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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Randy Pausch Elected to 2007 Class of ACM Fellows
Randy Pausch is elected to the 2007 class of ACM Fellows. The ACM Fellow program was established by the ACM Council in June 1993 to recogn...
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JJ Cadiz at Microsoft
Carnegie Mellon Alumnus, JJ Cadiz, is now Program Manager on Bill Gates’ technology assistance team at Microsoft.
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Dual Master’s Degree in Human-Computer Interaction Between Carnegie Mellon and the University of Madeira
PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Madeira in Portugal will launch a joint program this fall for a dual master’s ...
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Jodi Forlizzi Awarded Habermann Chair
Congratulations to Jodi Forlizzi one of HCII’s rising stars, for being awarded the A. Nico Habermann Chair in the School of Computer...
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HCII Collaborates with University of Madeira, Portugal
Beginning in August 2007, the Human-Computer Interaction Institute will extend its presence to Europe by embarking on a new and exciting c...
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2004 MHCI Capstone Project Featured in Several Publications
Roadcasting is a system that allows anyone to have their own radio station, broadcast among cars in an ad-hoc network. It uses listener fe...
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Andrew Ko, Htet Htet Aung, and Brad Myers Win Best Paper Award at ICSE'05
Andrew J. Ko, Htet Htet Aung, and Brad A. Myers won the Best Paper Award at the 27th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICS...
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Bonnie John Elected to the CHI Academy
Bonnie John has been elected to the CHI Academy, an honorary group, each of whom has made extensive contributions to the study of HCI and ...
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Vincent Aleven, Bruce McLaren, Ido Roll, and Ken Koedinger Win Best Paper Award at ITS 2004
Vincent Aleven, Bruce McLaren, Ido Roll, and Ken Koedinger win the Best Paper Award during the Seventh International Conference on Intelli...
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Jacob O. Wobbrock, Brad A. Myers, Htet Htet Aung, and Edmund F. LoPresti Win the Best Paper Award at ACM ASSETS'04
The title of the winning paper is “Text Entry from Power Wheelchairs: EdgeWrite for Joysticks and Touchpads”.
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Five Faculty Receive New Grants
Bonnie John, Effective Team Support--NASASara Kiesler, Robotic Assistants for the Elderly--NSFChristian Lebiere, ACT-R--NavyRandy Pausch, ...
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Sara Kiesler Receives Hillman Professorship in the School of Computer Science
PITTSBURGH--Sara Kiesler, professor of human-computer interaction in Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science (SCS), has be...
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Brad Myers Elected to the CHI Academy
Please join in congratulating Brad Myers on being elected to the CHI Academy class of 2004. Election to the CHI Academy is the highest hon...
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HCII Authors Have Seven Papers Accepted at CHI'04
Congratulations are in order for the accepted CHI papers with HCII authors or co-authors listed below. Overall 93 of 578 papers submitted ...
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Richard Scheines’s Project Used by Centenary College
Centenary College in New Jersey is using educational technology developed by Professor Richard Scheines to revise its curriculum.
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Peter Brusilovsky to Speak at Italian and German National HCI Conference
Peter Brusilovsky is a keynote speaker at the Italian and German national HCI conferences this fall.
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Researchers Develop Context-Aware Mobile Phone
Professors Asim Smailagic and Dan Siewiorek, along with a team of students from the College of Engineering, the School of Computer Science...
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John R. Anderson to Receive the David E. Rumelhart Prize for Contributions to the Formal Analysis of Human Cognition
The Glushko-Samuelson Foundation and the Cognitive Science Society are pleased to announce that John R. Anderson has been chosen as the fo...
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Students Win Computer Human Interaction Live Interactionary Competition
Students from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute recently won the Computer Human Interaction Live Interactionary Competition.
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Santosh Mathan and Ken Koedinger Win John Self Prize for the Best Student Paper at the AIED Conference
Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) doctoral student Santosh Mathan and Associate Professor Ken Koedinger received the John Self P...