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Northwestern CS Announces Winter 2024 Outstanding Teaching Assistant and Peer Mentors
The quarterly department awards recognize exceptional service to the CS community.Apr 19, 2024
WildHacks 2024 Showcases Students’ Dynamic Problem-solving Skills
Students from 14 universities completed 43 innovative software projects April 5 – 7 during the WildHacks 2024 event.Apr 19, 2024
Pioneering an AI-driven Approach to Cybersecurity Analysis
Professor Xinyu Xing’s team won first place in the fuzzing tool competition at the 17th International Workshop on Search-Based and Fuzz Testing, outperforming widely utilized industry tools.Apr 16, 2024
Professor Emeritus Bruce Wessels Passes Away
Wessels will be remembered for his notable contributions to the study of thin films and nanostructures and passion for service and scholarship.Apr 10, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Building Connections with San Francisco Bay Area Employers and Alumni
Twenty-three students traveled to the San Francisco Bay Area over spring break as part of a new Northwestern Computer Science career development pilot initiative.Apr 9, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
How an Editors’ Note Fueled Another Kate Conspiracy Theory
Professor V.S. Subrahmanian was quoted by the New York Times discussing the video recently released by Catherine, Princess of Wales.Apr 5, 2024|from New York Times
Three New Affiliate Faculty Members Join Northwestern Computer Science
Professors Nivedita Arora, Matt Groh, and Ermin Wei join the team of affiliate faculty members helping to advance the department’s multidisciplinary academic and research mission.Mar 25, 2024
Engaging with Lawmakers, Business Leaders to Promote AI Safety
The Northwestern Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI) is engaging with lawmakers and business leaders as it educates the public about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.Mar 22, 2024|from Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence
Advancing Compiler Technology
Eight papers reflecting multidisciplinary Northwestern Computer Science collaborations in compilers have been accepted into prestigious conferences this year.Mar 20, 2024
New AI Tool Predicts COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake
Northwestern and University of Cincinnati researchers partner to build a novel machine learning model based in cognitive science.Mar 18, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Northwestern CS Welcomes New Teaching-Track Faculty Members
New faculty of instruction include Anjali Agarwal, Dietrich Geisler, and Yiji Zhang.Mar 18, 2024
Questions to Ask about Government Use of Deepfakes
Professors VS Subrahmanian and Daniel Linna Jr. are examining the emerging technology’s potential harms to democracy.Mar 13, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Karan Ahuja Wins ACM SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award
The dissertation advances the state of the art in high-fidelity user tracking and digitization and opens new paradigms in augmented and virtual reality, health sensing, and natural user interfaces.Mar 6, 2024
CASMI Recognizes Research Focused on Preventing, Mitigating AI Harms
Four papers were accepted to the safety-focused "AI Incidents and Best Practices" track at the Thirty-Sixth Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence.Feb 28, 2024|from Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence
Society of Women Engineers Hosts 2024 Career Day for Girls
Around 180 Chicago-area middle school and high school students signed up to visit campus as part of the February 24 event.Feb 27, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News