Social Good

RoboTutor Team Awaits Global Learning XPRIZE Results

the view of the back two young boys interacting with a touchscreen tablet sitting on a plastic table

Winning Team Gets $10 Million, but Ultimate Goal Is Boosting Literacy for Millions Worldwide

Team members of RoboTutor LLC — who have spent years developing open-source software that children can use to teach themselves basic reading, writing and mathematics — are anxiously awaiting the results of the Global Learning XPRIZE competition.

Students apply computing skills to social causes in new course

students present walking app during course demo

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 University human-computer interaction course, taught by Afsaneh Doryab and Anind Dey, explored how computing skills can be applied to social and global causes.