Latest News Platzer Selected for Alexander von Humboldt Professorship for Artificial Intelligence SCS Professor Will Head Institute for the Reliability of Autonomous Dynamical Systems at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology by | Wednesday, June 1, 2022 Computer systems increasingly manage and control networks such as the trains crisscrossing a country or the planes taking off and landing at an airport. Failures in these systems not only disrupt critical infrastructure but can also put people's lives at risk. Read More A theory of consciousness from a theoretical computer science perspective: Insights from the Conscious Turing Machine (CTM) by | Friday, May 27, 2022 The quest to understand consciousness, once the purview of philosophers and theologians, is now actively pursued by scientists of many stripes. This paper studies consciousness from the perspective of Theoretical Computer Science (TCS), a branch of mathematics concerned with understanding the underlying principles of computation and complexity. Read More Baharav Awarded CMWA Scholarship by | Thursday, May 12, 2022 The Carnegie Mellon Women's Association (CMWA) has awarded Carmel Baharav, a senior graduating with a degree in computer science, a $1,500 scholarship as one of its 2022 award recipients. Baharav was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, Society of Women Engineers and the Db choir. She was also a teacher's assistant, which she called one of the most impactful experiences she had at CMU. "I have gotten to know so many students and hopefully have been able to help some of them," Baharav said. Read More SCS Seniors Shine as Scholar Athletes by | Thursday, May 12, 2022 Nadia Susanto and Michael OBroin will both earn degrees from the School of Computer Science during Carnegie Mellon University's upcoming Commencement exercises on Sunday, May 15. But they'll also leave the university with something not every student can claim: top-notch records as athletes.Nadia Susanto Read More SCS Ph.D. Students Designed, Taught New Course To Make Computer Science More Welcoming, Inclusive by | Wednesday, April 27, 2022 The Computer Science Department's new course focusing on issues of justice, equity, diversity and inclusion in computer science and society got its start when a group of graduate students decided to create the training they wished they had received. Read More NSF Awards CMU Researchers $3M To Accelerate Next-Gen Networking, Computing by | Tuesday, April 19, 2022 Carnegie Mellon Researchers in the School of Computer Science and College of Engineering will use nearly $3 million in funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help develop intelligent, resilient and reliable next-generation (NextG) networks. The NSF awarded $37 million to 37 different projects at universities across the country. Read More Your Eyes Control Your Smartphone With CMU's New Gaze-Tracking Tool EyeMU Enables Users To Interact With Their Screens Without Lifting a Finger by | Monday, April 18, 2022 As more people watch movies, edit video, read the news and keep up with social media on their smartphones, these devices have grown to accommodate the bigger screens and higher processing power needed for more demanding activities.The problem with unwieldy phones is they frequently require a second hand or voice commands to operate — which can be cumbersome and inconvenient. Read More Pair of SCS Faculty Named Science Talent Search Notable Alumni by | Thursday, March 31, 2022 The Society for Science included renowned Carnegie Mellon University computer scientists Mary Shaw and Dana Scott in its recent list of notable alumni from the Science Talent Search program. Read More SCS Ph.D. Students Selected for Amazon Graduate Research Fellowship by | Wednesday, March 23, 2022 Amazon awarded its second round of research fellowships to five graduate students with ties to the School of Computer Science. They include Emily Black, Saurabh Garg, Natalia Lombardi de Oliveira, Emre Yolcu and Minji Yoon. The program supports graduate students researching automated reasoning, computer vision, robotics, language technology, machine learning, operations research and data science. The students will be invited to interview for a science internship at Amazon. Read More Raj Reddy To Receive Honorary Degree at CMU Commencement by | Tuesday, March 22, 2022 Raj Reddy, a pioneer in robotics, artificial intelligence and speech recognition, will receive an honorary degree during Carnegie Mellon University's 2022 Commencement ceremonies in May. Read More SCS Alumna Parlays Programming Into Publishing by | Thursday, March 17, 2022 Any Carnegie Mellon University grad who reads Sindya Bhanoo's short story, "His Holiness," will know she has a CMU connection the instant they see the line, "It will take time, but my heart is in this work." What might be more surprising is that Bhanoo, who just published her first collection of short fiction, "Seeking Fortune Elsewhere," majored in computer science. Read More Former CMU Computer Science Professor, Turing Winner Honored With Dickson Prize in Science by | Thursday, March 3, 2022 At a time when researchers had abandoned neural networks as a tool for achieving deep learning, Geoffrey Hinton persisted. His work on deep learning has spanned decades and eventually led to the technology enabling a smartphone to translate foreign languages in near-real time. Read More Reinforcement Learning Bolsters Automated Detection of Concrete Cracks Method Could Enable Autonomous Drones To Monitor Safety of Bridges by | Tuesday, March 1, 2022 Rust never sleeps, and cracking concrete doesn't get a day off either. The Jan. 