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  • view of the crowd and stage on the football field during the 2026 CMU Commencement ceremony

    Commencement 2026: ‘Shape What Comes Next’

    Carnegie Mellon University conferred more than 5,800 undergraduate and graduate degrees at its 128th Commencement ceremony on Sunday, May ...

  • A woman writes on a dry erase board while a man with crossed arms looks on.

    CMU Tool Prevents Anxiety Spirals When Searching for Medical Advice Online

    Reddit isn't a doctor, but that doesn't stop people from turning to it for medical questions. And since people won't change their behavior...

  • Three people sit around a laptop, working.

    Design Tweaks That Keep Students Learning

    Getting a question wrong might be the best thing that can happen to a student, if they try again. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon Universit...

  • Four people sit around a table, playing a card game.

    Job Interviews, But Make It a Game Night

    A team of recent graduates from Carnegie Mellon University turned career prep into a card game. Terrible Workers helps middle and high sch...

  • Stock image of the Gates Hillman Center looking up at it on a sunny summer day.

    Fujitsu, CMU Launch Joint Center for Physical AI

    At the center, Fujitsu and CMU will jointly advance research and development of core technologies to enhance the capabilities and scalabil...

  • Figure 1 from the EcoAssist paper, which shows the interface with callouts beside the in-line energy highlights and recommendations in the code

    EcoAssist Shows Devs Greener Ways to Code

    The environmental impact of the internet continues to climb. Every line of code written for a website leads to power consumption and energ...

  • the three authors work together on a laptop

    Rethinking PDF Accessibility From the Ground Up

    Researchers in the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science have developed a system that automatically improves PDF accessibi...

  • AI assistant in the room

    The AI Is in the Room

    In this ghost story, there is no haunted mansion. No candles mysteriously snuffed out. No strange things going bump in the night or glimps...

  • multicolor CHI 2026 logo. The conference will be held in Barcelona, Spain from April 13-17

    CMU at CHI 2026

    This year, authors from CMU contributed to 76 papers accepted to CHI, including 12 award-winning papers. “The interdisciplinary CHI confer...

  • A woman writes on a dry erase board while two colleagues look on.

    When an AI Bot Becomes Your Boss

    Artificial intelligence isn't likely to replace managers in the workplace, but it can help with routine tasks, a study by researchers in C...

  • view from the back of a full large seminar room, instructor stands at the front near the digital screen

    Application Opens for 2026 LearnLab Summer School

    This intensive, one-week program gives participants hands-on experience building advanced educational technologies and tutoring systems to...

  • SIGCHI Awards 2026

    Bigham, Dabbish and Harrison Join CHI Academy

    Three faculty members from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) have been named to the CHI Academy this year, an honorary group...

  • The back of a man's upper body as he works at a laptop, the screen of which says 'Welcome, Naveen.'

    PeerCoPilot Uses AI To Support Community Mental Health Care

    Researchers have developed an AI-powered chatbot designed both with and specifically for people working in behavioral health. The chatbot,...

  • Saffer and Martelaro, the 2 faculty podcast hosts, in side by side zoom windows while recording one of the episodes

    Q&A with AI & Design Podcast Hosts

    For professional designers and product managers in 2026, keeping pace with the advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and design fee...

  • screenshot of a visual from the Playing Telephne paper that illustrates one chart and 2 interpretations by ChatGPT and Claude

    DIG Lab at VIS 2025

    DIG Lab authors contributed to five papers at VIS 2025 and Dominik Moritz was recognized with a 10-year test of time award for the Voyager...

  • the CSCW 2025 logo on a large screen on stage at the front of a conference

    CMU at CSCW 2025

    Carnegie Mellon University authors contributed to 27 papers accepted to the 2025 ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and...

  • a group of 12 people - students, faculty and alumni collaborators - are seated around a round table smiling and facing the camera

    CMU at ASSETS 2025

    The Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS) is an interdisciplinary research...

  • A screen capture from a video shows a column titled nurses with photos of nurses (all women) and a column of images depicting doctors (all men).

    Empowering Everyday Folks To Audit AI

    Researchers from the CMU School of Computer Science developed a tool that helps users test AI tools to discover issues like biases that de...

  • four of the authors of the Voyager paper receive the 5 Year InfoVis Award

    Voyager Paper Earns InfoVis Test of Time Award

    A foundational research paper that changed how people explore data has been recognized for its long-term impact, a decade after its public...

  • summer 2025 students stand on the green stairs in the atrium

    HCII Seeks Applicants for 2026 Summer Research Program

    The Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) Summer Undergraduate Research program is an opportunity for students to spend a summer wit...