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Computer Science Professor Named ACM SIGMETRICS Rising Star
by Aaron Aupperlee | Thursday, June 29, 2023
The School of Computer Science's Weina Wang received the 2023 Rising Star Research Award from the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group for the Computer Performance Evaluation Community (ACM SIGMETRIC) for her development of new mathematical tools and algorithms that significantly deepen our understanding of the performance of complex, heterogeneous stochastic systems.
Read MoreCSD Post-Doc Wins Top Dissertation Award
by Aaron Aupperlee | Thursday, June 29, 2023
Sam Westrick, a post-doctoral researcher in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department, received the John C. Reynolds Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (ACM SIGPLAN).
Read MoreSCS, Meta Researchers Resolve Chronic Memory-Management Problem in Datacenters
Works Wins Best Paper Award at ISCA
by Aaron Aupperlee | Monday, June 26, 2023
A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science and Meta have redesigned operating systems and hardware to drastically improve memory management in datacenters.
As memory capacity increases in datacenters, virtual memory has become a major performance bottleneck. A vast body of prior work relies on the assumption that an operating system can allocate large, physically contiguous memory to reduce the costs associated with that bottleneck. However, the team identified that in reality, memory contiguity is scarce in datacenters.
Read MoreCMU Programming Team Places Top in the U.S., Second in North America
by Aaron Aupperlee | Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Carnegie Mellon University’s International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) team beat its U.S. competitors and came in second overall at this year’s North America Championship.
The CMU team finished behind the University of Waterloo but bested top U.S. schools including MIT; the University of California, Berkeley; and Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford universities. A total of 51 schools participated in the May 29 competition in Orlando, Florida.
Read MoreSpring 2023 Awards Roundup
by Compiled by Susie Cribbs | Wednesday, May 31, 2023
SCS faculty and students win awards, grants and recognition every day. Here's a look — neither exhaustive nor abbreviated — at who won what this semester. Keep an eye out at the end of the summer and during the fall semester for updates. Spot a glaring omission? Email the SCS News team with details.*
The Dean's Business Office also maintains a sortable archive of major faculty honors on the Faculty Awards website.
Read MoreThree SCS Researchers Named AI2050 Early Career Fellows
by Kayla Papakie | Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Three School of Computer Science researchers were named to the inaugural cohort of Schmidt Futures' AI2050 Early Career Fellowship to pursue ambitious research in artificial intelligence.
Read MoreCMU Researcher Uses ChatGPT To Execute Computer Tasks
Large Language Models Can Solve Computer Tasks Using Keyboard, Mouse Actions
by Aaron Aupperlee | Tuesday, May 23, 2023
Research spearheaded by Carnegie Mellon University shows that AI systems such as ChatGPT and Midjourney, known best for generating text, code or images, can also handle repetitive tasks.
Read MoreXing Named Institute of Mathematical Statistics Fellow
by Adam Kohlhaas | Tuesday, May 23, 2023
Eric Xing, a professor in the Machine Learning Department, Computer Science Department and Language Technologies Institute, has been named a 2023 Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) fellow.
Read MorePutting Money Where a Community's Mouths Are
CMU Spin-Out Implements Digital Community Currency in Sharpsburg
by Byron Spice | Wednesday, May 10, 2023
When you sidle into Dancing Gnome, a brewpub on Sharpsburg's Main Street, and order a glass of its renowned Lustra pale ale, founder Andrew Witchey is happy to accept payment in cash, credit or Sharpsburg Bucks.
Read MoreCarnegie Mellon Leads NSF AI Institute for Societal Decision Making
$20M Collaboration Brings Together AI Researchers, Social Scientists To Develop Tools for Societal Challenges
by Aaron Aupperlee | Thursday, May 4, 2023
Artificial intelligence tools have increasingly aided emergency managers, public health officials and other professionals tasked with making critical and timely decisions that directly impact society. During disasters, AI can help efficiently direct and allocate resources. Likewise, AI tools help public health officials, community workers and clinics better target interventions to improve health outcomes.
Read MoreCranor, Stehlik Named University Professors
by Christa Cardone and Kristen Bayley | Friday, April 28, 2023
School of Computer Science faculty members Lorrie Faith Cranor and Mark Stehlik have been elevated to the rank of University Professor, the highest distinction a faculty member can receive at Carnegie Mellon University.
Read MoreSCS Faculty Honored at Carnegie Mellon's Celebration of Education
by Susie Cribbs | Friday, April 28, 2023
School of Computer Science faculty members took home top accolades when Carnegie Mellon University honored faculty, staff and students at its annual Celebration of Education Awards on Thursday, April 27. The annual event recognizes the accomplishments of those who exemplify the university's standards of excellence in education and honors their outstanding contributions to the university and their devotion to and effectiveness in teaching.
