Stories by Chris Piech

Chris Piech is an assistant professor of computer science at Stanford University. He was raised in Kenya and Malaysia. His research uses machine learning to understand human learning.

Computing

How We Got More Than 10,000 Students from 120 Countries to Embrace the Joy of Coding

Stanford is offering its popular computer science intro course for free—and you can help teach it

March 14, 2021 — Chris Piech, Mehran Sahami, Julie Zelenski and Lisa Einstein | Opinion

Policy

Why AI Needs to Be Able to Understand All the World’s Languages

The benefits of mobile technology are not accessible to most of the world’s 700 million illiterate people

February 1, 2021 — Moussa Doumbouya, Lisa Einstein and Chris Piech | Opinion

Behavior

A Vision of AI for Joyful Education

Here’s how we can avert the dangers and maximize the benefits of this powerful but still emerging technology

February 26, 2020 — Chris Piech and Lisa Einstein | Opinion