July 19, 2021
There’s something new rumbling and tumbling at CMA! If you’ve visited the museum lately you’ve seen children building towers and other structures out of blocks. That’s pretty common – we’re big block fans! But the friendly animated gorilla sharing challenges and feedback ... Read more
June 17, 2021
A team at Apple analyzed nearly 78,000 screenshots from more than 4,000 apps to improve the screen reader function on its mobile devices. The result was Screen Recognition, a tool that uses machine ... Read more
June 14, 2021
Award-winning game designer Jessica Hammer will soon level up when she takes on the role of interim associate director of the
... Read moreJune 7, 2021
Jodi Forlizzi will lean on her background as a designer to address what she calls "a truly wicked problem" in her role as the inaugural associate dean of diversity, equity and inclusion in the School of Computer Science.
... Read moreMay 27, 2021
May 26, 2021
We recently caught up with Connie Chau, class of 2020, to talk about her time at Carnegie Mellon. Our conversation is below, formatted as Q&A style.
HCII: Hi Connie! Tell us about yourself. What was your undergraduate major at ... Read more
May 24, 2021
Less than one year after the ... Read more
May 12, 2021
If you are reading this, chances are you have several other tabs open in your browser that you mean to get to eventually.
Internet browser tabs are a major source of friction on the internet. People love them.
... Read moreMay 10, 2021
More than one hundred researchers from Carnegie Mellon will log on to virtually attend the international ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems ... Read more
May 5, 2021
People love pasta for its shapes — from tubes of penne and rigatoni to spirals of fusilli and rotini.
... Read moreApril 28, 2021
A creator of software that revolutionized the way people collaborate, Charles M. Geschke left his mark on Carnegie Mellon University long after earning his degree.
"Chuck" Geschke, who received a Ph.D. in
... Read moreMarch 29, 2021
During a long and challenging year, one Carnegie Mellon student has found something that gives her a challenging creative outlet, social interaction, and sometimes some pretty nice ... Read more
March 25, 2021
Five School of Computer Science faculty members recently earned National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) awards — the foundation's most prestigious for young faculty members.
The recent CAREER awards from the NSF total ... Read more
March 24, 2021
A team of Carnegie Mellon University learning scientists are developing a tool that could change the way high school teachers and students approach their computer science classes. This month ... Read more
February 19, 2021
February 18, 2021
Scott Hudson, a professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII), is this year's winner of the Lifetime Achievement
... Read moreFebruary 16, 2021
Three Carnegie Mellon University research teams have received funding through the Program on Fairness in Artificial Intelligence, which the National Science
February 10, 2021
A new game developed by Jessica Hammer and Melissa ... Read more
January 21, 2021
Open source software is the infrastructure of the Internet, but it is less diverse than the tech industry overall. In this deep-dive on gender in open source ... Read more
January 13, 2021
