Latest News Lights, Camera, Science! SCS Sophomore Abraham Riedel-Mishaan Featured in "Science Fair" Documentary by | Wednesday, October 10, 2018 Abraham Riedel-Mishaan seems an unlikely movie star. He's not an actor. No one stops the sophomore computer science major on the Carnegie Mellon University campus to ask for autographs. But he is featured in "Science Fair," a film festival darling now showing nationwide. Read More Mitchell Named CMU's Interim Dean of School of Computer Science AI and Machine Learning Pioneer To Lead Nation's Top-Ranked Program by | Monday, October 1, 2018 Carnegie Mellon University has named Tom Mitchell, the E. Fredkin University Professor of Machine Learning and Computer Science, interim dean of the School of Computer Science. Read More Education App Uses Photos To Help People Form Proper Sentences CMU Design for America Project Assists People With Language Deficits by | Wednesday, September 19, 2018 Students in the Carnegie Mellon University chapter of Design for America (DFA @ CMU) have developed a free mobile app that uses visual cues to help children and adults — particularly those with language difficulties — form meaningful, grammatically correct sentences. The education app, called Sentence Mosaics, uses photos and color-coded parts of speech to prompt users as they construct sentences. Read More Von Ahn Wins 2018 Lemelson-MIT Prize for Invention by | Wednesday, September 12, 2018 School of Computer Science alumnus Luis von Ahn, who is a consulting professor in the Computer Science Department (CSD) and the co-founder of the popular language-learning platform Duolingo, has won the prestigious 2018 Lemelson-MIT Prize — a $500,000 award that honors mid-career inventors. Read More Carnegie Mellon Joins Meltwater To Advance Data Science New AI Platform Will Help Students, Researchers Rapidly Solve Real-World Problems by | Tuesday, August 14, 2018 Students and faculty at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science are collaborating with the digital media intelligence firm Meltwater to advance the state of the art in artificial intelligence education and research using the company's AI platform. Read More From high school hacker to DefCon champ SCS’s Zach Wade and PPP teammates seek to shatter DefCon records by | Wednesday, August 8, 2018 While many kids dream of a shopping spree at their favorite toy store or the local candy shop, Zach Wade's preference was a bit uncommon for a youngster: RadioShack. ''I had a RadioShack kit that had bajillions of components, and I kept hand-drawn books on how to connect circuits and how to build stuff,'' says Wade, now a fourth-year undergraduate in the School of Computer Science. ''That kit was my absolute favorite. I spent hours and hours playing with that.'' Read More How a Computer Learns To Dribble: Practice, Practice, Practice Deep Reinforcement Learning Makes Basketball Video Games Look More Realistic by | Tuesday, August 7, 2018 Basketball players need lots of practice before they master the dribble, and it turns out that's true for computer-animated players as well. By using deep reinforcement learning, players in basketball video games can glean insights from motion-capture data to sharpen their dribbling skills. Read More Hodgins, Gupta Join Facebook AI Research by | Tuesday, July 17, 2018 Carnegie Mellon University's Jessica Hodgins will lead a newly established Facebook AI Research (FAIR) lab in Pittsburgh, where she will be joined by CMU's Abhinav Gupta. The appointments are part of an expansion of Facebook's artificial intelligence research activities with academic communities. Read More Summer 2018 Issue by | Wednesday, July 11, 2018 Download the Summer 2018 issue. (PDF reader required.) Read More SCS Faculty Receive NSF CAREER Awards by | Friday, July 6, 2018 Bernhard Haeupler, Louis-Philippe Morency and Jean Yang are the latest School of Computer Science faculty members to receive the National Science Foundation’s prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award. They are among 307 CAREER recipients this year in computer science and engineering in which the NSF has invested $150 million over the next five years, placing their academic careers on firm scientific footing and giving them the opportunity to serve as academic role models in research and education. Read More Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence, Carnegie Mellon Partner To Accelerate AI Research SCS Professor Zico Kolter Will Join Bosch as Chief Scientist of AI, Remain on Faculty by | Wednesday, June 27, 2018 Bosch in North America today announced the launch of the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI) Research Lab in Pittsburgh, which will be the BCAI's fourth location. The lab will conduct advanced research in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The new location is the next step in BCAI's mission to partner with leading institutions around the world to jointly accelerate AI research. Bosch plans to build a team of up to 20 AI experts at Bosch's Pittsburgh Technology Center by the end of 2019. Read More "No Assembly Required" for CMU Students, Faculty at Science Friday's Pittsburgh Show by | Wednesday, May 23, 2018 Robots who converse, provide empathy and play music were among the reasons NPR's "Science Friday" visited the Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall on Saturday, May 19, to build a show about Pittsburgh scientists and roboticists. The special live event had the theme "No Assembly Required," and included interviews with Carnegie Mellon University faculty and