Engineering

Steve Bellovin, a computer scientist whose expertise is cyber security, is far more worried about bugs in the computer code of electronic voting machines than he is about cyberattacks.

Researchers show that skilled improvisers are better than musicians with limited improvisational experience at distinguishing between chords that can be used interchangeably in a piece of music and chords that cannot.

Once Julia Di came up with the idea for the Columbia Space Initiative, events moved at warp speed.

As Will Geary leaves the Engineering School he’ll start executing his ideas at CitySwifter, an Ireland-based startup using deep learning to optimize city bus networks.

Two Columbia professors — a neuroscientist whose work on the visual system could lead to a cure for blindness and a theoretical computer scientist who has helped define the limits of computation — are among the 84 new members elected this week to the National Academy of Sciences. 

When recommendation algorithms are turned loose on a social network with homophily, women become less visible, says a new study by Columbia researchers.  

In a new study, Columbia researchers find that street trees with protective guards soaked up runoff water six times faster than trees without guards. 

Researchers at Columbia and Lehigh universities have come up with a new approach to self-driving cars and other self-taught systems.

Anil Lalwani wants to deliver medicine directly into the inner ear, the best way to treat ear-related disorders.

Ken Shepard is part of a growing push to develop brain-computer interfaces to repair senses and skills lost to injury or disease.