June 6, 2018
Suzanne Bakken Named Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
Bakken, a Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University and member of the Data Science Institute, was chosen for the post by the AMIA Board of Directors.
June 1, 2018
Suman Jana Awarded an ARO Young Investigator Award
A four-year, $360,000 award will support Jana’s research into incorporating machine learning methods to improve methods for finding and fixing software bugs before they become security vulnerabilities.
May 17, 2018
Jeannette Wing Named to New York City Task Force to Study Algorithms Used by the City
Jeannette M. Wing, Avanessians Director of the Data Science Institute and Professor of Computer Science, has been appointed to a New York City task force that will develop a process for reviewing how the city uses automatic decision systems.
May 10, 2018
Researchers Hide Information in Plain Text
Computer scientists at Columbia Engineering have invented FontCode, a new way to embed hidden information in ordinary text by imperceptibly changing, or perturbing, the shapes of fonts in text.
May 4, 2018
Jeannette Wing on Developing ‘Data for Good’
From filter bubbles to fake news, data-driven algorithms have developed a reputation problem. Jeannette Wing, the new director of Columbia’s Data Science Institute, wants to change that.