Latest News Carnegie Mellon Welcomes Third Cohort of I-Corps Site Teams by | Sunday, December 6, 2015 Carnegie Mellon University students, faculty and alumni are recognized leaders in producing successful startup companies, and the university houses several centers and programs for promoting innovation and growth. Fueled by such entrepreneurship, the National Science Foundation-sponsored Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Site is one of the Carnegie Mellon vehicles that drives relationships with internal and external partners in the business community. Read More Computer System Will Be an Angel on Your Shoulder, Whispering Advice, Step-by-Step Instruction Carnegie Mellon Developing Wearable Cognitive Assistant With NSF Support by | Monday, November 30, 2015 Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are building a computer system called Gabriel that, like the angel that is its namesake, will seemingly look over a person's shoulder and whisper instructions for tasks as varied as repairing industrial equipment, resuscitating a patient or assembling IKEA furniture. Read More Carnegie Mellon's Hacking Team Wins Seventh Straight Capture the Flag Competition by | Thursday, November 19, 2015 Carnegie Mellon's hacking team, the Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP), won its seventh straight capture the flag competition last week at the annual Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW) conference hosted by New York University. Read More System Recognizes Objects Touched by User, Enabling Context-Aware Smartwatch Apps Carnegie Mellon, Disney Method Exploits Conductivity of Human Body by | Sunday, November 8, 2015 A new technology developed by Carnegie Mellon University and Disney Research could enable smartwatches to automatically recognize what objects users are touching — for instance, whether the wearer is using a laptop, operating a saw, or riding a motorcycle — creating new opportunities for context-aware apps. Read More Carnegie Mellon and Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Part of NSF's "Big Data Brain Trust" Researchers Will Confront Challenges of Big Data as Members of the Northeast Data Innovation Hub by | Sunday, November 1, 2015 Today, the National Science Foundation announced the funding of four regional Big Data Innovation Hubs. Read More Then and Now: The 2,850-mile, no-hands road trip In 1995, Dean Pomerleau (CS’92) and Todd Jochem (CS’93,’96) of CMU took an epic journey from Pittsburgh to San Diego. by | Wednesday, October 28, 2015 The great American road trip is a time-honored way to spend a summer vacation. During the last two weeks of July 1995, Dean Pomerleau (CS’92) and Todd Jochem (CS’93,’96) of CMU’s Robotics Institute packed their gear into a 1990 Pontiac Trans Sport minivan and took an epic, 2,850-mile journey from Pittsburgh to San Diego. Read More Celebrating Women in Computing Veloso, CMU Play Major Role at Grace Hopper Celebration by | Sunday, October 25, 2015 Carnegie Mellon women in computing are furthering innovation across the globe, as evidenced when they joined with women technologists from around the globe at the annual Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) of Women in Computing Conference, Oct. 14–16 in Houston. Read More Undergraduate Women Will Meet Leading Researchers at OurCS Workshop by | Wednesday, October 21, 2015 Carnegie Mellon faculty members Manuela Veloso, Marlene Behrman and Lenore Blum will share their insights on computer science research with undergraduate women at the OurCS workshop Oct. 24–25. Read More Past and Future Share Spotlight at CS Fifty Computer Science Department Celebrates 50th Anniversary by | Tuesday, October 13, 2015 Even when Carnegie Mellon computer scientists look back, they're still looking forward.So when faculty, students and alumni gather Oct. 23–24 for CS Fifty — the 50th anniversary of the Computer Science Department — expect visions of the future of computing to be as common as reminiscences. Read More Foundation Honors Six SCS Students as Siebel Scholars by | Tuesday, September 15, 2015 The Siebel Scholars Foundation has named six Carnegie Mellon University graduate students to the 2016 class of Siebel Scholars, including one in the field of energy science, which is newly added to the program this year.Matt Wytock was named as a scholar in energy science, while John Dickerson, Rohit Girdhar, Po-Yao Huang, Jeffrey Rzeszotarski and Xun Zheng were honored as exceptional students in computer science. Read More Software Helps Create Sign Language Dictionaries, Voice-Activated Games for the Hearing Impaired Carnegie Mellon Students Develop Open Source Tools With Bangalore School by | Monday, September 14, 2015 Carnegie Mellon University's TechBridgeWorld research group today announced the release of open source software that can help educators of children with hearing disabilities create video dictionaries of sign languages and use games that encourage vocalization by children learning to speak. Read More 50 Most Powerful Pittsburghers by | Tuesday, September 1, 2015 Pittsburgh magazine’s