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SCS Faculty Receive More Than $4.5M in NSF CAREER Awards
NEWSEight Carnegie Mellon University researchers in the School of Computer Science recently earned Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) awards from the National Science Foundation...
Researchers Develop Soft Robot That Shifts From Land to Sea With Ease
NEWSMost animals can quickly transition from walking to jumping to crawling to swimming if needed without reconfiguring or making major adjustments....
Harrison Earns Lasting Impact Award for Turning Everyday Surfaces Into Touch Screens
NEWSGood technology takes time to get right. When widespread use of touch screens skyrocketed around 2007, for example, the research had been underway for roughly 50 years....
SCS Part of Groundbreaking Initiative To Broaden Access to STEM Education by CMU, Rales Foundation
NEWS$150 Million Investment Aims To Eliminate Cost as Barrier to Graduate Education, Create Distinctive Ecosystem To Ensure Success...
Engineered Magic: Wooden Seed Carriers Mimic the Behavior of Self-Burying Seeds
NEWSHow seeds implant themselves in soil can seem magical. Take some varieties of Erodium, whose five-petalled flowers of purple, pink or white look like geraniums....
Kraut Earns Lasting Impact Award for Paper on Proximity's Role in Collaboration
NEWSZoom, Slack and Google Docs may be ubiquitous in today's workplace, but that wasn't the case 35 years ago. Yet many of the technologies underpinning the tools that allow us to work remotel...
Myers Named HCII Director
NEWSMartial Hebert, dean of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science (SCS), has appointed Brad Myers as the new Charles M. Geschke Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Ins...
Hong Named 2022 ACM Fellow
NEWSProfessor Jason Hong from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science has been recognized a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The distinction, reserved...
CMU Professors Awarded NSF Future of Work Grant
NEWSCarnegie Mellon University (CMU) has announced that a team of professors from the School of Computer Science (SCS) and the Heinz College of Information Systems, Public Policy and Managemen...
Carnegie Mellon University Launches Center for Transformational Play
NEWSGames can entertain. They can bring people together. They can transport players to new worlds, test skills and strategies, and encourage play. But games can also transform. They can teach,...
Video Game Focused on Community Health Receives Award at Meaningful Play Conference
NEWSOne of the most enduring pieces of advice from beloved children's television host Mister Rogers is to look for the helpers. ...
Neuroscientists and Game Designers Play Well Together
NEWSJessica Hammer thinks the most important technology for making games is the brain....