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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.

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. 

SCS Honors Faculty and Staff at Founders Day

by Kayla Papakie | Thursday, April 13, 2023

Each year, the School of Computer Science holds a special day to reflect on its recent achievements while celebrating the legacies of Allen Newell (TPR'57), Herbert A. Simon (H'90) and Alan Perlis (S'42), who are considered the founders of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.

Decoding the Internet of Things

Remember that Coke machine in Wean?

The era of smart devices, otherwise known as the Internet of Things (IoT), all began with humble origins: a vending machine in the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science. In the early 1980s, David Nichols, a computer science graduate student now working at Microsoft, enjoyed having a Coca Cola from the vending machine in the department.

CMU Team Wins PETs Prize

by Adam Kohlhaas | Thursday, April 6, 2023

As personal and private information are increasingly digitized and shared, privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) have become fundamental for protecting an individual's privacy while still allowing for the benefits of modern technology and data analysis. A team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers recently won the PETs Prize Challenge for their work to preserve privacy during pandemic forecasting. 

SCS Faculty Receive More Than $4.5M in NSF CAREER Awards

by Kayla Papakie | Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Eight Carnegie Mellon University researchers in the School of Computer Science recently earned Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) awards from the National Science Foundation totaling more than $4.5 million. The awards are the foundation's most prestigious for young faculty researchers.

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SCS Students Selected for Amazon Graduate Research Fellows Program

by Aaron Aupperlee | Thursday, March 9, 2023

Amazon has selected Shantanu Gupta, Ian Waudby-Smith, Emre Yolcu and Minji Yoon — all students with ties to the School of Computer Science — as its latest graduate research fellows.

This is the third class for the program, which launched in 2021 to support graduate students researching automated reasoning, computer vision, robotics, language technology, machine learning, operations research and data science. Fellows are invited to interview for a science internship at Amazon.

CISA Director Visits SCS as Part of CMU Visit

by Cassia Crogan | Monday, March 6, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Jen Easterly recently spent a day engaging with the Carnegie Mellon University community — including the School of Computer Science — on the importance of technology product safety.

Xing Receives Amazon Research Award

by Adam Kohlhaas | Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Eric Xing, a professor in the Machine Learning Department, the Computer Science Department and the Language Technologies Institute, is one of 26 recipients of the 2022 Amazon Research Awards (ARA) for his project titled, "A Faster and More Accurate Secure Model Serving Framework on the Cloud."

SCS Part of Groundbreaking Initiative To Broaden Access to STEM Education by CMU, Rales Foundation

$150 Million Investment Aims To Eliminate Cost as Barrier to Graduate Education, Create Distinctive Ecosystem To Ensure Success

by Brian Thornton | Thursday, February 23, 2023

The School of Computer Science will take part in a transformative new initiative announced by Carnegie Mellon University and the Norman and Ruth Rales Foundation.

SCS Faculty Earn 2023 Sloan Research Fellowships

by Kayla Papakie | Friday, February 17, 2023

Rashmi Vinayak and Yuanzhi Li have earned 2023 Sloan Research Fellowships in recognition of their research accomplishments. They are among 125 early career researchers from 54 institutions to receive the award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Sandholm Earns AAAI Award for Artificial Intelligence That Benefits Humanity

SCS Professor Recognized for Work on Organ Exchanges

by Aaron Aupperlee | Thursday, February 2, 2023

Tuomas Sandholm, a professor in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, will receive the AAAI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity to recognize his contributions to the design and implementation of organ exchanges and their direct impact on both practice and policy.

Hong, Xing Named 2022 ACM Fellows

by Susie Cribbs | Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Faculty members Jason Hong and Eric Xing from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science have been recognized as 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.

Carnegie Mellon University's CS Academy Pilots Academic Credit by Examination Model

Free Online Curricula Surpasses 250,000 Students

by Aaron Aupperlee | Wednesday, January 25, 2023

CMU CS Academy, the free, online computer science curricula designed by faculty in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science for high school and middle school classrooms, now offers the opportunity to earn academic credit by examination through its highest-level course.

