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Fang, Kothari Receive 2022 Sloan Research Fellowships
by Aaron Aupperlee | Tuesday, February 15, 2022
Fei Fang and Pravesh Kothari, both assistant professors in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, will receive 2022 Sloan Research Fellowships.
Read MoreHarper Honored for Contributions to Programming Languages
by Aaron Aupperlee | Monday, February 7, 2022
Robert Harper, a professor in the Computer Science Department, has received the 2021 ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award in recognition of his significant and lasting contributions to the field.
Considered among the top honors in the field of programming languages, the award includes a $5,000 prize and was presented at SIGPLAN's Principles of Programming Languages conference in January.
Read MoreNamyong Park Selected for Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship
by Aaron Aupperlee | Thursday, January 27, 2022
Bloomberg recently announced that Namyong Park, a Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Science Department, was selected for its Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship.
The fellowship provides a $35,000 stipend, offers $5,000 to cover travel to professional conferences for the 2021-2022 school year, and can be renewed for up to three years. Park will also have a Bloomberg mentor and complete a 14-week paid summer internship at Bloomberg.
Read MoreTuomas Sandholm Named AAAS Fellow
Lifetime Honor Conferred on Four CMU Faculty
by Aaron Aupperlee | Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Tuomas Sandholm, serial entrepreneur and a professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department, has been elected as a fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science — the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals
Read MoreGupta, Mason Named 2021 ACM Fellows
by Aaron Aupperlee | Wednesday, January 19, 2022
The Association for Computing Machinery has named Anupam Gupta and Matthew T. Mason 2021 ACM fellows.
Read MoreVinayak Receives VMware Systems Research Award
by Aaron Aupperlee | Monday, January 10, 2022
Rashmi Vinayak, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department (CSD), received the 2021 VMware Systems Research Award for her work to enhance computer system reliability and efficiency by combining coding-theoretic algorithms, machine learning models and systems.
Read MoreSCS Faculty Receive Endowed Professorships
by Aaron Aupperlee | Thursday, December 16, 2021
Four School of Computer Science professors recently received endowed faculty chairs in recognition of their work and to support further research.
Read MoreRepulsive Energies Lead CMU Researchers To Rethink Computer Graphics
by Aaron Aupperlee | Monday, December 13, 2021
Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University are making beautiful shapes by simulating forces that are literally repulsive — like the force between two charged particles.
When computers reason about shapes, they assume that objects can move freely through each other, like a cartoon ghost passing through a wall. As anyone who has ever struggled to untangle a mass of headphone cables knows, that's not how real objects behave — yet it is a common and vexing problem in 3D modeling.
Read MoreHow To Give Users More Freedom in Secure Group Messaging Apps
by Daniel Tkacik | Tuesday, November 23, 2021
A Ph.D. candidate in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department wants group messaging apps like WhatsApp to give their users more control over their messages.
Read MoreInnovative Caching Method Honored With Best Paper at SOSP
by Aaron Aupperlee | Friday, November 19, 2021
Caching tiny objects can be a big deal to social media companies, IoT devices and other services scattered across the internet. Items like a tweet, the connections of a social network or identifying information about a smart doorbell may all be small in size — about 100 to 200 bytes — but delivering them quickly is largely important.
Read MoreDavid Touretzky, AI4K12 Team Will Receive Outstanding Educator Award
by Aaron Aupperlee | Monday, November 15, 2021
David Touretzky, a research professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department, will receive the 2022 AAAI/EAAI Outstanding Educator award for his work with the Artificial Intelligence for K-12 Initiative.
Read MoreTech Visionary Kai-Fu Lee Chats With SCS Dean About Future of AI
by Aaron Aupperlee | Friday, November 12, 2021
Advancements in artificial intelligence will present society with both progress and problems, but Kai-Fu Lee, a venture capitalist attempting to peer into the future of AI, believes that humanity will push through those challenges and move forward.
Read MorePamela McCorduck's Contributions to the Birth of AI Continued Through Her Generosity
by Aaron Aupperlee | Tuesday, October 26, 2021
As scientists laid the foundations of artificial intelligence, Pamela McCorduck was there.
The inquisitive, kind, gracious and open-minded woman soaked up the beginnings of modern technology through conversations and interactions with the researchers shaping the field.
