Latest News Fredrikson Receives Test of Time Award Tuesday, October 21, 2025 SCS faculty member Matt Fredrikson has received the 2025 ACM Con Read More 10 CMU Students Selected for Amazon AI Ph.D. Fellowship Program Tuesday, October 21, 2025 Ten Carnegie Mellon doctoral students pursuing artificial intelligence research will receive support from Amazon through the company's new AI Ph.D. Fellowship Program. Read More Peacocks Eating Ice Cream: CMU Philosophers Teaching AI to Ask 'Why?' Thursday, October 2, 2025 As computer vision and generative technologies become more widely available, it’s increasingly important to teach AI models how to build and break down images accurately. This skill helps models combine concepts they haven’t seen together before, a skill humans use naturally but AI still finds challenging. Read More CSD Alum Receives AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award Friday, September 26, 2025 Gabriele Farina has received the 2023 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award for his dissertation, "Game-Theoretic Decision Making in Imperfect-Information Games: Learning Dynamics, Equilibrium Computation and Complexity". Farina developed theoretical and algorithmic foundations for strategic decision-making in negotiations and in imperfect-information, extensive-form games such as poker. Read More AI Tool Uses Health Records To Predict Cancer Risk Thursday, September 25, 2025 A tool developed at Carnegie Mellon University could make it easier to identify patients at risk for cancer, bolstering early detection — a crucial step for improving treatment outcomes. The SCS research team included Gary Gao, a master's student in the Computer Science Department; Liwen Sun, an LTI master's student; and Hao-Ren Yao, an LTI research scientist. Read More Ashman Mehra Named 2025 Quad Fellow Thursday, September 18, 2025 Ashman Mehra, a master's student in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department, has been selected as a 2025 Quad Fellow, one of 37 students worldwide to earn the distinction. Read More Amazon To Support CMU CS Academy Online CS Curricula Reaches More Than 2,000 Schools Globally Wednesday, September 17, 2025 CMU CS Academy, a free, online computer science curricula designed by faculty in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science for high school and middle school classrooms, reaches students in more than 2,000 schools in 66 countries. The program recently celebrated enrolling its 500,000th student. Amazon has supported CMU CS Academy since the program started in 2018, and this recent collaboration renews and continues that support. Read More Ware Receives 2025 SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award Aaron Aupperlee by Aaron Aupperlee | Monday, September 15, 2025 Ranysha (Ray) Ware, who earned her Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department (CSD) in 2024 and is a first-year assistant professor at Swarthmore College, received the 2025 SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award at the ACM SIGCOMM conference in Coimbra, Portugal. The award is the highest honor given to a dissertation in the field of computer networking worldwide. Ware’s dissertation focused on how fairly internet services share bandwidth. Read More Sailboat Racing Tactics Serve as Game Theory for Sandholm Monday, September 15, 2025 Before joining Carnegie Mellon, CSD professor Tuomas Sandholm was a champion windsurfer, winning the Finnish championship, finishing fifth in European Championships, and achieving 12th in the World Championships. Now, his nautical pastime of choice includes sailing in races an hour north of campus. Read More Leading the Future of Physical AI at CMU Wednesday, September 10, 2025 Ahead of the AI Horizons Summit, Martial Hebert, dean of the School of Computer Science and a speaker at the conference, shared his perspective on physical AI — what it is, why it matters now and how it’s set to transform industries and create new opportunities. Read More Season Two of 'Does Compute' Now Available SCS Podcast Brings Research Stories From the Lab to Listeners Monday, September 8, 2025 Season two of the SCS podcast "Does Compute" launches today and features ten episodes that bring technology Read More Qualcomm Appoints Kolter to Board of Directors Tuesday, September 2, 2025 Qualcomm Incorporated has announced the appointment of Jeremy (Zico) Kolter to its Board of Directors, effective immediately. Dr. Kolter will serve on the Governance Committee. Read More Faculty and Students Present at USENIX Security Symposium Wednesday, August 13, 2025 Carnegie Mellon faculty and students will present on a wide range of topics at the 34th USENIX Security Symposium held in Seattle on August 13-15. The event brings together experts from around the world, who will highlight the latest advances in the security and privacy of computer systems and networks. Read More CMU Hacking Team Wins 9th DEF CON Capture-the-Flag Title Monday, August 11, 2025 The