TAGGED Department of Computer Science

Rewind: Ahead of the Curve

The “father” of computer science at Johns Hopkins may be William H. Huggins, who encouraged university administrators to acquire the university’s first computer in the early 1960s, and he became a strong proponent of using computers as teaching tools.

Upstarts

Disruptive ideas, findings, and products.

The ‘Charlie Sheen Effect’

After actor Charlie Sheen disclosed his HIV-positive status on NBC’s Today show last November, millions took to the Internet to…

In High Regard

Jordan Green, an associate professor of biomedical engineering, was selected to receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers—the…

Meeting Needs in Rural India

When Param Shah ’18 traveled to the Himalayas in India on a service trip nearly three years ago, he was…

New Tools for Tapping Data

Vladimir Braverman likens the algorithms that he and his team are inventing to deal with massive amounts of streaming data…

Rare Variants in the Crosshairs

Ever since the first draft of the human genome was published nearly 15 years ago, researchers have been working hard…

New Leadership

The Whiting School announces two new department chairs and an interim chair: Yair Amir began as the new chair of…

‘Watch Bro’

Zhifei Li (PhD ’10) believes that computers should be able to see, hear, feel, and move. But, he adds, mostly…