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  • 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....

  • Nadia Susanto

    SCS Seniors Shine as Scholar Athletes

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    Nadia Susanto and Michael OBroin will both earn degrees from the School of Computer Science during Carnegie Mellon University's upcoming Commencement exercises on Sunday, May 15. But they'...

  • TouchPose calculates hand postures based on the geometry of finger touch points on smartphone and tablet touchscreens.

    TouchPose Technology Senses What Touchscreens Can't Feel

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    Current touchscreens and trackpads miss a lot of information....

  • CMU researchers contributed to more than 40 accepted papers — including three that won Best Paper awards and six that earned Honorable Mentions — at this year's Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2022).

    SCS Research Takes Top Honors at CHI 2022

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    Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science took home several top awards at this year's ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2022). ...

  • In a collection of articles published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers behind the COVIDcast repository reflect on and share lessons learned from their first year collecting data about the pandemic. PNAS featured the project on its January 2022 cover.

    CMU's COVIDcast Offers Lessons Learned for the Future of Pandemic Forecasting

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    A massive COVID-19 data collection project led by researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's Delphi Research Group not only helped steer the response to the virus but could also change th...

  • A CyLab paper about how people perceive advanced video analytics has received the Future of Privacy Forum's annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award and is one of its "must-read" privacy papers of the year for policy makers.

    CyLab Research Selected as a 'Must-Read' Privacy Paper for Policy Makers

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    A paper by CyLab researchers about how people perceive advanced video analytics has received the Future of Privacy Forum's annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award. The paper is one of...

  • CMU researchers have exploited the sensitivity of the lips to devise a practical new way for people to receive tactile feedback in virtual worlds.

    Over the Lips, Through the Gums, Look Out Gamers, Here It Comes — Or So It Seems

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    Lips are famously sensual but, together with the gums and tongue, they are also surprisingly sensitive, second only to the fingertips in nerve density. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon Unive...

  • CyLab researchers will present two papers at CHI 2022 that examine Apple's privacy nutrition labels.

    CyLab Researchers Investigate Apple's Privacy Labels

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    CyLab researchers will present two papers at the upcoming ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems that examine Apple's privacy nutrition labels....