Rong Ge has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "AF: Large: Collaborative Research: Nonconvex Methods and Models for Learning: Towards Algorithms with Provable and Interpretable Guarantees." Total funding will be $499,998, for 5 years starting June 1. Abstract read more about Ge Awarded NSF Grant »
The Department congratulates our newest graduates who were awarded degrees for 2016-17 at commencement ceremonies on May 14. Photos read more about Graduation: Degrees Conferred for 2016-17 »
Vincent Conitzer participated in a Duke in DC panel on the coming effects of artificial intelligence on the job market. read more about Conitzer on Duke in DC Panel »
Ashwin Machanavajjhala and Sam Haney (G) work to ensure that Census statistics can be mined for insights about the nation without leaking private information about individuals. read more about Machanavajjhala and Haney Develop "Differential Privacy" Methods for Census Data »
Congratulations to recipients of the 2017 undergraduate student awards which were presented at commencement ceremonies on May 14. Alex Vasilos Memorial Award Friends and colleagues of the late Alex Vasilos donated the Alex Vasilos Memorial Award to the Department of Computer Science to recognize deserving students. This year's recipients: Arun Ganesh For outstanding research in algorithms for online service, for graduating with highest distinction, for excellence in the classroom, and for strong… read more about Undergraduate Awards Presented 2017 »
ACM has named Owen Astrachan recipient of the 2016 Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award for three decades of innovative computer science pedagogy and inspirational community leadership in broadening the appeal of high school and college introductory computer science courses. read more about Astrachan Named ACM Outstanding Educator »
Ashwin Machanavajjhala has received the IEEE ICDE 2017 Influential Paper Award for his 2006 paper "L-diversity: privacy beyond k-anonymity." read more about Machanavajjhala receives Influential Paper Award »
Department Chair Ron Parr and CS faculty hosted a reception for CS alumni during Duke's 2017 Alumni Reunion. The reception featured remarks by Owen Astrachan and Landon Cox on their latest efforts to incorporate mobile technologies into our undergraduate curriculum, and a discussion of the new DTech Scholars Program by Monica Jenkins. Photos read more about CS Alumni Reception 2017 »
CS welcomes Tonya Mozingo-Ware (S) who has joined CS as Assistant to the Chair. read more about Mozingo-Ware Joins Staff »
Alvin Lebeck is the inaugural editor of Computer Architecture Today, the recently-launched ACM SIGARCH blog whose mission is to inform the broad computing community about current activities, advances and future directions in computer architecture. read more about Lebeck Edits New ACM SIGARCH Blog »
Algorithms, like humans, can discriminate. Cynthia Rudin addresses this problem by creating publicly available tools for transparent algorithms. read more about Rudin Creates Tools for Transparent Algorithms »
With the quip "The doctor said it might help me quit," Vincent Conitzer won the New Yorker's weekly contest in which readers send in suggested captions. Conitzer felt drawn to this cartoon because his three-year-old son is going through a shark phase. read more about Conitzer Wins Weekly New Yorker Caption Contest »
Progress in artificial intelligence has been rapid in recent years. Vincent Conitzer discusses concerns about AI's impact on human societies. read more about Conitzer Keeps AI Debate Grounded in Reality »
Cynthia Rudin, a rising star in the field of machine learning, focuses on writing algorithms that are easily interpretable by human experts for practical tasks like predicting energy grid reliability or diagnosing sleep apnea. She holds a dual appointment in Computer Science and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. read more about Rudin Designs Algorithms to Help Turn Raw Information into Informed Choices »
Vincent Conitzer is one of three winners of Blue Sky Awards sponsored by CCC (Computing Community Consortium) for his paper "Moral Decision Making Frameworks for Artificial Intelligence." read more about Conitzer Takes CCC Blue Sky Award »
