This summer, our Department of Computer Science held its fifth successful REU on Computing for Health and Well-being, welcoming students from across the nation. Read our participant's first-hand accounts of their expeerience both in the program, and sharing their research at the Summer Undergraduate Research Conference (SURC).

Hear PhD student Sage Binder's report on presenting his research at the Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP) conference in Lisbon, Portugal this summer. ITP is just one of ten conferences that are part of the annual Federated Logic Conference (FLoC).

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.