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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.
From filter bubbles to fake news, data-driven algorithms have developed a reputation problem. Jeannette Wing, as the new director of Columbia’s Data Science Institute, has woven ethics and social impact into the Institute’s mission.
Andrew McCormick spent seven years as a naval intelligence officer. But even before he arrived at Columbia Journalism School last August, McCormick had a lot of the skills required of a good reporter.
Basketball wasn’t even Camille Zimmerman’s favorite sport when she was growing up. Now she graduates as the highest-scoring player in Columbia history.
As a slam poet and spoken word artist, Que’Nique Mykte’ Newbill knows how to tell a story. And he’s decided to do that through the language of law.
Columbia University has received nearly three million dollars in grants from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through its program in Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
Researchers show how an algorithm for filtering spam can learn to pick out, from hours of video footage, the full behavioral repertoire of tiny, pond-dwelling Hydra. By comparing Hydra’s behaviors to the firing of its neurons, the researchers hope to eventually understand how its nervous system, and that of more complex animals, works.
When recommendation algorithms are turned loose on a social network with homophily, women become less visible, says a new study by Columbia researchers.
Columbia University today announced that Lisa Carnoy (CC’89) and Jonathan Lavine (CC’88) have been elected to serve as the next co-chairs of the University Board of Trustees, beginning in September 2018.
On the ground floor of its 1927 neo-Renaissance building on Amsterdam Avenue, which you might mistake for a palazzo in Florence or Rome, an exhibit chronicles the history of Casa Italiana, which became the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America in the early 1990’s.