Latest News Fellowship Advances Women in Cybersecurity Elite hacker Carolina Zarate was named this year’s EWF INI Fellow by | Wednesday, December 5, 2018 While women make up just 24 percent of the cybersecurity workforce, Carnegie Mellon University and its Information Networking Institute is closing the gender gap one student at a time. Read More Three SCS Faculty Members Named 2019 IEEE Fellows by | Wednesday, December 5, 2018 Three School of Computer Science faculty members — Venkatesan Guruswami, Mor Harchol-Balter and Eric Xing — have been elevated to fellows in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world's largest technical professional organization. Fellow status is a distinction reserved for select members who have demonstrated extraordinary accomplishments in an IEEE field of interest. Read More Hodgins Named 2018 ACM Fellow by | Wednesday, December 5, 2018 The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named Jessica Hodgins, professor of robotics and computer science, one of 56 new ACM fellows honored for their significant contributions to computer science. Hodgins, who leads the Facebook AI Research lab in Pittsburgh in addition to her faculty duties, was cited by the ACM for her contributions to character animation, human simulation and humanoid robotics. Read More SCS Master's Student Named Schwarzman Scholar by | Monday, December 3, 2018 School of Computer Science master's student Hima Tammineedi has been named to the 2020 class of Schwarzman Scholars, a highly competitive graduate fellowship inspired by the Rhodes Scholarships that features one year of study at Tsinghua University in China. Read More Bajpai, Wang Earn Stehlik Scholarships by | Wednesday, November 21, 2018 The School of Computer Science has named current seniors Tanvi Bajpai and Serena Wang the recipients of its 2018 Mark Stehlik SCS Alumni Undergraduate Impact Scholarship. The award, now in its fourth year, recognizes undergraduate students for their commitment and dedication both in and beyond the classroom. Bajpai and Wang have made noteworthy contributions both to SCS and the computer science field in general. And they both plan to continue doing so after graduation. Read More 5 Questions for Doug Fritz BFA & BS ’07 by | Tuesday, November 20, 2018 “5 Questions” is a series by the School of Art that asks alumni who are transforming art, culture, and technology about their current work and time at Carnegie Mellon.Doug Fritz is a creative technologist with a keen interest in systems architecture and a passion for using technology to solve pressing real-world challenges. Read More Carnegie Mellon University, Microsoft Join Forces to Advance Edge Computing Research by | Wednesday, November 14, 2018 Carnegie Mellon University today announced it will collaborate with Microsoft on a joint effort to innovate in edge computing, an exciting field of research for intensive computing applications that require rapid response times in remote and low-connectivity environments. By bringing artificial intelligence to the "edge," devices such as connected vehicles, drones or factory equipment can quickly learn and respond to their environments, which is critical to scenarios like search and rescue, disaster recovery, and safety. Read More Sandholm, Brown To Receive Minsky Medal The Duo's Libratus AI Program Was the First To Beat Top No-Limit Poker Professionals by | Tuesday, November 6, 2018 Computer Science Professor Tuomas Sandholm and Noam Brown, a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department, are the second-ever recipients of the prestigious Marvin Minsky Medal, which will be presented by the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) in recognition of their outstanding achievements in AI. Read More Researchers Reinvent the Wheel for Vehicles of the Future Shape-Shifting Tires, Digital Driving Assistants Could Enable Safe Driving Over All Kinds of Terrain by | Monday, October 29, 2018 Wheels that transform into tracks on the fly and a digital assistant that helps drivers find the safest, surest route across steep terrain — or even does the driving at times — are technologies that could change expectations of what vehicles can do. Read More SCS Sophomores Share Their CMU Firsts: Semesters, Years and Experiences by | Monday, October 22, 2018 When we last spoke to School of Computer Science students Trevor Arashiro, Chris Choi, Lauren Morgenthaler, and Peter Wu, they were first-years, entirely new to the undergraduate computer science program, the city of Pittsburgh, and most importantly, college. Last fall, these