annual listing of the 50 Most Powerful People includes CMU President Subra Suresh and SCS Dean Andrew Moore. Read More In Memoriam: Joseph F. Traub by | Wednesday, August 26, 2015 Joseph F. Traub, a pioneering computer scientist who led Carnegie Mellon's Computer Science Department during a crucial period in its history, died unexpectedly Aug. 24 in Santa Fe, NM. He was 83. Read More Gosling Wins IEEE John von Neumann Medal Cited for Java Language and Other Contributions to Programming by | Wednesday, August 19, 2015 The IEEE has honored James A. Gosling (CS'83), chief software architect at Liquid Robotics, with the 2015 John von Neumann Medal for his pioneering work on Java and other programming languages and environments. Read More Manuela Veloso Will Keynote Grace Hopper Celebration by | Monday, August 10, 2015 Manuela Veloso, the Herbert A. Simon University Professor of Computer Science, will be the keynote speaker at this year's Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Oct. 14–16 in Houston. Read More Carnegie Mellon Wins Second Place at DefCon by | Monday, August 10, 2015 Carnegie Mellon's cybersecurity team, the Plaid Parliament of Pwning, took second place at this year's DefCon Capture the Flag competition. The competition, widely considered the "World Series of Hacking," took place Aug. 6–9 in the Bally's Events Center in Las Vegas. Read More New Siebel Energy Institute Awards Seed Grants to CMU Researchers by | Tuesday, August 4, 2015 The newly established Siebel Energy Institute, a consortium of Carnegie Mellon and seven other research universities, marked its official launch Aug. 4 by announcing 24 seed grants, including three to CMU researchers. Read More Time Video Highlights CMU's Role in Pittsburgh's Comeback by | Thursday, July 9, 2015 A newly released video from Time magazine, "Pittsburgh The Comeback," highlights the role of technology — particularly the contributions of Carnegie Mellon University — in the revitalization of Pittsburgh. SCS Dean Andrew Moore is among the community leaders interviewed on camera."My most important duty here as dean is to create the computer scientists who are frankly, I believe, going to be running the world in 2040," Moore said.The Robotics Institute's Martial Hebert, Tony Stentz and Clark Haynes also are prominently featured. Read More Fewer Women Than Men Are Shown Online Ads Related to High-Paying Jobs Carnegie Mellon Uses Simulated User Profiles To Probe Online Ad Ecosystem by | Monday, July 6, 2015 Experiments by Carnegie Mellon University show that significantly fewer women than men were shown online ads promising them help getting jobs paying more than $200,000, raising questions about the fairness of targeting ads online. Read More Researchers Developing Ways To Safeguard AI Applications by | Tuesday, June 30, 2015 Manuela Veloso and Andre Platzer are among the initial researchers funded by the Elon Musk-backed Future of Life Institute to explore ways to keep artificial intelligence beneficial to mankind.Musk, the entrepreneur behind both Tesla Motors and SpaceX, has expressed his concerns that people might lose control of AI. He donated $10 million to the Boston-based institute, which has now awarded $7 million to 37 researchers to explore the risks and opportunities surrounding AI. Read More Carnegie Mellon Will Use Blended Learning To Boost Capacity of Computer Science Course Google-Funded Project Seeks Ways To Meet Growing Demand for Classes by | Wednesday, June 17, 2015 Carnegie Mellon University will begin adding online instructional tools and targeted study groups to a popular introductory computer science course this fall in an effort to accommodate more students while maintaining instructional quality. Read More Kosbie's Course Is One of Top 5 Computer Science Courses in Nation by | Thursday, June 11, 2015 David Kosbie's "Fundamentals of Programming" (15-112) was named one of the five best computer science courses in the country by Bloomberg Business. Read More Poker Pros Rake In More Chips Than Carnegie Mellon's Artificial Intelligence Program During 80,000-Hand Contest But Scientifically Speaking, Human Lead Not Large Enough To Avoid a Statistical Tie by | Thursday, May 7, 2015 Four of the world's best players of heads-up no-limit Texas Hold'em amassed more poker chips than the Carnegie Mellon University artificial intelligence program called Claudico as they collectively played 80,000 hands of poker in a two-week competition that concluded today at Rivers Casino. Read More Brunskill Named 2015 ONR Young Investigator by | Sunday, May 3, 2015 The Department of the Navy has named Emma Brunskill, assistant professor of computer science, one of 36 recipients of its 2015 Young Investigator Program — one of the oldest and most selective scientific research advancement programs in the country. Read More Poker Pros Lead at Halfway Point of "Brains Vs. 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Carnegie Mellon Welcomes Third Cohort of I-Corps Site Teams by | Sunday, December 6, 2015 Carnegie Mellon University students, faculty and alumni are recognized leaders in producing successful startup companies, and the university houses several centers and programs for promoting innovation and growth. Fueled by such entrepreneurship, the National Science Foundation-sponsored Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Site is one of the Carnegie Mellon vehicles that drives relationships with internal and external partners in the business community. Read More
