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  • SCS researchers worked with Black girls to better understand their ideas about AI. As part of the research, the girls designed humanoid AI-powered robots, which displayed hairstyles similar to the learners’ — a robot representation not often shown in popular media.

    AI Should Be Kind and Fair, Young Black Girls Tell CMU Researchers

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    When asked about future uses for artificial intelligence, a group of fifth- and sixth-grade Black students attending a summer camp at Carn...

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  • Our faculty and students routinely earn top honors for their research and teaching excellence. We celebrate their successes and value their contributions to furthering computer science and its related fields.

    Spring 2023 Awards Roundup

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    SCS faculty and students win awards, grants and recognition every day. Here's a look — neither exhaustive nor abbreviated — at who won wha...

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  • Norman Bier and John Stamper stand on the concrete steps in front of the CMU Mellon College of Science building

    CMU Team Wins $1M XPRIZE Digital Learning Challenge

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    Carnegie Mellon University learning science researchers John Stamper, Norman Bier and 

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  • Researchers in the HCII used comics to explore how community-centered AI design can include both the people experiencing homelessness and the frontline workers who use AI to help them.

    CMU Researchers Use Comics To Explain AI-Supported Public Housing System to People Who Need It Most

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    As artificial intelligence becomes more accessible and prevalent in everyday life, the humans who use it should still be central to its im...

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  • The AI Institute for Societal Decision Making will improve the response to societal challenges such as disaster management and public health by creating human-centric AI tools to assist with critical decisions. The institute will also develop training to bolster effective and rapid response in uncertain and dynamic situations.

    Carnegie Mellon Leads NSF AI Institute for Societal Decision Making

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    Artificial intelligence tools have increasingly aided emergency managers, public health officials and other professionals tasked with maki...

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  • SCS faculty members were honored at this week's Celebration of Education Awards Ceremony.

    SCS Faculty Honored at Carnegie Mellon's Celebration of Education

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    School of Computer Science faculty members took home top accolades when Carnegie Mellon University honored faculty, staff and students at ...

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  • HCII researchers collaborated with physicians and colleagues from the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC to determine if AI could help physicians make decisions in the ICU — and if clinicians would even trust such assistance. (Photo courtesy of Polina Tankilevitch.)

    AI in the ICU

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    Researchers Develop AI-Based System To Recommend Clinical Treatments Clinicians in an intensive care unit need to make complex decisions ...

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  • To ease the friction caused by reduced in-person interaction, a team of HCII researchers created a Slack application called Nooks that helps initiate casual conversations and create affinity groups in an online workspace.

    Reviving Office Chatter

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    About one-third of our lives are spent at work, and the relationships we build there can have personal and professional benefits. But a ma...

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  • Zeno combines a Python API with an interactive user interface, which empowers users to explore, visualize and analyze data and ML model performance across custom use cases.

    CMU Researchers Release Zeno for Machine Learning Model Evaluation

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    A team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers has released a new interactive platform for data management and machine learning (ML) eva...

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  • Carnegie Mellon logo (red text) and CHI 2023 logo (a red and yellow sailboat)

    CMU at CHI 2023

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    The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems will take place from April 23-28, 2023, in Hamburg, Germany. Commonly known a...

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  • Funding from Amazon SURE will support three SCS summer research initiatives on campus, including Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Software Engineering (REUSE). The REUSE 2022 cohort is shown above.

    CMU, Amazon Expand STEM Summer Research Programs for Underrepresented Students

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    Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science and Amazon are working together to expand the university's summer research program...

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  • a rabbit and a turtle are the icons often referenced when representing fast versus slow; here a real rabbit and real turtle are facing each other

    The Myth of the Fast Learner

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    Learning science experts from Carnegie Mellon University's Human Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) wanted to know why some students le...

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