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Dunietz Receives AAAS Mass Media Fellowship

by Byron Spice | Monday, June 5, 2017

Jesse Dunietz, a Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Science Department, will spend 10 weeks this summer at the New York offices of Scientific American magazine as an American Association for the Advancement of Science Mass Media fellow.

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Shaw, Garlan Receive IEEE Software Engineering Awards

by Joshua Quicksall and Byron Spice | Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Institute for Software Research (ISR) professors Mary Shaw and David Garlan will receive IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE) awards at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), May 20–28 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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ACM Honors Satya, Colleagues for Andrew File System

CMU Created First Distributed File System in 1980s

by Byron Spice | Wednesday, May 3, 2017

The Association for Computing Machinery has named the developers of Carnegie Mellon University's pioneering Andrew File System (AFS) the recipients of its prestigious 2016 Software System Award.

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Shaw Earns University's Highest Education Honor

by Susie Cribbs | Monday, April 24, 2017

Mary Shaw joined the Carnegie Mellon University faculty after she completed her Ph.D. at the university in 1972. Since then, she's designed computer science curricula at all university levels, established software architecture as a recognized discipline, and served as chief scientist of CMU's Software Engineering Institute and associate dean for professional education.

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Carnegie Mellon Advances Cloud's Capacity for Video Analytics

Research With Intel Addresses Rapidly Growing Volume of Online Video

by Byron Spice | Sunday, April 23, 2017

Carnegie Mellon University is leading a research effort sponsored by the Intel Corporation that will enable cloud-based services to process a rapidly increasing volume of online video and put new analytics and immersive technologies within reach of consumers, businesses and public officials.

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Project Olympus Hosts Spring Carnival "Show and Tell"

Research, Startups Take Center Stage in McConomy Auditorium

by Byron Spice | Friday, April 14, 2017

The Project Olympus innovation program will host its annual Spring Carnival Show and Tell event, highlighting research and startups of interest to the investment community, from 4:30 to 6 p.m., Thursday, April 20, in the Cohon University Center's McConomy Auditorium.

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Carnegie Mellon AI Beats Chinese Poker Players

Lengpudashi Tops Humans by $792,327 in Virtual Chips During Five-Day Exhibition

by Byron Spice | Monday, April 10, 2017

Artificial intelligence has once again triumphed over human poker players, as a program developed by Carnegie Mellon University researchers beat six Chinese players by a total of $792,327 in virtual chips during a five-day, 36,000-hand exhibition that ended today in Hainan, China.

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Carnegie Mellon AI Takes On Chinese Poker Players

China Exhibition Includes $290,000 Winner-Take-All Prize

by Byron Spice | Wednesday, April 5, 2017

A version of Carnegie Mellon University's Libratus, which in January became the first artificial intelligence to defeat top poker pros at Heads-Up, No-Limit Texas Hold'em, will play six top Chinese players for a $290,000 winner-take-all purse.

The 36,000-hand exhibition featuring a different AI, named Lengpudashi or "cold poker master," will take place April 6–10 on the island province of Hainan, China.

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Carnegie Mellon Makes Strong Showing at Global CodeCon Finals

by Aisha Rashid | Thursday, March 23, 2017

Two Carnegie Mellon University students outcoded more than a hundred of their peers at the 2017 Global CodeCon Finals — a two-hour long coding competition at Bloomberg's offices in New York City and London. Raymond Kang, a junior studying computer science and mathematical sciences, earned ninth place; and Gabriele Farina, a Ph.D. student in computer science, came in 13th.

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Blum To Participate on Panel in DC

by Byron Spice | Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Lenore Blum will join a panel, "Mothers of Invention: Celebrating Women Innovators," hosted by the Congressional Inventions Caucus on Wednesday, March 22, in Washington, D.C.  Blum will speak about Project Olympus and Women@SCS and the roles they play in increasing the participation of women in computer science and entrepreneurship.

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SCS Undergrads Named KPCB Fellows

by Aisha Rashid | Tuesday, March 21, 2017

The Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers (KPCB) Fellowship Program has announced that two School of Computer Science undergraduates are among the fellows in its 2017 Engineering Fellows Program.  

Allison Wang and Serena Wang are among 54 students selected from almost 2,000 applicants across the country to represent their universities this summer in Silicon Valley. The three-month summer program helps fellows develop their technical and design skills under the mentorship of innovative Silicon Valley startups.

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Frieze Honored for Increasing Diversity in Computer Science

CMU's Director of Women@SCS and SCS4ALL Will Receive 2017 Habermann Award

by Byron Spice | Tuesday, March 7, 2017

The Computing Research Association has selected Carnegie Mellon University's Carol Frieze as the recipient of its 2017 A. Nico Habermann Award, recognizing her sustained, successful efforts to promote diversity in computer science.

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Kanade Will Receive IEEE Founder's Medal

High Honor Recognizes Leadership in Computer Vision and Robotics

by Byron Spice | Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Takeo Kanade, Carnegie Mellon University's U. A. and Helen Whitaker Professor of Robotics and Computer Science, has been named the 2017 recipient of the IEEE Founder's Medal — one of IEEE's highest honors.

