Franklin is the inaugural holder of the Liew Family Chair of Computer Science. An authority on databases, data analytics, data management and distributed systems, he also serves as senior adviser...Read more

Neubauer and Liew families enhance UChicago’s ambitious approach to data-driven discovery

As part of a plan to greatly increase the scale, scope and impact of computer science research and education across the University community, the University of Chicago has appointed prominent...Read more

Children don’t have to be told that “cat” and “cats” are variants of the same word—they pick it up just by listening. To a computer, though, they’re as different as,...Read more

Kevin Leyton-Brown’s work suggests that algorithmic game theorists may not be using the best theoretic tools for addressing complex realistic problems. He proposes two pragmatic tools for such uses.Read more

A video game co-developed by University of Chicago undergraduate Sean Hogan is a finalist in the Entertainment Software Association’s inaugural E3 College Game Competition. Hogan’s game, “ Anodyne ,” will...Read more

Computer programming teams from across North America will compete for $12,000 in prize money, including a $4,500 grand prize, at the University of Chicago Invitational Programming contest April 14 and...Read more

This year a series of events around the world will celebrate the work of Alan Turing, the father of the modern computer, as the 100th anniversary of his birthday approaches...Read more

For the fourth year in a row, a team of three University of Chicago students has qualified for the World Finals of the International Collegiate Programming Contest , organized by...Read more

UChicago linguists use innovative tools to find the common features of languages.

Ian Foster is director of the Computation Institute, a joint institute of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory. He is also an Argonne Senior Scientist and Distinguished Fellow...Read more

Pat Hanrahan delivers a lecture as part of the Distinguished Speaker Series hosted by the Computer Science Department.Read more

Margo Seltzer delivers a lecture as part of The Distinguished Speaker Series hosted by the Computer Science Department.Read more

Joseph Hellerstein delivers a lecture as part of the University of Chicago Theory Seminars hosted by the Computer Science Department.Read more

University of Chicago Professor Partha Niyogi, who applied computation to the analysis of speech recognition, language evolution and data analysis, died Friday, Oct. 1, at his home in Chicago's Hyde...Read more

A Colloquium in the Department of Computer ScienceRead more

Todd Nugent delivers a lecture as part of the CSPP Lecture Series hosted by the Computer Science DepartmentRead more

Valentine Kabanets delivers a lecture as part of the University of Chicago Theory Seminars hosted by the Computer Science Department.Read more

Greg Shakhnarovich delivers a lecture as part of the University of Chicago Theory Seminars hosted by the Computer Science Department.Read more

Sergey Yekhanin delivers a lecture as part of the University of Chicago Theory Seminars hosted by the Computer Science Department.Read more