Latest News 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. Read More 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. Read More 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. Read More 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. Read More Summer Awards Roundup by | Monday, September 18, 2023 CSD faculty and students win awards, grants, and recognition every day. Here's a look at recent awards we know about through Summer 2023. CSD Students & Teams 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. Read More 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. Read More 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%. Read More 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. Read More 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. Read More 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. Read More 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). Read More 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. Read More 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. Read More Computer Science Professor Named ACM SIGMETRICS Rising Star by Aaron Aupperlee | Thursday, June 29, 2023 The School of Computer Science's Weina Wang received the 2023 Rising Star Research Award from the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group for the Computer Performance Evaluation Community (ACM SIGMETRIC) for her development of new mathematical tools and algorithms that significantly deepen our understanding of the performance of complex, heterogeneous stochastic systems. Read More CSD Post-Doc Wins Top Dissertation Award by Aaron Aupperlee | Thursday, June 29, 2023 Sam Westrick, a post-doctoral researcher in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department, received the John C. Reynolds Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (ACM SIGPLAN). Read More SCS, Meta Researchers Resolve Chronic Memory-Management Problem in Datacenters Works Wins Best Paper Award at ISCA by Aaron Aupperlee | Monday, June 26, 2023 A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science and Meta have redesigned operating systems and hardware to drastically improve memory management in datacenters. As memory capacity increases in datacenters, virtual memory has become a major performance bottleneck. A vast body of prior work relies on the assumption that an operating system can allocate large, physically contiguous memory to reduce the costs associated with that bottleneck. However, the team identified that in reality, memory contiguity is scarce in datacenters. Read More CMU Programming Team Places Top in the U.S., Second in North America by Aaron Aupperlee | Tuesday, June 13, 2023 Carnegie Mellon University’s International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) team beat its U.S. competitors and came in second overall at this year’s North America Championship. The CMU team finished behind the University of Waterloo but bested top U.S. schools including MIT; the University of California, Berkeley; and Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford universities. A total of 51 schools participated in the May 29 competition in Orlando, Florida. Read More Spring 2023 Awards Roundup by Compiled by Susie Cribbs | Wednesday, May 31, 2023 SCS faculty and students win awards, grants and recognition every day. Here's a look — neither exhaustive nor abbreviated — at who won what this semester. Keep an eye out at the end of the summer and during the fall semester for updates. Spot a glaring omission? Email the SCS News team with details.*The Dean's Business Office also maintains a sortable archive of major faculty honors on the Faculty Awards website. Read More Three SCS Researchers Named AI2050 Early Career Fellows by Kayla Papakie | Wednesday, May 31, 2023 Three School of Computer Science researchers were named to the inaugural cohort of Schmidt Futures' AI2050 Early Career Fellowship to pursue ambitious research in artificial intelligence. Read More CMU Researcher Uses ChatGPT To Execute Computer Tasks Large Language Models Can Solve Computer Tasks Using Keyboard, Mouse Actions by Aaron Aupperlee | Tuesday, May 23, 2023 Research spearheaded by Carnegie Mellon University shows that AI systems such as ChatGPT and Midjourney, known best for generating text, code or images, can also handle repetitive tasks. Read More Xing Named Institute of Mathematical Statistics Fellow by Adam Kohlhaas | Tuesday, May 23, 2023 Eric Xing, a professor in the Machine Learning Department, Computer Science Department and Language Technologies Institute, has been named a 2023 Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) fellow. Read More Putting Money Where a Community's Mouths Are CMU Spin-Out Implements Digital Community Currency in Sharpsburg by Byron Spice | Wednesday, May 10, 2023 When you sidle into Dancing Gnome, a brewpub on Sharpsburg's Main Street, and order a glass of its renowned Lustra pale ale, founder Andrew Witchey is happy to accept payment in cash, credit or Sharpsburg Bucks. Read More Carnegie Mellon Leads NSF AI Institute for Societal Decision Making $20M Collaboration Brings Together AI Researchers, Social Scientists To Develop Tools for Societal Challenges by Aaron Aupperlee | Thursday, May 4, 2023 Artificial intelligence tools have increasingly aided emergency managers, public health officials and other professionals tasked with making critical and timely decisions that directly impact society. During disasters, AI can help efficiently direct and allocate resources. Likewise, AI tools help public health officials, community workers and clinics better target interventions to improve health outcomes. Read More Cranor, Stehlik Named University Professors by Christa Cardone and Kristen Bayley | Friday, April 28, 2023 School of Computer Science faculty members Lorrie Faith Cranor and Mark Stehlik have been elevated to the rank of University Professor, the highest distinction a faculty member can receive at Carnegie Mellon University. Read More SCS Faculty Honored at Carnegie Mellon's Celebration of Education by Susie Cribbs | Friday, April 28, 2023 School of Computer Science faculty members took home top accolades when Carnegie Mellon University honored faculty, staff and students at its annual Celebration of Education Awards on Thursday, April 27. The annual event recognizes the accomplishments of those who exemplify the university's standards of excellence in education and honors their outstanding contributions to the university and their devotion to and effectiveness in teaching. 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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. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
