The 30th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms awarded its 2021 Test-of-Time Award to Sorin Istrail, professor of computational and mathematical sciences and professor of computer science, and his ...

In February 2026, at WSDM 2026 (the ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining) held in the United States, a ...

We are in the middle of a huge boom in artificial intelligence (AI), with unprecedented investment in research, a supercharged pace of innovation and sky-high expectations. But what is driving this ...

There’s little doubt that some of the most important pillars of modern cryptography will tumble spectacularly once quantum computing, now in its infancy, matures sufficiently. Some experts say that ...

Four Northwestern Computer Science students — Brian Chen, Kevin Hayes, Sean Rhee, and Marko Veljanovski — received honorable mentions in the Computer Research Association (CRA) 2024-2025 Outstanding ...

The Department of Computer Science high-impact research publication award provides incentives for publishing scholarly papers in the top conferences and publications. The award recognizes publications ...

Microsoft’s Experimental Optical Computer Could Run AI Workloads With Less Energy Your email has been sent Research conducted by the Microsoft Research lab in Cambridge could contribute to the ...

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Three computer science majors can add “academic conference presenter” to their résumés following a recent trip to Uppsala, Sweden. Justin Lu, who graduated in May, and seniors Jaelyn Dones and Garima ...

In the US government’s ongoing campaign to protect data in the age of quantum computers, a new and powerful attack that used a single traditional computer to completely break a fourth-round candidate ...