winningest team in DEF CON’sOpens in new window Capture-the-Flag (CTF) competition history, Carnegie Mellon UniversityOpens in new window’s Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP), won its fourth consecutive title, earning its ninth victory in the past 13 years. Read More SCS Alumna Among CMU Fulbright Recipients Thursday, August 7, 2025 Rachel Wilson, who earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science with a minor in Hispanic studies, applied for a Fulbright as a way to spend more time abroad in Spanish-speaking communities to better understand their relationship with technology. She is going to Peru, where she will help teach both English and computer programming part-time in high schools. Read More New NSF Institute Will Help Mathematicians Harness AI, Advance Discoveries Monday, August 4, 2025 With an investment from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and ad Read More Alums Compete in World Championship With CMU Pipes and Drums Friday, August 1, 2025 A set of bagpipe-playing twins will be among those representing Carnegie Mellon University on the international stage as its Pipes and Drums band prepares to compete for the first time in the European Pipe Band Championships in Perth, Scotland, Aug. 9, and World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow, Aug. 15. Read More Dettmers Receives Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award Friday, August 1, 2025 Tim Dettmers, an assistant professor in Carnegie Mellon University's machine learning and computer science departments, has been named a recipient of the inaugural Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award. The award recognizes early career faculty whose work advances scalable and efficient machine learning systems. Read More Carnegie Mellon Joins NSF Effort to Build Trustworthy AI Assistants Wednesday, July 30, 2025 Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science will contribute to a newly launched National Science Foundation (NSF) AI Research Institute to develop artificial intelligence assistants capable of trustworthy, sensitive and context-aware interactions with people. The assistants could potentially be used in mental and behavioral health fields, where trust and safety are of the utmost importance. Read More Imagination Meets Automation With BrickGPT Thursday, July 24, 2025 Fusing artificial intelligence and imagination, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science have developed a tool that uses text prompts to help people — and even robots — bring ideas to life with Lego bricks. Read More Mr. Stehlik’s Opus Reflections on a 40 Year Teaching Life Wednesday, July 16, 2025 In one of the most celebrated computer science schools in the world, one of the most beloved figures is a man who collects fountain pens and books. His first fountain pen, he points out, was filled with green ink — not red. It’s a metaphor for how Mark Stehlik approaches his craft: finding ways to say go when everyone else is saying stop. Read More At the Forefront of Energy and AI SCS Faculty Are Tackling Some of Society's Toughest Challenges While Pioneering Solutions for Tomorrow Wednesday, July 16, 2025 CMU thrives at the intersection of AI, innovation and energy, and world-class researchers in the School of Computer Science are tackling some of society's toughest challenges while pioneering new solutions for tomorrow. Read More SCS Project Aims To Create Energy-Efficient Data Centers Monday, July 14, 2025 According to projections, data centers around the world could double their electricity consumption by 2030. Driven by AI, data centers could claim 945 terawatt hours of energy in the next five years, a figure that’s greater than the current electricity consumption of Japan. With support from The Scott Institute for Energy Innovation’s seed grant program, Dimitrios Skarlatos will develop a proof-of-concept for a virtualization layer capable of performing fine-grained, efficient power management of GPUs. Read More Skarlatos Receives 2025 IEEE TCCA Young Computer Architect Award Thursday, July 10, 2025 Dimitrios Skarlatos, an assistant professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department, earned the 2025 IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA) Young Computer Architect Award for his "contributions to virtual memory management and computer security." Read More How Carnegie Mellon University's CS Academy is Preparing Kids for the Future Friday, June 27, 2025 Carnegie Mellon CS Academy hit 500,000 students enrolled and it all started in local schools. Learn more about how Carnegie Mellon University's computer science academy is preparing kids for the future. Read More Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 … Next page ›› Last page Last » Subscribe to News About Events News Key Contacts History Sitemap Employment Marketing & Communications Visit Carnegie Mellon Give CSD News RSS Feed CSD in the WorldWired: This New Algorithm for Sorting Books or Files Is Close to PerfectionThe Atlantic: Can We Align Language Models With Human Values?NEXTpittsburgh: CMU's Zico Kolter shapes new paths for AI safety and security The Link: Not Just Available, But Accessible Bringing CMU CS Academy into the Spanish LanguageNY Times: A.I. 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Fredrikson Receives Test of Time Award Tuesday, October 21, 2025 SCS faculty member Matt Fredrikson has received the 2025 ACM Con Read More
