Comp sci majors increase by 12 percent, reflecting national trend

It’s a realization by students that "if you don’t have some rooting in information and computer science, no matter what your field of endeavor is, you’re not going to be competitive,” one computer science professor said.

By Jeremy Budd | Feb 7 04:03 am ET

Coders get to work for week-long DevFest

The student-run Application Development Initiative is hosting the application development competition, for which about 180 people registered.

By Margaret Mattes | Jan 30 12:23 am ET

CU hackers compete in all-night dev fest

At HackNY, a 24-hour application development competition, Justin Hines and Mason Silber, both CC ’13, created ArtByBit, an app that outputs a painting’s time period, artist, and more when the work is photographed.

By Sara Garner and Miles Johnson | Oct 3 12:34 am ET

Professor’s work leads to animation advances

Columbia professor Eitan Grinspun and his team have pioneered computer programming techniques that have changed medical research—and advanced Disney animation.

By Finn Vigeland | Sep 28 03:07 am ET

Computing at Columbia

Could the next great innovation in computing come from Columbia University?

Less than 10 years ago, I used a telephone modem to connect to the Internet, and AltaVista to search for music to download. Google was still third to Ask Jeeves and Yahoo!. But in those 10 short years, an explosion of technology and creativity led to the development of our modern computing world, bringing forth incredible ideas such as mobile Web access and video chat.

By Akiva Bamberger | Dec 2 10:48 pm ET