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  • SCS faculty members are part of a CMU team that received an NSF Future of Work grant to investigate how AI-augmented learning can help accelerate student progress in community college IT courses. (Photo courtesy of CCAC.)

    CMU Professors Awarded NSF Future of Work Grant

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    Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has announced that a team of professors from the School of Computer Science (SCS) and the Heinz College o...

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  • CMU Center for Transformational Play wordmark

    Carnegie Mellon University Launches Center for Transformational Play

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    Games can entertain. They can bring people together. They can transport players to new worlds, test skills and strategies, and encourage p...

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  • Bloomwood Stories, an HCII-designed video game that helps members of underresourced or historically marginalized populations feel more confident handling health issues, won the Best Student Award at last month's International Conference on Meaningful Play.

    Video Game Focused on Community Health Receives Award at Meaningful Play Conference

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    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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  • 2 side by side images: left side has 2 neuroscience students writing on whiteboard, right side has screen capture of a videogame. The words "Brain Play" are in the center of the graphic.

    Neuroscientists and Game Designers Play Well Together

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    Jessica Hammer thinks the most important technology for making games is the brain.

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  • CMU and Simcoach Games have teamed up to give high school students interested in game design on-the-job training and a first step toward a career in the field. (Photo courtesy of Simcoach Games.)

    CMU Helps Simcoach Games Train Next Generation of Change Innovators

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    Carnegie Mellon University and Simcoach Games have teamed up to give high school students interested in game design on-the-job training an...

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  • Research into generative models that can create images like these sinister cats is just one example of some spooky research happening in SCS.

    Spooky SCS: A Round-Up of Chilling Research

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    Mutant cats, troll hunting and walking through spiderwebs in a haunted forest — some work in the School of Computer Science is downright s...

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  • During an IoT summit at the White House, a CMU researcher shared the university's latest research into providing information to consumers about the privacy and security of internet-connected devices, including efforts to create a security and privacy label for them.

    CMU Presents Internet of Things Privacy and Security Research at White House Summit

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    A researcher from Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab Security and Privacy Institute outlined an effective Internet of Things security labe...

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  • A team of HCII researchers will use a grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences to develop and test a smartphone-based tutoring system for middle school mathematics that's rooted in AI.

    HCII Researchers Awarded $2M Grant To Test AI-Based Mobile Tutoring Software

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    Homework can be extra difficult for middle school students facing limited access to technology, lack of parental support or other factors ...

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  • Bier and Stamper stand side by side on the steps outside of the Mellon Institute building

    CMU Team Advances to Final Round of $1M XPRIZE Competition

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    Digital Learning Challenge seeks to improve learning outcomes with effective tools Carnegie Mellon University learning science research...

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  • an empty classroom with a bright beam of light coming in from the windows on the left side of the room

    The Future of Classroom Experimentation

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    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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  • two students complete a lesson while listening to the radio

    CMU Experts Help Reach Learners in Uganda

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    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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  • NoRILLA, an HCII project that uses AI to assist children in hands-on educational experiments, was selected for an exhibit at CaixaForum Valencia, a new museum in Spain.

    AI-Powered Museum Exhibit Shows Technology's Potential in Education

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    A project from the School of Computer Science's Human-Computer Interaction Institute that uses artificial intelligence to assist children ...

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