Computer Science | Stanford University School of Engineering

The power of light | Unsplash/Christopher Burns

Jan 24, 2020

Jelena Vuckovic: Photonics — a light on the computing horizon

Computation & Data, Energy, Technology & Society Issue #86

The stakes are high: Better education is key to solving big societal challenges, like poverty alleviation. | Stocksy/MaaHoo Studio

Jan 10, 2020

Emma Brunskill: Amped-up education with AI

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data, Technology & Society Issue #85

Better movement is key to better health. | Unsplash/Phil Coffman

Dec 13, 2019

Scott Delp: Better gait, better life

Computation & Data, Health, Technology & Society Issue #87

The data suggests Google’s search algorithm is not biased along political lines, but instead emphasizes authoritative sources. | Getty Images

Dec 11, 2019

Are search results biased along partisan lines?

Computation & Data, Technology & Society Issue #84

Americans spend 87% of their time inside. | Stocksy/Kkgas

Dec 9, 2019

Are the buildings you live and work in making you feel stressed?

Health Issue #84

The ability to detect DNA in blood led to the development of a broad array of noninvasive medical tests. | Science Source/Wladimir Bulgar

Nov 22, 2019

Stephen Quake: What can the DNA in your blood reveal about your health?

Health, Technology & Society Issue #83

In a society where AI powers important decision-making, how do we minimize undesirable outcomes? | Illustration by Sarah Rieke

Nov 22, 2019

A new algorithm trains AI to avoid bad behaviors

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data Issue #83

Can we use information about individual patients to more effectively detect and treat cancer? | iStock/Pitchayanan Kongkaew

Oct 29, 2019

Ash Alizadeh: A New Age in Oncology

Computation & Data, Health, Technology & Society

Technology changes the way we teach and the way we want to teach should change the way we develop and use technology. | Unsplash/moren hsu

Oct 17, 2019

What is the most effective way to bring AI into the classroom?

Technology & Society Issue #81

The field of data science is improving outcomes across domains and will only continue to do so if women are represented. | Illustration by Sarah Rieke

Oct 11, 2019

Margot Gerritsen: How to get more women into data science

Computation & Data

Without this advance, the chips required to build an artificial retina would burn human eye tissue. | Unsplash/Createria, Pixabay/DavidZydd

Oct 10, 2019

An artificial retina that could help restore sight to the blind

Electronics & Networking, Health Issue #80

Reading between the lights of a satellite image. | Image courtesy of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Oct 7, 2019

Could machine learning put impoverished communities back on the map?

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society Issue #80

Modern robotic technologies could help people with artificial limbs walk with less effort, more quickly and with better balance. | iStock/JohnnyGreig

Sep 23, 2019

Steven H. Collins: New prosthetics should be better than the real thing

Artificial Intelligence, Health, Materials Issue #80

CS is not just about sitting in a cube programming, it’s about solving social problems through computation. | Illustration by Kevin Craft

Aug 23, 2019

Mehran Sahami: The evolution of computer science education

Technology & Society Issue #77

Jul 30, 2019

A new algorithm enables more realistic sound effects in VR

Computation & Data, Technology & Society Issue #77

How do we prepare engineers, data scientists, computer scientists, etc. to think critically about what they’re making? | Illustration by Kevin Craft

Jul 26, 2019

Jeremy Weinstein: Technology in the public interest

Technology & Society Issue #76

What if work and school environments inspired a sense of well-being? | Pexels/Magda Ehlers

Jul 19, 2019

Q&A: How do we design buildings that enable occupants to thrive?

Technology & Society Issue #77

The freedom we have in designing technology requires more intentional decisions about how we want to interact with it. | Illustration by Kevin Craft

Jul 15, 2019

James Landay: What’s next in human-computer interaction?

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data

The team's work provides a step toward better understanding what people want or expect from a robot. | Getty Images/filo

Jul 5, 2019

Can we make it easier for humans to communicate clearly with robots?

Artificial Intelligence, Transportation & Robotics Issue #78

If we're ever going to fix echo chambers, we need to first understand what causes them. | Getty Images/DrAfter123

Jul 3, 2019

What is different about how Democrats and Republicans talk online?

Computation & Data, Technology & Society Issue #75

Can we create a programming environment that doesn’t require every researcher to be a computer scientist? | Unsplash/Markus Spiske

Jun 26, 2019

A new, more user-friendly language for programming supercomputers

Computation & Data Issue #75

A dream come true for video producers, this technique eliminates the need to rerecord an interview to get the best soundbyte. | Getty Images/izusek

Jun 20, 2019

A new algorithm makes editing video as easy as editing text

Computation & Data, Technology & Society Issue #82

As hackers develop new ways to attack chips, researchers aim to anticipate and forestall their malicious intrusions. | Illustration by Kevin Craft

Jun 18, 2019

Q&A: What’s new in the effort to prevent hackers from hijacking chips?

Electronics & Networking Issue #74

Virtual assistants could one day have more centralized access to a user’s personal data than Facebook, Amazon and Google combined. | Unsplash/penmax

Jun 4, 2019

Monica Lam: Privacy in the age of virtual assistants

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data, Technology & Society Issue #73