talented students provided insightful snapshots of their first semesters in the School of Computer Science. Now — with a year of college under their belts — they're back with more.Trevor Arashiro Read More Blum, Reddy Will Present Keynote Lectures at Microsoft Asia Event by | Thursday, October 18, 2018 Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science Lenore Blum, and University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics Raj Reddy will be keynote speakers at the Computing in the 21st Century Conference, Nov. 6–7, in Beijing. Read More Sherry Named Rising Star in Computer Networking, Communications by | Tuesday, October 16, 2018 Justine Sherry, assistant professor in the Computer Science Department, is among 10 researchers chosen as this year's N²Women Rising Stars in Computer Networking and Communications. Read More Crane Receives Packard Fellowship by | Monday, October 15, 2018 The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has announced that Keenan Crane, assistant professor of computer science and robotics, is one of 18 recipients of its 2018 Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering. The fellowship recognizes innovative early-career researchers and includes $875,000 to aid in each fellow's research for five years. Read More Lights, Camera, Science! SCS Sophomore Abraham Riedel-Mishaan Featured in "Science Fair" Documentary by | Wednesday, October 10, 2018 Abraham Riedel-Mishaan seems an unlikely movie star. He's not an actor. No one stops the sophomore computer science major on the Carnegie Mellon University campus to ask for autographs. But he is featured in "Science Fair," a film festival darling now showing nationwide. Read More Mitchell Named CMU's Interim Dean of School of Computer Science AI and Machine Learning Pioneer To Lead Nation's Top-Ranked Program by | Monday, October 1, 2018 Carnegie Mellon University has named Tom Mitchell, the E. Fredkin University Professor of Machine Learning and Computer Science, interim dean of the School of Computer Science. Read More Education App Uses Photos To Help People Form Proper Sentences CMU Design for America Project Assists People With Language Deficits by | Wednesday, September 19, 2018 Students in the Carnegie Mellon University chapter of Design for America (DFA @ CMU) have developed a free mobile app that uses visual cues to help children and adults — particularly those with language difficulties — form meaningful, grammatically correct sentences. The education app, called Sentence Mosaics, uses photos and color-coded parts of speech to prompt users as they construct sentences. Read More Von Ahn Wins 2018 Lemelson-MIT Prize for Invention by | Wednesday, September 12, 2018 School of Computer Science alumnus Luis von Ahn, who is a consulting professor in the Computer Science Department (CSD) and the co-founder of the popular language-learning platform Duolingo, has won the prestigious 2018 Lemelson-MIT Prize — a $500,000 award that honors mid-career inventors. Read More Carnegie Mellon Joins Meltwater To Advance Data Science New AI Platform Will Help Students, Researchers Rapidly Solve Real-World Problems by | Tuesday, August 14, 2018 Students and faculty at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science are collaborating with the digital media intelligence firm Meltwater to advance the state of the art in artificial intelligence education and research using the company's AI platform. Read More From high school hacker to DefCon champ SCS’s Zach Wade and PPP teammates seek to shatter DefCon records by | Wednesday, August 8, 2018 While many kids dream of a shopping spree at their favorite toy store or the local candy shop, Zach Wade's preference was a bit uncommon for a youngster: RadioShack. ''I had a RadioShack kit that had bajillions of components, and I kept hand-drawn books on how to connect circuits and how to build stuff,'' says Wade, now a fourth-year undergraduate in the School of Computer Science. ''That kit was my absolute favorite. I spent hours and hours playing with that.'' Read More How a Computer Learns To Dribble: Practice, Practice, Practice Deep Reinforcement Learning Makes Basketball Video Games Look More Realistic by | Tuesday, August 7, 2018 Basketball players need lots of practice before they master the dribble, and it turns out that's true for computer-animated players as well. By using deep reinforcement learning, players in basketball video games can glean insights from motion-capture data to sharpen their dribbling skills. Read More Hodgins, Gupta Join Facebook AI Research by | Tuesday, July 17, 