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New Asst. Prof. Eric Jonas Brings Machine Learning to Scientific Measurement
August 07, 2019
Machine learning often enters scientific experiments in the final chapter, analyzing large data sources to extract meaningful signals or create a predictive model. Eric Jonas wants the approach to play a much earlier and more proactive role: guiding how scientists collect information about the world, from telescopes scanning the cosmos to microscopes looking inside cells to detectors tracking the spray of subatomic particles. -
EPiQC “Ask Me Anything” Session Brings Quantum to Quora
August 05, 2019
When people hear the term “quantum computing,” they usually have questions. So Quora, the social platform where experts answer user-submitted questions, was the perfect setting for an informational session led by researchers from the Enabling Practical-Scale Quantum Computing (EPiQC) collaboration. On July 31st, EPiQC lead PI Fred Chong, the Seymour Goodman Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago, and colleagues Margaret Martonosi of Princeton and Peter Shor of MIT answered 18 questions on the current status of the quantum computing race and the future of this breakthrough technology. -
Prof. Blase Ur Provides Data Breach Protection Advice on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight
August 01, 2019
Capital One Financial, one of the largest American credit card companies, is the latest company to announce a significant data breach, potentially opening up millions of its customers to fraud. WTTW's Chicago Tonight news show invited Assistant Professor Blase Ur to discuss the incident and what people can do to protect themselves from misuse of their private information. -
How One UChicago CS Alum Uses Technology to Tackle Inequality
August 01, 2019
As part of the "Meet a UChicagoan" series focusing on the people who make UChicago a distinct intellectual community, University of Chicago News featured Devshi Mehrotra, who graduated in June 2019 with a joint bachelor’s and master’s in computer science. Through compileHer, the student group she founded to introduce middle school girls to technology, and work with the Cook County Public Defender's Office and the UChicago Institute of Politics, Mehrotra has enthusiastically looked for ways to combine CS with public service. -
UChicago Jumpstarts Collaborations with National Labs in AI, Quantum
July 29, 2019
A University of Chicago program supporting promising projects with Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in the emerging fields of artificial intelligence and quantum science announced $400,000 in seed grants. The projects, which include UChicago CS faculty Rebecca Willett, Ian Foster, Michael Maire, and Yuxin Chen, will tackle big questions in neuroscience, climate science, cosmological physics and quantum networking. -
CNBC Features Prof. Ben Zhao on Promise and Dangers of AI
July 23, 2019
The business world has its eye on artificial intelligence, given the immense potential of the approach to create new economic opportunities and disrupt virtually every industry. So when financial news network CNBC came to Chicago earlier this month for an event on “Investing in the Future of Work,” they called upon a local expert to help explain the current state and uncertain path of AI — UChicago CS Neubauer Professor Ben Zhao. -
Argonne Team Breaks Record for Globus Data Movement
July 19, 2019
Globus, the UChicago initiative and leading research data management service, announced the largest single file transfer in its history: a team led by Argonne National Laboratory scientists moved 2.9 petabytes of data as part of a research project involving three of the largest cosmological simulations to date. -
Eight New Faculty Members Join UChicago CS for 2019-20 Academic Year
July 15, 2019
The Department of Computer Science is excited to welcome eight new faculty members who will join the University of Chicago this summer and fall. These new scholars come to UChicago CS from institutions such as Princeton, MIT, Caltech, and UC Berkeley, and bring expertise and experience in networking, privacy, human-computer interaction, machine learning, quantum computing, data discovery, research data management and many other topics. -
UChicago Workshop Highlights Internet of Things Potential for Cities, Army Installations
July 11, 2019
A June workshop co-organized by the University of Chicago and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, focused on what IoT technologies can do for tomorrow’s cities and military installations. By convening armed services scientists and staff with researchers from UChicago CS, Argonne National Laboratory, and other universities, the two-day event focused on opportunities for new collaborations that can help bring those smart city applications closer to reality. -
Associate Professor Henry Hoffmann Receives Presidential Early Career Award
July 09, 2019
