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HCII Seeks Capstone Sponsors for Spring 2024
NEWSApply our future HCI leaders to your organization's challenges next year The Human-Computer Interaction Institute invites companies, startups and nonprofits alike to sponsor a Capstone pr...
Five SCS Students Named 2024 Siebel Scholars
NEWSFive graduate students in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science have been named Siebel Scholars for 2024. Lea Albaugh, Bailey Flanigan, Maxwell Jones, Paul Pu Liang and S...
New website highlights thousands of Android apps’ data collection practices
NEWSResearchers at Carnegie Mellon University have launched a new website, offering Android users an easy and convenient way to see how their data is collected and shared....
Understanding Data Science Critical for Life, Education
NEWSCMU experts turn everyday educators into data scientists Teachers and administrators have access to more data on how their students are learning than ever before. Through learning managem...
Yao’s Seed Carrier Shortlisted for Science Breakthrough of the Year Award
NEWSLining Yao, the Cooper-Siegel associate professor in the School of Computer Science's Human-Computer Interaction Institute, and her E-seed research project are among the top 10 finalists f...
Celebrating Our Recent PhD Graduates and Postdocs
NEWSWith another academic year behind us, it is time to wish a new class of graduates well on their professional journey. The HCII is proud to celebrate our recent PhDs and Postdocs as they b...
CMU's PLUS Program Expands to Multiple Schools, Community Centers
NEWSNot all students will ask for help when they're struggling, but more of them can get the support they need thanks to the expanded reach of education software designed by Carnegie Mellon Un...
AI Should Be Kind and Fair, Young Black Girls Tell CMU Researchers
NEWSWhen asked about future uses for artificial intelligence, a group of fifth- and sixth-grade Black students attending a summer camp at Carnegie Mellon University had some unique ideas. One ...
Spring 2023 Awards Roundup
NEWSSCS faculty and students win awards, grants and recognition every day. Here's a look — neither exhaustive nor abbreviated — at who won what this semester. Keep an eye out at the end of the...
CMU Team Wins $1M XPRIZE Digital Learning Challenge
NEWSCarnegie Mellon University learning science researchers John Stamper, Norman Bier and Steven Moore are part of a team that won first place in the XPRIZE Digital Learning Challenge, a comp...
CMU Researchers Use Comics To Explain AI-Supported Public Housing System to People Who Need It Most
NEWSAs artificial intelligence becomes more accessible and prevalent in everyday life, the humans who use it should still be central to its implementation, even if they don't have a technical ...
Carnegie Mellon Leads NSF AI Institute for Societal Decision Making
NEWSArtificial intelligence tools have increasingly aided emergency managers, public health officials and other professionals tasked with making critical and timely decisions that directly imp...