Does anyone know when noise was created? Well, whenever it was created, Purim is the holiday when noise is celebrated. Children, of course, had always entertained themselves on Purim with noise to drown out the name of the evil Haman. Swinging a gragger became an art on Purim, with variations on a鈥
The Straus Center celebrated the launch of 鈥淛ewish Roots of American Liberty: The Impact of Hebraic Ideas on the American鈥 story with Ruth Wisse, Ari Lamm, Ilana Kurshan and Elliot Kaufman.
Researchers in the Department of Graduate Computer Science and Engineering will present a new AI system that turns written text into spoken word at the Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, one of the top international conferences in artificial intelligence.
Ayelet Friedman (SCW 鈥27) spent Summer 2025 interning at the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA) and in the office of Senator Dave McCormick (R-PA).
AI master's student Puspita Chowdhury's research project, presented recently at the Stevens Institute of Technology, aims to help doctors identify brain tumors faster and more accurately using computer assistance.
Ashish Yakub Beary, a student in Katz College鈥檚 M.S. in Data Analytics and Visualization, uses artificial intelligence in a practical, human-centered way. His program lets people ask questions in plain English and get clear answers drawn directly from official school documents.
Straus Scholar Elisha Price (YC 鈥28) spent the Fall 2025 semester as a research assistant to Dr. Tevi Troy, gaining hands-on experience in historical research, political analysis and the production of scholarly and public-facing writing.
A study by researchers in the Katz College鈥檚 Department of Graduate Computer Science and Engineering discusses medical image segmentation, which teaches a computer to look at a medical image, such as a colonoscopy image or an MRI scan, and clearly outline areas of interest.