Henry Hoffmann, an associate professor in UChicago CS, is one of this year’s recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the White House announced. Awarded since 1996, PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the United States government to outstanding scientists and engineers who are beginning their independent research careers and who show exceptional promise for leadership in science and technology. Hoffmann’s research group focuses on self-aware and adaptive computing systems that find the optimal balance between performance and energy consumption. -
“Crash Skipping” Strategy for Approximate Computing Receives GLSVLSI Award
July 03, 2019
“Crash Skipping,” a new technique created by UChicago CS graduate Yan Verdeja Herms and assistant professor Yanjing Li for efficient error recovery in approximate computing environments, received the best paper award at the ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI) conference held in May 2019 in Washington DC. The approach, which "skips over" errors that would normally cause an application to crash, holds promise for machine learning, computer vision, data mining and other increasingly popular functions that don’t always require precise accuracy. -
Pinpointing Agency and Realism in the Brain During Electrical Muscle Stimulation
June 27, 2019
Even for experienced users of electrical muscle stimulation, the sensation of a machine controlling your body, rather than the other way around, feels unnatural and strange. Something about the experience disrupts people’s sense of agency — the feeling of being in control of one’s actions — which could interfere with the potential of EMS to improve learning, make virtual reality more realistic, and many other applications. In a trio of papers presented at CHI 19 and in the journal Cerebral Cortex, the laboratory of Pedro Lopes explored the nature of agency and where it may reside in the human brain. -
Award-Winning ICSE Paper Offers Web Developers a “Panorama” View of Slowdowns and Fixes
June 24, 2019
Website features that look simple on the surface, such as the number of archived emails or a social media sidebar, can actually involve complicated data queries under the hood, which could slow performance to a crawl. To help developers find and fix these slowdowns, University of Chicago CS researchers in the laboratory of Associate Professor Shan Lu created Panorama, an interactive environment that optimizes web applications. A paper on the tool presented last month at the 2019 International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) received one of only 11 Distinguished Paper Awards for the conference. -
PhD Student Mingzhe Hao Receives UChicago Harper Dissertation Fellowship
June 17, 2019
Mingzhe Hao, a 4th-year PhD student advised by Neubauer Family Assistant Professor Haryadi Gunawi, received a William Rainey Harper Dissertation Fellowship, the highest honor awarded to UChicago graduate students. The fellowship is awarded in the final year of graduate study to help students concentrate on thesis completion. In his thesis work, Hao combines cloud computing, storage systems, and performance to primarily study tail latency, the delays sometimes experienced by users when they are trying to access a web page or request data stored in a cloud system. -
CALOREE Balancing: UChicago CS Paper Named IEEE Micro Top Pick
June 06, 2019
A UChicago CS paper that combines machine learning and control theory to both speed up applications and conserve energy was given honorable mention in the 2018 IEEE Micro Top Picks, an annual roundup of the most significant scientific advances in computer architectures. CALOREE, an intelligent resource manager developed by graduated UChicago PhD students Nikita Mishra and Connor Imes with associate professor Hank Hoffmann and John Lafferty of Yale, outperforms state-of-the-art approaches on systems ranging from smartphones to servers. -
PhD Student Yuliana Zamora Awarded National Physical Science Consortium Fellowship
June 03, 2019
Second-year PhD student Yuliana Zamora received the the National Physical Science Consortium, which comes with up to six years of funding as well as mentoring and internship opportunities from a government or national laboratory sponsor. The funding supports Zamora's research with advisors Ian Foster and Hank Hoffmann on the interface between power-aware computing, machine learning, and cutting-edge computer architectures. -
Quantum Computing + Information Design + NYSCI = Design for Understanding
May 21, 2019
Design for Understanding, a course at Princeton University, partnered with the UChicago-led Enabling Practical-Scale Quantum Computing (EPiQC) collaboration to feature a first-of-its-kind section on quantum computing and information design. A mix of students from the humanities, engineering, social sciences, and computer science created infographics and pitched museum exhibits to the New York Hall of Science, learning how to explain the basic concepts and principles of quantum technology to a general audience. -
Google Award to Prof. Andrew Chien Will Explore Regional Optimization for Greener Cloud
May 16, 2019
