Computer Science

Illustration by iStock/David Goh

Jul 27, 2016

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

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 Issue #9

Stanford researchers have developed a new tool that makes it easier to understand and manage complex networks. | Photo by iStock/3alexd

Jul 11, 2016

Everything is connected. Is there a better way of understanding how?

Electronics & Networking

A new computer vision system automates the collection of data about building interiors for remodeling projects. | Illustration courtesy of Iro Armeni

Jun 29, 2016

A new computer vision system creates 3-D maps of building interiors

Environment, Technology & Society Issue #2

"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 voter fills out her ballot in the Super Tuesday election, 2016. | REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Jun 3, 2016

David Dill: Why Online Voting Is a Danger to Democracy

Security, Technology & Society

Jackrabbot, on the move at Stanford | Photo by Vignesh Ramachandran

Jun 1, 2016

Meet Jackrabbot: the social robot

Transportation & Robotics Issue #3

Warrantless surveillance can reveal a surprising amount of personal information about individual Americans | REUTERS/Albert Gea

May 18, 2016

Your phone may reveal more about you than you think

Security, Technology & Society

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

David Cheriton | Photo by Jonathan Sprague

May 2, 2016

David Cheriton: “The goal is to get students to think like experts”

Technology & Society

OceanOne, a new humanoid robotic diver from Stanford, explores La Lune, a 17th century shipwreck off the southern coast of France. | Image courtesy Frederic Osada and Teddy Seguin/DRAS

Apr 27, 2016

Humanoid robotic diver recovers treasures from King Louis XIV’s ship

Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics Issue #7

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 Issue #2

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 Issue #2

Jan 14, 2016

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

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data, Technology & Society

Dec 14, 2015

Stunning diversity of gut bacteria uncovered by new approach to gene sequencing devised at Stanford

Computer science professor Christopher Manning

Jul 20, 2015

Stanford’s Christopher Manning and a Columbia colleague discuss talking, thinking machines

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society

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

Assistant Professor Michael Bernstein and graduate student Niloufar Salehi have created an online forum structure to overcome barriers to group action. | Photo: Rod Searcey

Mar 23, 2015

Stanford engineers collaborate on research to help online groups organize themselves

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

Stanford researchers discovered that by conducting automated analyses of what students do from moment to moment as they learn to write computer programs, they could predict the students’ final grad

Mar 11, 2015

Stanford study shows success of different learning styles in computer science class

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

New research shows that a computer's analysis of data can better judge a person's psychological traits than family and friends. | Photo: mimagephotography/Shutterstock

Jan 12, 2015

Stanford research finds that computers are better judges of personality than friends and family

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society

Stanford Associate Professor David Mazieres

Dec 19, 2014

Stanford computer scientists extend web browsers to make the Internet safer

Electronics & Networking, Technology & Society

Stanford Professor Fei-Fei Li, director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab, leads work on a computer vision system. | Photo by Kathleen Hinkel

Nov 18, 2014

Stanford team creates computer vision algorithm that can describe photos

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data