News & Events
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From The Link: Heated Conversations, Cold Realities
In 2017, about the time the United States signaled its withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation, chatter on social...
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The Global Reach of CMU AI
Global health care, the future of transportation, food security, consumer privacy in a networked world. As intractable problems accrue and...
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CMU Researchers Develop Algorithm To Divvy Up Tasks for Human-Robot Teams
As robots increasingly join people on the factory floor, in warehouses and elsewhere on the job, dividing up who will do which tasks grows...
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New Research Offers Recommendations for Integrating Autonomous Driving Tech Into Public Transportation
Autonomous vehicle technology likely won't replace the workers behind the wheels of buses, vans and other vehicles shuttling people around...
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Klatzky Elected Into National Academy of Sciences
Roberta Klatzky — an expert in cognition whose research examines the relationships between human perception and action — has been elected ...
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SCS Seniors Shine as Scholar Athletes
Nadia Susanto and Michael OBroin will both earn degrees from the School of Computer Science during Carnegie Mellon University's upcoming C...
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TouchPose Technology Senses What Touchscreens Can't Feel
Current touchscreens and trackpads miss a lot of information.
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SCS Research Takes Top Honors at CHI 2022
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science took home several top awards at this year's ACM Conference on Hum...
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Over the Lips, Through the Gums, Look Out Gamers, Here It Comes — Or So It Seems
Lips are famously sensual but, together with the gums and tongue, they are also surprisingly sensitive, second only to the fingertips in n...
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CyLab Researchers Investigate Apple's Privacy Labels
CyLab researchers will present two papers at the upcoming ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems that examine Apple's pr...
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Inclusive Design and Research Methods Will Lead To More Innovative, Intelligent Technology
A few years ago, when Carnegie Mellon University design researcher Christina Harrington was still making home visits for her research, she...
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SCS Ph.D. Students Designed, Taught New Course To Make Computer Science More Welcoming, Inclusive
The Computer Science Department's new course focusing on issues of justice, equity, diversity and inclusion in computer science and societ...
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SCS Faculty, Grad Students Earn CMU's Top Education Honors
The School of Computer Science will be on everyone's lips during Carnegie Mellon University's Celebration of Education Awards Ceremony on ...
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Your Eyes Control Your Smartphone With CMU's New Gaze-Tracking Tool
As more people watch movies, edit video, read the news and keep up with social media on their smartphones, these devices have grown to acc...
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Kraut Named University Professor
Three Carnegie Mellon University faculty members have been elevated to the rank of University Professor, the highest distinction a faculty...
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From The Link: Beyond Grateful
Note: Today is National American Sign Language Day, and to celebrate the hundreds of thousands of people who communicate using ASL, we're ...
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HCII at SCS Founders Day 2022
Several of our Human-Computer Interaction Institute colleagues were recognized at the SCS Founders Day Awards ceremony on Tuesday, April 5...
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Kittur Named to CHI Academy
Professor Aniket "Niki" Kittur has been named to the 2022 CHI Academy — an honorary group of individuals who have made substantial contrib...
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Hebert, Kraut Named University Professors
The dean of the School of Computer Science and a founding member of the school's Human-Computer Interaction Institute recently received th...
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CMU and Shonan Seminar Partner to Improve Classroom Engagement and Learner Outcomes by Empowering Student Focus
A group of Carnegie Mellon University masters students is partnering with Shonan Seminar Co., Ltd. to provide enhanced opportunities ...
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Moon Buddy Team Working With NASA on Spacesuits for Lunar Exploration
Students working on Carnegie Mellon University's Moon Buddy likely will not walk on the lunar surface as part of NASA's upcoming Artemis m...
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Adding AI to Museum Exhibits Increases Learning, Keeps Kids Engaged Longer
Hands-on exhibits are staples of science and children's museums around the world, and kids love them. The exhibits invite children to expl...
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CMU Launches Responsible AI Initiative To Direct Technology Toward Social Responsibility
Artificial intelligence has the potential to improve our daily lives, whether it's by helping doctors better diagnose and treat disease, r...
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CMU Building Moonshot Mission Control for Upcoming Lunar Exploration
As their rovers explore unknown terrain on the moon's surface, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University will watch from the familiar conf...
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Rising to the Challenge
CMU launches program to recognize recent alumni making transformational impacts From stages to startups and literary journals to hockey r...
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SMASH Lab Uses Wearables To Train New Privacy-Preserving Sensors
Data about home sales likely won't help someone looking for a car, just like information about basketball won't help someone playing baseb...
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SCS Faculty Receive Nearly $2.5M in NSF CAREER Awards
Four Carnegie Mellon University researchers in the School of Computer Science recently received Faculty Early Career Development Program a...
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Latest Issue of The Link Now Online
Researchers sorted through 38 million tweets from more than 7 million users to better understand how climate change disinformation forms a...
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CMU's COVIDcast Offers Lessons Learned for the Future of Pandemic Forecasting
A massive COVID-19 data collection project led by researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's Delphi Research Group not only helped steer ...
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A History of Robotics on Display at CMU's Hunt Library
The Carnegie Mellon University Libraries latest exhibition highlights the history of robotics at CMU and the ongoing work of The Robotics ...
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