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Hodgins Elected President of SIGGRAPH
by | Monday, September 25, 2017
Jessica Hodgins, professor of computer science and robotics, has been elected president of SIGGRAPH, the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques.
SIGGRAPH convenes the premier annual conference on computer graphics, which is attended by tens of thousands of computer professionals. The SIGGRAPH president serves a three-year term.
Read MoreCelebrating Machine Learning for Social Good
Mayor Peduto Joins Uptake CEO To Talk Innovation, Collaboration
by | Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto will sit down with Brad Keywell, Uptake CEO, for a fireside chat about cities as centers of innovation and other issues as Carnegie Mellon University celebrates the launch of the Machine Learning for Social Good fund.
Read MorePrivacyStreams Helps Developers Create Privacy Friendly Apps
Decision To Share Personal Data Need Not Be All or Nothing
by | Wednesday, September 13, 2017
A smartphone app that uses the raw feed from a device's microphone or accesses its contact list can raise red flags for a user concerned about privacy. In many cases, however, the app doesn't need all the details that users find most sensitive.
Read MoreTo Improve Smartphone Privacy, Control Access to Third-Party Libraries
Just 30 Libraries Account for More Than Half of Sensitive Data Taps
by | Monday, September 11, 2017
Smartphone apps that share users' locations, contacts and other sensitive information with third parties often do so through a relative handful of services called third-party libraries, suggesting a new strategy for protecting privacy, Carnegie Mellon University researchers say.
Read MoreCyLab’s Bryan Parno shares Distinguished Paper Award win with demonstration of verifiable security
by | Thursday, September 7, 2017
Chances are, you’re reading this article on a web browser that uses HTTPS, the protocol over which data is sent between a web browser and the website users are connected to. In fact, nearly half of all web traffic passes through HTTPS. Despite the “S” for security in “HTTPS,” this protocol is far from perfectly secure.
Read MoreCarnegie Mellon's Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship Earns I-Corps Renewal
by | Monday, August 21, 2017
Carnegie Mellon University's Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship recently received a continuing grant from the National Science Foundation for its Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Sites program.
Read MoreSCS Students Captain Winning Teams at C2C Competition
by | Friday, August 4, 2017
School of Computer Science students captained teams that finished first and second in the Cambridge2Cambridge (C2C) three-day cybersecurity competition that ended July 27 at the University of Cambridge.
Robert Xiao, a Ph.D. student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, led the Unstoppables team, which won the £9,000 top prize, and won the £3,000 Leidos C2C Individual award as well. Carolina Zarate, a senior computer science major, captained the CrypticCrushers team, which took the second-place £4500 prize.
Read MoreImproving Security Science Through Collaboration
by | Thursday, August 3, 2017
Computer scientists need to collaborate with their counterparts in the natural and social sciences to advance cybersecurity research, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.
Read MoreCMU's PPP Team Notches Fourth DefCon Win
by | Monday, July 31, 2017
Carnegie Mellon University’s hacking team, the Plaid Parliament of Pwning or PPP, won its fourth World Series of Hacking title this weekend at the DefCon security conference in Las Vegas.
With four titles under their belt, the team has more wins than any other team in the 21-year history of the international competition. The 10 current members of PPP include eight undergraduates from the School of Computer Science and one Ph.D. student in SCS’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute.
Read MoreCarnegie Mellon Method Enables Telescoping Devices That Bend and Twist
Robots That Readily Expand or Shrink Would Be Possible
by | Thursday, July 27, 2017
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have found a way to design telescoping structures that can bend and twist, enabling robots of various shapes to collapse themselves for transport or entering tiny spaces, and making possible robotic arms and claws that can reach over or around large obstacles.
Read MoreGraphics and Robotics Pioneer Receives Highest Honor in Computer Graphics
by | Tuesday, July 25, 2017
The Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (ACM SIGGRAPH) has named Jessica Hodgins, professor of computer science and robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, the 2017 recipient of its Steven Anson Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics.
Read MoreNY Times Examines How SCS Remade Pittsburgh
by | Tuesday, July 25, 2017
What do Pittsburgh's "food boom," the establishment of Uber's Advanced Technologies Center and the return of Jean Yang to her hometown have in common? The School of Computer Science, says writer Steven Kurutz in the July 23 edition of The New York Times.
Read MoreCMU Hacking Team Looks for Win at DefCon
by | Tuesday, July 25, 2017
At a time when cybersecurity pervades news headlines, it's fitting that a team of cybersecurity experts from Carnegie Mellon University may grab an unprecedented win this weekend in Las Vegas.
