Aarti Singh, an associate professor in the Machine Learning Department, will use her research on decision-making algorithms to study the evolution of the universe as part of the Simons Collaborat...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/machine-learning-researcher-part-team-studying-evolution-universe
Carnegie Mellon University and the Richard King Mellon Foundation today announced a $150 million investment that will help build the Robotics Innovation Center in addition to funding advancements...
Award-winning game designer Jessica Hammer will soon level up when she takes on the role of interim associate director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute in Carnegie Mellon University's ...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/jessica-hammer-named-hcii-interim-associate-director
Jodi Forlizzi will lean on her background as a designer to address what she calls "a truly wicked problem" in her role as the inaugural associate dean of diversity, equity and inclusion in the Sc...
Amazon selected five Carnegie Mellon University faculty members to receive funding in its latest round of Amazon Research Awards. Of the five selected, three are School of Computer Science facult...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/three-scs-faculty-members-receive-amazon-research-awards
The pros make it look easy, but making a movie with a drone can be anything but.First, it takes skill to fly the often expensive pieces of equipment smoothly and without crashing. And once you've...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/shoot-better-drone-videos-single-word
Two alumni with ties to the School of Computer Science were among the eight from Carnegie Mellon University recently awarded grants through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, sponsored by the U....
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/two-alumni-scs-ties-earn-fulbrights
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's Computational Biology Department in the School of Computer Science have developed a new process that could reinvigorate the search for natural produc...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/cmu-team-develops-machine-learning-platform-mines-nature-new-drugs
Five Carnegie Mellon University students with ties to the School of Computer Science were selected for the inaugural Amazon Graduate Research Fellows Program. Amazon and CMU established the progr...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/amazon-names-five-graduate-research-fellows-part-new-scs-collaboration
Even though people stayed in touch during the pandemic's stay-at-home orders and social distancing, it was easy to feel out of touch with loved ones.Technology and the internet have expanded the ...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/significant-otter-helps-couples-communicate-heart
Maria Florina "Nina" Balcan recently received the inaugural Cadence Design Systems Chair in Computer Science for the impact her work has had in her departments and across Carnegie Mellon Universi...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/nina-balcan-honored-cadence-design-systems-professorship
Nearly $1 million in recent funding from the National Science Foundation will allow Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science faculty members Fei Fang and Andreas Pfenning to dig deep...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/fang-pfenning-receive-nsf-career-awards
The choice to study societal computing, an interdisciplinary program blending computer science and policy, felt logical for Aurelia Augusta, who embodies the intersection of multiple identities.�...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/societal-computing-phd-works-improve-online-experiences
Huanchen Zhang, who earned his Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science in 2020, has won the 2021 ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Dissertation Award, which recognizes the previous year's best dissertation i...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/scs-alum-wins-top-sigmod-dissertation-award
On a chilly May night, snowflakes sparkled on the Randy Pausch Memorial Bridge near the heart of Carnegie Mellon University's campus. The wintry scene wasn't caused by unseasonably cool weather. ...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/students-illuminate-pausch-bridge-cs-drama-minicourse
A new study from researchers at Carnegie Mellon University intends to improve the privacy regulations that often determine who has access to what data and how. Privacy regulations like the Genera...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/cmu-designed-app-showcases-privacy-control-recommendations
People serving time in prison or jail in the United States are almost constantly monitored, with surveillance stretching into conversations between inmates and their relatives. A new study by res...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/cylab-study-explores-surveillance-prison-communications
School of Computer Science assistant professors Henny Admoni and Fei Fang were among eight faculty members across Carnegie Mellon University who recently received Career Development Chairs to sup...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/henny-admoni-fei-fang-honored-endowed-professorships
The American Statistical Association (ASA) presented the 2021 Statistical Partnerships Among Academe, Industry, and Government (SPAIG) Award to Roni Rosenfeld and Ryan Tibshirani of Carnegie Mell...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/delphi-research-group-collaborators-honored-covidcast
A School of Computer Science grad student's dissertation has been transformed into a service aimed at improving the databases that power popular websites. OtterTune, a play on the once ubiquitous...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/cmu-research-forms-basis-automatic-database-tuning-service
Research from Carnegie Mellon University may soon help Twitter run faster and more efficiently. Juncheng Yang, a Ph.D. candidate in computer science, and Rashmi Vinayak, an assistant professor in...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/research-cmu-twitter-could-improve-cache-efficiency
While there aren’t any human footprints on Mars yet, Carnegie Mellon University has left plenty of tracks.School of Computer Science alumni and faculty have been part of NASA’s rover expediti...