McCorduck, an author who wrote some of the first novels and histories about AI and was a generous friend of CMU, died October 18. She was 80.
Read MoreLuis von Ahn, Tom Moran Honored With Alumni Achievement Awards
by Aaron Aupperlee | Monday, October 18, 2021
Two School of Computer Science graduates have received Alumni Achievement Awards for their exceptional accomplishments and leadership.
Read MoreCMU Learning Lab To Help Design, Develop Community College Computer Science Curriculum
by Aaron Aupperlee | Thursday, October 7, 2021
The Technology for Effective and Efficient Learning Lab (TEEL Lab) at Carnegie Mellon University will collaborate with the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) to create a more engaging and inclusive curriculum for teaching information technology and computer science in community colleges.
Read MoreJan Hoffmann receives Amazon Research Award
by Daniel Tkacik | Wednesday, October 6, 2021
Jan Hoffmann will receive an Amazon Research Award for his work on serverless computing.
Hoffmann, an associate professor in the Computer Science Department and part of CMU's CyLab Security and Privacy Institute, will use the award to fund his project, "Automatic Static Resource Analysis for Serverless Computing."
Read MoreFive SCS Students Named Siebel Scholars
by Aaron Aupperlee | Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Five graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science have received Siebel Scholars awards for 2022. Karan Ahuja, Priya Donti, Yasmine Kotturi, Ryan Shi and Kayo Yin will each receive $35,000 as part of the program.
Read MoreUsing Human Problem-Solving To Inspire Better AI Scheduling
by Megan Harris | Friday, September 17, 2021
Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science are studying how humans organize their days and how they react to changes in their schedules to help build better artificial intelligence tools.
Read MoreCMU-Led Team Wins Neural Networks Verification Competition
by Aaron Aupperlee | Wednesday, September 15, 2021
Carnegie Mellon University researchers led a team to victory in the 2021 International Verification of Neural Networks Competition with an open-source tool that can provide a guarantee of the behavior of a critical part of modern artificial intelligence. Read MoreFive SCS Specialties Ranked No. 1 by U.S. News and World Report
by Aaron Aupperlee | Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science racked up five top-ranked specialty areas and maintained its No. 1 overall ranking for computer science in U.S. News and World Report's 2022 Best Colleges rankings.
Read MoreCMU Computer Scientists Use Algorithm To Innovate Roots of Democracy
by Aaron Aupperlee | Thursday, August 5, 2021
When 30 Michiganders convened last fall to draw up recommendations for tackling COVID-19, an algorithm developed in part by Carnegie Mellon University computer scientists helped bring them together.
Read MoreSchool of Computer Science Part of Four New NSF AI Institutes
CMU Contributing to Innovations in Caregiving, Agriculture, Wireless Networks
by Aaron Aupperlee | Thursday, July 29, 2021
Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science will contribute fundamental and cutting-edge research to a government-led push to bring about life-changing advances through artificial intelligence.
The U.S. National Science Foundation today announced a $220 million investment in 11 new Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes. School of Computer Science (SCS) researchers will participate in four of the new institutes.
Read MoreFormer SCS Dean Randal Bryant Recognized for Contributions to Computer-Aided Verification
by Aaron Aupperlee | Thursday, July 29, 2021
Randal Bryant, the Founders University Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus, and a former dean of Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, recently received an award from the International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification (CAV) for his pioneering contributions to the foundations of the theory and practice of satisfiability modulo theories (SMT).
Read MoreBalcan Named Simons Investigator
by Aaron Aupperlee | Thursday, July 22, 2021
The Simons Foundation recently appointed Maria Florina “Nina” Balcan, the Cadence Design Systems professor in computer science, a Simons Investigator in theoretical computer science.
Read MoreGhosh Named DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellow
by Aaron Aupperlee | Monday, July 19, 2021
The Department of Energy (DOE) has selected Souradip Ghosh, an incoming Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department, as one of its Computational Science Graduate Fellows (CSGF).
The fellowship funds full tuition, provides a yearly stipend and professional development allowance, and offers access to DOE national laboratories and supercomputers. The DOE selected 32 students for its 2021-22 CSGF program.
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