Google granted a Research Award to a team led by Andrew A Chien, William Eckhardt Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago to study “Optimizing Power Cost and Carbon Footprint for a Distributed Collection of Data Centers." The project dovetails with Chien’s Zero-Carbon Cloud project, which seeks to exploit phenomena in modern power grid markets such as “stranded power” to create carbon-free data centers. -
CompileHer Capstone Grants Girls Tech Superpowers
May 13, 2019
On a snowy April day, Chicago middle school girls received a crash course in computer science thanks to the UChicago CS student group compileHer and over 100 student and faculty volunteers. The "superpowHer" event themed its day of educational activities with a comic book flair, sending each group of girls on a mission to save their city from a dangerous computer virus. Attendees learned how to query a database, encrypt and decode secret messages, craft an unbreakable password, and many more handy skills, receiving clues along the way that helped them solve the overall story conflict. -
What Art and Games Can Teach Science About AI
May 10, 2019
A panel of University of Chicago experts from computer science, the arts, and humanities grappled with a topic that goes beyond technology into philosophy, ethics, and the very meaning of humanity in a world where machines perform more and more tasks once thought exclusively human. Attendees also had the chance to explore some of these weighty issues in a more interactive manner, by play-testing a new card game from Tommy Maranges, a Chicago game designer who co-created the popular Secret Hitler. -
Two UChicago CS Students Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
April 29, 2019
A graduate student researching how to improve computer science education at the grade school level and an undergraduate interested in creating efficient data-intensive software for scientists were the UChicago CS recipients of this year’s prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Jean Salac, a 2nd-year PhD student working with Research Associate Professor and Lecturer Diana Franklin, and Pranav Subramaniam, a 4th-year undergraduate who works with Associate Professor Shan Lu and Assistant Professor Aaron Elmore, were among 16 students from the University of Chicago Physical Sciences Division to receive the honor. The program provides funding support for exceptional students pursuing master’s or doctoral degrees in STEM disciplines. -
EPiQC Students Present Quantum Computing Research at ASPLOS 2019
April 22, 2019
Researchers from the UChicago-led EPiQC collaboration presented two papers at the ASPLOS 2019 conference that promise to improve the speed and performance of today's quantum computers. EPiQC graduate students described a new compiler that utilizes the physics concept of quantum optimal control and a technique that repurposes noise data from quantum hardware to reduce errors in talks at the prestigious systems research gathering in Providence, RI. -
Asst. Prof. Junchen Jiang Receives Google Award to Improve Streams for Machines
April 16, 2019
Assistant Professor Junchen Jiang received a Google Faculty Research Award for “Scaling Deep Video Analytics to the Edge,” a project that will use machine learning algorithms to push analytics closer to the source of video data and realize some of the promised benefits of real-time computer vision. -
How to Improve the FAIRness of Biomedical Big Data Research
April 15, 2019
Big data research is notoriously hard to reproduce, a key tenet of good, transparent science. A new paper from UChicago CS, Argonne, and Globus researchers shows how low-cost and open-source tools can help improve FAIRness and the quality of data-intensive science. -
From Wearable Tech to AI, UChicago Builds Future of Computer Science
April 12, 2019
The University of Chicago Computer Science's new faculty and new home in a transformed John Crerar Library mirrors the new era of computer science. No longer operating in isolation, CS methods are redefining fields as varied as finance, medicine, physics and urban studies. -
Center for Data and Computing Announces First Data Discovery Grants
April 11, 2019
The Center for Data and Computing, the new UChicago incubator for new multidisciplinary data science research, announced 11 research projects and an exploratory convening that span nearly every division, department, and professional school on campus, expanding the community of collaborative data science activity. -
Prof. Fred Chong Receives Intel Outstanding Researcher Award
April 03, 2019
Fred Chong, the Seymour Goodman Professor of Computer Science at UChicago, received the Outstanding Researcher Award from Intel for his contributions to the field of quantum computing. Chong, who leads the multi-institutional Enabling Practical-scale Quantum Computation (EPiQC) project, was one of four winners in the 2018 class announced last week by the technology company. -
Chair Michael Franklin Named One of Chicago Magazine’s “New Power Players”
April 01, 2019
