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SCS Student Awarded Goldwater Scholarship

by Marylee Williams | Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Claire Jin wants to improve how generative artificial intelligence is incorporated into robotics.

Behring Foundation Gift Supports International Undergrads in Tech

by Kayla Papakie and Krista Burns | Thursday, April 11, 2024

The Behring Foundation, a Brazilian-based family organization focused on empowering talented youth and promoting social development, has established a scholarship to support students from Brazil pursuing tech-related undergraduate degrees at Carnegie Mellon University.

CMU Joins $110M U.S.-Japan Partnership To Accelerate AI Innovation

by Kelly Saavedra | Thursday, April 11, 2024

Carnegie Mellon University and Keio University have announced they will join forces with one another and with industry partners to boost AI-focused research and workforce development in the United States and Japan. The partnership is one of two new university partnerships between the two countries in the area of artificial intelligence announced in Washington, D.C., April 9 at an event hosted by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo.

CMU Researchers Help Expand Music Generation With Adobe

by Marylee Williams | Thursday, April 11, 2024

Shih-Lun Wu is an avid classical piano and viola player, but he learned viola because all the violin seats in his school orchestra had been taken. Now a student in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, Wu uses generative AI and machine learning to make music creation more accessible and engaging for people of all abilities.

Shaw Receives IEEE Computer Society's TCSE Lifetime Achievement Award

by Aaron Aupperlee | Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Mary Shaw has received the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Community on Software Engineering (TCSE) Lifetime Achievement Award for her pioneering and lifetime contributions to the field of software engineering.

SCS Researchers Learn Much From In-Home Test of Adaptive Robot Interface

Head-Worn Assistive Device Impresses Expert Evaluator Henry Evans During Trial

by Byron Spice | Tuesday, February 27, 2024

No one could blame Carnegie Mellon University students Akhil Padmanabha and Janavi Gupta if they were a bit anxious this past August as they traveled to the Bay Area home of Henry and Jane Evans.

The students were about to live with strangers for the next seven days. On top of that, Henry, a person with quadriplegia, would spend the week putting their Head-Worn Assistive Teleoperation (HAT) — an experimental interface to control a mobile robot — to the test.

Four SCS Faculty Named 2024 Sloan Research Fellows

by Aaron Aupperlee | Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Four faculty members in Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science will receive Sloan Research Fellowships in 2024.

Nathan Beckmann, Aaditya Ramdas, Justine Sherry and Virginia Smith were among the 126 early career researchers announced as fellows. More than a thousand researchers are nominated each year, and winners receive a two-year, $75,000 fellowship that can be used to advance their research.

Kanade Receives BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for Computer Vision Legacy

by Aaron Aupperlee | Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Carnegie Mellon University's Takeo Kanade received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for his decades of pioneering scientific achievements in computer vision and robotic perception.

Four SCS Faculty Named 2023 ACM Fellows

by Aaron Aupperlee | Wednesday, January 24, 2024

School of Computer Science faculty members Maria Florina Balcan, Roger B. Dannenberg, Ken Koedinger and Elaine Shi have been recognized as 2023 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The distinction, reserved for the top 1% of the association's membership, honors recipients' outstanding work in computing and information technology and/or outstanding service to ACM and the larger computing community.

Miller Awarded NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship

by Aaron Aupperlee | Thursday, January 11, 2024

Bailey Miller, a Ph.D. student in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department, has been selected for a NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship. 

Researchers Design Simple, High-Performing Cache Eviction Algorithm

by Aaron Aupperlee | Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department (CSD) have designed a method to more efficiently and effectively kick unnecessary items out of the cache, improving the performance of software, servers and websites that rely on cached items.

Wilson Earns 2023 Krulcik Scholarship

by Kayla Papakie | Thursday, November 30, 2023

School of Computer Science senior Rachel Wilson's favorite thing about Carnegie Mellon University is being immersed in a community of people who are incredibly passionate about their work. She'd even argue she's learned as much outside the classroom as she has inside.

Yang, Thontakudi Earn 2023 Stehlik Scholarship

by Susie Cribbs | Friday, November 17, 2023

School of Computer Science senior Helena Yang and recent graduate Anjali Thontakudi (SCS 2023) don't think they've met, but they have lots in common. Both women served as teaching assistants (TAs) for 15-112: Introduction to Computer Programming. They both experienced an education interrupted by a global pandemic and rose to the resulting challenges. Both have an artistic side they indulged at Carnegie Mellon University, even taking similar-but-different classes in storytelling.

