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Halley Profita and Dana Hughes' "Switchback" device was featured in the 2016 College of Engineering and Applied Science's alumni magazine.

Students chat with 1999 physics laureate Martinus Veltman at the 65th Lindau meeting. Photo courtesy of the Lindau Laureates Meeting After a competitive selection process, computer science PhD student Andy McEvoy has been chosen to attend the 66th Lindau Nobel Laurate Meeting this summer in Lindau, Germany. The annual meetings...

For CU Women in Computing (WIC) member Jessica Lynch, true success for the organization would be for there not to be a need for it anymore. “Really our ultimate goal in doing anything that celebrates a minority is to eventually have that organization being invalidated because it’s being celebrated in...

Shaun Kane (foreground) is the first CU Boulder faculty member to receive the Sloan Fellowship for work in computer science. Shaun Kane, assistant professor of computer science at the University of Colorado Boulder, has been selected as a 2016 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow , the first CU-Boulder faculty member...

Rick Han looks on as a student practices pitching his startup. A few years ago, Associate Professor Rick Han attended a mobile app competition at CU-Boulder. The competition had been completely organized by students and no credit was being offered, but 10 teams had still shown up to compete. Han...

Students in this fall’s HCC Big Data Computing course got an extra dose of hands-on learning, thanks to Boulder-based Zayo Group . The class worked with the company to solve real business challenges using data analysis, said Zayo digital marketing manager Cierra Camacho. Students were given a sample data set...

Ken Jennings may hold the record for the longest winning streak on Jeopardy. But in an Oct. 2 quiz-bowl matchup against Assistant Professor Jordan Boyd-Graber’s QANTA robot at the University of Washington, he just wasn’t fast enough. Jennings eventually lost the match 300 to 165, but remained a good sport...

Photo by Lewis Geyer/Longmont Daily Times-Call In the days after researchers from CU-Boulder hosted a K-12 computer science symposium for the St. Vrain Valley School District, SVVSD’s Axel Reitzig reported that he could already see the excitement about computer science growing in his district. “One of the principals who attended...

Pamela Drew has a master's and a doctorate in computer science, but she came very close to being a different kind of doctor altogether. Drew was pursuing a pre-medicine degree in math and biology at CU-Boulder when she decided to take a computer science class during her junior year. From...

Assistant Professor Jordan Boyd-Graber and colleagues from Cornell and the University of Maryland used chat logs from the online strategy game Diplomacy for a case study that was presented this summer at the Association for Computational Linguistics annual meeting.