February 8, 2018
Conversational agents such as Siri, Alexa and Cortana are great at giving you the weather, but flummoxed when asked for unusual information or follow-up questions. By adding humans to the loop, Carnegie Mellon University researchers have created a conversational agent ... Read more
January 18, 2018
A new, five-year, $2.5 million research grant from the James S. McDonnell Foundation has been awarded to a team led by Carnegie Mellon University assistant professor Amy Ogan to study teacher learning in high-need settings ... Read more
December 20, 2017
Thanks to our graduates in the New York City area who joined Lee Hillman, executive director ... Read more
December 15, 2017
First-year Human-Computer Interaction PhD student Stephanie Valencia Valencia was named to the ... Read more
December 14, 2017
Tiny lights flashed beside a cardboard replica of the Waterfront smokestacks as a new special topics course wrapped up the semester with final project demos in the Kiesler-Kraut Commons lobby of Newell-Simon Hall on Thursday, December 7.
The new Carnegie Mellon ... Read more
December 8, 2017
Ken Koedinger, professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and Department of Psychology, accepted the Hillman Professorship of ... Read more
December 1, 2017
Team “Carnage Melon” had lofty goals for its first time participating in the Extra Life charity gaming marathon, but it unlocked the $5,000 badge with an hour to spare.
The group ... Read more
November 29, 2017
Four Master of Human-Computer Interaction alumnae were selected to lead an HCI panel discussion at the 2017 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in October. Class of 2011 graduates Christie Auw, Nisha Desai, Anubhuti Jain, and Syp Vandy Siligato presented, “ ... Read more
November 13, 2017
Chris Harrison, assistant professor at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, has been named the A. Nico Habermann Chair in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.
The Habermann Career Development Professorship was established in 1998 in ... Read more
November 8, 2017
Andrew Moore, dean of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science, has appointed Jodi Forlizzi as the new Charles M. Geschke Director of the
... Read moreOctober 27, 2017
From 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, November 4, until 9:00 a.m. on Sunday, November 5, someone from Carnage Melon will be awake and playing a game at the MHCI Lab in Pittsburgh, Pa.
No, that wasn't a typo. Carnage Melon is the team name for a group of students, faculty ... Read more
October 20, 2017
The Human-Computer Interaction Institute is currently seeking client sponsors for spring semester 2018 projects. Capstone projects benefit both parties -- sponsors get hundreds of hours of skilled research and ... Read more
October 10, 2017
A 2006 paper co-authored by Jeff Stylos, then-Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D. student, and Brad Myers, professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, will receive the Most Influential Paper Award at the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric ... Read more
August 10, 2017
"The win represents the strength of the team and CMU's dominance in cyber security."
The Carnegie Mellon University cybersecurity team made history at the annual Defcon convention this year in Las Vegas. The ... Read more
July 19, 2017
Four Human-Computer Interaction Institute Ph.D. students are recipients of the Center for Machine Learning and Health (CMLH) Fellowship in Digital Health. Incoming students Prerna Chikersal and ... Read more
July 11, 2017
The first known use of the word, computer, was actually in reference to a job title, not a piece of technology. In spite of the past trend for men to more frequently take on the job of computer scientist, the first recognized computer programmer was a woman named Ada ... Read more
July 10, 2017
"Algorithm models and machine learning systems. Whether we realize it or not, our daily lives center around them," explained a team of Carnegie Mellon University undergraduate students in their paper for Jason Hong's ... Read more
June 26, 2017
RoboTutor, educational technology developed at Carnegie Mellon University that teaches children basic math and reading skills, has been named a semifinalist in the $15 million ... Read more
June 26, 2017
Human-Computer Interaction Institute Ph.D students Abdelkareem Bedri and Yang Zhang are the recipients of this year's Qualcomm Fellowship. They are one of just eight student teams selected for the 2017 fellowship.
In their proposal, "Towards General Purpose ... Read more
June 26, 2017
Article originally posted on www.cs.cmu.edu
In the days of Prohibition, thirsty men and women used a secret knock to enter speakeasies. Occasionally, a nefarious sort who'd ... Read more
