COMPUTER SCIENCE: Armchair victory: Computers that recognize everyday objects

JIANXIONG XIAO TYPES “CHAIR” INTO GOOGLE’S search engine and watches as hundreds of images populate his screen. He isn’t shopping — he is using the images to teach his computer what a chair looks like. Continue Reading →

COMPUTER SCIENCE: Tools for the artist in all of us

FROM TRANSLATING FOREIGN LANGUAGES to finding information in minutes, computers have extended our productivity and capability. But can they make us better artists? Researchers in the Department of Computer Science are working on ways to Continue Reading →

COMPUTER SCIENCE: Fierce, Fiercer, Fiercest: Software enables rapid creations

A NEW SOFTWARE PROGRAM MAKES IT EASY for novices to create computer-based 3-D models using simple instructions such as “make it look scarier.” The software could be useful for building models for 3-D printing and Continue Reading →

COMPUTER SCIENCE: Internet traffic moves smoothly with Pyretic

AT 60 HUDSON ST. IN LOWER MANHATTAN, a fortress-like building houses one of the Internet’s busiest exchange points. Packets of data zip into the building, are routed to their next destination, and zip out again, Continue Reading →

COMPUTER SCIENCE: Security check: A strategy for verifying software that could prevent bugs

IN APRIL 2014, INTERNET USERS WERE SHOCKED to learn of the Heartbleed bug, a vulnerability in the open-source software used to encrypt Internet content and passwords. The bug existed for two years before it was Continue Reading →