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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Five SCS Students Named Siebel Scholars
Five graduate students in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science have been named Siebel Scholars for 2023. Victoria Dean,...
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The Future of Classroom Experimentation
With access to some of the best digital tools and learning systems ever seen, it's a wonder that there is currently no easy way for teache...
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CMU Experts Help Reach Learners in Uganda
Financial constraints and physical distance from schools kept more than 75% of school-aged learners in Uganda out of the classroom, even b...
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SCS Maintains Top Ranking for Computer Science From U.S. News and World Report
Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science maintained its No. 1 overall position for undergraduate computer science in U...
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Discerning the Influence of Gender in the Effectiveness of Learning Games
Eight years ago, Bruce McLaren's research team worked with Jodi Forlizzi, the Herbert A.
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CMU Team Celebrates Sixth Super Bowl of Hacking Win
Carnegie Mellon University recently showed off its computer security talent by winning DEF CON's Capture the Flag competition — the "Super...
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HCII Software Uses AI To Get Students To Do More Math
Software designed by members of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute's (HCII) LearnLab to improve math learning outcomes for marginali...
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Summer 2022 Edition of The Link Now Online
Good work isn't enough for School of Computer Science faculty, students and staff.
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HCII Students Seek To Increase Workplace Gratitude With Co-Orb
Thanking co-workers through Slack or Teams is a nice gesture, but it doesn't measure up to saying it to them in person. But remote work ha...
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CMU's Livehoods Project Honored for Contributions to Understanding Cities
Location data is collected everywhere. Social media posts, Bluetooth or WiFi connections, ATM or credit card transactions, and many more a...
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From The Link: Heated Conversations, Cold Realities
In 2017, about the time the United States signaled its withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation, chatter on social...
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The Global Reach of CMU AI
Global health care, the future of transportation, food security, consumer privacy in a networked world. As intractable problems accrue and...
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CMU Researchers Develop Algorithm To Divvy Up Tasks for Human-Robot Teams
As robots increasingly join people on the factory floor, in warehouses and elsewhere on the job, dividing up who will do which tasks grows...
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New Research Offers Recommendations for Integrating Autonomous Driving Tech Into Public Transportation
Autonomous vehicle technology likely won't replace the workers behind the wheels of buses, vans and other vehicles shuttling people around...
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Klatzky Elected Into National Academy of Sciences
Roberta Klatzky — an expert in cognition whose research examines the relationships between human perception and action — has been elected ...
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SCS Seniors Shine as Scholar Athletes
Nadia Susanto and Michael OBroin will both earn degrees from the School of Computer Science during Carnegie Mellon University's upcoming C...
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TouchPose Technology Senses What Touchscreens Can't Feel
Current touchscreens and trackpads miss a lot of information.
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SCS Research Takes Top Honors at CHI 2022
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science took home several top awards at this year's ACM Conference on Hum...
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Over the Lips, Through the Gums, Look Out Gamers, Here It Comes — Or So It Seems
Lips are famously sensual but, together with the gums and tongue, they are also surprisingly sensitive, second only to the fingertips in n...
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CyLab Researchers Investigate Apple's Privacy Labels
CyLab researchers will present two papers at the upcoming ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems that examine Apple's pr...
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Inclusive Design and Research Methods Will Lead To More Innovative, Intelligent Technology
A few years ago, when Carnegie Mellon University design researcher Christina Harrington was still making home visits for her research, she...
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SCS Ph.D. Students Designed, Taught New Course To Make Computer Science More Welcoming, Inclusive
The Computer Science Department's new course focusing on issues of justice, equity, diversity and inclusion in computer science and societ...
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SCS Faculty, Grad Students Earn CMU's Top Education Honors
The School of Computer Science will be on everyone's lips during Carnegie Mellon University's Celebration of Education Awards Ceremony on ...
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Your Eyes Control Your Smartphone With CMU's New Gaze-Tracking Tool
As more people watch movies, edit video, read the news and keep up with social media on their smartphones, these devices have grown to acc...
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From The Link: Beyond Grateful
Note: Today is National American Sign Language Day, and to celebrate the hundreds of thousands of people who communicate using ASL, we're ...
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HCII at SCS Founders Day 2022
Several of our Human-Computer Interaction Institute colleagues were recognized at the SCS Founders Day Awards ceremony on Tuesday, April 5...
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Kraut Named University Professor
Three Carnegie Mellon University faculty members have been elevated to the rank of University Professor, the highest distinction a faculty...
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Kittur Named to CHI Academy
Professor Aniket "Niki" Kittur has been named to the 2022 CHI Academy — an honorary group of individuals who have made substantial contrib...
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CMU and Shonan Seminar Partner to Improve Classroom Engagement and Learner Outcomes by Empowering Student Focus
A group of Carnegie Mellon University masters students is partnering with Shonan Seminar Co., Ltd. to provide enhanced opportunities ...
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Hebert, Kraut Named University Professors
The dean of the School of Computer Science and a founding member of the school's Human-Computer Interaction Institute recently received th...
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