Summer Awards Roundup by | Monday, September 18, 2023 CSD faculty and students win awards, grants, and recognition every day. Here's a look at recent awards we know about through Summer 2023. CSD Students & Teams 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. Read More
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. Read More
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%. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
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). Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
Computer Science Professor Named ACM SIGMETRICS Rising Star by Aaron Aupperlee | Thursday, June 29, 2023 The School of Computer Science's Weina Wang received the 2023 Rising Star Research Award from the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group for the Computer Performance Evaluation Community (ACM SIGMETRIC) for her development of new mathematical tools and algorithms that significantly deepen our understanding of the performance of complex, heterogeneous stochastic systems. Read More
CSD Post-Doc Wins Top Dissertation Award by Aaron Aupperlee | Thursday, June 29, 2023 Sam Westrick, a post-doctoral researcher in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department, received the John C. Reynolds Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (ACM SIGPLAN). Read More
SCS, Meta Researchers Resolve Chronic Memory-Management Problem in Datacenters Works Wins Best Paper Award at ISCA by Aaron Aupperlee | Monday, June 26, 2023 A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science and Meta have redesigned operating systems and hardware to drastically improve memory management in datacenters. As memory capacity increases in datacenters, virtual memory has become a major performance bottleneck. A vast body of prior work relies on the assumption that an operating system can allocate large, physically contiguous memory to reduce the costs associated with that bottleneck. However, the team identified that in reality, memory contiguity is scarce in datacenters. Read More
CMU Programming Team Places Top in the U.S., Second in North America by Aaron Aupperlee | Tuesday, June 13, 2023 Carnegie Mellon University’s International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) team beat its U.S. competitors and came in second overall at this year’s North America Championship. The CMU team finished behind the University of Waterloo but bested top U.S. schools including MIT; the University of California, Berkeley; and Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford universities. A total of 51 schools participated in the May 29 competition in Orlando, Florida. Read More
Spring 2023 Awards Roundup by Compiled by Susie Cribbs | Wednesday, May 31, 2023 SCS faculty and students win awards, grants and recognition every day. Here's a look — neither exhaustive nor abbreviated — at who won what this semester. Keep an eye out at the end of the summer and during the fall semester for updates. Spot a glaring omission? Email the SCS News team with details.*The Dean's Business Office also maintains a sortable archive of major faculty honors on the Faculty Awards website. Read More
Three SCS Researchers Named AI2050 Early Career Fellows by Kayla Papakie | Wednesday, May 31, 2023 Three School of Computer Science researchers were named to the inaugural cohort of Schmidt Futures' AI2050 Early Career Fellowship to pursue ambitious research in artificial intelligence. Read More
CMU Researcher Uses ChatGPT To Execute Computer Tasks Large Language Models Can Solve Computer Tasks Using Keyboard, Mouse Actions by Aaron Aupperlee | Tuesday, May 23, 2023 Research spearheaded by Carnegie Mellon University shows that AI systems such as ChatGPT and Midjourney, known best for generating text, code or images, can also handle repetitive tasks. Read More
Xing Named Institute of Mathematical Statistics Fellow by Adam Kohlhaas | Tuesday, May 23, 2023 Eric Xing, a professor in the Machine Learning Department, Computer Science Department and Language Technologies Institute, has been named a 2023 Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) fellow. Read More
Putting Money Where a Community's Mouths Are CMU Spin-Out Implements Digital Community Currency in Sharpsburg by Byron Spice | Wednesday, May 10, 2023 When you sidle into Dancing Gnome, a brewpub on Sharpsburg's Main Street, and order a glass of its renowned Lustra pale ale, founder Andrew Witchey is happy to accept payment in cash, credit or Sharpsburg Bucks. Read More
Carnegie Mellon Leads NSF AI Institute for Societal Decision Making $20M Collaboration Brings Together AI Researchers, Social Scientists To Develop Tools for Societal Challenges by Aaron Aupperlee | Thursday, May 4, 2023 Artificial intelligence tools have increasingly aided emergency managers, public health officials and other professionals tasked with making critical and timely decisions that directly impact society. During disasters, AI can help efficiently direct and allocate resources. Likewise, AI tools help public health officials, community workers and clinics better target interventions to improve health outcomes. Read More
Cranor, Stehlik Named University Professors by Christa Cardone and Kristen Bayley | Friday, April 28, 2023 School of Computer Science faculty members Lorrie Faith Cranor and Mark Stehlik have been elevated to the rank of University Professor, the highest distinction a faculty member can receive at Carnegie Mellon University. Read More
SCS Faculty Honored at Carnegie Mellon's Celebration of Education by Susie Cribbs | Friday, April 28, 2023 School of Computer Science faculty members took home top accolades when Carnegie Mellon University honored faculty, staff and students at its annual Celebration of Education Awards on Thursday, April 27. The annual event recognizes the accomplishments of those who exemplify the university's standards of excellence in education and honors their outstanding contributions to the university and their devotion to and effectiveness in teaching. Read More