Carnegie Mellon's competitive hacking team, the Plaid Parliament of Pwning, looks to win a fourth title at this year's DefCon cybersecurity conference. No other team has ever won more than three times in DefCon's 21-year history of what many refer to as the "World Series of Hacking."
Read MoreUPMC Professorships Will Help Shape the Future of Healthcare
by | Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Carnegie Mellon University's Ruslan "Russ" Salakhutdinov, Kathryn Roeder and Larry Wasserman have received endowed professorships from UPMC to fund work in statistics, artificial intelligence, machine learning and data analytics to help shape the future of healthcare.
Read MoreSCS Will Welcome Largest First-Year Class This Fall
Women Once Again Make Up Almost Half of Incoming Students
by | Wednesday, June 28, 2017
The School of Computer Science is preparing for its largest-ever incoming class of first-years this fall, with 206 students currently committed, continuing the school's efforts to meet the world's growing demand for computer scientists by increasing its undergraduate enrollment.
Read MoreCarnegie Mellon Solidifies Leadership Role in Artificial Intelligence
New Initiative, CMU AI, Unifies Expertise Across Departments and Disciplines
by | Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science (SCS) has launched a new initiative, CMU AI, that marshals the school's work in artificial intelligence (AI) across departments and disciplines, creating one of the largest and most experienced AI research groups in the world.
Read MoreDunietz Receives AAAS Mass Media Fellowship
by | Monday, June 5, 2017
Jesse Dunietz, a Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Science Department, will spend 10 weeks this summer at the New York offices of Scientific American magazine as an American Association for the Advancement of Science Mass Media fellow.
Read MoreShaw, Garlan Receive IEEE Software Engineering Awards
by | Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Institute for Software Research (ISR) professors Mary Shaw and David Garlan will receive IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE) awards at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), May 20–28 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Read MoreACM Honors Satya, Colleagues for Andrew File System
CMU Created First Distributed File System in 1980s
by | Wednesday, May 3, 2017
The Association for Computing Machinery has named the developers of Carnegie Mellon University's pioneering Andrew File System (AFS) the recipients of its prestigious 2016 Software System Award.
Read MoreShaw Earns University's Highest Education Honor
by | Monday, April 24, 2017
Mary Shaw joined the Carnegie Mellon University faculty after she completed her Ph.D. at the university in 1972. Since then, she's designed computer science curricula at all university levels, established software architecture as a recognized discipline, and served as chief scientist of CMU's Software Engineering Institute and associate dean for professional education.
Read MoreCarnegie Mellon Advances Cloud's Capacity for Video Analytics
Research With Intel Addresses Rapidly Growing Volume of Online Video
by | Sunday, April 23, 2017
Carnegie Mellon University is leading a research effort sponsored by the Intel Corporation that will enable cloud-based services to process a rapidly increasing volume of online video and put new analytics and immersive technologies within reach of consumers, businesses and public officials.
Read MoreProject Olympus Hosts Spring Carnival "Show and Tell"
Research, Startups Take Center Stage in McConomy Auditorium
by | Friday, April 14, 2017
The Project Olympus innovation program will host its annual Spring Carnival Show and Tell event, highlighting research and startups of interest to the investment community, from 4:30 to 6 p.m., Thursday, April 20, in the Cohon University Center's McConomy Auditorium.
Read MoreCarnegie Mellon AI Beats Chinese Poker Players
Lengpudashi Tops Humans by $792,327 in Virtual Chips During Five-Day Exhibition
by | Monday, April 10, 2017
Artificial intelligence has once again triumphed over human poker players, as a program developed by Carnegie Mellon University researchers beat six Chinese players by a total of $792,327 in virtual chips during a five-day, 36,000-hand exhibition that ended today in Hainan, China.
Read MoreCarnegie Mellon AI Takes On Chinese Poker Players
China Exhibition Includes $290,000 Winner-Take-All Prize
by | Wednesday, April 5, 2017
A version of Carnegie Mellon University's Libratus, which in January became the first artificial intelligence to defeat top poker pros at Heads-Up, No-Limit Texas Hold'em, will play six top Chinese players for a $290,000 winner-take-all purse.
The 36,000-hand exhibition featuring a different AI, named Lengpudashi or "cold poker master," will take place April 6–10 on the island province of Hainan, China.
Read MoreCarnegie Mellon Makes Strong Showing at Global CodeCon Finals
by | Thursday, March 23, 2017
Two Carnegie Mellon University students outcoded more than a hundred of their peers at the 2017 Global CodeCon Finals — a two-hour long coding competition at Bloomberg's offices in New York City and London. Raymond Kang, a junior studying computer science and mathematical sciences, earned ninth place; and Gabriele Farina, a Ph.D. student in computer science, came in 13th.
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