students. Read More Calypso for Cozmo Don’t miss Calypso, a robotics education tool that harnesses Cozmo’s powerful robotics technologies and is unlike anything you’ve seen before. by | Tuesday, May 22, 2018 Visionary Machines LLC is here to redefine robotics and AI (artificial intelligence) education. Founded by Dave Touretzky, Research Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, the company has recently released its first product: Calypso.Read more about Calypso & Cozmo: https://developer.anki.com/blog/education/calypso-for-cozmo/ Read More Amal Nanavati Wins Fulbright Award, Inaugural K&L Gates Prize by | Monday, May 14, 2018 Amal Nanavati, a double major in computer science and global studies in the Class of 2018, has received two prestigious prizes — the Fulbright Award and the inaugural K&L Gates Prize. Read More Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artificial Intelligence New AI Major Addresses Growing Demand for AI Specialists by | Thursday, May 10, 2018 Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science will offer a new undergraduate degree in artificial intelligence beginning this fall, providing students with in-depth knowledge of how to transform large amounts of data into actionable decisions.SCS has created the new AI degree, the first offered by a U.S. university, in response to extraordinary technical breakthroughs in AI and the growing demand by students and employers for training that prepares people for careers in AI. Read More Former SCS Dean Shares Personal History With Computing Pioneers by | Monday, May 7, 2018 Professor James Morris, former dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, is a legend in his field. But in a rich and lively lecture looking back on his career, it was the other giants he encountered along the way that Morris wanted to talk about — stories of Alan Perlis, Herb Simon, Robert Taylor, Allen Newell, Raj Reddy and others. Read More Veloso Takes Leave to Join J.P. Morgan by | Friday, May 4, 2018 Manuela Veloso, the Herbert A. Simon University Professor of Computer Science and head of the Machine Learning Department, will take a leave of absence to join J.P. Morgan as its head of artificial intelligence research, beginning July 1. Read More Procaccia Named 2018 Guggenheim Fellow by | Tuesday, April 17, 2018 The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has named Associate Professor of Computer Science Ariel Procaccia a recipient of its 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship. Read More SCS Junior Reflects on the CMU Experience by | Monday, April 16, 2018 When School of Computer Science undergrad Tanvi Bajpai came to CMU from her competitive New Jersey high school, she knew she was going to be a small fish in a big pond. The intense curriculum and fast-paced culture can sometimes overwhelm incoming first-year students, and Tanvi was no stranger to that feeling. "Getting over the fear and being secure in your own intellect is difficult," she said, "but once you do, there's nothing that gets in the way of your ability to learn and flourish." Read More Lenore Blum Among 2018's "Women of Spirit" Carlow University Awards Recognize Leadership, Service by | Friday, April 6, 2018 Lenore Blum, Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science, was one of six women honored at the 2018 Women of Spirit Awards Gala April 5 at Carnegie Music Hall. Read More Software Automatically Generates Knitting Instructions for 3-D Shapes CMU Researchers Foresee Machines Capable of On-Demand Knitting by | Thursday, March 29, 2018 Carnegie Mellon University computer scientists have developed a system that can translate a wide variety of 3-D shapes into stitch-by-stitch instructions that enable a computer-controlled knitting machine to automatically produce those shapes. Read More SCS Junior Gives Back to Computer Science by | Wednesday, March 28, 2018 From building transportation devices with the CMU Hyperloop team to organizing hackathons with CMU MellonHeads, School of Computer Science junior Hima Tammineedi is busy. But the computer science major — who's also pursuing a machine learning minor — knows that he's been incredibly fortunate to have the chance to expand his computer science interests and participate in meaningful activities with his friends. Read More CMU Names Seshan New Head of Computer Science Department by | Monday, March 26, 2018 Andrew Moore, dean of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, has appointed Srinivasan Seshan head of the Computer Science Department, the school's oldest and largest department, effective July 1.He succeeds Frank Pfenning, who will return to full-time teaching and research. Read More Euiwoong Lee named Edmund M. Clarke Doctoral Dissertation Award Recipient Newly Established Departmental Dissertation Award has First Recipient by | Wednesday, March 7, 2018 Recent Ph.D graduate, Euiwoong Lee, is the first recipient of the newly established Edmund M. Clarke Dissertation Award. Lee was advised by Computer Science Department Professor Venkat Guruswami and is currently doing postdoctoral work at New York University. Read More New AI Helps Make Sense of Privacy Policies by | Friday, March 2, 2018 If you're anything like the average internet user, you probably didn't spend the estimated 244 hours it would take to read every privacy policy for every website you visited last year. That's exactly why a team led by Carnegie Mellon University just launched an interactive website aimed at helping users make sense of their privacy on the web. 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Lights, Camera, Science! SCS Sophomore Abraham Riedel-Mishaan Featured in "Science Fair" Documentary by | Wednesday, October 10, 2018 Abraham Riedel-Mishaan seems an unlikely movie star. He's not an actor. No one stops the sophomore computer science major on the Carnegie Mellon University campus to ask for autographs. But he is featured in "Science Fair," a film festival darling now showing nationwide. Read More