Read MoreSCS Honors Faculty and Staff at Founders Day
by Kayla Papakie | Thursday, April 13, 2023
Each year, the School of Computer Science holds a special day to reflect on its recent achievements while celebrating the legacies of Allen Newell (TPR'57), Herbert A. Simon (H'90) and Alan Perlis (S'42), who are considered the founders of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.
Read MoreDecoding the Internet of Things
Remember that Coke machine in Wean?
Thursday, April 6, 2023The era of smart devices, otherwise known as the Internet of Things (IoT), all began with humble origins: a vending machine in the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science. In the early 1980s, David Nichols, a computer science graduate student now working at Microsoft, enjoyed having a Coca Cola from the vending machine in the department.
Read MoreCMU Team Wins PETs Prize
by Adam Kohlhaas | Thursday, April 6, 2023
As personal and private information are increasingly digitized and shared, privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) have become fundamental for protecting an individual's privacy while still allowing for the benefits of modern technology and data analysis. A team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers recently won the PETs Prize Challenge for their work to preserve privacy during pandemic forecasting.
Read MoreSCS Faculty Receive More Than $4.5M in NSF CAREER Awards
by Kayla Papakie | Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Eight Carnegie Mellon University researchers in the School of Computer Science recently earned Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) awards from the National Science Foundation totaling more than $4.5 million. The awards are the foundation's most prestigious for young faculty researchers.
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Read MoreSCS Students Selected for Amazon Graduate Research Fellows Program
by Aaron Aupperlee | Thursday, March 9, 2023
Amazon has selected Shantanu Gupta, Ian Waudby-Smith, Emre Yolcu and Minji Yoon — all students with ties to the School of Computer Science — as its latest graduate research fellows.
This is the third class for the program, which launched in 2021 to support graduate students researching automated reasoning, computer vision, robotics, language technology, machine learning, operations research and data science. Fellows are invited to interview for a science internship at Amazon.
Read MoreCISA Director Visits SCS as Part of CMU Visit
by Cassia Crogan | Monday, March 6, 2023
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Jen Easterly recently spent a day engaging with the Carnegie Mellon University community — including the School of Computer Science — on the importance of technology product safety.
Read MoreXing Receives Amazon Research Award
by Adam Kohlhaas | Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Eric Xing, a professor in the Machine Learning Department, the Computer Science Department and the Language Technologies Institute, is one of 26 recipients of the 2022 Amazon Research Awards (ARA) for his project titled, "A Faster and More Accurate Secure Model Serving Framework on the Cloud."
Read MoreSCS Part of Groundbreaking Initiative To Broaden Access to STEM Education by CMU, Rales Foundation
$150 Million Investment Aims To Eliminate Cost as Barrier to Graduate Education, Create Distinctive Ecosystem To Ensure Success
by Brian Thornton | Thursday, February 23, 2023
The School of Computer Science will take part in a transformative new initiative announced by Carnegie Mellon University and the Norman and Ruth Rales Foundation.
Read MoreSCS Faculty Earn 2023 Sloan Research Fellowships
by Kayla Papakie | Friday, February 17, 2023
Rashmi Vinayak and Yuanzhi Li have earned 2023 Sloan Research Fellowships in recognition of their research accomplishments. They are among 125 early career researchers from 54 institutions to receive the award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Read MoreSandholm Earns AAAI Award for Artificial Intelligence That Benefits Humanity
SCS Professor Recognized for Work on Organ Exchanges
by Aaron Aupperlee | Thursday, February 2, 2023
Tuomas Sandholm, a professor in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, will receive the AAAI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity to recognize his contributions to the design and implementation of organ exchanges and their direct impact on both practice and policy.
Read MoreHong, Xing Named 2022 ACM Fellows
by Susie Cribbs | Wednesday, January 25, 2023
Faculty members Jason Hong and Eric Xing from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science have been recognized as fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The distinction, reserved for the top 1% of the association's membership, honors recipients' outstanding work in computing and information technology and/or outstanding service to ACM and the larger computing community.
Read MoreCarnegie Mellon University's CS Academy Pilots Academic Credit by Examination Model
Free Online Curricula Surpasses 250,000 Students
by Aaron Aupperlee | Wednesday, January 25, 2023
CMU CS Academy, the free, online computer science curricula designed by faculty in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science for high school and middle school classrooms, now offers the opportunity to earn academic credit by examination through its highest-level course.
Read MoreCSD Professor Authors Guides for Teaching AI to K-12 Students
A Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science professor has helped develop new activities for teaching artificial intelligence to elementary, middle and high school students.
by Aaron Aupperlee | Friday, December 2, 2022
David Touretzky, a research professor in the Computer Science Department, collaborated with Christina Gardner-McCune, an associate professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida, to author the first titles in a collection of activity resource guides launched by the Artificial Intelligence for K-12 Init
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