Division: CS

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July 12, 2016

Women in Business: Q&A with Fang Yu

EECS Alumna Fang Yu (Ph.D. CS 2006), co-founder of DataVisor and expert in “big-data for security,” joins with Yinglian Xie to answer questions posed by Laura Dunn of the Huffington Post.  “It’s important to remember that true innovation is a process, as long as you continue to learn…

CS Professor Stuart Russell

June 21, 2016

Stuart Russell would like intelligent machines to share our values

Prof. Stuart Russell is featured in an article on the Tech Republic’s online forum titled “We can’t prevent AI changing the world but we can stop robots cooking cats”. With the prospect that computers and robots will become as smart as humans and eventually surpass human intelligence, Prof.

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June 21, 2016

Ken Goldberg is teaching a robot to “learn” surgical tasks on its own

The research work of Prof. Ken Goldberg is featured in an IEEE Spectrum article titled “Would You Trust a Robot Surgeon to Operate on You?” Today’s surgical robots extend the surgeon’s capacities; they filter out hand tremors and allow maneuvers that even the best surgeon couldn’t pull off…

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June 16, 2016

Katherine Yelick uses supercomputing to solve big problems

Prof. Katherine Yelick is featured in MIT’s EECS Connector online news page titled “Putting the pieces together”, an overview of her career. Prof. Yelick, who is an alumna of MIT, upon entering as a freshman was determined not to study computer science. But after taking one computer science…

CS Professor Stuart Russell

May 12, 2016

Stuart Russell contemplates AI’s effect on our future

CS Professor Stuart Russell is featured in a Voice of America article in which he discusses how developments in artificial intelligence may impact global manufacturing, agriculture, business services, the financial industry, health care, and weaponry. “If we are going to make systems that are going to be more intelligent…

May 12, 2016

Scott Aaronson answers every ridiculously big question thrown at him

EECS alumnus Scott Aaronson (Computer Science Ph.D. ’04) “Answers Every Ridiculously Big Question (John Horgan) Throws at Him” in a Cross-Check interview for Scientific American.  Aaronson, an Associate Professor at MIT (soon UT Austin) and an authority on quantum computation, riffs on simulated universes, the Singularity, unified theories, P/NP, the…

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May 11, 2016

Jacobs Hall recognized as Top 10 Green Building

The Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation has been named one of the nation’s top 10 examples of sustainable architecture and ecological design projects that protect and enhance the environment. “It Is devoted to introducing sustainable design innovation at the core of university life.”  This award is presented by the American…