Latest News Humphrey, Chen Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Lists by | 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. Read More Upping the Ante: Top Poker Pros Face Off vs. Artificial Intelligence 20-Day Contest at Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh Begins Jan. 11 by | 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. Read More CMU Team Takes First Place in 2016 Facebook Global Hackathon by | 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. Read More Carnegie Mellon Launches Flu Forecasting for 2016-2017 Season Is Artificial Intelligence Superior to Wisdom of Crowds? by | 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. Read More Three SCS Faculty Members Named ACM Fellows by | Thursday, December 8, 2016 Three School of Computer Science faculty members — Justine Cassell, Manuela Veloso and Todd Mowry — have been named Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) fellows for 2016 in recognition of their contributions to human-computer interaction, computer architecture and artificial intelligence, respectively. They are among 53 members of the ACM, the world's leading computing society, elevated to fellow status this year. Read More "La Mare dels Peixos" Premieres in Spain Dec. 16 by | Wednesday, December 7, 2016 The world premiere of "La Mare dels Peixos" (Mother Fish), a one-act opera co-written by Roger Dannenberg, professor of computer science, and Jorge Sastre, professor at the Polytechnic University of Valencia and former visiting researcher at CMU, will be held Friday, Dec. 16, in Valencia, Spain. The opera, based on an old Valencian folktale about how a magical fish changes a family's fortunes, includes computer and electronic elements. Read More Researchers Seek Solution to Selfie-Related Deaths Dangerous Selfie Shots Have Become Worldwide Phenomenon by | Tuesday, November 22, 2016 People love to take selfies, but it's a love that can prove fatal. A growing number of people die each year while snapping photos of themselves on cliffs, on railroad tracks and other hazardous spots. Researchers in Pittsburgh and in India are looking for ways to reduce this risk. Read More Veloso Featured on The Verge by | Monday, November 14, 2016 The Verge technology and culture site is celebrating its fifth anniversary in November by looking at what's in store for the next five years, based on interviews with opinion leaders, such as Manuela Veloso, head of SCS's Machine Learning Department. Read Veloso's "The Verge 2021" interview and watch the accompanying video to get her insights on why humanity and artificial intelligence will be inseparable. Read More Kanade Receives 2016 Kyoto Prize for Advanced Technology by | Thursday, November 10, 2016 Takeo Kanade, the U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Professor of Robotics and Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, received the prestigious 2016 Kyoto Prize for Advanced Technology on Wednesday, Nov. 10, in a ceremony in Kyoto, Japan. Read More RoboVote Helps Groups Make Decisions Using AI-Driven Methods Carnegie Mellon, Harvard Researchers Offer Free Online Service by | Monday, November 7, 2016 A contentious presidential election can raise questions about whether the voting system produces the best possible candidates. While nothing is going to change the way Americans vote, a new online service, RoboVote.org, enables anyone to use state-of-the-art voting methods to make optimal group decisions. Read More Lenore and Manuel Blum to Present Distinguished Lectures at Georgia Tech School of Computer Science by | Wednesday, October 26, 2016 Annual IMlay LectureLenore Blum, Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science, will present the Annual Imlay Lecture at Georgia Tech School of Computer Science on Thursday, October 27, 2016. Read More Four SCS Students Named ACS Scholars by | Monday, October 17, 2016 Four School of Computer Science seniors have been named ACS Scholars by Carnegie Mellon University's Andrew Carnegie Society. Kimberly Kleiven, Ananya Kumar, Benjamin Lichtman and Ariana Weinstock join 36 students from across the university honored for embodying CMU's high standards of academic excellence, volunteerism, leadership and involvement in student organizations, athletics or the arts. Read More Carnegie Mellon Featured on CBS's "60 Minutes" SCS Dean Andrew Moore Discusses Impact of AI With Charlie Rose by | Friday, October 7, 2016 When CBS's "60 Minutes" decided to do a two-part report on the state of artificial intelligence, they came to Pittsburgh to see the state of the art and talk with SCS Dean Andrew Moore about where AI is taking humankind. That report, by correspondent Charlie Rose, aired on Oct. 9. Read More Shaw To Receive Stibitz