CMU logo
Search
Expand Menu
Close Menu

News

  • One-dimensional, "line"-shaped plastic structures produced with the A-line system can bend, fold and twist themselves into predetermined shapes when triggered by heat.

    One-Dimensional Objects Morph Into New Dimensions

    NEWS

    A line is the shortest distance between two points, but "A-line," a 4D printing system developed at Carnegie Mellon University, takes a more circuitous route. One-dimensional, "line"-sha...

  • Five SCS graduate students have been named 2020 Siebel Scholars: Amadou Latyr Ngom, Junpei Zhou and Eric Wong (top), and Ken Holstein and Michael Madaio (bottom).

    SCS Students Named 2020 Siebel Scholars

    NEWS

    Six Carnegie Mellon University students — five of them from the School of Computer Science — have been named 2020 Siebel Scholars, a highly competitive award that supports top graduate s...

  • Bruce McLaren

    McLaren Will Promote Educational Technology in Chile on Fulbright

    NEWS

    Fulbright Program Sponsors Three-Month Sojourn in Valparaiso...

  • image of gym weight room featuring GymCam green rectangle overlays that recognize exercise motions

    GymCam Tracks Exercises That Wearable Monitors Can’t

    NEWS

    Algorithm Enables Cameras To Recognize Distinctive Exercise Motions...

  • side by side photo of 2 faculty members: Forlizzi on the left and Zimmerman on the right

    Zimmerman, Forlizzi Co-Author Encyclopedia Chapter

    NEWS

    The newest chapter of the online Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, 2nd Edition was written by HCII professors John Zimmerman and Jodi Forlizzi....

  • 4 members of the GoTracker team

    HCI Class Project Turned Entrepreneurship Lesson for Dedicated METALS Students

    NEWS

    The work began as a group project for an elective HCI course. ...

  • screenshot of macroinvertebrates.org with close up of dorsal side of a common stonefly

    Online Atlas of Aquatic Insects Aids Water-Quality Monitoring

    NEWS

    New Tool Helps Even Novices Identify Insects Inhabiting Streams, Lakes and Rivers A new online field guide to aquatic insects in the eastern United States, macroinvertebrates.org, promise...

  • 4 students in foreground at a research fair. One student holds laptop open while another student completes a demo. A line of posters on easel down the hall is visible in background

    HCI Students Present Research During MoM 2019

    NEWS

    The Undergraduate Research Symposium, or the "Meeting of the Minds," (MoM) is a university-wide celebration of undergraduate research. More than 700 Carnegie Mellon University students, in...

  • student seated with legs crossed on the floor writing in notebook and laptop open on floor nearby

    CMU, Yixue Education Inc. Announce AI Research Project in Adaptive K-12 Education

    NEWS

    Yixue Education Inc. and Carnegie Mellon University have announced a new multiyear partnership highlighted by a comprehensive artificial intelligence research lab....

  • Jason Wu stands in front of glass wall in FIG lab covered with colorful writing in dry erase markers

    Wu Receives National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

    NEWS

    Jason Wu, first year human-computer interaction Ph.D. student, received a 2019 Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation....

  • Kiesler Named University Professor

    NEWS

    Sara Kiesler, Hillman Professor Emerita of Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction, has been named a Carnegie Mellon University Professor. This is the highest distinction a faculty...

  • the view of the back two young boys interacting with a touchscreen tablet sitting on a plastic table

    RoboTutor Team Awaits Global Learning XPRIZE Results

    NEWS

    Winning Team Gets $10 Million, but Ultimate Goal Is Boosting Literacy for Millions Worldwide Team members of RoboTutor LLC — who have spent years developing open-source software that chi...