The medal, which will be presented at the annual IEEE Honors Ceremony on Thursday, May 25, in San Francisco, recognizes Kanade "for pioneering and seminal contributions to computer vision and robotics for automotive safety, facial recognition, virtual reality and medical robotics."

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Libratus Making Headlines in Wake of Historic Poker Win

CMU AI Becomes First to Defeat Top Pros Playing No-Limit Texas Hold'em

by Byron Spice | Monday, February 6, 2017

"A major milestone for AI."

"A powerful and rather unsettling proposition: a machine that can out-bluff a human."

"Libratus's main attribute as a poker player is that it's inhumanly good."

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Carnegie Mellon Artificial Intelligence Beats Top Poker Pros

Historic Win at Rivers Casino Is First Against Best Human Players

by Byron Spice | Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Libratus, an artificial intelligence developed by Carnegie Mellon University, made history by defeating four of the world's best professional poker players in a marathon 20-day poker competition called "Brains vs. Artificial Intelligence: Upping the Ante" at Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh.

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Poker Pros, Sandholm Discuss Brains vs. AI in New Video

by Susie Cribbs | Thursday, January 26, 2017

With more than half the competition in the rearview mirror, Carnegie Mellon University's AI program Libratus has built up a substantial lead against four top poker professionals in Brains vs. Artificial Intelligence: Upping the Ante.

In our latest video, Computer Science Professor Tuomas Sandholm and two of the poker professionals reflect on the competition to date and what it means for the future of artificial intelligence.

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Pennington, Stehlik Among Alumni Award Honorees

by Aisha Rashid | Wednesday, January 25, 2017

The Carnegie Mellon Alumni Association annually recognizes alumni, students and faculty for their service to the university and their achievements in the arts, humanities, business and other fields. Since the first Alumni Awards were presented in 1950, more than 880 individuals have been honored through the program. 

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CMU AI Is Tough Poker Player

Libratus Builds Substantial Lead in Brains Vs. AI Competition

by Byron Spice (Carnegie Mellon) and Garrett Allen (Rivers Casino) | Friday, January 20, 2017

As the "Brains vs. Artificial Intelligence: Upping the Ante" poker competition nears its halfway point, Carnegie Mellon University's AI program, Libratus, is opening a lead over its human opponents — four of the world's best professional poker players.

One of the pros, Jimmy Chou, said he and his colleagues initially underestimated Libratus, but have come to regard it as one tough player.

"The bot gets better and better every day," Chou said. "It's like a tougher version of us."

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Computer Chess Pioneer Hans Berliner Dies at 87

by Byron Spice | Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Former SCS faculty member Hans Berliner, a world champion correspondence chess player who built the first game-playing computer ever to defeat a human champion at any game, died Jan. 13 in Riviera Beach, Fla. He was 87.

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Poker Play Begins in "Brains Vs. AI: Upping the Ante"

Top Pros Will Play 120,000 Hands With Libratus AI

by Byron Spice | Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Game play began on schedule on Wednesday, Jan. 11, for "Brains Vs. Artificial Intelligence: Upping the Ante," a competition at Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh that pits a Carnegie Mellon University artificial intelligence called Libratus against four of the world's best professional poker players.

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Humphrey, Chen Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Lists

by Byron Spice | Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Happy New Year: Forbes magazine has released its 30 Under 30 listings for 2017 and SCS alumni Matt Humphrey and Xi Chen are among those so honored. Humphrey, who earned a bachelor's degree in computer science as well as an MBA at CMU, is a serial entrepreneur who founded LendingHome, which provides funds to unconventional borrowers; he was named to the 30 Under 30 Finance list.

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Upping the Ante: Top Poker Pros Face Off vs. Artificial Intelligence

20-Day Contest at Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh Begins Jan. 11

by Byron Spice | Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Four of the world’s best professional poker players will compete against artificial intelligence developed by Carnegie Mellon University in an epic rematch to determine whether a computer can beat humans playing one of the world’s toughest poker games. 

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CMU Team Takes First Place in 2016 Facebook Global Hackathon

by Aisha Rashid and Susie Cribbs | Thursday, December 15, 2016

When Facebook launched its Live video service last year, the social media giant's 1.5 billion global users began living their lives as if they had TV cameras in their back pockets. A team of Carnegie Mellon University students and alumni recently harnessed the power of the Live system to take first place in the 2016 Facebook Global Hackathon.

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Carnegie Mellon Launches Flu Forecasting for 2016-2017 Season

Is Artificial Intelligence Superior to Wisdom of Crowds?

by Byron Spice | Friday, December 9, 2016

Computer scientists and statisticians at Carnegie Mellon University are using both artificial intelligence and the wisdom of crowds to guide their efforts in forecasting 2016-2017 flu activity. Past experience suggests it remains an open question as to which is better at predicting the disease's spread week by week.

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