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Chenhao Tan and Jason Shuo Zhang studied several years’ worth of data from r/nba, Reddit’s go-to platform for discussions of all things basketball. They discovered that tossing fans of opposing basketball teams together online may not be a good way to help them get along. In fact, the more those fans interacted, the group found, the more negative their comments became.

Associate Professor Aaron Clauset was honored with the University of Colorado Boulder Provost’s Faculty Achievement Award earlier this month for his co-authored paper “ Scale-free networks are rare ” in Nature Communications. The paper challenged the network science “scale free” paradigm, which asserts that all networks, regardless of origin, exhibit...

Senior computer science major Stacy Hayes is attracted to cybersecurity because it is a constantly evolving field that, as she says, will never be fully figured out.

Senior computer science major Chris Hill recently became part of the first cohort of Google’s CS Research Mentorship Program, through which he’ll be paired with a researcher at one of the world’s top tech companies. But it’s not his first experience with mentorship.

Cecilia Mauceri, a PhD student in the Autonomous Robotics and Perception Group , will be one of just 200 young researchers from across the globe in attendance at next week’s Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Germany. The forum gives a select group of PhD students and postdoctoral researchers the chance to...

Bhavna Chhabra (CompSci'95) joined Google in 2016 as an engineering manager.

Thirty years and one day after she joined the CU Boulder faculty, computer science’s Elizabeth Jessup retires today.

The findings, published in the ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education in February, draws from surveys of students in introductory computing courses at seven geographically dispersed community colleges nationwide and was produced by researchers Wendy DuBow and Beth Quinn.

A team of researchers from the Department of Computer Science, the Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering and the Technology, Cybersecurity and Policy program discovered a back door through which hackers might mimic presidential alerts.

Pana, co-founded by Devon Tivona (CompSci'14), helps coordinate the booking and scheduling processes for flights, hotels and more through a chat-based online and mobile platform.