2018 Carnegie Mellon University's Jessica Hodgins will lead a newly established Facebook AI Research (FAIR) lab in Pittsburgh, where she will be joined by CMU's Abhinav Gupta. The appointments are part of an expansion of Facebook's artificial intelligence research activities with academic communities. Read More Summer 2018 Issue by | Wednesday, July 11, 2018 Download the Summer 2018 issue. (PDF reader required.) Read More SCS Faculty Receive NSF CAREER Awards by | Friday, July 6, 2018 Bernhard Haeupler, Louis-Philippe Morency and Jean Yang are the latest School of Computer Science faculty members to receive the National Science Foundation’s prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award. They are among 307 CAREER recipients this year in computer science and engineering in which the NSF has invested $150 million over the next five years, placing their academic careers on firm scientific footing and giving them the opportunity to serve as academic role models in research and education. Read More Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence, Carnegie Mellon Partner To Accelerate AI Research SCS Professor Zico Kolter Will Join Bosch as Chief Scientist of AI, Remain on Faculty by | Wednesday, June 27, 2018 Bosch in North America today announced the launch of the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI) Research Lab in Pittsburgh, which will be the BCAI's fourth location. The lab will conduct advanced research in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The new location is the next step in BCAI's mission to partner with leading institutions around the world to jointly accelerate AI research. Bosch plans to build a team of up to 20 AI experts at Bosch's Pittsburgh Technology Center by the end of 2019. Read More "No Assembly Required" for CMU Students, Faculty at Science Friday's Pittsburgh Show by | Wednesday, May 23, 2018 Robots who converse, provide empathy and play music were among the reasons NPR's "Science Friday" visited the Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall on Saturday, May 19, to build a show about Pittsburgh scientists and roboticists. The special live event had the theme "No Assembly Required," and included interviews with Carnegie Mellon University faculty and students. 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Fellowship Advances Women in Cybersecurity Elite hacker Carolina Zarate was named this year’s EWF INI Fellow by | Wednesday, December 5, 2018 While women make up just 24 percent of the cybersecurity workforce, Carnegie Mellon University and its Information Networking Institute is closing the gender gap one student at a time. Read More
Three SCS Faculty Members Named 2019 IEEE Fellows by | Wednesday, December 5, 2018 Three School of Computer Science faculty members — Venkatesan Guruswami, Mor Harchol-Balter and Eric Xing — have been elevated to fellows in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world's largest technical professional organization. Fellow status is a distinction reserved for select members who have demonstrated extraordinary accomplishments in an IEEE field of interest. Read More
Hodgins Named 2018 ACM Fellow by | Wednesday, December 5, 2018 The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named Jessica Hodgins, professor of robotics and computer science, one of 56 new ACM fellows honored for their significant contributions to computer science. Hodgins, who leads the Facebook AI Research lab in Pittsburgh in addition to her faculty duties, was cited by the ACM for her contributions to character animation, human simulation and humanoid robotics. Read More
SCS Master's Student Named Schwarzman Scholar by | Monday, December 3, 2018 School of Computer Science master's student Hima Tammineedi has been named to the 2020 class of Schwarzman Scholars, a highly competitive graduate fellowship inspired by the Rhodes Scholarships that features one year of study at Tsinghua University in China. Read More
Bajpai, Wang Earn Stehlik Scholarships by | Wednesday, November 21, 2018 The School of Computer Science has named current seniors Tanvi Bajpai and Serena Wang the recipients of its 2018 Mark Stehlik SCS Alumni Undergraduate Impact Scholarship. The award, now in its fourth year, recognizes undergraduate students for their commitment and dedication both in and beyond the classroom. Bajpai and Wang have made noteworthy contributions both to SCS and the computer science field in general. And they both plan to continue doing so after graduation. Read More