10 CMU Students Selected for Amazon AI Ph.D. Fellowship Program Tuesday, October 21, 2025 Ten Carnegie Mellon doctoral students pursuing artificial intelligence research will receive support from Amazon through the company's new AI Ph.D. Fellowship Program. Read More
Peacocks Eating Ice Cream: CMU Philosophers Teaching AI to Ask 'Why?' Thursday, October 2, 2025 As computer vision and generative technologies become more widely available, it’s increasingly important to teach AI models how to build and break down images accurately. This skill helps models combine concepts they haven’t seen together before, a skill humans use naturally but AI still finds challenging. Read More
CSD Alum Receives AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award Friday, September 26, 2025 Gabriele Farina has received the 2023 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award for his dissertation, "Game-Theoretic Decision Making in Imperfect-Information Games: Learning Dynamics, Equilibrium Computation and Complexity". Farina developed theoretical and algorithmic foundations for strategic decision-making in negotiations and in imperfect-information, extensive-form games such as poker. Read More
AI Tool Uses Health Records To Predict Cancer Risk Thursday, September 25, 2025 A tool developed at Carnegie Mellon University could make it easier to identify patients at risk for cancer, bolstering early detection — a crucial step for improving treatment outcomes. The SCS research team included Gary Gao, a master's student in the Computer Science Department; Liwen Sun, an LTI master's student; and Hao-Ren Yao, an LTI research scientist. Read More
Ashman Mehra Named 2025 Quad Fellow Thursday, September 18, 2025 Ashman Mehra, a master's student in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department, has been selected as a 2025 Quad Fellow, one of 37 students worldwide to earn the distinction. Read More
Amazon To Support CMU CS Academy Online CS Curricula Reaches More Than 2,000 Schools Globally Wednesday, September 17, 2025 CMU CS Academy, a free, online computer science curricula designed by faculty in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science for high school and middle school classrooms, reaches students in more than 2,000 schools in 66 countries. The program recently celebrated enrolling its 500,000th student. Amazon has supported CMU CS Academy since the program started in 2018, and this recent collaboration renews and continues that support. Read More
Ware Receives 2025 SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award Aaron Aupperlee by Aaron Aupperlee | Monday, September 15, 2025 Ranysha (Ray) Ware, who earned her Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department (CSD) in 2024 and is a first-year assistant professor at Swarthmore College, received the 2025 SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award at the ACM SIGCOMM conference in Coimbra, Portugal. The award is the highest honor given to a dissertation in the field of computer networking worldwide. Ware’s dissertation focused on how fairly internet services share bandwidth. Read More
Sailboat Racing Tactics Serve as Game Theory for Sandholm Monday, September 15, 2025 Before joining Carnegie Mellon, CSD professor Tuomas Sandholm was a champion windsurfer, winning the Finnish championship, finishing fifth in European Championships, and achieving 12th in the World Championships. Now, his nautical pastime of choice includes sailing in races an hour north of campus. Read More
Leading the Future of Physical AI at CMU Wednesday, September 10, 2025 Ahead of the AI Horizons Summit, Martial Hebert, dean of the School of Computer Science and a speaker at the conference, shared his perspective on physical AI — what it is, why it matters now and how it’s set to transform industries and create new opportunities. Read More
Season Two of 'Does Compute' Now Available SCS Podcast Brings Research Stories From the Lab to Listeners Monday, September 8, 2025 Season two of the SCS podcast "Does Compute" launches today and features ten episodes that bring technology Read More
Qualcomm Appoints Kolter to Board of Directors Tuesday, September 2, 2025 Qualcomm Incorporated has announced the appointment of Jeremy (Zico) Kolter to its Board of Directors, effective immediately. Dr. Kolter will serve on the Governance Committee. Read More