28 collapse of Pittsburgh's Fern Hollow Bridge was a dramatic reminder of that fact. The exact cause of the collapse won't be known until the National Transportation Safety Board completes a months-long study, but Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed autonomous drone technology that someday might prevent similar catastrophes and lesser mishaps caused by deterioration. Read More Expert in Ethics and AI Joins CMU Faculty This Fall School Will Receive $3.5 Million To Support Work by | Thursday, February 24, 2022 Vincent Conitzer expects much to be the same when he returns to Carnegie Mellon University this coming fall. It will still be the best place in the world for computer science and the technical expertise will still be unmatched. Many of the colleagues, professors and even his Ph.D. advisor will also still be around. Read More Manuela Veloso Elected to National Academy of Engineering by | Thursday, February 17, 2022 Manuela Veloso, head of JPMorgan Chase AI Research and the Herbert A. Simon University Professor Emeritus in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, was elected as a 2022 member of the National Academy of Engineering for her contributions to machine learning and its applications in robotics and the financial services industry. The honor is among the highest professional distinctions bestowed on engineers. Read More CyLab faculty named Intel’s 2021 Outstanding Researchers by | Tuesday, February 15, 2022 CyLab faculty Justine Sherry, Vyas Sekar, and James Hoe have been selected among the winners of Intel’s 2021 Outstanding Researcher Award for their collaborati Read More Fang, Kothari Receive 2022 Sloan Research Fellowships by | 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 More Harper Honored for Contributions to Programming Languages by | 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 More Namyong Park Selected for Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship by | 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 More Tuomas Sandholm Named AAAS Fellow Lifetime Honor Conferred on Four CMU Faculty by | 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 More Gupta, Mason Named 2021 ACM Fellows by | Wednesday, January 19, 2022 The Association for Computing Machinery has named Anupam Gupta and Matthew T. Mason 2021 ACM fellows. Read More Vinayak Receives VMware Systems Research Award by | 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 More SCS Faculty Receive Endowed Professorships by | 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 More Repulsive Energies Lead CMU Researchers To Rethink Computer Graphics by | 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 More How To Give Users More Freedom in Secure Group Messaging Apps by | 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. 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Platzer Selected for Alexander von Humboldt Professorship for Artificial Intelligence SCS Professor Will Head Institute for the Reliability of Autonomous Dynamical Systems at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology by | Wednesday, June 1, 2022 Computer systems increasingly manage and control networks such as the trains crisscrossing a country or the planes taking off and landing at an airport. Failures in these systems not only disrupt critical infrastructure but can also put people's lives at risk. Read More
A theory of consciousness from a theoretical computer science perspective: Insights from the Conscious Turing Machine (CTM) by | Friday, May 27, 2022 The quest to understand consciousness, once the purview of philosophers and theologians, is now actively pursued by scientists of many stripes. This paper studies consciousness from the perspective of Theoretical Computer Science (TCS), a branch of mathematics concerned with understanding the underlying principles of computation and complexity. Read More
Baharav Awarded CMWA Scholarship by | Thursday, May 12, 2022 The Carnegie Mellon Women's Association (CMWA) has awarded Carmel Baharav, a senior graduating with a degree in computer science, a $1,500 scholarship as one of its 2022 award recipients. Baharav was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, Society of Women Engineers and the Db choir. She was also a teacher's assistant, which she called one of the most impactful experiences she had at CMU. "I have gotten to know so many students and hopefully have been able to help some of them," Baharav said. Read More
SCS Seniors Shine as Scholar Athletes by | Thursday, May 12, 2022 Nadia Susanto and Michael OBroin will both earn degrees from the School of Computer Science during Carnegie Mellon University's upcoming Commencement exercises on Sunday, May 15. But they'll also leave the university with something not every student can claim: top-notch records as athletes.Nadia Susanto Read More
SCS Ph.D. Students Designed, Taught New Course To Make Computer Science More Welcoming, Inclusive by | Wednesday, April 27, 2022 The Computer Science Department's new course focusing on issues of justice, equity, diversity and inclusion in computer science and society got its start when a group of graduate students decided to create the training they wished they had received. Read More
NSF Awards CMU Researchers $3M To Accelerate Next-Gen Networking, Computing by | Tuesday, April 19, 2022 Carnegie Mellon Researchers in the School of Computer Science and College of Engineering will use nearly $3 million in funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help develop intelligent, resilient and reliable next-generation (NextG) networks. The NSF awarded $37 million to 37 different projects at universities across the country. Read More
