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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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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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    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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    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...

  • 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 ...

  • New CMU-led research has developed a model that can predict how stay-at-home orders affect the mental health of people with chronic neurological disorders.

    Machine Learning Model Predicts Health Conditions of People With MS During Stay-at-Home Periods

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    Research led by Carnegie Mellon University has developed a model that can accurately predict how stay-at-home orders like those put in pla...

  • SCS students Victoria Dean, Shivam Duggal, Isaac Grosof, Divyansh Kaushik and Lynn Kirabo have been named 2023 Siebel Scholars.

    Five SCS Students Named Siebel Scholars

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    Five graduate students in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science have been named Siebel Scholars for 2023. Victoria Dean,...

  • Students collaborate inside Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science.

    SCS Maintains Top Ranking for Computer Science From U.S. News and World Report

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    Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science maintained its No. 1 overall position for undergraduate computer science in U...

  • The learning game Decimal Point aimed to help all students, but has helped middle school girls more than boys. CMU researchers are using a $1 million NSF grant to study gender-based differences more broadly in these types of games.

    Discerning the Influence of Gender in the Effectiveness of Learning Games

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    Eight years ago, Bruce McLaren's research team worked with Jodi Forlizzi, the Herbert A. Simon Professor in Computer Science, to design a ...