In the Media
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Apollo Group to Acquire Carnegie Learning
Apollo Group, corporate parent of the University of Phoenix, has agreed to buy Carnegie Learning Inc., a spinoff of Carnegie Mellon Univer...
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Local News Covers Tiramisu Roll Out
HCII’s own John Zimmerman, along with Aaron Steinfeld and Anthony Tomasic and team, rolled out “Tiramisu” for the press yesterday.
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Working Out How Students Think and Learn
The Australian newspaper featured Ken Koedinger, professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, in a story about Australia’s first...
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Anderson’s Legacy Is Revolutionizing How We Learn
John R. Anderson, the R.K. Mellon University Professor of Psychology and Computer Science, received the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Compute...
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Teaching Gets Smarter
Ken Koedinger came to Carnegie Mellon University in 1986 as a PhD student—exploring how software could be harnessed as a teaching to...
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news.com.au Covers CrowdForge
news.com.au warns journalists about potential quality of crowd sourced journalism. The article describes the CrowdForge developed by HCII’...
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Silicon Supervisor Gets the Job Done Online
New Scientist says a new kind of crowdsourcing could change the way we work. CrowdForge, a structure for crowdsourcing creative work devel...
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Where Are the Women in Wikipedia?
HCII Director Justine Cassell joins in the discussion over the relative lack of female contributors to Wikipedia, why the disparity exists...
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Robert Kraut Quoted in USA Today
Professor Robert Kraut was quoted in a USA Today article about the impact of pervasive communication technology on how people interact wit...
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Cellphone Serves As Learning Platform for the Developing World
An article in the Communications of the ACM describes work by HCII PhD student Anuj Kumar and others, which they presented in a CHI 2010 ...
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PhD Student’s Twitter Moniker, @BP, Causes Confusion
Bryan Pendleton, a PhD student in HCII, is known on Twitter as @BP. But since the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, some Twitter users have...
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Newsmaker: Moira Burke
Moira Burke, HCII PhD student, was the featured “Newsmaker” in the Sunday, May 9 edition of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Moi...
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A Little Black Box to Jog Failing Memory
The New York Times reports on work by Anind Dey and Matthew Lee, using Microsoft Research’s SenseCam, to collect images and other digital ...
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CMU to Research Sensors to Track Elderly
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports on work by HCII PhD student Matthew Lee and faculty Anind Dey.
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IEEE Spectrum: Special Report: Robots for Real
HCII PhD student Matthew Lee, along with the QoLT, is included with some of the world’s most creative minds in robotics in the segme...
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Snackbot Featured in New York Times Article
Paul Rybski and Min Kyung Lee work on Snackbot are featured in a New York Times article on “Robo Chefs.”
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Jodi Forlizzi and Bilge Mutlu’s Work on Robots Featured on New Scientist
The New Scientist featured HCII faculty Jodi Forlizzi and PhD alumnus Bilge Mutlu’s research on domestic and organizational robots in an a...
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Matthew Kam’s MILLEE Project Covered by Times of India and Daily News & Analysis
Both The Times of India and Daily News & Analysis have written about HCII faculty Matthew Kam’s MILLEE project. The Times of India wr...
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Chris Harrison Interviewed for The Independent’s “Why touch screens push our buttons”
Chris Harrison, a PhD student in the HCII, was interviewed by The Independent (a British Newspaper) about his work and perspectives on tou...
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Snackbot and Pittsburgh Featured on CBS National News
Snackbot, Boss, the snake robot, and several other robots were featured in a segment about Pittsburgh and the G20 on CBS national news. ...
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Technology Review Features Research by Kostakos on Crowd Wisdom
A Technology Review article discusses work by Vassilis Kostakos about online recommendation systems. HCII faculty Nikki Kittur is also int...
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Tribune-Review and ABC News Cover Matthew Kam’s Research
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review describes HCII faculty Matthew Kam’s work using cell phones games to teach English. ABC News also featured a...
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Teaching Fellowships in Africa Created to Honor Randy Pausch
Electronic Arts, in partnership with Teach With Africa, has initiated a fellowship program that honors Randy Pausch and addresses the dire...
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Multiple Media Outlets Cover Eric Paulos’s Research
The Economist, Public Radio International and WBUR’s Here & Now have all written about HCII faculty Eric Paulos’s research on how mobi...
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Wired, Popular Mechanics, Technology Review Cover Harrison and Hudson’s Physically Deformable Multitouch Displays
Numerous publications have written about HCII PhD student Chris Harrison and faculty Scott Hudson’s research on deformable multitouch disp...
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Carnegie Mellon/HCII, Pitt Receive $25 Million Federal Grant to Study How People Learn
The National Science Foundation has renewed a five-year $25 million grant to continue the work of the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Cente...
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Jodi Forlizzi, John Zimmerman, Anind Dey’s “Kind Technology” Featured in Spirit Magazine
In Southwest Airlines Spirit magazine special issue on technology, the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and CMU were featured as cente...
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Masters of HCI Program One of the Top 10 Innovative Graduate Schools
The Masters of HCI program was featured in an article in ComputerWorld, as one of the top 10 innovative graduate schools for producing top...
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2004 MHCI Capstone Project Featured in Several Publications
Roadcasting is a system that allows anyone to have their own radio station, broadcast among cars in an ad-hoc network. It uses listener fe...
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