Computer System Will Be an Angel on Your Shoulder, Whispering Advice, Step-by-Step Instruction Carnegie Mellon Developing Wearable Cognitive Assistant With NSF Support by | Monday, November 30, 2015 Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are building a computer system called Gabriel that, like the angel that is its namesake, will seemingly look over a person's shoulder and whisper instructions for tasks as varied as repairing industrial equipment, resuscitating a patient or assembling IKEA furniture. Read More
Carnegie Mellon's Hacking Team Wins Seventh Straight Capture the Flag Competition by | Thursday, November 19, 2015 Carnegie Mellon's hacking team, the Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP), won its seventh straight capture the flag competition last week at the annual Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW) conference hosted by New York University. Read More
System Recognizes Objects Touched by User, Enabling Context-Aware Smartwatch Apps Carnegie Mellon, Disney Method Exploits Conductivity of Human Body by | Sunday, November 8, 2015 A new technology developed by Carnegie Mellon University and Disney Research could enable smartwatches to automatically recognize what objects users are touching — for instance, whether the wearer is using a laptop, operating a saw, or riding a motorcycle — creating new opportunities for context-aware apps. Read More
Carnegie Mellon and Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Part of NSF's "Big Data Brain Trust" Researchers Will Confront Challenges of Big Data as Members of the Northeast Data Innovation Hub by | Sunday, November 1, 2015 Today, the National Science Foundation announced the funding of four regional Big Data Innovation Hubs. Read More
Then and Now: The 2,850-mile, no-hands road trip In 1995, Dean Pomerleau (CS’92) and Todd Jochem (CS’93,’96) of CMU took an epic journey from Pittsburgh to San Diego. by | Wednesday, October 28, 2015 The great American road trip is a time-honored way to spend a summer vacation. During the last two weeks of July 1995, Dean Pomerleau (CS’92) and Todd Jochem (CS’93,’96) of CMU’s Robotics Institute packed their gear into a 1990 Pontiac Trans Sport minivan and took an epic, 2,850-mile journey from Pittsburgh to San Diego. Read More
Celebrating Women in Computing Veloso, CMU Play Major Role at Grace Hopper Celebration by | Sunday, October 25, 2015 Carnegie Mellon women in computing are furthering innovation across the globe, as evidenced when they joined with women technologists from around the globe at the annual Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) of Women in Computing Conference, Oct. 14–16 in Houston. Read More
Undergraduate Women Will Meet Leading Researchers at OurCS Workshop by | Wednesday, October 21, 2015 Carnegie Mellon faculty members Manuela Veloso, Marlene Behrman and Lenore Blum will share their insights on computer science research with undergraduate women at the OurCS workshop Oct. 24–25. Read More
Past and Future Share Spotlight at CS Fifty Computer Science Department Celebrates 50th Anniversary by | Tuesday, October 13, 2015 Even when Carnegie Mellon computer scientists look back, they're still looking forward.So when faculty, students and alumni gather Oct. 23–24 for CS Fifty — the 50th anniversary of the Computer Science Department — expect visions of the future of computing to be as common as reminiscences. Read More
Foundation Honors Six SCS Students as Siebel Scholars by | Tuesday, September 15, 2015 The Siebel Scholars Foundation has named six Carnegie Mellon University graduate students to the 2016 class of Siebel Scholars, including one in the field of energy science, which is newly added to the program this year.Matt Wytock was named as a scholar in energy science, while John Dickerson, Rohit Girdhar, Po-Yao Huang, Jeffrey Rzeszotarski and Xun Zheng were honored as exceptional students in computer science. Read More
Software Helps Create Sign Language Dictionaries, Voice-Activated Games for the Hearing Impaired Carnegie Mellon Students Develop Open Source Tools With Bangalore School by | Monday, September 14, 2015 Carnegie Mellon University's TechBridgeWorld research group today announced the release of open source software that can help educators of children with hearing disabilities create video dictionaries of sign languages and use games that encourage vocalization by children learning to speak. Read More
50 Most Powerful Pittsburghers by | Tuesday, September 1, 2015 Pittsburgh magazine’s annual listing of the 50 Most Powerful People includes CMU President Subra Suresh and SCS Dean Andrew Moore. Read More
