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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CMU Spinoff Offers AI Platform To Help Governments Address COVID-19
People who manage public facilities and spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic have lots of new questions that artificial intelligence and ...
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CyLab Q&A with Jason Hong
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact countless aspects of everyday life, CyLab researchers are monitoring its effects on people’s ...
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Goel Receives 2019 Google Faculty Research Award
Mayank Goel, assistant professor with the School of Computer Science's HCII and ISR, recently received a 2019 Human-Computer Interaction G...
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Chouldechova and Zhu Awarded Research Grant on Fairness in Artificial Intelligence
The National Science Foundation (NSF) and Amazon have announced that two Carnegie Mellon University researchers have been awarded a resear...
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Rose, Zimmerman Named AAAS Leshner Public Engagement Fellows
The 2020-21 Fellows are ready to discuss how AI affects our work, decision-making and well-being The American Association for the...
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METALS Alumnus to Lead Team in Rural Panama
Carnegie Mellon University learning engineers are heading to rural Panama to help teachers improve student outcomes in science, technology...
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HCII Seeks Applicants for 2020 Summer Research Program
Carnegie Mellon's Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Human-Computer Interaction program is an opportunity for undergraduate studen...
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Block Center Podcast "Episode 9: Paging Dr. Robot"
Consequential is a podcast that looks at the human side of technological change and develops meaningful plans of action for policymakers, ...
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New Technology Makes Internet Memes Accessible for People With Visual Impairments
CMU Researchers Develop System to Identify and Translate Memes People with visual impairments use social media like everyone else, oft...
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Sharing accounts in the workplace is a mess
Last year, a team of CyLab researchers explored the account-sharing behaviors of romantic couples and found that some of their practices c...
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Inviting Clients for 2020 HCI Capstone Projects
The Human-Computer Interaction Institute is currently seeking client sponsors for spring semester 2020 projects.
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EduSense: Like a Fitbit for Your Teaching Skills
While training and feedback opportunities abound for K-12 educators, the same can't be said for instructors in higher education. Currently...
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Block Center Podcast "Episode 4: Fair Enough"
Consequential is a podcast that looks at the human side of technological change and develops meaningful plans of action for policymakers, ...
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Celebrating 25 Years of the HCII
Almost 400 people celebrated the Human-Computer Interaction Institute’s 25th anniversary on October 24 and 25, 2019 at Carnegie Mellon Uni...
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Retrospective video debuts at HCII 25th anniversary party
In 1994, a group of Carnegie Mellon University faculty members created an interdisciplinary, collaborative institute (that's us!) to integ...
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ChairJam Puts Spin on Hackathon Concept
Amelia Li is threading wires into bits of hardware scattered on a table. As she alternates between red, yellow, blue and green, the master...
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Inside the Enigma Machine
Researchers had a rare opportunity to peek "under the hood" of the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries' two Enigma machines, opening the ...
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SCS Students Named 2020 Siebel Scholars
Six Carnegie Mellon University students — five of them from the School of Computer Science — have been named 2020 Siebel Scholars, ...
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One-Dimensional Objects Morph Into New Dimensions
A line is the shortest distance between two points, but "A-line," a 4D printing system developed at Carnegie Mellon University, takes a ...
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McLaren Will Promote Educational Technology in Chile on Fulbright
Fulbright Program Sponsors Three-Month Sojourn in Valparaiso Bruce McLaren believes the moment is right to raise the status of educationa...