Computer Science

4,000 Robots Roam the Oceans, Climate in Their Crosshairs

IEEE Spectrum: In the puzzle of climate change, Earth’s oceans are an immense and crucial piece. The oceans act as an enormous reservoir of both heat and carbon dioxide, the most abundant greenhouse gas. But gathering accurate and sufficient data about…

What Sheryl Sandberg’s Exit Reveals About Women’s Progress in Tech

New York Times: When Sheryl Sandberg said this week that she was resigning as chief operating officer of Meta, she also reflected on her legacy as a woman in tech. “I’m especially proud that this is a company where many, many exceptional…

How Physicists Are Using Quantum Computers to Hunt for Quantum Gravity

Discover Magazine: One of science’s great challenges is to reconcile the two theories that form the foundation of modern physics. These are quantum field theory, which governs the universe on the smallest scale, and general relativity, which governs the universe on…

Johns Hopkins PhD Student Named Apple Scholar

The Hub - Johns Hopkins University: Elizabeth Salesky, a third-year computer science PhD student at the Whiting School of Engineering, has been named a 2022 Apple Scholar in AI/ML—artificial intelligence and machine learning. One of just 15 graduate students at universities around the world to…