Three School of Computer Science faculty members will participate in the 2021-2022 Provost's Inclusive Teaching Fellowship program in the university's Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and Ed...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/three-scs-faculty-selected-provosts-inclusive-teaching-fellowships
Voice-controlled virtual assistants, like Alexa and Siri, work great in English. And they work pretty well in other languages, like Japanese. But they don't understand speakers of most of the wor...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/neubig-named-finalist-blavatnik-national-awards-young-scientists
A team at Apple analyzed nearly 78,000 screenshots from more than 4,000 apps to improve the screen reader function on its mobile devices. The result was Screen Recognition, a tool that uses machi...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/cmu-apple-team-improves-ios-app-accessibility
Aaditya Ramdas, an assistant professor in the Machine Learning and Statistics and Data Science departments, was honored by the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability with i...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/ramdas-honored-bernoulli-society-new-researcher-award
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Facebook AI didn't just teach a robot to walk — they taught it how to learn to walk. The distinction is...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/ai-allows-legged-robots-adapt-real-time-changing-conditions
The Simons Foundation recently appointed Maria Florina “Nina” Balcan, the Cadence Design Systems professor in computer science, a Simons Investigator in theoretical computer science.The Simon...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/balcan-named-simons-investigator
Qualcomm has accepted Gengshan Yang and N Dinesh Reddy into its current class of Innovation Fellows for the pair's work on creating computer-generated 3D models of traffic, people, animals and th...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/robotics-institute-phd-students-selected-qualcomm-innovation-fellowship
It is a scenario familiar to anyone who has driven down a crowded, narrow street. Parked cars line both sides, and there isn't enough space for vehicles traveling in both directions to pass each ...
The Department of Energy (DOE) has selected Souradip Ghosh, an incoming Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department, as one of its Computational Science Graduate Fellows (CSGF). The fellowsh...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/ghosh-named-doe-computational-science-graduate-fellow
Surfing the web through private browsing modes, virtual private networks (VPNs) or a Tor browser does not protect you from security threats, but users may think they do, according to a new study...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/misconceptions-plague-security-and-privacy-tools
An incoming School of Computer Science faculty member and a former Ph.D. student recently received honors for their dissertations. Dimitrios Skarlatos, who will join the Computer Science Departme...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/new-faculty-phd-alumni-honored-dissertations
MoonRanger, an autonomous rover headed to the moon in 2023 to explore the lunar south pole, passed NASA's key decision point (KDP) review and is in the final stages of preparation. Passing this m...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/moonranger-passes-key-nasa-review-ahead-lunar-mission
In a grainy video shot in the early 1980s on Carnegie Mellon University's campus, Ivan Sutherland rides on top of the Trojan Cockroach, a six-legged machine considered the first controlled by a c...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/carnegie-mellon-university-launches-robotics-project
Manuela Veloso, a renowned artificial intelligence researcher, computer scientist and roboticist at Carnegie Mellon University, is among the most influential women in engineering, according to a ...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/veloso-ranked-among-most-highly-influential-women-engineering
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are working with Apple to develop new ways to disassemble old technology. This work builds on Apple's existing recycling innovations, including its recyc...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/cmu-ai-robotics-team-apple-improve-device-recycling
Lee Weiss, a professor emeritus and founding member of Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, died on Wednesday, June 30. He was 70."Lee was a brilliant scientist whose creativity influ...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/scs-remembers-robotics-pioneer-lee-weiss
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected Carnegie Mellon University as one of five teams to develop artificial intelligence that will help field medics better use portab...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/cmu-team-will-put-expert-knowledge-fingertips-frontline-medics
Fei Fang and Tuomas Sandholm, both faculty members in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, were recently recognized by the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intell...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/fang-sandholm-honored-significant-contributions-ai
A machine translation company co-founded by Alex Waibel, a professor in the Language Technologies Institute, has been acquired by Zoom to bolster the platform's real-time translation. Kites, foun...
Virginia Smith, an assistant professor in the Machine Learning Department, and Priya Donti, a Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Science and Engineering and Public Policy departments, have been name...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/scs-faculty-phd-student-named-innovators-under-35-list
India and Pakistan have fought four wars in the past few decades, but when India faced an oxygen shortage in its hospitals during its recent COVID-19 surge, Pakistan offered to help.On Twitter, h...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/finding-support-india-during-its-covid-19-surge
Marinus Analytics, a Carnegie Mellon University spinoff company, won third place and $500,000 in the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE competition.The company, headquartered on Pittsburgh's North Side, was f...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/cmu-spinoff-marinus-analytics-awarded-ai-xprize-third-place
Identifying molecules and predicting the identity of unknown substances play huge roles in discovering natural products that can be used in drugs to treat cancers, viral infections and other ailm...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/computational-biologists-look-nature-new-drugs
Lorrie Cranor decided to present at this month's Conference on Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect (PEPR) from an extremely private room in her home. "Today, I'm talking to you from my third...
A machine learning technology company co-founded by Ameet Talwalkar, an assistant professor in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, will joi...
The Computer History Museum (CHM) celebrated a pioneer in robotics, artificial intelligence, and speech recognition as it inducted Raj Reddy, Carnegie Mellon University's Moza Bint Nasser Univer...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/computer-history-museum-honored-raj-reddy
An algorithm designed by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's Computational Biology Department and St. Petersburg State University in Russia could help scientists identify unknown molecu...
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/algorithm-uses-mass-spectrometry-data-predict-identity-molecules
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