A critical next step in AI system development is applying common-sense knowledge to infer and react to a situation as a human would. When people communicate with each other, they don’t need to explicitly say everything...
On Friday, December 6, 2019, 50 local students and their chaperones came to campus to learn about coding, careers in computer science, and college life. The students ranged from fifth to eighth grade and were from J...
Jenny Xu, a junior in the Department of Computer Science in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, is a hackathon veteran. She’s attended hackathon events across the US and was a member of the SBUHacks...
Jenny Xu, a junior in the Department of Computer Science, is a hackathon veteran. She has attended hackathon events across the US and was a member of the SBUHacks.org committee. Inspired by her previous hackathon...
The 2019 edition of SBUHacks, an annual 24-hour hackathon event celebrating the ingenuity and creativity of student coders, took place on the weekend of September 20-21 in the Melville Library. More than 375 students...
A $1.14 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to research 3D computational pathology has been awarded to a team led by Fusheng Wang, associate professor in the Departments of Biomedical Informatics and...
Stony Brook scientists have received major NIH funding to investigate a pioneering approach to fetal monitoring that could improve outcomes in the delivery room. A multi-disciplinary team led by the College of...
Computer Science Professor Anshul Gandhi has been selected by the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) SIGMETRICS as the recipient of the 2019 Rising Star Research Award. The award recognizes Gandhi’s fundamental...
Ryan Courtney, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University, raised more than 500% of his funding goal on Kickstarter for his new board game, Pipeline, at the end of 2018. Not...
The Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology (CEWIT) hosted its third annual Hack@CEWIT event — an on-campus hackathon bringing more than 150 students, various tech-talks and workshops, and thousands...
Endowed chair forges connection between medicine and engineering The fight against cancer and other deadly diseases is constantly becoming more and more advanced. To make these advances possible, new tools based on...
On February 25, 2019, Stony Brook University, in collaboration with Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), hosted a workshop that brought together more than 200 attendees interested in Quantum Information Science and...
On the heels of being named a rising star in computer networking, Computer Science Professor Aruna Balasubramanian has been awarded a highly selective VMware Early-Career Faculty Grant, which is given to recently...
The goal of the Quantum Immersion Workshop — held on Monday, February 25, from 8 am to 5 pm in the Charles B. Wang Center — is to build a Quantum Information Science (QIS) community of researchers at Stony Brook...
Nick Nikiforakis is helping to make the Internet more secure. An assistant professor from the Department of Computer Science in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Stony Brook University, Nikiforakis has...
Computer scientists — including computer science students — are pioneering ways to improve our daily lives through the use of software. What better way to have a lasting impact on individuals than giving them the power...
Consisting of students from the Departments of Computer Engineering, Computer Science (CS) and Mathematics, the Stony Brook Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) team finished fourth in the 2018 ACM International...