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HCII Graduate Student Martina Rau Wins Best Student Paper Award at the 2009 AIED Conference
NEWSFirst-year HCII graduate student Martina Rau wins the Best Student Paper Award at the 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2009, which was held in Br...
HCII Spinoff Carnegie Learning Announces International Partnership and Multiple Educational Technology Honors
NEWSCarnegie Learning Inc. has announced a three-year partnership with Carnegie Mellon University and universities in Mexico, Central America, and South America to develop Cognitive Tutor® mat...
Carnegie Mellon Develops Java Programming Tools Employing Human-Centered Design Techniques
NEWSResearchers from the School of Computer Science have developed two new tools to help computer programmers select from among thousands of options within the application programming interfac...
CMU Had a Great Presence at CHI 2009
NEWSAuthors from Carnegie Mellon and the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, in particular, had a great presence at CHI 2009, the premier conference in Human-Computer Interaction. They prese...
Sara Kiesler Awarded ACM SIGCHI’s Lifetime Achievement Award
NEWSThis year the Association of Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) presented its Lifetime Achievement Award to Sara Kiesler. The Lifetime A...
Chris Harrison’s Work Awarded Honorable Mention in the NSF’s Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge 2008
NEWSChris Harrison’s visualization work was selected as runner up (honorable mention) in the illustration category of the NSF/Science 2008 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge and w...
Ian Li Wins Smiley Award
NEWSPhD student Ian Li wins the 2009 SCS Smiley Award for innovation in technology-assisted person-to-person communication for his project Grafitter....
Ron Salden and Vincent Aleven Win Best Paper Award at the Cognitive Science 2008 Conference
NEWSRon Salden and Vincent Aleven of the HCI Institute, together with colleagues Alexander Renkl, and Rolf Schwonke from the University of Freiburg, Germany, won a best paper award at the Cogn...
Dan Sieworek Speaks at 50-year Anniversary of University of Michigan Computer Science Department
NEWSHCII department head Daniel P. Sieworek, ECE faculty Rob A. Rutenbar, and former ECE faculty member John P. Shen were featured speakers at the UM CSE@50 Symposium, which celebrated the 5...
Randy Pausch Recognized by SIGSE
NEWSRandy Pausch is recognized by SIGSE for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education. The award will be presented at the 39th SIGCSE Technical Symposium being held at the Oregon...
Randy Pausch Wins Karlstrom Award
NEWSRandy Pausch is selected as the winner of the 2007 ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award: “For his outstanding creative contributions to the art of teaching and mentoring ...
JJ Cadiz at Microsoft
NEWSCarnegie Mellon Alumnus, JJ Cadiz, is now Program Manager on Bill Gates’ technology assistance team at Microsoft....