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At a hackathon in Boulder this week, dozens of data and climate scientists came together to work on how to better predict extreme storms like Hurricane Florence. The hackathon was part of the 8th International Workshop on Climate Informatics, hosted at the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s Mesa Lab.

The University of Colorado Boulder and Oregon State University have entered the planning stage for a new industry-focused Pervasive Personalized Intelligence center. The center would allow for interdisciplinary and collaborative research on machine-learning based software systems and aid in long-term partnerships between startups, corporations, universities and government agencies. Industry members...

Results could have implications for efforts to prevent and treat dangerous encounters between humans and snakes, especially as climate patterns shift across the western United States.

Casey Fiesler consulted with toymaker Mattel on a book that accompanies Robotics Engineer Barbie and explains the basics of coding.

CU Boulder researcher Josh Grochow co-authors study and wiki on recent advances and open questions regarding thermodynamics and computation.

Nine ATLAS nominated Ben Shapiro, assistant professor of computer science with the ATLAS Institute, for the 2018 Sullivan-Carlson Innovation in Education Award.

Telling a story to a stuffed zebra might look like just a fun kids’ activity. But for computer science PhD student Layne Jackson Hubbard, it’s much more – it’s a way for kids to develop language, social and cognitive skills. And she’s not alone in that assessment. Her startup, MindScribe...

A new method, developed by the CyberSafety Research Center, combines several different computing tools to scan massive amounts of social media data, sending alerts to parents or network administrators that abuse has occurred.

Update: Congratulations to BeautiBook on their third-place win at the NVC ! For many people, makeup is more than a daily routine – it’s an art form. To help aspiring makeup artists, senior computer science majors Deekshitha Thumma and Rachel Platt have designed an app for sharing, organizing and discovering...

David Haussler (PhDCompSci’82) and his team posted the first publicly available human genome sequence on the Internet in 2000.