Mitchell Named CMU's Interim Dean of School of Computer Science AI and Machine Learning Pioneer To Lead Nation's Top-Ranked Program by | Monday, October 1, 2018 Carnegie Mellon University has named Tom Mitchell, the E. Fredkin University Professor of Machine Learning and Computer Science, interim dean of the School of Computer Science. Read More
Education App Uses Photos To Help People Form Proper Sentences CMU Design for America Project Assists People With Language Deficits by | Wednesday, September 19, 2018 Students in the Carnegie Mellon University chapter of Design for America (DFA @ CMU) have developed a free mobile app that uses visual cues to help children and adults — particularly those with language difficulties — form meaningful, grammatically correct sentences. The education app, called Sentence Mosaics, uses photos and color-coded parts of speech to prompt users as they construct sentences. Read More
Von Ahn Wins 2018 Lemelson-MIT Prize for Invention by | Wednesday, September 12, 2018 School of Computer Science alumnus Luis von Ahn, who is a consulting professor in the Computer Science Department (CSD) and the co-founder of the popular language-learning platform Duolingo, has won the prestigious 2018 Lemelson-MIT Prize — a $500,000 award that honors mid-career inventors. Read More
Carnegie Mellon Joins Meltwater To Advance Data Science New AI Platform Will Help Students, Researchers Rapidly Solve Real-World Problems by | Tuesday, August 14, 2018 Students and faculty at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science are collaborating with the digital media intelligence firm Meltwater to advance the state of the art in artificial intelligence education and research using the company's AI platform. Read More
From high school hacker to DefCon champ SCS’s Zach Wade and PPP teammates seek to shatter DefCon records by | Wednesday, August 8, 2018 While many kids dream of a shopping spree at their favorite toy store or the local candy shop, Zach Wade's preference was a bit uncommon for a youngster: RadioShack. ''I had a RadioShack kit that had bajillions of components, and I kept hand-drawn books on how to connect circuits and how to build stuff,'' says Wade, now a fourth-year undergraduate in the School of Computer Science. ''That kit was my absolute favorite. I spent hours and hours playing with that.'' Read More
How a Computer Learns To Dribble: Practice, Practice, Practice Deep Reinforcement Learning Makes Basketball Video Games Look More Realistic by | Tuesday, August 7, 2018 Basketball players need lots of practice before they master the dribble, and it turns out that's true for computer-animated players as well. By using deep reinforcement learning, players in basketball video games can glean insights from motion-capture data to sharpen their dribbling skills. Read More
Hodgins, Gupta Join Facebook AI Research by | Tuesday, July 17, 2018 Carnegie Mellon University's Jessica Hodgins will lead a newly established Facebook AI Research (FAIR) lab in Pittsburgh, where she will be joined by CMU's Abhinav Gupta. The appointments are part of an expansion of Facebook's artificial intelligence research activities with academic communities. Read More
Summer 2018 Issue by | Wednesday, July 11, 2018 Download the Summer 2018 issue. (PDF reader required.) Read More
SCS Faculty Receive NSF CAREER Awards by | Friday, July 6, 2018 Bernhard Haeupler, Louis-Philippe Morency and Jean Yang are the latest School of Computer Science faculty members to receive the National Science Foundation’s prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award. They are among 307 CAREER recipients this year in computer science and engineering in which the NSF has invested $150 million over the next five years, placing their academic careers on firm scientific footing and giving them the opportunity to serve as academic role models in research and education. Read More
Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence, Carnegie Mellon Partner To Accelerate AI Research SCS Professor Zico Kolter Will Join Bosch as Chief Scientist of AI, Remain on Faculty by | Wednesday, June 27, 2018 Bosch in North America today announced the launch of the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI) Research Lab in Pittsburgh, which will be the BCAI's fourth location. The lab will conduct advanced research in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The new location is the next step in BCAI's mission to partner with leading institutions around the world to jointly accelerate AI research. Bosch plans to build a team of up to 20 AI experts at Bosch's Pittsburgh Technology Center by the end of 2019. Read More
"No Assembly Required" for CMU Students, Faculty at Science Friday's Pittsburgh Show by | Wednesday, May 23, 2018 Robots who converse, provide empathy and play music were among the reasons NPR's "Science Friday" visited the Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall on Saturday, May 19, to build a show about Pittsburgh scientists and roboticists. The special live event had the theme "No Assembly Required," and included interviews with Carnegie Mellon University faculty and students. Read More
