News & Events
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View our recent news stories below. Looking for an upcoming event? Visit our website calendar to view our public events, including our weekly Seminar Series on Friday afternoons.
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CMU Researchers Help Launch Project To Improve Education
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science (SCS) are part of a nationwide project harnessing data from v...
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Hudson Named 2024 ACM Fellow
Professor Scott Hudson is one of 55 distinguished computer scientists named to the class of 2024 ACM Fellows by the Association for ...
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Rales HCI Fellows Bring Inclusive Technology to the Forefront of Industry
The Carnegie Mellon University Rales Fellows Program brings together some of the brightest minds from underrepresented groups in aca...
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Accessing Recipe Information Without Looking
"Cook until golden brown" is a recipe instruction virtually every home cook encounters. It's simple enough for sighted people to fol...
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SCS Research Highlights Kids' Role in AI
Seated at a laptop and surrounded by other students, a young girl asked an image generator powered by artificial intelligence to cre...
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HCII Seeks Applicants for 2025 Summer Research Program
Application available until mid-JanuaryThe Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) Summer Undergraduate Research program is an o...
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Future AR/VR Controllers Could Be the Palm of Your Hand
The new generation of augmented and virtual reality controllers may not just fit in the palm of your hand. They could be the palm of...
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HCII at HCOMP 2024
"Responsible Crowd Work for Better Artificial Intelligence (AI)” was the theme of the 12th annual AAAI Conference on Human Computati...
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SCS Faculty Receive Google Academic Research Awards
Nine School of Computer Science faculty members recently received Google Academic Research Awards, which aim to fund and actively co...
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HCII Highlights in The Link
The Link magazine from the CMU School of Computer Science is now available in mailboxes of alumni and friends, on newsstands in SCS ...
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Brewing Sustainability
It took a lot of coffee to power Mike Rivera’s push toward a doctorate degree in human-computer interaction at Carnegie Mellon. And ...
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HCII Seeks Capstone Sponsors for Spring 2025
Apply our future HCI leaders to your organization's challenges next year. The HCII invites companies, startups and nonprofits alike ...
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NIST Awards $6M to Carnegie Mellon University To Establish AI Cooperative Research Center
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced Sept.
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CMU Students launch HCI Ideas Podcast and Cards
Four Carnegie Mellon University undergraduate students took on a special project this summer to commemorate the 30th anniversary of ...
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CMU Releases Remastered 'Last Lecture'
Using AI, a CMU video systems engineer who worked with Randy Pausch revisited the inspirational The Last Lecture talk viewed by mill...
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HCII Alum Blends Fashion, Storytelling in Design Work
On a vacation to Australia in 2018, Ian Clark knew it was time for a change. He was working in real estate but had more creative amb...
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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 ...
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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, recent...
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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 vehi...
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Innovative Program Expands Reach with Grant from Richard King Mellon Foundation
The Carnegie Mellon University-based PLUS program, renowned for its innovative human+AI tutoring approach, has received a significan...