UChicago CS Chair Michael Franklin was named one of Chicago Magazine's "emerging power players" in their annual Who's Got Next list. Franklin highlighted the the new computer science space in the John Crerar Library and the Center for Data and Computing, an incubator for multidisciplinary data science collaboration at the University of Chicago. “I think that’s the way you do impactful computer science research,” he told the magazine. “You work with people who are trying to solve real problems.” -
Prof. Ian Foster Receives Charles Babbage Award from IEEE
March 14, 2019
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New Center in Crerar Fuses Media Arts, Data and Design
February 25, 2019
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CDAC Kickoff Spotlights Unanswered Questions of Data Science
February 22, 2019
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Applications Open for Summer Student Internship Program
February 19, 2019
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Science’s New Best Friend — Area Researchers Discuss AI at UChicago CS
February 08, 2019
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EPIQC Grad Students Win Best Poster Award for Research on Qutrits
February 01, 2019
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Sanjay Krishnan Discusses Data Centers on Chicago Tonight
January 30, 2019
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EPiQC Zines Offer Creative Gateway to Quantum Computing
January 16, 2019
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UChicago CS Represented at NSF Expeditions in Computing Celebration
December 20, 2018
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International Students Visit Chicago for Inaugural Summer Program
December 12, 2018
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Fourth-Year CS Major Earns Schwarzman Scholarship
December 10, 2018
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UChicago CS Cybersecurity Researchers Featured in UChicago Magazine
November 30, 2018
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UChicago Hosts and Participates in ICPC Programming Competition
November 07, 2018
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Students Help Local Organizations Do More with Data at Annual Scopeathon
November 01, 2018
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UChicago CS Students Attend 2018 Grace Hopper Celebration
October 30, 2018
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UChicago CS Open House Introduces New Space and New Faces
October 22, 2018
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Prof László Babai Speaks at ICM’18 About Graph Isomorphism
October 04, 2018
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Prof. Blase Ur Shares IEEE Award for Cybersecurity
October 03, 2018
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Aaron Potechin, Expert in Complexity Theory, Joins UChicago CS as Asst. Professor
September 28, 2018
Aaron Potechin, a new assistant professor who joined the department this summer, adds to the long and storied history of theoretical CS at the University of Chicago. In Potechin’s sub-field of computational complexity theory, researchers study just how difficult it is to solve a particular computational problem, searching for its speed limits and resource demands. -
Distinguished Lecture by Turing Award Winner David Patterson (Oct. 19)
September 20, 2018
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Five CS Students Named Siebel Scholars in 2019 Class
September 14, 2018
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Data Science Collaboration Aims to Find Next El Nino
September 11, 2018
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Computational Researchers Join Quest to Search Beyond the Higgs Boson
September 05, 2018
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Michael Maire, An Architect of Deep Learning, Joins CS from TTIC
September 04, 2018
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Social MIND Project Blends Machine Learning and Social Science
August 23, 2018
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New Faculty Junchen Jiang Combines Systems and Machine Learning
August 08, 2018
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Eight New Faculty Join UChicagoCS for 2018-19 Academic Year
August 01, 2018
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EuroVis Best Paper Awarded to UChicago Diderot Team
June 19, 2018
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UChicago Hosts Second Midwest Machine Learning Symposium
June 08, 2018
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New Space for Computer Science Department
May 25, 2018
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UChicago Primed for a Leap in Quantum Research
May 10, 2018
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Prof. Michael Franklin Discusses Data Science In CACM Video
March 28, 2018
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UChicago CS Makes a Splash at ASPLOS 2018
March 02, 2018
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Prof. Ben Zhao talks Twitter bots and AI on Chicago Tonight
March 01, 2018
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