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    CMU Spinoff Offers AI Platform To Help Governments Address COVID-19

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    People who manage public facilities and spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic have lots of new questions that artificial intelligence and computer vision technology could help answer, such...

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    Chouldechova and Zhu Awarded Research Grant on Fairness in Artificial Intelligence

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    The National Science Foundation (NSF) and Amazon have announced that two Carnegie Mellon University researchers have been awarded a research grant as part of the NSF's Program on Fairness ...

  • Block Center Podcast "Episode 9: Paging Dr. Robot"

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    Consequential is a podcast that looks at the human side of technological change and develops meaningful plans of action for policymakers, technologists and everyday people to build the kin...

  • Block Center Podcast "Episode 4: Fair Enough"

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    Consequential is a podcast that looks at the human side of technological change and develops meaningful plans of action for policymakers, technologists and everyday people to build the kin...

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    EduSense: Like a Fitbit for Your Teaching Skills

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    While training and feedback opportunities abound for K-12 educators, the same can't be said for instructors in higher education. Currently, the most effective mechanism for professional de...

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    Inside the Enigma Machine

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    Researchers had a rare opportunity to peek "under the hood" of the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries' two Enigma machines, opening the World War II-era machines to photograph their care...

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    New Technology Makes Internet Memes Accessible for People With Visual Impairments

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    CMU Researchers Develop System to Identify and Translate Memes People with visual impairments use social media like everyone else, often with the help of screen reader software. But th...

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    Inviting Clients for 2020 HCI Capstone Projects

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    The Human-Computer Interaction Institute is currently seeking client sponsors for spring semester 2020 projects. ...

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    HCII Seeks Applicants for 2020 Summer Research Program

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    Carnegie Mellon's Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Human-Computer Interaction program is an opportunity for undergraduate students to spend a summer working with some of the worl...

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    Retrospective video debuts at HCII 25th anniversary party

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    In 1994, a group of Carnegie Mellon University faculty members created an interdisciplinary, collaborative institute (that's us!) to integrate the previously siloed areas of computer scien...

  • 5 directors of the HCII stand in front of a banner and hold silver 25 balloons during the HCIIs 25th anniversary celebration

    Celebrating 25 Years of the HCII

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    Almost 400 people celebrated the Human-Computer Interaction Institute’s 25th anniversary on October 24 and 25, 2019 at Carnegie Mellon University. ...

  • Patrick Carrington and others working at the ChairJam hackathon

    ChairJam Puts Spin on Hackathon Concept

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    Amelia Li is threading wires into bits of hardware scattered on a table. As she alternates between red, yellow, blue and green, the master's student of entertainment technology at Carnegie...