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SCS Scientists Receive Sloan Research Fellowships
School of Computer Science faculty members Chris Harrison, Bryan Parno, Andrew Pavlo and Andreas Pfenning have received 2018 Sloan Resear...
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HCII Welcomes First Alumni & Corporate Relations Coordinator
Human-Computer Interaction Institute alumni may have noticed that messages from the alumni listserv are coming from a new, yet familiar na...
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Crowd Workers, AI Make Conversational Agents Smarter
Conversational agents such as Siri, Alexa and Cortana are great at giving you the weather, but flummoxed when asked for unusual informatio...
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$2.5m grant received to study the science of teaching
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 Uni...
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Valencia named to “Innovators Under 35 Latin America 2017”
First-year Human-Computer Interaction PhD student Stephanie Valencia Valencia was named to the MIT Tech Review’s Innovators under 35 Latin...
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Students apply computing skills to social causes in new course
Tiny lights flashed beside a cardboard replica of the Waterfront smokestacks as a new special topics course wrapped up the semester with f...
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Koedinger Accepts Hillman Professorship of Computer Science
Ken Koedinger, professor in the
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Gaming for good, first-time HCII team raises over $5,000 for the kids
Team “Carnage Melon” had lofty goals for its first time participating in the Extra Life charity gaming marathon, but it unlocked the $5,00...
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MHCI Alumnae Lead Panel Discussion at Grace Hopper Celebration
Four Master of Human-Computer Interaction alumnae were selected to lead an HCI panel discussion at the 2017 Grace Hopper Celebration of Wo...
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Harrison receives Habermann Chair in SCS
Chris Harrison, assistant professor at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, has been named the A. Nico Habermann Chair in the School ...
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Carnegie Mellon Names Jodi Forlizzi HCII Director
Andrew Moore, dean of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science, has appointed Jodi Forlizzi as the new Charles M.
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Gaming for good, HCII team prepares for 24-hour gaming marathon
From 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, November 4, until 9:00 a.m. on Sunday, November 5, someone from Carnage Melon will be awake and playing a game...
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Inviting clients for 2018 HCI capstone projects
Sponsors Needed for HCI Student Capstone Projects The Human-Computer Interaction Institute is currently seeking client sponsors for sprin...
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HCII Professor Earns Most Influential Paper Award for Fourth Time in Six Years
A 2006 paper co-authored by Jeff Stylos, then-Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D. student, and Brad Myers, professor in the Human-Computer In...
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HCII PhD Student Robert Xiao Talks PPP 4th "World Series of Hacking" Win.
"The win represents the strength of the team and CMU's dominance in cyber security."
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HCII Ph.D. Students Receive CMLH Fellowship in Digital Health
Four Human-Computer Interaction Institute Ph.D. students are recipients of the Center for Machine Learning and Health (CMLH) Fellowship in...
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HCII Faculty Writers of Crash Course in Computer Science
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...
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ChromeView: A Plugin Designed to Fight Selective Exposure
"Algorithm models and machine learning systems. Whether we realize it or not, our daily lives center around them," explained a team of Car...
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Skip the Password, Use "Secret Knock" Instead
Article originally posted on www.cs.cmu.edu In the days of Prohibition, thirsty men and women used a secret knock to enter speakeasies. O...