Computer Pioneer Award Honored for Contributions to Software Engineering and Computer Science Education by | Monday, October 3, 2016 Mary Shaw, the Alan J. Perlis University Professor of Computer Science, will receive the annual George R. Stibitz Computer and Communications Pioneer Award on Friday, Oct. 7, at the American Computer and Robotics Museum in Bozeman, Mont. Read More Six Students With SCS Ties Recognized as Siebel Scholars by | Monday, September 19, 2016 The Siebel Scholars Foundation, a program recognizing exceptional students in the world's leading graduate schools of business, computer science, bioengineering and energy science, has named six Carnegie Mellon University graduate students to the 2017 class of Siebel Scholars. Read More Raj Reddy Speaks at Heidelberg Forum by | Monday, September 19, 2016 Raj Reddy, the Moza Bint Nasser University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, will be among the distinguished researchers speaking this week at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, Sept. 18–23, in Heidelberg, Germany.Reddy will present his talk, "Too Much Information and Too Little Time," on Thursday, Sept. 22. Talks are being streamed live and are available later for playback. Read More Women Are Almost Half of Carnegie Mellon's Incoming Computer Science Undergraduates Achievement Caps Decades of Effort to Increase Gender Diversity by | Sunday, September 11, 2016 Women make up more than 48 percent of incoming first-year undergraduates this fall in Carnegie Mellon University's top-ranked School of Computer Science (SCS), setting a new school benchmark for diversity.SCS has long been a national leader in increasing the participation of women in computer science, a discipline in which women have been significantly underrepresented nationwide. Read More CMU Algorithm Detects Online Fraudsters Method Sees Through Camouflage To Reveal Fake Followers, Reviewers by | Wednesday, September 7, 2016 An algorithm developed at Carnegie Mellon University makes it easier to determine if someone has faked an Amazon or Yelp review, or if a politician with a suspiciously large number of Twitter followers might have bought and paid for that popularity. Read More Carnegie Mellon and Tsinghua Universities Renew Dual-Degree Masters Program Agreement Unites Top-Rated U.S. and Chinese Computer Science Programs by | Tuesday, August 30, 2016 Officials of Carnegie Mellon University and Tsinghua University signed a memorandum of understanding today to offer a dual-degree master's program in computer science. Students will study at both campuses, learning from faculty at the top-ranked computer science programs in both the United States and China. Read More Upon Further Consideration, Carnegie Mellon Pokerbot Sweeps Contest by | Monday, August 29, 2016 Everyone knew Carnegie Mellon's latest computer poker program, Baby Tartanian8, was good. But it turns out its performance in the Annual Computer Poker Competition this year was even better than people thought. Read More Jean Yang Named to Prestigious "Innovators Under 35" List New CMU Professor Recognized for Work in Programming by | Monday, August 22, 2016 Jean Yang, who is joining the Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science Department as an assistant professor this fall, has been named to MIT Technology Review's annual list of Innovators Under 35. Read More Computer-Aided Verification Award Honors Reynolds Late Professor Cited for Pioneering Work on Separation Logic by | Wednesday, August 10, 2016 The late John C. Reynolds is one of a group of scientists awarded the 2016 Computer-Aided Verification (CAV) Award for pioneering work on separation logic, an influential framework for reasoning about computer programs and a very active area of research. Read More Carnegie Mellon Wins Third "World Series of Hacking" in Four Years by | Sunday, August 7, 2016 Carnegie Mellon University's competitive computer security team, The Plaid Parliament of Pwning, won its third title in four years at the DefCon Capture the Flag competition. Read More Adding Up How the Brain Does Math Patterns Reveal Four Stages of Thinking That Can Be Used To Improve How Students Learn by | Wednesday, July 20, 2016 A new Carnegie Mellon University neuroimaging study reveals the mental stages people go through as they solve challenging math problems.In the study, which was published in Psychological Science, researchers combined two analytical strategies to use functional magnetic resonance imaging to identify patterns of brain activity that aligned with four distinct stages of problem-solving: encoding, planning, solving and responding. Read More NSF Project Tackles IoT Security by | Wednesday, July 20, 2016 SCS’s Yuvraj Agarwal and