5 Questions for Doug Fritz BFA & BS ’07 by | Tuesday, November 20, 2018 “5 Questions” is a series by the School of Art that asks alumni who are transforming art, culture, and technology about their current work and time at Carnegie Mellon.Doug Fritz is a creative technologist with a keen interest in systems architecture and a passion for using technology to solve pressing real-world challenges. Read More
Carnegie Mellon University, Microsoft Join Forces to Advance Edge Computing Research by | Wednesday, November 14, 2018 Carnegie Mellon University today announced it will collaborate with Microsoft on a joint effort to innovate in edge computing, an exciting field of research for intensive computing applications that require rapid response times in remote and low-connectivity environments. By bringing artificial intelligence to the "edge," devices such as connected vehicles, drones or factory equipment can quickly learn and respond to their environments, which is critical to scenarios like search and rescue, disaster recovery, and safety. Read More
Sandholm, Brown To Receive Minsky Medal The Duo's Libratus AI Program Was the First To Beat Top No-Limit Poker Professionals by | Tuesday, November 6, 2018 Computer Science Professor Tuomas Sandholm and Noam Brown, a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department, are the second-ever recipients of the prestigious Marvin Minsky Medal, which will be presented by the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) in recognition of their outstanding achievements in AI. Read More
Researchers Reinvent the Wheel for Vehicles of the Future Shape-Shifting Tires, Digital Driving Assistants Could Enable Safe Driving Over All Kinds of Terrain by | Monday, October 29, 2018 Wheels that transform into tracks on the fly and a digital assistant that helps drivers find the safest, surest route across steep terrain — or even does the driving at times — are technologies that could change expectations of what vehicles can do. Read More
SCS Sophomores Share Their CMU Firsts: Semesters, Years and Experiences by | Monday, October 22, 2018 When we last spoke to School of Computer Science students Trevor Arashiro, Chris Choi, Lauren Morgenthaler, and Peter Wu, they were first-years, entirely new to the undergraduate computer science program, the city of Pittsburgh, and most importantly, college. Last fall, these talented students provided insightful snapshots of their first semesters in the School of Computer Science. Now — with a year of college under their belts — they're back with more.Trevor Arashiro Read More
Blum, Reddy Will Present Keynote Lectures at Microsoft Asia Event by | Thursday, October 18, 2018 Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science Lenore Blum, and University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics Raj Reddy will be keynote speakers at the Computing in the 21st Century Conference, Nov. 6–7, in Beijing. Read More
Sherry Named Rising Star in Computer Networking, Communications by | Tuesday, October 16, 2018 Justine Sherry, assistant professor in the Computer Science Department, is among 10 researchers chosen as this year's N²Women Rising Stars in Computer Networking and Communications. Read More
Crane Receives Packard Fellowship by | Monday, October 15, 2018 The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has announced that Keenan Crane, assistant professor of computer science and robotics, is one of 18 recipients of its 2018 Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering. The fellowship recognizes innovative early-career researchers and includes $875,000 to aid in each fellow's research for five years. Read More
Lights, Camera, Science! SCS Sophomore Abraham Riedel-Mishaan Featured in "Science Fair" Documentary by | Wednesday, October 10, 2018 Abraham Riedel-Mishaan seems an unlikely movie star. He's not an actor. No one stops the sophomore computer science major on the Carnegie Mellon University campus to ask for autographs. But he is featured in "Science Fair," a film festival darling now showing nationwide. Read More
Mitchell Named CMU's Interim Dean of School of Computer Science AI and Machine Learning Pioneer To Lead Nation's Top-Ranked Program by | Monday, October 1, 2018 Carnegie Mellon University has named Tom Mitchell, the E. Fredkin University Professor of Machine Learning and Computer Science, interim dean of the School of Computer Science. Read More
