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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CyLab Research Selected as a 'Must-Read' Privacy Paper for Policy Makers
A paper by CyLab researchers about how people perceive advanced video analytics has received the Future of Privacy Forum's annual Privacy ...
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SCS Faculty Receive Endowed Professorships
Four School of Computer Science professors recently received endowed faculty chairs in recognition of their work and to support further re...
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Games for Change: CMU Course Strategizes Around Sustainability
When it comes to climate change, a group of students at Carnegie Mellon University are ahead of the game — or, rather, designing it. ...
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Games for Change
CMU course strategizes around sustainability When it comes to climate change, a group of students at Carnegie Mellon University are ahead...
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Account sharing sheds light on social cybersecurity
Visit the original blog post on the Center for Informed Democracy & Social - cybersecurity (IDeaS) website.
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Software-Defined Cooking Using a Microwave Oven
Despite widespread popularity, today's microwave ovens are limited in their cooking capabilities, given that they heat food blindly, resul...
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CMU Researchers Develop Tool To Help Determine When To Reuse Content
Don't reinvent the wheel, the saying goes. But before using someone else's design, at least make sure it will be round.
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CMU Researcher Seeks To Understand the Regret Behind Social Media
It started as a desire to spend less time on social media.
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10 amazing portfolios from Carnegie Mellon students
This post is from the Webflow blog: "We picked our favorite design portfolios from Carnegie Mellon students, made in their classr...
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HCII at Virtual CSCW 2021
The ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) was held virtually October 23 to 27, 2021. ...
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HCII Researchers To Study Improving Algorithm, Computer Science Education as Part of CERES Network
Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's Human Computer Interaction Institute will collaborate with institutions around the world to ta...
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Innovation by Design 2021 Awards Recognize HCII Projects
Three HCII projects were recognized with four of Fast Company’s Innovation by Design 2021 Awards.
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Put Children In The Driving Seat Of Their Own Learning For Better Results
Children learn better when they are more active in lessons and have more control over their learning, says a new study.
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Jessica Hammer To Receive Carnegie Science Center Award for Work in STEM Education
The Carnegie Science Center will honor Jessica Hammer for using games to tackle challenging problems and promote STEM education. ...
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Five SCS Students Named Siebel Scholars
Five graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science have received Siebel Scholars awards for 2022. K...
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HCII Seeks Capstone Project Sponsors for 2022
Apply our future HCI leaders to your organization's challenges in 2022 The Human-Computer Interaction Institute invites companies...
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Designer Studies Cutting Edge of Fashion Via Luminous Material
Carnegie Mellon University senior Ashley Burbano had glowing results in her summer research into understanding the applications of...
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Want to eat more sustainably? Try flat-pack pasta
Flat packed noodles that form iconic pasta shapes when cooked could lead to more sustainable packaging, transportation, and storage. ...
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Pittsburgh researchers can’t stop tech giants or hackers from using your data. But they can try to protect your identity
Questions about the future of the multi-billion smart technology industry that tracks what we are doing are more than theoretical in Pitts...
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School of Computer Science Part of Four New NSF AI Institutes
CMU Contributing to Innovations in Caregiving, Agriculture, Wireless Networks Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science wil...
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NoRILLA: AI Gorilla Brings STEM to Life at the Children's Museum of Atlanta
There’s something new rumbling and tumbling at CMA! If you’ve visited the museum lately you’ve seen children building towers and other str...
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CMU, Apple Team Improves iOS App Accessibility
SCS Researchers Part of Best Paper Effort at CHI 2021
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Jessica Hammer Named HCII Interim Associate Director
Award-winning game designer Jessica Hammer will soon level up when she takes on the role of interim associate director of the Human-Compu...
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Forlizzi Named Dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for School of Computer Science
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 a...
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Alumni spotlight with Connie Chau
We recently caught up with Connie Chau, class of 2020, to talk about her time at Carnegie Mellon. Our conversation is below, forma...
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