Calypso for Cozmo Don’t miss Calypso, a robotics education tool that harnesses Cozmo’s powerful robotics technologies and is unlike anything you’ve seen before. by | Tuesday, May 22, 2018 Visionary Machines LLC is here to redefine robotics and AI (artificial intelligence) education. Founded by Dave Touretzky, Research Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, the company has recently released its first product: Calypso.Read more about Calypso & Cozmo: https://developer.anki.com/blog/education/calypso-for-cozmo/ Read More
Amal Nanavati Wins Fulbright Award, Inaugural K&L Gates Prize by | Monday, May 14, 2018 Amal Nanavati, a double major in computer science and global studies in the Class of 2018, has received two prestigious prizes — the Fulbright Award and the inaugural K&L Gates Prize. Read More
Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artificial Intelligence New AI Major Addresses Growing Demand for AI Specialists by | Thursday, May 10, 2018 Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science will offer a new undergraduate degree in artificial intelligence beginning this fall, providing students with in-depth knowledge of how to transform large amounts of data into actionable decisions.SCS has created the new AI degree, the first offered by a U.S. university, in response to extraordinary technical breakthroughs in AI and the growing demand by students and employers for training that prepares people for careers in AI. Read More
Former SCS Dean Shares Personal History With Computing Pioneers by | Monday, May 7, 2018 Professor James Morris, former dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, is a legend in his field. But in a rich and lively lecture looking back on his career, it was the other giants he encountered along the way that Morris wanted to talk about — stories of Alan Perlis, Herb Simon, Robert Taylor, Allen Newell, Raj Reddy and others. Read More
Veloso Takes Leave to Join J.P. Morgan by | Friday, May 4, 2018 Manuela Veloso, the Herbert A. Simon University Professor of Computer Science and head of the Machine Learning Department, will take a leave of absence to join J.P. Morgan as its head of artificial intelligence research, beginning July 1. Read More
Procaccia Named 2018 Guggenheim Fellow by | Tuesday, April 17, 2018 The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has named Associate Professor of Computer Science Ariel Procaccia a recipient of its 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship. Read More
SCS Junior Reflects on the CMU Experience by | Monday, April 16, 2018 When School of Computer Science undergrad Tanvi Bajpai came to CMU from her competitive New Jersey high school, she knew she was going to be a small fish in a big pond. The intense curriculum and fast-paced culture can sometimes overwhelm incoming first-year students, and Tanvi was no stranger to that feeling. "Getting over the fear and being secure in your own intellect is difficult," she said, "but once you do, there's nothing that gets in the way of your ability to learn and flourish." Read More
Lenore Blum Among 2018's "Women of Spirit" Carlow University Awards Recognize Leadership, Service by | Friday, April 6, 2018 Lenore Blum, Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science, was one of six women honored at the 2018 Women of Spirit Awards Gala April 5 at Carnegie Music Hall. Read More
Software Automatically Generates Knitting Instructions for 3-D Shapes CMU Researchers Foresee Machines Capable of On-Demand Knitting by | Thursday, March 29, 2018 Carnegie Mellon University computer scientists have developed a system that can translate a wide variety of 3-D shapes into stitch-by-stitch instructions that enable a computer-controlled knitting machine to automatically produce those shapes. Read More
SCS Junior Gives Back to Computer Science by | Wednesday, March 28, 2018 From building transportation devices with the CMU Hyperloop team to organizing hackathons with CMU MellonHeads, School of Computer Science junior Hima Tammineedi is busy. But the computer science major — who's also pursuing a machine learning minor — knows that he's been incredibly fortunate to have the chance to expand his computer science interests and participate in meaningful activities with his friends. Read More
CMU Names Seshan New Head of Computer Science Department by | Monday, March 26, 2018 Andrew Moore, dean of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, has appointed Srinivasan Seshan head of the Computer Science Department, the school's oldest and largest department, effective July 1.He succeeds Frank Pfenning, who will return to full-time teaching and research. Read More
Euiwoong Lee named Edmund M. Clarke Doctoral Dissertation Award Recipient Newly Established Departmental Dissertation Award has First Recipient by | Wednesday, March 7, 2018 Recent Ph.D graduate, Euiwoong Lee, is the first recipient of the newly established Edmund M. Clarke Dissertation Award. Lee was advised by Computer Science Department Professor Venkat Guruswami and is currently doing postdoctoral work at New York University. Read More
New AI Helps Make Sense of Privacy Policies by | Friday, March 2, 2018 If you're anything like the average internet user, you probably didn't spend the estimated 244 hours it would take to read every privacy policy for every website you visited last year. That's exactly why a team led by Carnegie Mellon University just launched an interactive website aimed at helping users make sense of their privacy on the web. Read More
