Celebrate researchers of diverse backgrounds at Widening NLP 2020! Join us for a mentorship session, panel discussion, and a virtual social. Registration is free. winlp.ling.washington.edu/survey/index.p… #winlp_aacl_ijcnlp_2020

if you like cats... boredpanda.com/cats-being-jer…

amusing encapsulation of our times:

pardon in a can...theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

these will make you smile...boredpanda.com/cute-cats-slee…

too good to miss...

Dogs are back. cbsnews.com/news/joe-biden…

i laughed the whole way thru this one :-) theguardian.com/us-news/2021/f…

such a great fellow: hackaday.com/2021/02/17/jam…

truly hilarious (thanks steve!) youtube.com/watch?v=0ctZPN…

these are cats you would never believe!! urldefense.com/v3/__https:/yo…$

another video to make us smile! coconuts.co/bangkok/news/t…

from homayoon beigi and the Artists4Peace team: New Edition of Artists4Peace.org: Nowruz, Tribute to G.H. Aslani

Al Aho and Jeff Ullman win the Turing award!!! What fantastic news ColumbiaCompSci Columbia Engineering Columbia University nytimes.com/2021/03/31/tec…

Cats at Work! theguardian.com/us-news/2021/m…

It is hard to speak of friends in the past tense. This week we lost Naftali Tishby. Tali was a remarkable person in so many ways, and he leaves a legacy of work at the borders of physics, computer science, and neuroscience.

a truly remarkable demonstration about major problems in AI: youtu.be/QxuyfWoVV98

Really happy to report that Columbia Computer Science majors as of the end of Fall 2021 are 48.33% women -- a result of our wonderful teaching faculty and students of instruction!

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Excited to see this The New York Times coverage! Social robots help students with autism and learning disabilities in the classroom. #AI in #specialeducation is paving the way for tangible societal good. nyti.ms/3NNlcGO