty Summit
More than 500 attendees from academia and Microsoft participated in sessions on virtual reality, optical networks, streaming analytics and big data infrastructure to the future of work and crowdsourcing.
Acoustic voxels: Manipulating sound waves makes possible acoustic tagging and encoding
Manipulating sound waves can be a powerful tool with wide-ranging applications in medicine and surgery, materials science, pharmaceuticals, to name … Continue reading Acoustic voxels: Manipulating sound waves makes possible acoustic tagging and encoding
Paper coauthored by Changxi Zheng is Best Paper at Symposium on Computer Animation
Deployable 3D Linkages with Collision Avoidance describes a method for creating Hoberman-like mechanisms out of arbitrary 3D models. The method, which requires little user input, automatically avoids collisions among parts so object can expand and … Continue reading Paper coauthored by Changxi Zheng is Best Paper at Symposium on Computer Animation
Columbia University computer scientists presented three papers at DAC 2016
The Columbia University Department of Computer Science contributed three papers to the technical program of the 53rd ACM/IEEE Design Automation … Continue reading Columbia University computer scientists presented three papers at DAC 2016
In IEEE Spectrum, Gil Zussman reports breakthrough on full-duplex chip
By sending and receiving simultaneously, a full-duplex chip could double phone-network data capacity.
Dynamic Topic Models, coauthored by David Blei, earns Test of Time Award at ICML @ NYC
ICML is the premiere machine learning conference. This year, Columbia researchers were authors on 10 papers.
Columbia University computer scientists present three papers at STOC 2016
Theoretical computer scientists from Columbia University are presenting three papers at this year’s ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing … Continue reading Columbia University computer scientists present three papers at STOC 2016
Method reduces VR sickness by subtly altering user’s field of view in response to “motion”
The research, done by Steven K. Feiner and Ajoy Fernandes, has application for consumer head-worn VR displays.
Steven Bellovin & coauthors draft call for surveillance laws to reflect Internet’s complexity
The paper, which will be published this fall in the Harvard Law Review, is entitled It’s Too Complicated: The Technological Implications of IP-based Communications on Content/Non-content Distinctions and the Third-Party Doctrine.
Adam Cannon receives Great Teacher Award from The Society of Columbia Graduates
Update: Since being awarded the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching for Faculty, Adam Cannon has earned the additional honor of … Continue reading Adam Cannon receives Great Teacher Award from The Society of Columbia Graduates
SIAM News honors David Johnson
Mihalis Yannakakis & Cliff Stein, colleagues and friends of Johnson, cite Johnson’s fundamental contributions to NP-completeness theory, optimization and approximation, and other areas of computer science.
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