Your Eyes Control Your Smartphone With CMU's New Gaze-Tracking Tool EyeMU Enables Users To Interact With Their Screens Without Lifting a Finger by | Monday, April 18, 2022 As more people watch movies, edit video, read the news and keep up with social media on their smartphones, these devices have grown to accommodate the bigger screens and higher processing power needed for more demanding activities.The problem with unwieldy phones is they frequently require a second hand or voice commands to operate — which can be cumbersome and inconvenient. Read More
Pair of SCS Faculty Named Science Talent Search Notable Alumni by | Thursday, March 31, 2022 The Society for Science included renowned Carnegie Mellon University computer scientists Mary Shaw and Dana Scott in its recent list of notable alumni from the Science Talent Search program. Read More
SCS Ph.D. Students Selected for Amazon Graduate Research Fellowship by | Wednesday, March 23, 2022 Amazon awarded its second round of research fellowships to five graduate students with ties to the School of Computer Science. They include Emily Black, Saurabh Garg, Natalia Lombardi de Oliveira, Emre Yolcu and Minji Yoon. The program supports graduate students researching automated reasoning, computer vision, robotics, language technology, machine learning, operations research and data science. The students will be invited to interview for a science internship at Amazon. Read More
Raj Reddy To Receive Honorary Degree at CMU Commencement by | Tuesday, March 22, 2022 Raj Reddy, a pioneer in robotics, artificial intelligence and speech recognition, will receive an honorary degree during Carnegie Mellon University's 2022 Commencement ceremonies in May. Read More
SCS Alumna Parlays Programming Into Publishing by | Thursday, March 17, 2022 Any Carnegie Mellon University grad who reads Sindya Bhanoo's short story, "His Holiness," will know she has a CMU connection the instant they see the line, "It will take time, but my heart is in this work." What might be more surprising is that Bhanoo, who just published her first collection of short fiction, "Seeking Fortune Elsewhere," majored in computer science. Read More
Former CMU Computer Science Professor, Turing Winner Honored With Dickson Prize in Science by | Thursday, March 3, 2022 At a time when researchers had abandoned neural networks as a tool for achieving deep learning, Geoffrey Hinton persisted. His work on deep learning has spanned decades and eventually led to the technology enabling a smartphone to translate foreign languages in near-real time. Read More
Reinforcement Learning Bolsters Automated Detection of Concrete Cracks Method Could Enable Autonomous Drones To Monitor Safety of Bridges by | Tuesday, March 1, 2022 Rust never sleeps, and cracking concrete doesn't get a day off either. The Jan. 28 collapse of Pittsburgh's Fern Hollow Bridge was a dramatic reminder of that fact. The exact cause of the collapse won't be known until the National Transportation Safety Board completes a months-long study, but Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed autonomous drone technology that someday might prevent similar catastrophes and lesser mishaps caused by deterioration. Read More
Expert in Ethics and AI Joins CMU Faculty This Fall School Will Receive $3.5 Million To Support Work by | Thursday, February 24, 2022 Vincent Conitzer expects much to be the same when he returns to Carnegie Mellon University this coming fall. It will still be the best place in the world for computer science and the technical expertise will still be unmatched. Many of the colleagues, professors and even his Ph.D. advisor will also still be around. Read More
Manuela Veloso Elected to National Academy of Engineering by | Thursday, February 17, 2022 Manuela Veloso, head of JPMorgan Chase AI Research and the Herbert A. Simon University Professor Emeritus in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, was elected as a 2022 member of the National Academy of Engineering for her contributions to machine learning and its applications in robotics and the financial services industry. The honor is among the highest professional distinctions bestowed on engineers. Read More
CyLab faculty named Intel’s 2021 Outstanding Researchers by | Tuesday, February 15, 2022 CyLab faculty Justine Sherry, Vyas Sekar, and James Hoe have been selected among the winners of Intel’s 2021 Outstanding Researcher Award for their collaborati Read More
Fang, Kothari Receive 2022 Sloan Research Fellowships by | 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 More
Harper Honored for Contributions to Programming Languages by | 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 More
Namyong Park Selected for Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship by | 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 More
Tuomas Sandholm Named AAAS Fellow Lifetime Honor Conferred on Four CMU Faculty by | 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 More
Gupta, Mason Named 2021 ACM Fellows by | Wednesday, January 19, 2022 The Association for Computing Machinery has named Anupam Gupta and Matthew T. Mason 2021 ACM fellows. Read More
Vinayak Receives VMware Systems Research Award by | 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 More
SCS Faculty Receive Endowed Professorships by | 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 More
Repulsive Energies Lead CMU Researchers To Rethink Computer Graphics by | 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 More
How To Give Users More Freedom in Secure Group Messaging Apps by | 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 More
