Computer Science News
Tulane to use artificial intelligence to study how nation’s schools are responding to coronavirus
Apr 24, 2020
Sharon Lurye
The U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences has awarded the National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice (REACH) at Tulane University a $100,000 contract to collect data from approximately 150,000 school websites across the country to see how the nation’s... more
Tulane professor hopes to demystify artificial intelligence
Mar 03, 2020
Barri Bronston
Nicholas Mattei, an assistant professor of computer science at Tulane University, wants to change the way people think about artificial intelligence. “I hope to ground the conversation about the impacts of artificial intelligence and technology on our society,” Mattei said. “Much of the popular... more
Tulane holds fifth annual Three Minute Thesis Competition
Nov 26, 2019
Tulane’s Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies hosted its fifth annual Three Minute Thesis competition for PhD students on Thursday, November 7th in the Kendall-Cram Lecture Hall. The competition cultivates doctoral students’ academic, presentation, and research communication skills and... more
Tulane researcher honored for work on AI ethics
May 07, 2019
Barri Bronston
As the role of artificial intelligence (AI) expands in daily life, so too does the need to engage in research into how to most effectively build AI technologies that align with positive values and ethics. That is one of the areas that Tulane University researcher Nicholas Mattei specializes in and... more
Engineering Expo showcases student inventions
Apr 19, 2018
Barri Bronston
They called their project TU Wheelies, and Tulane University biomedical engineering seniors beamed when they were invited to explain their invention. “The idea is to reduce the constraints that motorized wheelchair users face when traveling over uneven surfaces,” said Dana Kaplan, who teamed up on... more
Girl code: Tulane women share love for tech careers
Mar 14, 2018
Mary Cross
A flyer advertising a Python coding workshop on the uptown campus changed the career trajectory for one first-year student at Tulane University. “I had never coded in my life, but I thought that it sounded interesting so I took a chance and went,” said Tatiana Derouen, who is now a Tulane senior... more
Tulane University presents panel discussion on artificial intelligence
Jan 26, 2018
Barri Bronston
The advent and consequences of superhuman intelligence will be the subject of a panel discussion Feb. 1 from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at Freeman Auditorium, located in the Woldenberg Art Center on the uptown campus of Tulane University. The discussion is the opening program of the Conference on Artificial... more
Tulane awarded $3.67 million grant for quantum computing
Jan 02, 2018
Barri Bronston
Tulane University professor Michael Mislove has received a $3.67 million grant from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research to help develop cutting-edge technology related to quantum computing. The goal of the project is to develop tools and related methodologies for designing and... more
Global tech company sparks interest in artificial intelligence jobs
Nov 09, 2017
Mary Cross
Expert engineers from one of the world’s most influential technology companies encouraged Tulane students to pursue careers in data science and artificial intelligence Wednesday during the Intel Artificial Intelligence (AI) Workshop held on the uptown campus of Tulane University. The event was... more
Amped up for artificial intelligence
Mar 29, 2017
Leslie Cardé
Does the notion of artificial intelligence have you conjuring up Hollywood’s images of cyborgs, posing as humans, coming back from the future to change the fate of the world? Or is the mere concept of AI (as scientists refer to it) emblematic of a world in which sentient computers like HAL, from... more
Tulane to offer PhD in computer science
Mar 23, 2017
Barri Bronston
Computer science at Tulane University, eliminated after Hurricane Katrina but brought back in 2012, has taken another leap forward with the creation of a doctoral program that aims to produce leading researchers and further prepare computer scientists for the job market. “From the outset, our... more
Rules of the road for self-driving cars are more than staying in lanes
Jan 19, 2017
Mary Ann Travis
It’s the stuff of science fiction and futuristic film: Self-driving vehicles are taking to the roadways in droves. With the proliferation of vehicular automation, the role of computer scientists like Brent Venable, associate professor of computer science at Tulane University, is expanding. Computer... more
Tulane women in tech
May 25, 2016
Mary Ann Travis
It’s an industrywide problem: Fewer women than men practice computer science. Fast Company reported in March 2016 on a new study by the financial software and data firm Smart Asset that U.S. women make up only 26.5 percent of the tech workforce. And women earn, on average, just 85 percent of what... more