Faculty and Students Present at USENIX Security Symposium Wednesday, August 13, 2025 Carnegie Mellon faculty and students will present on a wide range of topics at the 34th USENIX Security Symposium held in Seattle on August 13-15. The event brings together experts from around the world, who will highlight the latest advances in the security and privacy of computer systems and networks. Read More
CMU Hacking Team Wins 9th DEF CON Capture-the-Flag Title Monday, August 11, 2025 The winningest team in DEF CON’sOpens in new window Capture-the-Flag (CTF) competition history, Carnegie Mellon UniversityOpens in new window’s Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP), won its fourth consecutive title, earning its ninth victory in the past 13 years. Read More
SCS Alumna Among CMU Fulbright Recipients Thursday, August 7, 2025 Rachel Wilson, who earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science with a minor in Hispanic studies, applied for a Fulbright as a way to spend more time abroad in Spanish-speaking communities to better understand their relationship with technology. She is going to Peru, where she will help teach both English and computer programming part-time in high schools. Read More
New NSF Institute Will Help Mathematicians Harness AI, Advance Discoveries Monday, August 4, 2025 With an investment from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and ad Read More
Alums Compete in World Championship With CMU Pipes and Drums Friday, August 1, 2025 A set of bagpipe-playing twins will be among those representing Carnegie Mellon University on the international stage as its Pipes and Drums band prepares to compete for the first time in the European Pipe Band Championships in Perth, Scotland, Aug. 9, and World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow, Aug. 15. Read More
Dettmers Receives Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award Friday, August 1, 2025 Tim Dettmers, an assistant professor in Carnegie Mellon University's machine learning and computer science departments, has been named a recipient of the inaugural Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award. The award recognizes early career faculty whose work advances scalable and efficient machine learning systems. Read More
Carnegie Mellon Joins NSF Effort to Build Trustworthy AI Assistants Wednesday, July 30, 2025 Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science will contribute to a newly launched National Science Foundation (NSF) AI Research Institute to develop artificial intelligence assistants capable of trustworthy, sensitive and context-aware interactions with people. The assistants could potentially be used in mental and behavioral health fields, where trust and safety are of the utmost importance. Read More
Imagination Meets Automation With BrickGPT Thursday, July 24, 2025 Fusing artificial intelligence and imagination, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science have developed a tool that uses text prompts to help people — and even robots — bring ideas to life with Lego bricks. Read More
Mr. Stehlik’s Opus Reflections on a 40 Year Teaching Life Wednesday, July 16, 2025 In one of the most celebrated computer science schools in the world, one of the most beloved figures is a man who collects fountain pens and books. His first fountain pen, he points out, was filled with green ink — not red. It’s a metaphor for how Mark Stehlik approaches his craft: finding ways to say go when everyone else is saying stop. Read More
At the Forefront of Energy and AI SCS Faculty Are Tackling Some of Society's Toughest Challenges While Pioneering Solutions for Tomorrow Wednesday, July 16, 2025 CMU thrives at the intersection of AI, innovation and energy, and world-class researchers in the School of Computer Science are tackling some of society's toughest challenges while pioneering new solutions for tomorrow. Read More
SCS Project Aims To Create Energy-Efficient Data Centers Monday, July 14, 2025 According to projections, data centers around the world could double their electricity consumption by 2030. Driven by AI, data centers could claim 945 terawatt hours of energy in the next five years, a figure that’s greater than the current electricity consumption of Japan. With support from The Scott Institute for Energy Innovation’s seed grant program, Dimitrios Skarlatos will develop a proof-of-concept for a virtualization layer capable of performing fine-grained, efficient power management of GPUs. Read More
Skarlatos Receives 2025 IEEE TCCA Young Computer Architect Award Thursday, July 10, 2025 Dimitrios Skarlatos, an assistant professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department, earned the 2025 IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA) Young Computer Architect Award for his "contributions to virtual memory management and computer security." Read More
How Carnegie Mellon University's CS Academy is Preparing Kids for the Future Friday, June 27, 2025 Carnegie Mellon CS Academy hit 500,000 students enrolled and it all started in local schools. Learn more about how Carnegie Mellon University's computer science academy is preparing kids for the future. Read More