CSD Professor Authors Guides for Teaching AI to K-12 Students

A Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science professor has helped develop new activities for teaching artificial intelligence to elementary, middle and high school students.

by Aaron Aupperlee | Friday, December 2, 2022

David Touretzky, a research professor in the Computer Science Department, collaborated with Christina Gardner-McCune, an associate professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida, to author the first titles in a collection of activity resource guides launched by the Artificial Intelligence for K-12 Init

CMU Programming Team Shines in ICPC World Finals

by Aaron Aupperlee | Monday, November 21, 2022

Carnegie Mellon University's International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) team recently notched an impressive performance in the competition's World Finals.

The team — computer science major Christopher Lambert and recently graduated computer science majors Andrew Yang and Zack Lee — finished seventh and earned a silver medal in the final competition held earlier this month in Dhaka, Bangladesh. This was CMU's first silver medal and highest finish to date.

CMU Professors Awarded NSF Future of Work Grant

Funds Will Support AI-Augmented Learning Technologies in Community College IT Courses

by Aaron Aupperlee and Heinz College | Monday, November 21, 2022

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has announced that a team of professors from the School of Computer Science (SCS) and the Heinz College of Information Systems, Public Policy and Management has received one of 14 Future of Work grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation.

SCS Team Wins Meta Award for Work To Lower Financial, Environmental Costs of AI

by Kayla Papakie | Monday, November 21, 2022

A School of Computer Science team won a 2022 AI4AI Meta Research Award for their work to reduce the cost of artificial intelligence techniques that better automate and optimize the computational performance of machine learning systems.

CSD Team Wins Prize for Best Student-Written Paper

by Kayla Papakie | Friday, November 4, 2022

A Computer Science Department team received the George Nicholson Prize in Operations Research, which recognizes the best student-written paper at the 2022 Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) annual meeting.

Measuring Internet resilience in Ukraine

When Carnegie Mellon master’s students Akshath Jain, Deepayan Patra, and Mike Xu reached out to Department of Computer Science associate professor Justine Sherry, asking to take her doctoral level “Computer Networks” course, they never imagined they would end up presenting their course project at the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) in France.

Pawn to Queen Four: CMU Celebrates 50 Years of Speech Research

by Aaron Aupperlee | Friday, October 28, 2022

Talking to computers is the norm these days, from digital assistants in smartphones and smart devices to translation applications that break down language barriers. But 50 years ago, when Carnegie Mellon University began its work in speech understanding, all that was a pipe dream.

The university recently gathered to celebrate five decades of research that enables people to talk to computers and — more importantly — computers to understand their speech at the P2Q4 Symposium.

Visualization Tool Helps Law Enforcement Identify Human Trafficking

by Aaron Aupperlee | Tuesday, October 25, 2022

A data visualization tool developed by School of Computer Science researchers, collaborators from other universities and experts in the field could assist law enforcement agencies working to combat human trafficking by identifying patterns in online escort advertisements that often indicate illegal activity.

Award-winning research paves the way for provably-safe sandboxing using WebAssembly

"This is code downloaded from the internet. Are you sure you want to run it?"

In today's computer programming landscape, developers often face the challenge of safely using untrusted code. Libraries and frameworks, for example, help coders skip large amounts of tedious and duplicative work, but using code from unverified sources can become hazardous without the right safeguards in place.

Carnegie Mellon's hacking team wins DEF CON CTF

Carnegie Mellon showed off its computer security talent by winning DEF CON's Capture the Flag competition, the “Superbowl of hacking,” for the sixth time. The team was composed of CMU students in the Plaid Parliament of Pwning, who joined forces with CMU Alum Professor Robert Xiao’s Maple Bacon (at the University of British Columbia) and CMU Alum startup Theori.io.

SCS Faculty Receive More Than $1.6M in NSF CAREER Awards

by Full Stack Engineer - Technology for Effective and Efficient Learning (TEEL) Lab | Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Three Carnegie Mellon University researchers in the School of Computer Science recently earned Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) awards from the National Science Foundation. The awards are the foundation's most prestigious for young faculty researchers.