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Jun 29, 2022

A new program at Stanford is embedding ethics into computer science

School News, Technology & Society

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Jun 13, 2022

Tau Beta Pi Announces 2022 Teaching Award and Teaching Honor Roll

School News

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May 24, 2022

Robert B. Tucker, IT specialist to Stanford computer science, has died

School News

Mar 25, 2022

Stanford Engineering announces the winners of its annual staff awards

School News

Mar 2, 2022

Why AI must embody the values of its users

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society Issue #132

Feb 18, 2022

Stanford faculty elected to the National Academy of Engineering

School News

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Feb 9, 2022

How do you build a better robot? By understanding people.

Artificial Intelligence, Transportation & Robotics Issue #130

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Jan 27, 2022

Analyzing the ethical and societal impacts of proposed research

School News, Technology & Society Issue #130

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Jan 25, 2022

Kwabena Boahen: Curiosity is the way forward to new knowledge

School News

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Jan 13, 2022

John Hennessy receives the Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering

School News

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Jan 5, 2022

Gill Bejerano: How cryptogenomics advances both science and privacy

Health, Technology & Society

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Dec 13, 2021

Cynthia Lee: How to teach computer science

Computation & Data Issue #128

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Nov 22, 2021

Chelsea Finn: How to make artificial intelligence more meta

Artificial Intelligence Issue #127

An image of a robot holding an elderly person's hand

Nov 15, 2021

AI experts establish the “North Star” for the domestic robotics field

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society Issue #126

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Nov 3, 2021

Kayvon Fatahalian: How the pandemic changed the virtual world

Technology & Society Issue #129

Graduate students at Stanford School of Engineering

Sep 30, 2021

“Graduate school is one of the most exciting times in life”

School News

Stanford scholars say that technological innovation is not an inevitable force that exercises power over us. | Image by Stocksy/CACTUS Creative Studio

Sep 14, 2021

How to change the future of technology

Security, Technology & Society Issue #122

Computational prediction of the structures into which RNAs fold is important because so few structures are known. | Image by Camille L.L. Townshend

Aug 26, 2021

An algorithm predicts biological structures more accurately than ever

Computation & Data, Health

A new technology will make your phone much smarter. | Adobe Stock/elenabsl

Jul 29, 2021

New ‘AI-at-the-edge’ smartphone chip lives, and learns, close to home

Artificial Intelligence, Electronics & Networking, Technology & Society Issue #120

Automated speech police can score highly on technical tests but miss the mark with people, new research shows.

Jul 15, 2021

AI struggles to recognize toxic speech on social media. Here’s why.

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data, Technology & Society Issue #121

When engineers design for disability, everybody benefits. | Adobe Stock/zlikovec

Jun 24, 2021

How to engineer for inclusion

Technology & Society Issue #119

Each of the blocks in this quilt were designed using an algorithm-based tool developed by Stanford researchers. | Mackenzie Leake

Jun 4, 2021

Stanford algorithm helps modern quilters focus on creativity

Computation & Data

Some of the difficulty of building a social chatbot stems from the vast amount of skills that go into making meaningful human conversation. | Adobe Stock/terovesalainen

Apr 15, 2021

How to create better chatbot conversations

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society Issue #115

The future will be dominated by AI | iStock/mmustafabozdemir

Mar 29, 2021

Kunle Olukotun: How to make AI more democratic

Artificial Intelligence, Electronics & Networking, Technology & Society