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    NIST Awards $6M to Carnegie Mellon University To Establish AI Cooperative Research Center

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    U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced Sept. 24 that the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded $6 million to Carnegie Mello...

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    HCII Seeks Capstone Sponsors for Spring 2025

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    Apply our future HCI leaders to your organization's challenges next year The Human-Computer Interaction Institute invites companies, startups and nonprofits alike to sponsor a Capstone pro...

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    CMU Students launch HCI Ideas Podcast and Cards

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    Four Carnegie Mellon University undergraduate students took on a special project this summer to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII)....

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    CMU Releases Remastered 'Last Lecture'

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    Using AI, a video systems engineer who worked with Randy Pausch revisited inspirational talk viewed by millions worldwideBrian Parker has filmed presidential visits, experimented with cutt...

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    HCII Alum Blends Fashion, Storytelling in Design Work

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    HCII alum Ian Clark used the skills he honed at CMU to cultivate House of Orange, a design firm focused on fashion and creative storytelling.On a vacation to Australia in 2018, Ian Clark k...

  • Mayank Goel speaks at WEF

    Mayank Goel Presents at World Economic Forum Summer Gathering in China

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    Mayank Goel, an associate professor in the Software and Societal Systems Department and Human-Computer Interaction Institute, recently attended a World Economic Forum gathering in Dalian, ...

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    SCS Launches 'Does Compute' Podcast

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    The School of Computer Science's new podcast, "Does Compute," explores how computer science is building useful stuff that works. The podcast delves into the latest innovations in computer ...

  • A person with long blond hair and wearing blue jeans, a pink pullover and a helmet rides a bicycle alongside a row of city transit buses of multiple colors in an urban setting.

    SCS Researchers Partner with Mass Transit Operators for Better Technology

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    Carnegie Mellon University researchers are designing the future of transit with people who operate buses and other mass transit vehicles.Carnegie Mellon University researchers are designin...

  • A middle school student is seated at a laptop during introductions to their tutor, a university student.

    Innovative Program Expands Reach with Grant from Richard King Mellon Foundation

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    The Carnegie Mellon University-based PLUS program, renowned for its innovative human+AI tutoring approach, has received a significant boost. The Richard King Mellon Foundation has awarded ...

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    CMU Technologists Look to a More Inclusive Future

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    The HCII's William Agnew and Jordan Taylor are just two of the CMU researchers working to ensure that the outputs of large language models represent the communities they reference.As artif...

  • A blue line drawing shows an stick figure with a speech bubble, clearly making a request, while a stick figure operator works a switchboard in the background.

    Siri, It Hurts When You Constantly Misunderstand Me. You too, Alexa

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    Users of voice assistants know the frustration of being misunderstood by a machine. But for people who lack a standard American accent, such miscommunication can go beyond simply irritatin...

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    CMU at FAccT 2024

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    Researchers from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) and several other Carnegie Mellon University schools and disciplines contributed to more than 10 papers accepted to the 202...