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    Why Pittsburghers Are Already Stressed About the Parkway East Closure — and What They Can Do About It

    Before the upcoming closure of the Parkway East, many Pittsburgh commuters are already feeling the stress.

  • a student presents a research paper at DIS, the title on the large screen behind her reads "Surfacing Design Tensions and Opportunities for AI-Mediated Pre-diagnostic Risk Communication for Breast Cancer Care"

    CMU at DIS 2026

    The Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) was held June 13-17, 2026, in Singapore. ...

  • two master's students stand behind a basis sign during the hackathon

    Designing the Future of Tech Governance

    Carnegie Mellon University students are stepping out of the classroom ready to prove that the people who design technology are uniquely qu...

  • two children seated at the NoRILLA science table, the one raises his hands in the air after getting an answer correct

    NoRILLA Wins Global Competition

    Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science won an international competition aimed at transforming kindergarten...

  • UI for AI visual, designing interfaces for an AI-native world

    Looking Ahead: AI Needs UI

    There is a distinct tension when opening an artificial intelligence (AI) tool and facing that empty text box with its blinking cursor. Wha...

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    How Do Boomers Really Feel About AI?

    As older adults embrace artificial intelligence, they want the technology to be more in tune with their emotional needs, according to a re...

  • Lead author Shixian Xie presents the AI Deciders research during the CHI conference.

    Don’t Let FOMO Be Your Organization’s AI Strategy

    Driven by the fear of falling behind their competitors, organizations are rushing to throw AI at their problems. But it's not solving ever...

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    Listening to Your Fingertips

    The future of precise hearing could be at your fingertips. CMU researchers have developed a technique that turns a person's fingertips int...

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    Commencement 2026: ‘Shape What Comes Next’

    Carnegie Mellon University conferred more than 5,800 undergraduate and graduate degrees at its 128th Commencement ceremony on Sunday, May ...

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    CMU Tool Prevents Anxiety Spirals When Searching for Medical Advice Online

    Reddit isn't a doctor, but that doesn't stop people from turning to it for medical questions. And since people won't change their behavior...

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    Design Tweaks That Keep Students Learning

    Getting a question wrong might be the best thing that can happen to a student, if they try again. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon Universit...

  • Four people sit around a table, playing a card game.

    Job Interviews, But Make It a Game Night

    A team of recent graduates from Carnegie Mellon University turned career prep into a card game. Terrible Workers helps middle and high sch...

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    Fujitsu, CMU Launch Joint Center for Physical AI

    At the center, Fujitsu and CMU will jointly advance research and development of core technologies to enhance the capabilities and scalabil...

  • Figure 1 from the EcoAssist paper, which shows the interface with callouts beside the in-line energy highlights and recommendations in the code

    EcoAssist Shows Devs Greener Ways to Code

    The environmental impact of the internet continues to climb. Every line of code written for a website leads to power consumption and energ...

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    Rethinking PDF Accessibility From the Ground Up

    Researchers in the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science have developed a system that automatically improves PDF accessibi...

  • AI assistant in the room

    The AI Is in the Room

    In this ghost story, there is no haunted mansion. No candles mysteriously snuffed out. No strange things going bump in the night or glimps...

  • multicolor CHI 2026 logo. The conference will be held in Barcelona, Spain from April 13-17

    CMU at CHI 2026

    This year, authors from CMU contributed to 76 papers accepted to CHI, including 12 award-winning papers. “The interdisciplinary CHI confer...

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    Application Opens for 2026 LearnLab Summer School

    This intensive, one-week program gives participants hands-on experience building advanced educational technologies and tutoring systems to...

  • A woman writes on a dry erase board while two colleagues look on.

    When an AI Bot Becomes Your Boss

    Artificial intelligence isn't likely to replace managers in the workplace, but it can help with routine tasks, a study by researchers in C...

  • SIGCHI Awards 2026

    Bigham, Dabbish and Harrison Join CHI Academy

    Three faculty members from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) have been named to the CHI Academy this year, an honorary group...