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CMU Spinoff Offers AI Platform To Help Governments Address COVID-19
NEWSPeople 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...
Chouldechova and Zhu Awarded Research Grant on Fairness in Artificial Intelligence
NEWSThe 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"
NEWSConsequential 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"
NEWSConsequential 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...
EduSense: Like a Fitbit for Your Teaching Skills
NEWSWhile 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...
Inside the Enigma Machine
NEWSResearchers 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...
New Technology Makes Internet Memes Accessible for People With Visual Impairments
NEWSCMU 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...
Inviting Clients for 2020 HCI Capstone Projects
NEWSThe Human-Computer Interaction Institute is currently seeking client sponsors for spring semester 2020 projects. ...
HCII Seeks Applicants for 2020 Summer Research Program
NEWSCarnegie 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...
Retrospective video debuts at HCII 25th anniversary party
NEWSIn 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...
Celebrating 25 Years of the HCII
NEWSAlmost 400 people celebrated the Human-Computer Interaction Institute’s 25th anniversary on October 24 and 25, 2019 at Carnegie Mellon University. ...
ChairJam Puts Spin on Hackathon Concept
NEWSAmelia 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...