Computer Science
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BYU student-driven 1918 dataset details how pandemics spread
BYU professors and students developed a tool that can auto-index the cause of death from death certificates.
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Water animation gets easier thanks to BYU professors
Computer science professors at BYU developed a method to quickly resize 4D animations of fluids without having to completely re-simulate the entire sequence.
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100 years later: Find out who in your family was a WWI veteran
Joshua Seth Hunt grew up knowing he carried the namesake of his great granduncle, Moroni Seth McConkie, who was killed in a French train accident while serving in World War I.
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BYU internet security research garners Facebook praise
You know the green lock in the corner of your browser? That symbol represents thousands of lines of code program developers went through to encrypt your data so an attacker cannot read or modify it. The software used to make your Web communication secure is notoriously hard for developers to use, but a BYU team developed a new system that cuts the thousands of lines of code down to just a few.
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BYU students win E3 game competition
With their genre-bending "Beat Boxers," BYU animation students take the top prize at E3's College Game Competition.
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"Alexa, can we have a real conversation?"
A team of computer science students is one of eight selected to compete in Amazon’s Alexa Prize Challenge. They were given a $250,000 grant and tasked with programming a bot who can hold a conversation on a range of popular topics.
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Let’s make a deal: Could AI compromise better than humans?
BYU researchers developed an algorithm that teaches machines not just to win games, but to cooperate and compromise — and sometimes do a little trash-talking too.
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Researchers use Wikipedia to give AI context clues
A team of BYU computer scientists is teaching artificial intelligence agents how to interact with the world in a way that makes sense.
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How secure are your messages?
Researchers at BYU have learned that most users of popular messaging apps are leaving themselves exposed to hacking and fraud because they aren’t using important security options.
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Training computers, helping humans
Three BYU professors recently received Career Awards: the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious award for junior faculty.
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Student-created budgeting app will finally save your budget
You’ve tried it all: spreadsheets, software, the envelope system. And despite your best efforts, it seems like every month you blow your budget. One BYU student wants you to give it one more shot, using his budgeting app.
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3D Printing for Dummies
What you sculpt is what you get.
A new method of 3D printing created by Computer Science Professors Michael Jones and Kevin Seppi removes the amount of skill required to design an object for 3D printing.
A new method of 3D printing created by Computer Science Professors Michael Jones and Kevin Seppi removes the amount of skill required to design an object for 3D printing.
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Email Privacy: Finding the Balance Between Secure and Usable
When it comes to email security, sending an email is more similar to sending a postcard than a letter in a sealed envelope. A team of BYU computer scientists were honored for their research to make encrypting email easier.
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Using Nature to Nurture Robots
BYU researchers were inspired by Mother Nature in their quest to design movement patterns for a small army of robots. The computer scientists programmed the robots to mimic flocks of birds and schools of fish.
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BYU researchers improve genome assembly, stumble upon signatures for genetic disorders
A team of computer scientists at BYU looking for a better way to assemble DNA sequences was successful in more ways than one.
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BYU computer scientist earns distinction of being "Highly Cited"
Computer science professor Thomas Sederberg has been designated a "Highly Cited Researcher," earning a ranking among the top 1 percent most cited of all publishing scholars in his field.
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