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Assistant Professor Chris Heckman and his team are helping to design robots that view their surroundings using three different types of sensors, including a traditional camera, radar and a laser-based system called Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR).

Tyler Scott will graduate this month with his BS/MS degree in computer science and was chosen as the College of Engineering and Applied Science’s Outstanding Undergraduate for Research. He will also be honored for having the highest undergraduate GPA in the college.

Assistant Professor Christoffer Heckman writes about the ethical challenges of AI-enhanced autonomous systems in The Conversation.

Computer science PhD student Chelsea Chandler helped to develop a speech-based mobile app that can categorize a patient’s mental health status as well as or better than a human can.

"Young women who are dancers or cheerleaders are members of the same population that have been for many years systematically excluded from the field of computer science," said Assistant Professor Ben Shapiro. "The vision for this project is to ask what are the ways we can bring computer science to dance and cheerleading."

Chenhao Tan and Jason Shuo Zhang studied several years’ worth of data from r/nba, Reddit’s go-to platform for discussions of all things basketball. They discovered that tossing fans of opposing basketball teams together online may not be a good way to help them get along. In fact, the more those fans interacted, the group found, the more negative their comments became.

Associate Professor Aaron Clauset was honored with the University of Colorado Boulder Provost’s Faculty Achievement Award earlier this month for his co-authored paper “ Scale-free networks are rare ” in Nature Communications. The paper challenged the network science “scale free” paradigm, which asserts that all networks, regardless of origin, exhibit...

Senior computer science major Stacy Hayes is attracted to cybersecurity because it is a constantly evolving field that, as she says, will never be fully figured out.

Senior computer science major Chris Hill recently became part of the first cohort of Google’s CS Research Mentorship Program, through which he’ll be paired with a researcher at one of the world’s top tech companies. But it’s not his first experience with mentorship.

Cecilia Mauceri, a PhD student in the Autonomous Robotics and Perception Group , will be one of just 200 young researchers from across the globe in attendance at next week’s Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Germany. The forum gives a select group of PhD students and postdoctoral researchers the chance to...