November 25, 2025

Fellows are Optica members who have served with distinction in the advancement of optics and photonics. Francesca was elected for her pioneering contributions to the field of high-speed optical communications and optical signal processing.

November 7, 2025

Choukse was recognized for her foundational contributions to hardware memory compression and to sustainable and efficient datacenter systems.

November 6, 2025

The 2025–2026 Joseph O. Hirschfelder Prize in Theoretical Chemistry was awarded to Dr. Frank Noé, Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research AI for Science on October 21, 2025 at the Hirschfelder Award Banquet held at Maple Bluff Country Club. The…

September 23, 2025

Noé is a pioneer in integrating artificial intelligence with theoretical chemistry.

September 18, 2025

September 8, 2025

Tian led the development of MatterGen, our generative AI model for materials discovery.

June 22, 2025

The HCII2025 Conference is proud to announce Susan Dumais as the 2025 recipient of the 'HCI MEDAL FOR SOCIETAL IMPACT'. Susan is a pioneering researcher whose work has reshaped information retrieval, search engines, and human-computer interaction, while her innovations have…

May 7, 2025

The American Philosophical Society (APS), the oldest and most distinguished learned society in North America, is pleased to announce the election of 38 new Members in 2025. These new Members represent outstanding achievement in the sciences, humanities, social sciences, and…

April 30, 2025

“Flikker: saving DRAM refresh-power through critical data partitioning” was one of the first papers in the field of approximate computing, and attempted to bridge the worlds of dependability and energy efficiency.