In Memoriam: Joseph F. Traub by | Wednesday, August 26, 2015 Joseph F. Traub, a pioneering computer scientist who led Carnegie Mellon's Computer Science Department during a crucial period in its history, died unexpectedly Aug. 24 in Santa Fe, NM. He was 83. Read More
Gosling Wins IEEE John von Neumann Medal Cited for Java Language and Other Contributions to Programming by | Wednesday, August 19, 2015 The IEEE has honored James A. Gosling (CS'83), chief software architect at Liquid Robotics, with the 2015 John von Neumann Medal for his pioneering work on Java and other programming languages and environments. Read More
Manuela Veloso Will Keynote Grace Hopper Celebration by | Monday, August 10, 2015 Manuela Veloso, the Herbert A. Simon University Professor of Computer Science, will be the keynote speaker at this year's Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Oct. 14–16 in Houston. Read More
Carnegie Mellon Wins Second Place at DefCon by | Monday, August 10, 2015 Carnegie Mellon's cybersecurity team, the Plaid Parliament of Pwning, took second place at this year's DefCon Capture the Flag competition. The competition, widely considered the "World Series of Hacking," took place Aug. 6–9 in the Bally's Events Center in Las Vegas. Read More
New Siebel Energy Institute Awards Seed Grants to CMU Researchers by | Tuesday, August 4, 2015 The newly established Siebel Energy Institute, a consortium of Carnegie Mellon and seven other research universities, marked its official launch Aug. 4 by announcing 24 seed grants, including three to CMU researchers. Read More
Time Video Highlights CMU's Role in Pittsburgh's Comeback by | Thursday, July 9, 2015 A newly released video from Time magazine, "Pittsburgh The Comeback," highlights the role of technology — particularly the contributions of Carnegie Mellon University — in the revitalization of Pittsburgh. SCS Dean Andrew Moore is among the community leaders interviewed on camera."My most important duty here as dean is to create the computer scientists who are frankly, I believe, going to be running the world in 2040," Moore said.The Robotics Institute's Martial Hebert, Tony Stentz and Clark Haynes also are prominently featured. Read More
Fewer Women Than Men Are Shown Online Ads Related to High-Paying Jobs Carnegie Mellon Uses Simulated User Profiles To Probe Online Ad Ecosystem by | Monday, July 6, 2015 Experiments by Carnegie Mellon University show that significantly fewer women than men were shown online ads promising them help getting jobs paying more than $200,000, raising questions about the fairness of targeting ads online. Read More
Researchers Developing Ways To Safeguard AI Applications by | Tuesday, June 30, 2015 Manuela Veloso and Andre Platzer are among the initial researchers funded by the Elon Musk-backed Future of Life Institute to explore ways to keep artificial intelligence beneficial to mankind.Musk, the entrepreneur behind both Tesla Motors and SpaceX, has expressed his concerns that people might lose control of AI. He donated $10 million to the Boston-based institute, which has now awarded $7 million to 37 researchers to explore the risks and opportunities surrounding AI. Read More
Carnegie Mellon Will Use Blended Learning To Boost Capacity of Computer Science Course Google-Funded Project Seeks Ways To Meet Growing Demand for Classes by | Wednesday, June 17, 2015 Carnegie Mellon University will begin adding online instructional tools and targeted study groups to a popular introductory computer science course this fall in an effort to accommodate more students while maintaining instructional quality. Read More
Kosbie's Course Is One of Top 5 Computer Science Courses in Nation by | Thursday, June 11, 2015 David Kosbie's "Fundamentals of Programming" (15-112) was named one of the five best computer science courses in the country by Bloomberg Business. Read More
Poker Pros Rake In More Chips Than Carnegie Mellon's Artificial Intelligence Program During 80,000-Hand Contest But Scientifically Speaking, Human Lead Not Large Enough To Avoid a Statistical Tie by | Thursday, May 7, 2015 Four of the world's best players of heads-up no-limit Texas Hold'em amassed more poker chips than the Carnegie Mellon University artificial intelligence program called Claudico as they collectively played 80,000 hands of poker in a two-week competition that concluded today at Rivers Casino. Read More
Brunskill Named 2015 ONR Young Investigator by | Sunday, May 3, 2015 The Department of the Navy has named Emma Brunskill, assistant professor of computer science, one of 36 recipients of its 2015 Young Investigator Program — one of the oldest and most selective scientific research advancement programs in the country. Read More
Poker Pros Lead at Halfway Point of "Brains Vs. Artificial Intelligence" 40,000 Hands of No-Limit, Texas Hold'Em Remain To Be Played by | Thursday, April 30, 2015 Today marks the halfway point of an 80,000-hand journey in the "Brains Vs. Artificial Intelligence" poker competition. After 40,000 hands, the humans — four professional poker players — have taken a lead over Carnegie Mellon University's artificial intelligence program, Claudico. Read More
