News & Events
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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CMU at CSCW 2025
Carnegie Mellon University authors contributed to 27 papers accepted to the 2025 ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and...
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CMU at ASSETS 2025
The Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS) is an interdisciplinary research...
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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...
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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...
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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...
