Juan Pablo Hourcade, professor of computer science at the University of Iowa, weighs in on whether or not AI Smart Glasses are appropriate for children to wear at school in this Education Week article.

We are proud to host one of our CLAS' Ida Beam visiting professors this week, Dr. Cristopher Moore. In addition to his recent public lecture on "Transparency and Fairness in AI for Criminal Justice," he will be the featured speaker at our CS Colloquium on Friday, Sept. 11, at 3:30pm in SH140 on the topic: ""Easy, Hard, and Impossible: Phase Transitions in Computation."

In June, Ian Pope presented at ICHI, a conference for healthcare informatics, about data-driven hearing devices.

“In this project, we want to develop AI systems that can not only recognize and describe important events in videos but also explain their reasoning in a way that people can understand and verify,” explains Dr. Muchao Ye.

Our PhD students Akash Choudhuri and Hieu Vu recently returned from presenting their research at the KDD (Knowledge, Discovery, and Data Mining) 2026 Conference in Jeju Island, South Korea. Read more about their trip.

Scroll to the third item to read about construction progress on our new CS home (in Fall 2027). We will be occupying a new wing at the current IATL building, and sharing portions of the existing space with other programs.

As manufacturing becomes more automated, intelligent, and interconnected, robots, sensors, machines, controllers, and computers increasingly need to exchange information and coordinate their actions in real time.

Fleck joined UIowa's Dept. of Computer Science faculty in 1965, the inaugural year of that department, and eventually served two terms as Chair, publishing numerous papers and books on computer science and its history.

The Department of Computer Science is grateful for the generosity of donors who make our many scholarships possible. We're especially proud of our 2026-27 scholarship recipients.

The challenge in distributed random sampling is to ensure that the computed random choices are unbiased, even when the task is scaled to run in parallel over multiple machines.