A prototype of an Earable Computer system.

CAREER Award will support development of ‘Earable Computers’

March 14, 2019

With this award, Assistant Professor Tam Vu hopes to lay the scientific foundation for robust and effective ear-worn systems for long-term, unobtrusive monitoring of health conditions and for hands-free control of computers.

A view of the Earth from space, showing clusters of lights in cities.

Researchers challenge 'scale free' network theory

March 5, 2019

In research published in the journal Nature Communications, Anna Broido and Aaron Clauset used computational tools to analyze a huge dataset of more than 900 networks, with examples from the realms of biology, transportation, technology and more.

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Student organizer traces her love of coding to T9Hacks

Jan. 29, 2019

The fourth annual T9Hacks on the weekend of Feb. 9–10 will promote interest in creative technologies, coding, design and making among college women and non-binary individuals.

Rob Lindsey at work in his office.

‘Spellcheck for clinicians’

Dec. 20, 2018

Robert Lindsey’s startup, Imagen, has ambitious goals: Eliminate the medical diagnostic errors that affect more than 12 million Americans each year and make high-quality care accessible worldwide.

Tyler Scott on stage for his paper presentation during NeurIPS.

Prominent AI conference features 9 papers & posters from CU Boulder

Dec. 20, 2018

The Department of Computer Science’s AI chops were on full display this month at NeurIPS, the year’s biggest conference on machine learning and artificial intelligence.

A scientist retrieves an ice core sample from a storage facility

How complexity science can quickly detect climate record anomalies

Dec. 17, 2018

Study by Liz Bradley and Joshua Garland shows how tools from information theory can address challenges by quickly homing in on portions of data that require further investigation.

Connor Brooks, a graduate student in computer science, demonstrates a robotic system that responds to spoken commands. (Credit: Glenn Asakawa/CU Boulder)

Robotic helping hand: A look inside the IRON Lab

Nov. 14, 2018

Dan Szafir and his colleagues belong to a rapidly-growing area of study called human-robot interaction. The field addresses the huge gulf that seems to exist between people and their robot helpers: Robots don’t always understand people, and people often don’t want to be around moving, learning machines.

A graph showing different transmission probabilities, with epidemic size on the y axis and university prestige on the x axis.

Study looks at how ideas go viral in academia

Nov. 6, 2018

Borrowing a page from epidemiology, Allison Morgan and her colleagues suggest that the way that universities hire new faculty members may give elite schools an edge in spreading their research to others.

The team poses with their award in front of a colorful conference banner.

Robotics team scores an award in Tokyo

Oct. 25, 2018

The CU team was formed around the CU spinoff company Robotics Materials Inc., which was founded by Associate Professor Nikolaus Correll.

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Professor’s work applies machine learning to climate change

Oct. 25, 2018

Claire Monteleoni’s climate informatics research uses artificial intelligence to shed light on climate change.

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