Education App Uses Photos To Help People Form Proper Sentences CMU Design for America Project Assists People With Language Deficits by | Wednesday, September 19, 2018 Students in the Carnegie Mellon University chapter of Design for America (DFA @ CMU) have developed a free mobile app that uses visual cues to help children and adults — particularly those with language difficulties — form meaningful, grammatically correct sentences. The education app, called Sentence Mosaics, uses photos and color-coded parts of speech to prompt users as they construct sentences. Read More
Von Ahn Wins 2018 Lemelson-MIT Prize for Invention by | Wednesday, September 12, 2018 School of Computer Science alumnus Luis von Ahn, who is a consulting professor in the Computer Science Department (CSD) and the co-founder of the popular language-learning platform Duolingo, has won the prestigious 2018 Lemelson-MIT Prize — a $500,000 award that honors mid-career inventors. Read More
Carnegie Mellon Joins Meltwater To Advance Data Science New AI Platform Will Help Students, Researchers Rapidly Solve Real-World Problems by | Tuesday, August 14, 2018 Students and faculty at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science are collaborating with the digital media intelligence firm Meltwater to advance the state of the art in artificial intelligence education and research using the company's AI platform. Read More
From high school hacker to DefCon champ SCS’s Zach Wade and PPP teammates seek to shatter DefCon records by | Wednesday, August 8, 2018 While many kids dream of a shopping spree at their favorite toy store or the local candy shop, Zach Wade's preference was a bit uncommon for a youngster: RadioShack. ''I had a RadioShack kit that had bajillions of components, and I kept hand-drawn books on how to connect circuits and how to build stuff,'' says Wade, now a fourth-year undergraduate in the School of Computer Science. ''That kit was my absolute favorite. I spent hours and hours playing with that.'' Read More
How a Computer Learns To Dribble: Practice, Practice, Practice Deep Reinforcement Learning Makes Basketball Video Games Look More Realistic by | Tuesday, August 7, 2018 Basketball players need lots of practice before they master the dribble, and it turns out that's true for computer-animated players as well. By using deep reinforcement learning, players in basketball video games can glean insights from motion-capture data to sharpen their dribbling skills. Read More
Hodgins, Gupta Join Facebook AI Research by | Tuesday, July 17, 2018 Carnegie Mellon University's Jessica Hodgins will lead a newly established Facebook AI Research (FAIR) lab in Pittsburgh, where she will be joined by CMU's Abhinav Gupta. The appointments are part of an expansion of Facebook's artificial intelligence research activities with academic communities. Read More
Summer 2018 Issue by | Wednesday, July 11, 2018 Download the Summer 2018 issue. (PDF reader required.) Read More
SCS Faculty Receive NSF CAREER Awards by | Friday, July 6, 2018 Bernhard Haeupler, Louis-Philippe Morency and Jean Yang are the latest School of Computer Science faculty members to receive the National Science Foundation’s prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award. They are among 307 CAREER recipients this year in computer science and engineering in which the NSF has invested $150 million over the next five years, placing their academic careers on firm scientific footing and giving them the opportunity to serve as academic role models in research and education. Read More
Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence, Carnegie Mellon Partner To Accelerate AI Research SCS Professor Zico Kolter Will Join Bosch as Chief Scientist of AI, Remain on Faculty by | Wednesday, June 27, 2018 Bosch in North America today announced the launch of the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI) Research Lab in Pittsburgh, which will be the BCAI's fourth location. The lab will conduct advanced research in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The new location is the next step in BCAI's mission to partner with leading institutions around the world to jointly accelerate AI research. Bosch plans to build a team of up to 20 AI experts at Bosch's Pittsburgh Technology Center by the end of 2019. Read More
"No Assembly Required" for CMU Students, Faculty at Science Friday's Pittsburgh Show by | Wednesday, May 23, 2018 Robots who converse, provide empathy and play music were among the reasons NPR's "Science Friday" visited the Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall on Saturday, May 19, to build a show about Pittsburgh scientists and roboticists. The special live event had the theme "No Assembly Required," and included interviews with Carnegie Mellon University faculty and students. Read More
