People love pasta for its shapes — from tubes of penne and rigatoni to spirals of fusilli and rotini.
But what makes farfalle different from conchiglie also makes the staple a bear to package, requiring large bags and boxes to accommodate the iconic shapes of pastas around the world.
More than one hundred researchers from Carnegie Mellon will log on to virtually attend the international ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (also known as CHI) conference this week from May 8-13, 2021.
CHI 2021 was scheduled to take place in Yokohama, Japan, but the premier international conference on Human-Computer Interaction will now be held virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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 prizes, too.
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.
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 Schmidt Futures announced that the team is one of the winners of their Futures Forum on Learning: Tools Competition.
Qian Yang, a 2020 graduate from the HCI Ph.D. program, received a 2021 SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award. She is now an assistant professor in information science at Cornell University.
Scott Hudson, a professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII), is this year's winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award in Research presented by the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group in Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI).
Three Carnegie Mellon University research teams have received funding through the Program on Fairness in Artificial Intelligence, which the National Science Foundation sponsors in partnership with Amazon. The program supports computational research focused on fairness in AI, with the goal of building trustworthy AI systems that can be deployed to tackle grand challenges facing society.
A new game developed by Jessica Hammer and Melissa Kalarchian, two Pittsburgh-based researchers, won first prize in a national competition sponsored by the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