CMU Honors Rep. Mike Doyle's Legacy With Endowed Fellowship

by Jean Hayes | Thursday, October 19, 2023

In recognition of former U.S. Rep. Mike Doyle's 28 years of public service representing the greater Pittsburgh region, Carnegie Mellon University announced it would establish the Mike Doyle Endowed Fellowship in Technology and Policy.

Zhu Named 2023 Packard Fellow for Work With Generative AI

by Aaron Aupperlee | Monday, October 16, 2023

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has named Jun-Yan Zhu, an assistant professor in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, a 2023 Packard Fellow for Science and Engineering.

Five SCS Students Named 2024 Siebel Scholars

by Aaron Aupperlee | Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Five graduate students in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science have been named Siebel Scholars for 2024. Lea Albaugh, Bailey Flanigan, Maxwell Jones, Paul Pu Liang and Shih-Lun Wu will each receive $35,000 as part of the program.

Founded in 2000 by the Thomas and Stacey Siebel Foundation, the Siebel Scholars program recognizes nearly 100 students each year whose work influences the technologies, policies, and economic and social decisions that shape the future.

Summer Awards Roundup

CSD faculty and students win awards, grants, and recognition every day. Here's a look at recent awards we know about through Summer 2023. 

Diya Dinesh, a sophomore computer science and robotics major, was a finalist for the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) Aspirations in Computing Program’s NCWIT Collegiate Award.

AI Major Wins Automated Medical Diagnosis Challenge

by Aaron Aupperlee | Thursday, September 7, 2023

Dongkyun Kim, a junior artificial intelligence major in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, designed the winning deep learning model in a recent competition to accurately classify diseases based on chest X-rays.

CSD Researchers Develop System That Dramatically Speeds Up Server Communication

by Aaron Aupperlee | Thursday, August 17, 2023

Carnegie Mellon University researchers in the School of Computer Science collaborated with colleagues at Intel, Microsoft and New York University to develop a new system for internet servers that changes how CPUs communicate with network interface cards. The system, called Ensō, increases the rate at which servers can service requests by up to 600%.

CMU Hacking Team Wins Seventh DEF CON Capture the Flag Title

by Ryan Noone | Wednesday, August 16, 2023

The winningest team in DEF CON's Capture the Flag (CTF) competition history, Carnegie Mellon University's Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP), was back at it again as the team recently defended its title, earning its seventh victory in the past 11 years.

Obituary: SCS Mourns Loss of Computer Visionary, Entrepreneur Edward Fredkin

by Matthew Wein | Wednesday, August 16, 2023

Fifty years ago, few people, if any, could possibly have foreseen the way artificial intelligence would grip our imaginations and consume the public discourse. But if anyone did, it was probably Edward Fredkin.

Fredkin, one of the most influential computer science theorists and thinkers of his generation who spent part of his career as a distinguished career professor at Carnegie Mellon University, died June 13 in Brookline, Massachusetts. He was 88.

CSD Researchers Discover Vulnerability in Large Language Models

by Ryan Noone | Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Generally, chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude and Google Bard won't create offensive content, and hacking them requires effort and ingenuity.

Blelloch Honored With Inaugural SPAA Parallel Computing Award

by Aaron Aupperlee | Friday, July 28, 2023

Guy Blelloch, a professor in the Computer Science Department, received the inaugural Parallel Computing Award at the Association for Computing Machinery’s Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (ACM SPAA).

DOD Selects Sandholm for Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellows

by Aaron Aupperlee | Tuesday, July 25, 2023

The Department of Defense has selected Tuomas Sandholm for the 2023 class of Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellows, the department's flagship single-investigator award for basic research.

Rashmi Vinayak Named Goldsmith Lecturer by IEEE Information Theory Society

by Aaron Aupperlee | Monday, July 3, 2023

The School of Computer Science’s Rashmi Vinayak was named the 2023 Goldsmith Lecturer by the IEEE Information Theory Society.

The Goldsmith Lecturer Program highlights the technical achievements of early-career women and helps build their professional career and recognition. The program contributes to the public visibility of the chosen lecturer and seeks to increase the diversity of IEEE.