February 28, 2018
From undergrads to PhDs, more than 110 students attended the Human-Computer Interaction Institute’s informal networking event, HCII Connect, last week. The third annual event was held on Wednesday, February 21, 2018 in the Atrium of Newell-Simon ... Read more
February 15, 2018
School of Computer Science faculty members Chris Harrison, Bryan Parno, Andrew Pavlo and Andreas Pfenning have received 2018 Sloan Research Fellowships, which honor
... Read moreFebruary 12, 2018
Human-Computer Interaction Institute alumni may have noticed that messages from the alumni listserv are coming from a new, yet familiar name. The HCII team is excited to announce Jessica Stanley as the HCII’s ... Read more
February 8, 2018
Conversational agents such as Siri, Alexa and Cortana are great at giving you the weather, but flummoxed when asked for unusual information or follow-up questions. By adding humans to the loop, Carnegie Mellon University researchers have created a conversational agent ... Read more
January 18, 2018
A new, five-year, $2.5 million research grant from the James S. McDonnell Foundation has been awarded to a team led by Carnegie Mellon University assistant professor Amy Ogan to study teacher learning in high-need settings ... Read more
December 20, 2017
Thanks to our graduates in the New York City area who joined Lee Hillman, executive director ... Read more
December 15, 2017
First-year Human-Computer Interaction PhD student Stephanie Valencia Valencia was named to the ... Read more
December 14, 2017
Tiny lights flashed beside a cardboard replica of the Waterfront smokestacks as a new special topics course wrapped up the semester with final project demos in the Kiesler-Kraut Commons lobby of Newell-Simon Hall on Thursday, December 7.
The new Carnegie Mellon ... Read more
December 8, 2017
Ken Koedinger, professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and Department of Psychology, accepted the Hillman Professorship of ... Read more
December 1, 2017
Team “Carnage Melon” had lofty goals for its first time participating in the Extra Life charity gaming marathon, but it unlocked the $5,000 badge with an hour to spare.
The group ... Read more
November 8, 2017
Andrew Moore, dean of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science, has appointed Jodi Forlizzi as the new Charles M. Geschke Director of the
... Read moreOctober 20, 2017
The Human-Computer Interaction Institute is currently seeking client sponsors for spring semester 2018 projects. Capstone projects benefit both parties -- sponsors get hundreds of hours of skilled research and ... Read more
October 10, 2017
A 2006 paper co-authored by Jeff Stylos, then-Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D. student, and Brad Myers, professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, will receive the Most Influential Paper Award at the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric ... Read more
August 10, 2017
"The win represents the strength of the team and CMU's dominance in cyber security."
The Carnegie Mellon University cybersecurity team made history at the annual Defcon convention this year in Las Vegas. The ... Read more
July 19, 2017
Four Human-Computer Interaction Institute Ph.D. students are recipients of the Center for Machine Learning and Health (CMLH) Fellowship in Digital Health. Incoming students Prerna Chikersal and ... Read more
July 11, 2017
The first known use of the word, computer, was actually in reference to a job title, not a piece of technology. In spite of the past trend for men to more frequently take on the job of computer scientist, the first recognized computer programmer was a woman named Ada ... Read more
July 10, 2017
"Algorithm models and machine learning systems. Whether we realize it or not, our daily lives center around them," explained a team of Carnegie Mellon University undergraduate students in their paper for Jason Hong's ... Read more
June 26, 2017
RoboTutor, educational technology developed at Carnegie Mellon University that teaches children basic math and reading skills, has been named a semifinalist in the $15 million ... Read more
June 26, 2017
Article originally posted on www.cs.cmu.edu
In the days of Prohibition, thirsty men and women used a secret knock to enter speakeasies. Occasionally, a nefarious sort who'd ... Read more
June 19, 2017
Erroneous examples, step-by-step examples of incorrect problem solving, is a pedagogical approach used in only a few fields, such as medical education. Bruce McLaren, an associate research professor in the Human- ... Read more
