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Raju Named 2012 Siebel Scholar
The Siebel Scholars Foundation has announced that Preethi Raju, a master’s student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, and ...
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Cassell Will Speak at “Summer Davos”
Justine Cassell, director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, will be among four Carnegie Mellon University faculty members who w...
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Apollo Group to Acquire Carnegie Learning
Apollo Group, corporate parent of the University of Phoenix, has agreed to buy Carnegie Learning Inc., a spinoff of Carnegie Mellon Univer...
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PhD Student Jason Wiese Wins a Yahoo! 2011 Key Scientific Challenges Program Award
Big congratulations to PhD student Jason Wiese, who has just won a Yahoo! 2011 Key Scientific Challenges Program Award. Jason won for his ...
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Working Out How Students Think and Learn
The Australian newspaper featured Ken Koedinger, professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, in a story about Australia’s first...
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Carnegie Mellon Develops iPhone App That Predicts When Bus Will Arrive
Everybody who waits at a bus stop wants to know one thing: Where’s the bus? Thanks to Tiramisu, a new iPhone application developed at Carn...
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Local News Covers Tiramisu Roll Out
HCII’s own John Zimmerman, along with Aaron Steinfeld and Anthony Tomasic and team, rolled out “Tiramisu” for the press yesterday.
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Symposium Explores How Computer Programs Can Be Made Easier to Write and Understand
Computers may be a common part of modern life and work, but the languages and methods used to program those computers continue to confound...
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Anderson’s Legacy Is Revolutionizing How We Learn
John R. Anderson, the R.K. Mellon University Professor of Psychology and Computer Science, received the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Compute...
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Virtual Possessions Have Powerful Hold on Teenagers
Digital imagery, Facebook updates, online music collections, email threads and other immaterial artifacts of today’s online world ma...
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Myers Receives Microsoft Research SEIF Award
Brad A. Myers, professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, is one of 10 recipients chosen by Microsoft Research for its 2011 So...
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Cassell Featured in Technology Town Hall Meeting
Justine Cassell, director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, will join experts from the news media and industry to discuss how t...
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HCII’s Lomas Wins National Prize for “Numbaland!” Game
“Numbaland!,” a collection of math games developed by Human-Computer Interaction Institute PhD student Derek Lomas and two colleagues, won...
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Teaching Gets Smarter
Ken Koedinger came to Carnegie Mellon University in 1986 as a PhD student—exploring how software could be harnessed as a teaching to...
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news.com.au Covers CrowdForge
news.com.au warns journalists about potential quality of crowd sourced journalism. The article describes the CrowdForge developed by HCII’...
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Where Are the Women in Wikipedia?
HCII Director Justine Cassell joins in the discussion over the relative lack of female contributors to Wikipedia, why the disparity exists...
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Silicon Supervisor Gets the Job Done Online
New Scientist says a new kind of crowdsourcing could change the way we work. CrowdForge, a structure for crowdsourcing creative work devel...
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Crowd Workers Are Not Online Shakespeares, But HCII Researchers Show They Can Write
Writing can be a solitary, intellectual pursuit, but researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have shown that the task of writing an info...
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Justine Cassell Joins Panel to Discuss Brain and Behavior
Justine Cassell, director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, will be part of a campus panel discussion on how interdisciplinary ...
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Derek Lomas - NumberPower: Challenge Grand Prize Winner
Derek Lomas, a PhD student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, won the $50,000 grand prize in the $100K Challenge, a competition ...