News & Events
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View our recent news stories below. Looking for an upcoming event? Visit our website calendar to view our public events, including our weekly Seminar Series on Friday afternoons.
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SCS Faculty Receive Google Academic Research Awards
Nine School of Computer Science faculty members recently received Google Academic Research Awards, which aim to fund and actively collabor...
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HCII at HCOMP 2024
"Responsible Crowd Work for Better Artificial Intelligence (AI)” was the theme of the 12th annual AAAI Conference on Human Computation and...
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HCII Highlights in The Link
The Link magazine from the CMU School of Computer Science is now available in mailboxes of alumni and friends, on newsstands in SCS campus...
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Brewing Sustainability
It took a lot of coffee to power Mike Rivera’s push toward a doctorate degree in human-computer interaction at Carnegie Mellon. And it too...
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HCII Seeks Capstone Sponsors for Spring 2025
Apply our future HCI leaders to your organization's challenges next year. The HCII invites companies, startups and nonprofits alike to spo...
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NIST Awards $6M to Carnegie Mellon University To Establish AI Cooperative Research Center
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced Sept.
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CMU Students launch HCI Ideas Podcast and Cards
Four Carnegie Mellon University undergraduate students took on a special project this summer to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Hu...
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CMU Releases Remastered 'Last Lecture'
Using AI, a CMU video systems engineer who worked with Randy Pausch revisited the inspirational The Last Lecture talk viewed by millions w...
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HCII Alum Blends Fashion, Storytelling in Design Work
On a vacation to Australia in 2018, Ian Clark knew it was time for a change. He was working in real estate but had more creative ambitions...
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SCS Launches 'Does Compute' Podcast
Computer science has fueled the innovations of the past decades and will drive the breakthroughs yet to come. The field of ones and zeros ...
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Mayank Goel Presents at World Economic Forum Summer Gathering in China
Mayank Goel, an associate professor in the Software and Societal Systems Department and Human-Computer Interaction Institute, recently att...
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SCS Researchers Partner with Mass Transit Operators for Better Technology
Carnegie Mellon University researchers are designing the future of transit with people who operate buses and other mass transit vehicles. ...
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Innovative Program Expands Reach with Grant from Richard King Mellon Foundation
The Carnegie Mellon University-based PLUS program, renowned for its innovative human+AI tutoring approach, has received a significant boos...
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CMU Technologists Look to a More Inclusive Future
As artificial intelligence becomes more sophisticated and capable of closely depicting reality, researchers at the HCII are working to ens...
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Siri, It Hurts When You Constantly Misunderstand Me. You too, Alexa
Users of voice assistants such as Siri, Alexa or Google Assistant know the frustration of being misunderstood by a machine. But for people...
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CMU at FAccT 2024
Researchers from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) and several other Carnegie Mellon University schools and disciplines cont...
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New Search Engine Tool Helps Users Make Sense of Unfamiliar Topics
An unstructured search for online information about new topics or products can be daunting.
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Kittur is GeekWire Podcast Guest
AI, the brain, and the crowd: Research explores new ways for humans and tech to work togetherTodd Bishop, co-founder of GeekWire, recently...
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People With Autism Turn to ChatGPT for Advice on Workplace Issues
A new Carnegie Mellon University study shows that many people with autism embrace ChatGPT and similar artificial intelligence tools for he...
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Robots Could Clear Snow, Assist at Crosswalks, Monitor Sidewalks for Traffic
A new study by Carnegie Mellon University researchers found that when roboticists and people with disabilities collaborate on robot design...