Artificial Intelligence (AI)

CMU, Yixue Education Inc. Announce AI Research Project in Adaptive K-12 Education

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Yixue Education Inc. and Carnegie Mellon University have announced a new multiyear partnership highlighted by a comprehensive artificial intelligence research lab.

The CMU-Squirrel AI Research Lab on Personalized Education at Scale will develop new ways for AI, machine learning, cognitive science and human computer interface technologies to improve the adaptive learning experiences of K–12 students around the world.

Researchers Make Transformational AI Seem "Unremarkable"

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AI Must Be Unobtrusive To Be Accepted as Part of Clinical Decision Making

Physicians making life-and-death decisions about organ transplants, cancer treatments or heart surgeries typically don't give much thought to how artificial intelligence might help them. And that's how researchers at Carnegie Mellon University say clinical AI tools should be designed — so doctors don't need to think about them.

HCII Research at CHI 2019

Thousands of the world’s top researchers, scientists, and designers are traveling to the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (also known as CHI) this weekend. The premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction will take place in Glasgow, UK from May 4-9, 2019.

Four Receive Google Faculty Research Awards in HCI

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Four faculty members from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute have received 2018 Google Faculty Research Awards.

Google seeks to identify and strengthen long-term collaborative relationships with world-class computer science faculty researchers in areas of mutual interest. The goal of these collaborations is to impact how future generations use technology.

HCII Faculty Yao and Zimmerman to Speak at SXSW2019

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Carnegie Mellon University students, faculty and alumni will be among the thousands descending onto Austin, Texas, for South by Southwest (SXSW) March 8-17, 2019.

Two faculty from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute will be speaking during separate sessions on Tuesday, March 12.

Scaling Up Search for Analogies Could Be Key to Innovation

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AI, Crowdsourcing Can Identify Insights That Lead to Breakthroughs

Investment in research is at an all-time high, yet the rate of scientific breakthroughs isn't setting any records. To resolve this quandary, scientists are turning to artificial intelligence and crowdsourcing for help in identifying a key inspiration for innovation — the perfect analogy.

"Innovation by Design" Awards Recognize Several in HCII

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Several from Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute were honored by Fast Company in its annual Innovation by Design Awards. Two projects from the HCII were finalists and two more earned honorable mentions in 2018.

Crowd Workers, AI Make Conversational Agents Smarter

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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 that is tough to stump.