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    Understanding Data Science Critical for Life, Education

    CMU experts turn everyday educators into data scientists Teachers and administrators have access to more data on how their students are l...

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  • Falling Walls logo, 3 pieces of grey stone wall falling backwards

    Yao’s Seed Carrier Shortlisted for Science Breakthrough of the Year Award

    Lining Yao, the Cooper-Siegel associate professor in the School of Computer Science's Human-Computer Interaction Institute, and her E-seed...

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  • ANTprivacy.org provides thousands of charts, providing visitors with an easy-to-understand roadmap of how apps collect and share data. In this example, the chart highlights TikTok’s data collection practices, revealing that the social media app collects network, device, and general data, which is then sent to four cloud services owned by a total of three companies.

    New website highlights thousands of Android apps’ data collection practices

    Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have launched a new website, offering Android users an easy and convenient way to see how their ...

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  • collage of 13 portraits of our graduating PhD students and postdocs leaving as of spring 2023

    Celebrating Our Recent PhD Graduates and Postdocs

    With another academic year behind us, it is time to wish a new class of graduates well on their professional journey. The HCII is proud t...

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  • Personalized Learning Squared uses software from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute's LearnLab to connect students and tutors, providing real-time data about each student's activity so tutors can assist, if necessary.

    CMU's PLUS Program Expands to Multiple Schools, Community Centers

    Not all students will ask for help when they're struggling, but more of them can get the support they need thanks to the expanded reach of...

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  • SCS researchers worked with Black girls to better understand their ideas about AI. As part of the research, the girls designed humanoid AI-powered robots, which displayed hairstyles similar to the learners’ — a robot representation not often shown in popular media.

    AI Should Be Kind and Fair, Young Black Girls Tell CMU Researchers

    When asked about future uses for artificial intelligence, a group of fifth- and sixth-grade Black students attending a summer camp at Carn...

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  • Our faculty and students routinely earn top honors for their research and teaching excellence. We celebrate their successes and value their contributions to furthering computer science and its related fields.

    Spring 2023 Awards Roundup

    SCS faculty and students win awards, grants and recognition every day. Here's a look — neither exhaustive nor abbreviated — at who won wha...

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  • Norman Bier and John Stamper stand on the concrete steps in front of the CMU Mellon College of Science building

    CMU Team Wins $1M XPRIZE Digital Learning Challenge

    Carnegie Mellon University learning science researchers John Stamper, Norman Bier and 

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  • Researchers in the HCII used comics to explore how community-centered AI design can include both the people experiencing homelessness and the frontline workers who use AI to help them.

    CMU Researchers Use Comics To Explain AI-Supported Public Housing System to People Who Need It Most

    As artificial intelligence becomes more accessible and prevalent in everyday life, the humans who use it should still be central to its im...

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  • The AI Institute for Societal Decision Making will improve the response to societal challenges such as disaster management and public health by creating human-centric AI tools to assist with critical decisions. The institute will also develop training to bolster effective and rapid response in uncertain and dynamic situations.

    Carnegie Mellon Leads NSF AI Institute for Societal Decision Making

    Artificial intelligence tools have increasingly aided emergency managers, public health officials and other professionals tasked with maki...

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  • SCS faculty members were honored at this week's Celebration of Education Awards Ceremony.

    SCS Faculty Honored at Carnegie Mellon's Celebration of Education

    School of Computer Science faculty members took home top accolades when Carnegie Mellon University honored faculty, staff and students at ...

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  • HCII researchers collaborated with physicians and colleagues from the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC to determine if AI could help physicians make decisions in the ICU — and if clinicians would even trust such assistance. (Photo courtesy of Polina Tankilevitch.)

    AI in the ICU

    Researchers Develop AI-Based System To Recommend Clinical Treatments Clinicians in an intensive care unit need to make complex decisions ...

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  • To ease the friction caused by reduced in-person interaction, a team of HCII researchers created a Slack application called Nooks that helps initiate casual conversations and create affinity groups in an online workspace.

    Reviving Office Chatter

    Researchers Design Tool to Enhance Workplace Socialization in Remote, Hybrid Arrangements About one-third of our lives are spent at work,...

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  • Zeno combines a Python API with an interactive user interface, which empowers users to explore, visualize and analyze data and ML model performance across custom use cases.

    CMU Researchers Release Zeno for Machine Learning Model Evaluation

    A team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers has released a new interactive platform for data management and machine learning (ML) eva...

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  • Carnegie Mellon logo (red text) and CHI 2023 logo (a red and yellow sailboat)

    CMU at CHI 2023

    The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems will take place from April 23-28, 2023, in Hamburg, Germany. Commonly known a...

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  • Funding from Amazon SURE will support three SCS summer research initiatives on campus, including Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Software Engineering (REUSE). The REUSE 2022 cohort is shown above.

    CMU, Amazon Expand STEM Summer Research Programs for Underrepresented Students

    Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science and Amazon are working together to expand the university's summer research program...

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  • SCS faculty members Andrej Risteski, Wenting Zheng, Jun-Yan Zhu, Matthew O'Toole (top), Sauvik Das, Zhihao Jia, Dimitrios Skarlatos and Hirokazu Shirado (bottom) have received NSF CAREER Awards totaling more than $4.5 million.

    SCS Faculty Receive More Than $4.5M in NSF CAREER Awards

    Eight Carnegie Mellon University researchers in the School of Computer Science recently earned Faculty Early Career Development Program (C...

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  • Researchers at Carnegie Mellon have created soft robots that can seamlessly shift from walking to swimming.

    Researchers Develop Soft Robot That Shifts From Land to Sea With Ease

    Most animals can quickly transition from walking to jumping to crawling to swimming if needed without reconfiguring or making major adjust...

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  • a rabbit and a turtle are the icons often referenced when representing fast versus slow; here a real rabbit and real turtle are facing each other

    The Myth of the Fast Learner

    Learning science experts from Carnegie Mellon University's Human Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) wanted to know why some students le...

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  • HCII faculty member Chris Harrison earned the UIST Lasting Impact Award for his 2011 work on OmniTouch, a wearable system that turns everyday surfaces into an interactive screen.

    Harrison Earns Lasting Impact Award for Turning Everyday Surfaces Into Touch Screens

    Good technology takes time to get right. When widespread use of touch screens skyrocketed around 2007, for example, the research had been ...

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