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  • 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.S. News and World Report's 2023 Best Colleges rankings...

  • 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 mathematics learning game called Decimal Point as ...

  • CMU recently demonstrated its computer security prowess by winning DEF CON's Capture the Flag competition for the sixth time.

    CMU Team Celebrates Sixth Super Bowl of Hacking Win

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    Carnegie Mellon University recently showed off its computer security talent by winning DEF CON's Capture the Flag competition — the "Super Bowl of hacking," — for the sixth time. The team ...

  • Software designed by the HCII's LearnLab to improve math learning outcomes for marginalized K-12 students received a top award from the International E-Learning Association. (Photo courtesy of Remake Learning.)

    HCII Software Uses AI To Get Students To Do More Math

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    Software designed by members of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute's (HCII) LearnLab to improve math learning outcomes for marginalized K-12 students received a top award from the In...

  • The latest issue of The Link, the magazine of the School of Computer Science, is now online and features stories of good work that does good.

    Summer 2022 Edition of The Link Now Online

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    Good work isn't enough for School of Computer Science faculty, students and staff. They strive to make sure their work does good, too — whether it's forging the path to designing, developi...

  • A group of HCII students sought to recreate the feeling of in-person thanks that can get lost in remote work environments through Co-Orb, a spherical desk lamp that lights up when a user receives a nice message via platforms like Slack or Teams.

    HCII Students Seek To Increase Workplace Gratitude With Co-Orb

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    Thanking co-workers through Slack or Teams is a nice gesture, but it doesn't measure up to saying it to them in person. But remote work has cut into the time employees spend together, maki...

  • CMU's Livehoods project, which redefined how people looked at location data and at their cities and neighborhoods, recently earned the Test of Time Award from the International Conference on Web and Social Media.

    CMU's Livehoods Project Honored for Contributions to Understanding Cities

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    Location data is collected everywhere. Social media posts, Bluetooth or WiFi connections, ATM or credit card transactions, and many more activities generate data about where people are and...

  • CMU researchers sought to better understand conspiracy theories and disinformation surrounding climate change by studying Twitter.

    From The Link: Heated Conversations, Cold Realities

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    In 2017, about the time the United States signaled its withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation, chatter on social media platforms began heating up....

  • The NSF has created 11 new institutes dedicated to AI research across a wide range of sectors. CMU researchers are involved in four of them related to agriculture, elder care, ethics and hunger.

    The Global Reach of CMU AI

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    Global health care, the future of transportation, food security, consumer privacy in a networked world. As intractable problems accrue and grow, artificial intelligence is increasingly bei...

  • Robotics Institute researchers have developed an algorithmic planner that helps delegate tasks to humans and robots.

    CMU Researchers Develop Algorithm To Divvy Up Tasks for Human-Robot Teams

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    As robots increasingly join people on the factory floor, in warehouses and elsewhere on the job, dividing up who will do which tasks grows in complexity and importance. People are better s...

  • A new policy brief from CMU's Traffic 21 outlines the state of automation in public transportation, discusses the challenges and benefits of autonomous vehicle technology, and offers policy recommendations for federal officials.

    New Research Offers Recommendations for Integrating Autonomous Driving Tech Into Public Transportation

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    Autonomous vehicle technology likely won't replace the workers behind the wheels of buses, vans and other vehicles shuttling people around cities and towns anytime soon, but mass transit a...

  • Roberta Klatzky, the Charles J. Queenan Jr. Professor of Psychology and a faculty member in the HCII, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

    Klatzky Elected Into National Academy of Sciences

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    Roberta Klatzky — an expert in cognition whose research examines the relationships between human perception and action — has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences....