Computer Science

New research offers clues to what goes on inside the minds of machines as they learn to see. A method developed by Cynthia Rudin's lab reveals how much a neural network calls to mind different concepts as an image travels through the network’s layers.

December 15, 2020

Accurate Neural Network Computer Vision Without The ‘Black Box’

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Faculty Scholars for 2020: Ce'Ondra Ellison, Xiaochen Du and Jamal Burns.

December 2, 2020

Three Undergraduates Named Faculty Scholars for Outstanding Records of Research

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Graphics based on Brandon Xie's list designed by Nina Wilder '20.

November 30, 2020

The Greatest Movies, By the Numbers

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Lu Qi, an Electrical and Computer Engineering Postdoctoral Fellow in the Brown Lab works on a quantum computer setup.

November 12, 2020

Duke Is Building a World-Class Team for the Quantum Computing Race

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An overlay of six X-ray crystal structures of DNA shows that regular (Watson-Crick) and mismatched DNA are similarly bent by the transcription factor TBP. However, the mismatched DNA is highly preferred by the protein because it is easier to distort.

October 21, 2020

Transcription Factors May Inadvertently Lock in DNA Mistakes

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October 12, 2020

Duke Launches Center to Bring Computational Thinking to All Students

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Michael Reiter

September 17, 2020

Michael Reiter: Cybersecurity Is a Moving Target

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September 1, 2020

Student-Created App Helps You Find Black-Owned Businesses

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New faculty member Nicki Washington

August 24, 2020

The Final Frontier: New Course Addresses Lack of Inclusion in Computer Science

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DTech Scholars Alethea Toh, Diane Hu and Alanna Robinson in Seattle in 2019

August 24, 2020

The Duke Technology Scholars Community Is Broad, Strong, Resilient

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William Reynolds

June 23, 2020

New Zealand Student Came to Duke With a Vision About Emerging Technology

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computer science class of NOrth Carolina youths

June 15, 2020

Bringing Computer Science Education to Young Students in North Carolina

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This AI turns blurry pixelated photos into hyperrealistic portraits that look like real people. The system automatically increases any image's resolution up to 64x, ‘imagining’ features such as pores and eyelashes that weren’t there in the first place.

June 11, 2020

Artificial Intelligence Makes Blurry Faces Look More Than 60 Times Sharper

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Duke students Anmol Warman ’22 and Pranav Warman ’20 have trained a computer to spot the telltale signs of COVID-19 in lung scans and rule out other infections that look similar to the human eye.

May 31, 2020

Duke Students Taught a Computer to Detect COVID-19 in Lung Scans

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2020 Bass Fellows : (from left to right) Sheila Patek, Jun Yang, Brenton Hoffman, Gregory Samanez-Larkin and Christine Payne

April 23, 2020

Five New Bass Professors Named for Excellence in Teaching and Research

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Michelle Mosberger performs push-ups at her home in Hillsborough. Photo courtesy of Michelle Mosberger.

April 20, 2020

How to Fit in Fitness During Physical Distancing

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