Duke's involvement in Google's Capacity program, designed to address dramatic increases in undergraduate Computer Science enrollments, has resulted in new approaches to the engagement of women and underrepresented students and increased access to peer mentoring. read more about Duke Partners with Google to Address the Capacity Crunch »
Rupert Freeman (G) has been selected to receive a Facebook Fellowship for the 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 academic years. read more about Freeman Selected for Facebook Fellowship »
We welcome Alison Hriciga, who has joined CS as the Graduate & Financial Assistant. read more about Hriciga Joins Staff »
Three Duke papers were selected for honorable mention as IEEE micro top picks in computer architecture for 2016. There are 12 top picks and 12 honorable mentions from across a large number of conferences. The Duke papers are from Ben Lee’s and Alvin Lebeck’s research groups. The papers are: Siyang Wang, Xiangyu Zhang, Yuxuan Li, Ramin Bashizade, Song Yang, Chris Dwyer, Alvin R. Lebeck, “Accelerating Markov Random Field Inference using Molecular Optical Gibbs Sampling Units,” Proc. 43rd International Symposium on Computer… read more about Duke Receives Three Architecture Top Pick Honorable Mentions »
Andrew First (U '10) has been named one of Forbes 30 Under 30 - Enterprise Technology (2017). First was a Compsci-ECE double major who co-founded Leanplum. read more about Alum Update: First »
Yan Chen's (G) paper, "Differentially Private Regression Diagnostics," has been selected as one of the best papers at the International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) 2016. read more about Chen Receives Best Paper Award »
FanWide, a social sports app created by Symon Perriman (U '07) and his team, has gone nationwide. FanWide connects fans of the same team and organizes viewing parties. read more about Alum Update: Perriman »
Carlo Tomasi, Iris Einheuser Professor of Computer Science, has been named an ACM Fellow for his contributions to computer vision. As a fellow, Tomasi joins a select group of the top 1% of ACM professional members. ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, is the world's largest educational and scientific computing society. read more about Carlo Tomasi Named ACM Fellow »
Alvin Lebeck has been elevated to IEEE Fellow in recognition of his contributions to memory hierarchies and energy-efficient and parallel computing. Less than 0.1% of voting IEEE members are selected annually for elevation to fellow status. This is IEEE's highest honor. read more about Lebeck Elevated to IEEE Fellow »
John Reif and Tianqi Song (G) have created an analog DNA circuit that can add, subtract and multiply as the molecules form and break bonds. SciWorks | Article read more about DNA Circuit Does Math in Test Tube: SciWorks Radio Interviews Reif »
Graduate student awards for 2015-16 were presented at the annual departmental meeting. Outstanding PhD Dissertation Jiangwei Pan - Advisor: Pankaj Agarwal. Algorithms for Geometric Matching, Clustering, and Covering. Outstanding Prelim Exam Nathaniel Kell - Advisor: Debmalya Panigrahi. Online Budgeted Allocation with General Budgets. Rupert Freeman - Advisor: Vincent Conitzer. Diversity, Fairness and Repetition… read more about Grad Student Awards 2015-16 »
Jun Yang and Brett Walenz (G) have created the iCheck website for checking the accuracy of congressional voting claims. Article | iCheck site read more about Yang and Walenz Develop Political Fact-Checking Site »
Xi He (G), Nisarg Raval (G), and Ashwin Machanavajjhala won the VLDB 2016 Best Demonstration Award for "VisDPT: Visual Exploration of Differentially Private Trajectories." read more about He, Raval, Machanavajjhala Take Best Demo Award at VLDB 2016 »
The Computing Research Association (CRA) published a set of short videos to explain the benefits of pursuing a PhD in Computer Science. Mac Mason (G '14), Susanna Ricco (G '14), and Tiffany Chen (U '06) were featured. On YouTube: Mason and Ricco talk about their work in robotics and vision at Google | Chen talks about her work in bioinformatics at Cytobank read more about CRA Features CS Alum: Mason, Ricco, Chen »
A fast and power-efficient processor developed by Dan Sorin and George Konidaris opens up new opportunities for robots and autonomous vehicles. read more about Konidaris and Sorin Take on Challenges of Robotic Motion Planning »