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As more people text rather than call crisis hotlines, data science can help discover the best counseling strategies. | Photo by TommL/Getty Image

Aug 10, 2016

How computer science can help crisis hotlines work more effectively

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data, Technology & Society

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Aug 1, 2016

Arvind Krishna: Another revolution is coming and it’s AI

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data

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Jul 27, 2016

What dark data is, and how bringing it to light will impact society

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data

Illustration by Tricia Seibold and iStock/liuzishan

Jul 27, 2016

How data can help us understand cancer and its treatment

Computation & Data, Health

Computers must be able to interpret information, not just access it. | REUTERS/Samrang Pring

Jul 27, 2016

How do we get computers to understand human language?

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data

Exploring the link between artificial intelligence and the genome | iStock/merznatalia

Jul 22, 2016

Anshul Kundaje: Machine learning to decode the genome

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data

Megan Smith | Flickr/nrkbeta

Jul 20, 2016

Megan Smith: A White House perspective on artificial intelligence

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data

The future of work? | REUTERS/Aly Song

Jun 27, 2016

Melissa Valentine: Re-Inventing the Way We Work

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

"We’re at a historical moment for AI." | iStock/iLexx

Jun 21, 2016

Russ Altman and Fei-Fei Li: What is the future of artificial intelligence?

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data

A new approach to teaching logic makes it more accessible than traditional techniques. | Photo by iStock/EdStock

May 5, 2016

A Stanford computer scientist designs a logic curriculum for high school

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

The cracked walls of a Buddhist shrine in Nepal, November 2015. | REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar

May 5, 2016

How do you recover after a deadly earthquake?

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

A JavaScript web graphics library called Three.js powers a sophisticated MRI image of a brain in 3D | Image courtesy of Gallant Neuroscience Lab at UC Berkeley

Apr 20, 2016

How effective data visualizations let users have a conversation with data

Computation & Data

The lights represent articles in English Wikipedia related to places. Computer scientists have developed a system to help fill in the dark spots with articles in nearly 300 other langua

Apr 14, 2016

Can computer science help light up the world with knowledge?

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

Mix with caution | iStock/NoDerog

Mar 25, 2016

Harnessing big data to better understand what happens when we mix drugs

Computation & Data, Health

What do "the people" want? | Reuters/Larry Downing

Mar 9, 2016

How algorithms can be used to give more voice to the people

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

Researchers are developing software that can analyze satellite imagery to provide a better way to map poverty in places like Uganda. | Reuters/James Akena

Feb 25, 2016

Machine-learning makes poverty mapping as easy as night and day

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data, Technology & Society

Jan 14, 2016

Fei-Fei Li: How do we teach computers to understand the visual world?

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data, Technology & Society

Aug 4, 2015

Stanford researchers unveil virtual reality headset that reduces eye fatigue, nausea

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

Stanford researchers have demonstrated that sheathing semiconductor wires in graphene can help electrons scoot through tiny copper wires in chips more quickly. | Photo: nobeastsofierce/iStock

Jun 16, 2015

Stanford engineers find a simple yet clever way to boost chip speeds

Computation & Data

Jun 8, 2015

Stanford engineers discover the limitation of a popular technique for one-way optical data transmission on computer chips

Computation & Data, Electronics & Networking

Manu Prakash and his students have developed a synchronous computer that operates using the unique physics of moving water droplets. Their goal is to design a new class of computers that can precisel

Jun 8, 2015

Just add water: Stanford engineers develop a computer that operates on water droplets

Computation & Data, Energy

Infrared light enters this silicon structure from the left. The cut-out patterns, determined by an algorithm, route two different frequencies of this light into the pathways on the right. This is a g

May 28, 2015

Stanford engineers’ breakthrough heralds super-efficient light-based computers

Computation & Data, Materials

May 19, 2015

Key strategies can boost donations at crowdfunding sites, Stanford engineers say

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

May 6, 2015

Stanford researchers use diverse, global discussion groups to boost online learning experience for participants

Computation & Data, Technology & Society