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Carnegie Mellon Expands Mobile Learning Project in India
NEWSPITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University today announced the expansion of its Mobile & Immersive Learning for Literacy in Emerging Economies (MILLEE) project, which will gauge the e...
Team Wins First Place at UIST 2009 Student Innovation Competition
NEWSJulia Schwarz, a first year HCII PhD student, took First Place in the Most Creative category at this year’s ACM UIST Student Innovation Contest. She was assisted by Brian Lim, Stephen Oney...
HCII PhD Students Nab Two Top Awards at Yahoo’s Open Hack Day in New York City
NEWSJulia Schwarz, Bryan Pendleton, and Chris Harrison hacked together two entries in the 24-hour development period. The team was flown out to the New York City to participate in OpenHackNYC ...
Noboru Matsuda and Ken Koedinger Receive $1.9 Million Grant from DoED and NSF
NEWSHCII faculty members Noboru Matsuda and Ken Koedinger (with William Cohen at MLD and Gabriel Stylianides at Pitt) received new grants from the Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. D...
Bruce McLaren Receives $1.3 Million Department of Education Grant
NEWSHCII faculty member Bruce McLaren received a new grant from the U.S. Department of Education IES program (Institute of Education Science), entitled “AdaptErrEx: Exploring the Learning Bene...
Carnegie Mellon Announces Beta Release of Alice 3
NEWSCarnegie Mellon University today announced the beta release of Alice 3, the latest version of an innovative software environment designed to take something challenging — learning about com...
Vincent Aleven and Nikol Rummel Receive One Million Dollar NSF Grant
NEWSHCII faculty members Vincent Aleven and Nikol Rummel received a new grant, from the NSF REESE program (Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering), entitled “Learning ...
HCII Graduate Student Martina Rau Wins Best Student Paper Award at the 2009 AIED Conference
NEWSFirst-year HCII graduate student Martina Rau wins the Best Student Paper Award at the 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2009, which was held in Br...
HCII Spinoff Carnegie Learning Announces International Partnership and Multiple Educational Technology Honors
NEWSCarnegie Learning Inc. has announced a three-year partnership with Carnegie Mellon University and universities in Mexico, Central America, and South America to develop Cognitive Tutor® mat...
Carnegie Mellon Develops Java Programming Tools Employing Human-Centered Design Techniques
NEWSResearchers from the School of Computer Science have developed two new tools to help computer programmers select from among thousands of options within the application programming interfac...
CMU Had a Great Presence at CHI 2009
NEWSAuthors from Carnegie Mellon and the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, in particular, had a great presence at CHI 2009, the premier conference in Human-Computer Interaction. They prese...