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HCII PhD Student Robert Xiao Talks PPP 4th "World Series of Hacking" Win.
NEWS"The win represents the strength of the team and CMU's dominance in cyber security."...
HCII Ph.D. Students Receive CMLH Fellowship in Digital Health
NEWSFour Human-Computer Interaction Institute Ph.D. students are recipients of the Center for Machine Learning and Health (CMLH) Fellowship in Digital Health. Incoming students Prerna Chikersa...
RoboTutor Advances to Global Learning XPRIZE Semifinals
NEWSRoboTutor, educational technology developed at Carnegie Mellon University that teaches children basic math and reading skills, has been named a semifinalist in the $15 million Global Learn...
ChromeView: A Plugin Designed to Fight Selective Exposure
NEWS"Algorithm models and machine learning systems. Whether we realize it or not, our daily lives center around them," explained a team of Carnegie Mellon University undergraduate students in ...
HCII Faculty Writers of Crash Course in Computer Science
NEWSThe first known use of the word, computer, was actually in reference to a job title, not a piece of technology. In spite of the past trend for men to more frequently take on the job of com...
Skip the Password, Use "Secret Knock" Instead
NEWSArticle originally posted on www.cs.cmu.edu...
McLaren Receives NSF Grant to Data Mine Learning from Erroneous Examples
NEWSErroneous examples, step-by-step examples of incorrect problem solving, is a pedagogical approach used in only a few fields, such as medical education. Bruce McLaren, an associate research...
Jeffrey Bigham Future Leader of Computer Science
NEWSCarnegie Mellon University is a place where the future is imagined and re-designed constantly. Roads with self-driving cars, rooms powered by super sensors, and computing directly on your ...
Carnegie Mellon Offers New Master's Degree in Product Management
NEWSOriginally posted on www.cs.cmu.edu by Byron Spice 05/16/2017....
CHI Preview: Researchers From HCII Believe Difficulty Can Be Overrated in Games.
NEWSLike the fickle Goldilocks, game players are said to seek a game experience that is not too hard and not too easy, but just challenging enough. Or at least, that has been the general assum...
Synthetic Sensors Project Presented at CHI 2017
NEWSHCII Professor Chris Harrison and PhD students Gierad Laput and Yang Zhang have unveiled Synthetic Sensors, a sensing abstraction project that allows everyday environments to become smart ...
CHI Preview: Variolite: Supporting Exploratory Programming by Data Scientists
NEWSWhen you are given a task with a number of possible approaches and no clear requirements, how do you get started? When faced with building software to solve an open-ended problem, it’s oft...