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Soon, there’ll be a faster, more efficient chip for every task, but it’ll take industry-wide cooperation to get there. | Stocksy/Cosma Andrei

Sep 21, 2021

Priyanka Raina: How computer chips get speedier through specialization

Computation & Data, Electronics & Networking

A new algorithm can help drones and other similar low-power robots decide when and when not to off-load their AI tasks. | iStock/evandrorigon

Sep 16, 2021

Solving the robot off-loading problem

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data

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

Biondi’s sensor arrays are so sensitive they can detect sinkholes, landslides and even the rumblings of failing infrastructure. | iStock/rottadana

Aug 24, 2021

Biondo Biondi: How to measure an earthquake through the internet

Computation & Data, Security, Technology & Society

The surgical room in Israel where one of the kidney transplants took place. | Image courtesy of Itai Ashlagi

Aug 12, 2021

Engineers develop a new algorithm to aid kidney transplant exchanges

Computation & Data, Health, Technology & Society

Aug 9, 2021

Emmanuel Candès: How to increase certainty in predictive modeling

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

How do we move past silicon? | Stocksy/Javier Pardina

Jul 19, 2021

Srabanti Chowdhury: New forms of semiconductors are key to the future

Computation & Data, Electronics & Networking

Lo is helping San Francisco create an algorithm to assign kids more fairly to public schools across economic and other boundaries. | Unsplash/Alex

Jul 16, 2021

Irene Lo: How math makes markets fairer

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

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

This next phase of semiconductor discovery will transcend electrical engineering and involve many other academic disciplines. | Stocksy/PER Images

Jul 8, 2021

Can Stanford University help solve the global semiconductor crisis?

Computation & Data, Electronics & Networking, Technology & Society

Technology can improve transparency and build patient trust. | Stocksy/Sean Locke

Jun 14, 2021

Tina Hernandez-Boussard: How data improves the quality of health care

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data, Health

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

Television and film editors could use powerful, new editing technologies to forgo costly reshoots. | Adobe Stock/Framestock

May 4, 2021

Maneesh Agrawala: How AI is changing video editing

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data, Technology & Society

With applications in health care, forensic genetics, and human evolution, mathematical biology is more relevant than ever. | Stocksy/Liliya Rodnikova

May 3, 2021

Noah Rosenberg: How biology is becoming more mathematical

Computation & Data, Health, Technology & Society

The technique puts new power in the hands of engineers. “How they will use it is up to them,” says Professor Shanhui Fan. | Stocksy/Sam Burton

Apr 23, 2021

A new optical device enables engineers to fine tune the color of light

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data

The transition to 5G will affect every device connected to the internet, including drones. | Adobe Stock/Andy Dean

Mar 25, 2021

A new initiative aims to ensure 5G networks are reliable and secure

Computation & Data, Security, Transportation & Robotics

Scholars of natural language processing are exploring the human emotions and social meanings behind the words we use. | Stocksy/CACTUS Creative Studio

Mar 12, 2021

Dan Jurafsky: How AI is changing our understanding of language

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data, Technology & Society

Photonic components need to become much smaller and cheaper to compete with silicon. | Adobe Stock/Amgun

Feb 9, 2021

David Miller: How light could transform computing

Computation & Data, Materials

Researchers hope to develop robots to help patients dress and undress. How do we teach them skills that children must learn? | Stocksy/Amanda Worrall

Jan 15, 2021

Karen Liu: How robots perceive the physical world

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data

Hardware and software innovations give eight chips the illusion that they’re one mega-chip working together to run AI. | Stocksy/Javier Pardina

Jan 11, 2021

New hybrid chips can run AI on battery-powered devices

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data

A protoype of the RT-ELISA, essentially an entire lab within a chip with tiny pipes and valves no wider than a human hair | Photo by Caitlin Maikawa

Jan 4, 2021

A new lab-on-a-chip turns blood test snapshots into continuous movies

Computation & Data, Electronics & Networking, Health

The future of materials science lies at the heart of a computer algorithm. | Adobe Stock/ingara

Dec 11, 2020

Evan Reed: How to discover a magic material

Computation & Data, Materials

The complexity of bedside care | iStock/Jennifer Kosig

Sep 9, 2020

AI-controlled sensors could save lives in ‘smart’ hospitals and homes

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data, Health

In comparing conventional holography with a camera-in-the-loop neural approach, the latter significantly improves image quality. | Image courtesy of HAI

Aug 20, 2020

Using AI to Revolutionize Real-Time Holography

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data