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    SCS Launches 'Does Compute' Podcast

    Computer science has fueled the innovations of the past decades and will drive the breakthroughs yet to come. The field of ones and zeros ...

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    Mayank Goel Presents at World Economic Forum Summer Gathering in China

    Mayank Goel, an associate professor in the Software and Societal Systems Department and Human-Computer Interaction Institute, recently att...

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    SCS Researchers Partner with Mass Transit Operators for Better Technology

    Carnegie Mellon University researchers are designing the future of transit with people who operate buses and other mass transit vehicles. ...

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    Siri, It Hurts When You Constantly Misunderstand Me. You too, Alexa

    Users of voice assistants such as Siri, Alexa or Google Assistant know the frustration of being misunderstood by a machine. But for people...

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    Team University Hospitals

    Patients receiving Mohs surgery are currently provided written and verbal instructions and are sent home to perform wound-care. The issue at hand is that ...

  • 5 students on the Mentoring Partnership team stand in the front of the classrom on presentation day
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    Team Mentoring Partnership

    We are working closely with The Mentoring Partnership (TMP), a nonprofit organization that serves local mentoring programs in Southwest Pennsylvania. We s...

  • MHCI South Fayette team wearing visitor name badges on a visit to the school
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    Team South Fayette

    We are designing a course catalog for the future to encourage students to develop their self-identity, to inspire confidence, and to explore new classes. ...

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    Team Princeton University

    Taming The Terabytes - Addressing Research Data Management Problem at Princeton UniversityDo you have data that is messy? Like your desktop or your camera...