News & Events
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Reviving Office Chatter
Researchers Design Tool to Enhance Workplace Socialization in Remote, Hybrid Arrangements About one-third of our lives are spent at...
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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 (M...
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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 k...
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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 p...
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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 Prog...
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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 ...
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The Myth of the Fast Learner
Learning science experts from Carnegie Mellon University's Human Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) wanted to know why some stude...
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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...
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SCS Part of Groundbreaking Initiative To Broaden Access to STEM Education by CMU, Rales Foundation
$150 Million Investment Aims To Eliminate Cost as Barrier to Graduate Education, Create Distinctive Ecosystem To Ensure Success The...
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Engineered Magic: Wooden Seed Carriers Mimic the Behavior of Self-Burying Seeds
How seeds implant themselves in soil can seem magical. Take some varieties of Erodium, whose five-petalled flowers of purple, pink o...
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Kraut Earns Lasting Impact Award for Paper on Proximity's Role in Collaboration
Zoom, Slack and Google Docs may be ubiquitous in today's workplace, but that wasn't the case 35 years ago. Yet many of the technolog...
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Myers Named HCII Director
Martial Hebert, dean of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science (SCS), has appointed Brad Myers as the new Charles M...
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Hong Named 2022 ACM Fellow
Professor Jason Hong from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science has been recognized a fellow of the Association ...
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CMU Professors Awarded NSF Future of Work Grant
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has announced that a team of professors from the School of Computer Science (SCS) and the Heinz Col...
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Carnegie Mellon University Launches Center for Transformational Play
Games can entertain. They can bring people together. They can transport players to new worlds, test skills and strategies, and encou...
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HCII Seeks Applicants for 2023 Summer Research Program
Application now available for Summer 2023 About the Program Carnegie Mellon's Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Human-Com...
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Video Game Focused on Community Health Receives Award at Meaningful Play Conference
One of the most enduring pieces of advice from beloved children's television host Mister Rogers is to look for the helpers. ...
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CMU Helps Simcoach Games Train Next Generation of Change Innovators
Carnegie Mellon University and Simcoach Games have teamed up to give high school students interested in game design on-the-job train...
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Neuroscientists and Game Designers Play Well Together
Jessica Hammer thinks the most important technology for making games is the brain.
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Spooky SCS: A Round-Up of Chilling Research
Mutant cats, troll hunting and walking through spiderwebs in a haunted forest — some work in the School of Computer Science is downr...