Srinivasan Seshan have joined with Vyas Sekar of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department on a National Science Foundation-funded project to develop a software-based solution to the problem of security for the Internet of Things. Read More Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹‹ … Page 14 Page 15 Current page 16 Page 17 Page 18 … Next page ›› Last page Last » Subscribe to News About Events News Key Contacts History Sitemap Employment Marketing & Communications Visit Carnegie Mellon Give CSD News RSS Feed CSD in the WorldWired: This New Algorithm for Sorting Books or Files Is Close to PerfectionThe Atlantic: Can We Align Language Models With Human Values?NEXTpittsburgh: CMU's Zico Kolter shapes new paths for AI safety and security The Link: Not Just Available, But Accessible Bringing CMU CS Academy into the Spanish LanguageNY Times: A.I. 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Humphrey, Chen Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Lists by | 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. Read More
Upping the Ante: Top Poker Pros Face Off vs. Artificial Intelligence 20-Day Contest at Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh Begins Jan. 11 by | 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. Read More
CMU Team Takes First Place in 2016 Facebook Global Hackathon by | 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. Read More
Carnegie Mellon Launches Flu Forecasting for 2016-2017 Season Is Artificial Intelligence Superior to Wisdom of Crowds? by | 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. Read More
Three SCS Faculty Members Named ACM Fellows by | Thursday, December 8, 2016 Three School of Computer Science faculty members — Justine Cassell, Manuela Veloso and Todd Mowry — have been named Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) fellows for 2016 in recognition of their contributions to human-computer interaction, computer architecture and artificial intelligence, respectively. They are among 53 members of the ACM, the world's leading computing society, elevated to fellow status this year. Read More
"La Mare dels Peixos" Premieres in Spain Dec. 16 by | Wednesday, December 7, 2016 The world premiere of "La Mare dels Peixos" (Mother Fish), a one-act opera co-written by Roger Dannenberg, professor of computer science, and Jorge Sastre, professor at the Polytechnic University of Valencia and former visiting researcher at CMU, will be held Friday, Dec. 16, in Valencia, Spain. The opera, based on an old Valencian folktale about how a magical fish changes a family's fortunes, includes computer and electronic elements. Read More
Researchers Seek Solution to Selfie-Related Deaths Dangerous Selfie Shots Have Become Worldwide Phenomenon by | Tuesday, November 22, 2016 People love to take selfies, but it's a love that can prove fatal. A growing number of people die each year while snapping photos of themselves on cliffs, on railroad tracks and other hazardous spots. Researchers in Pittsburgh and in India are looking for ways to reduce this risk. Read More
Veloso Featured on The Verge by | Monday, November 14, 2016 The Verge technology and culture site is celebrating its fifth anniversary in November by looking at what's in store for the next five years, based on interviews with opinion leaders, such as Manuela Veloso, head of SCS's Machine Learning Department. Read Veloso's "The Verge 2021" interview and watch the accompanying video to get her insights on why humanity and artificial intelligence will be inseparable. Read More
Kanade Receives 2016 Kyoto Prize for Advanced Technology by | Thursday, November 10, 2016 Takeo Kanade, the U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Professor of Robotics and Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, received the prestigious 2016 Kyoto Prize for Advanced Technology on Wednesday, Nov. 10, in a ceremony in Kyoto, Japan. Read More
RoboVote Helps Groups Make Decisions Using AI-Driven Methods Carnegie Mellon, Harvard Researchers Offer Free Online Service by | Monday, November 7, 2016 A contentious presidential election can raise questions about whether the voting system produces the best possible candidates. While nothing is going to change the way Americans vote, a new online service, RoboVote.org, enables anyone to use state-of-the-art voting methods to make optimal group decisions. Read More
Lenore and Manuel Blum to Present Distinguished Lectures at Georgia Tech School of Computer Science by | Wednesday, October 26, 2016 Annual IMlay LectureLenore Blum, Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science, will present the Annual Imlay Lecture at Georgia Tech School of Computer Science on Thursday, October 27, 2016. Read More
Four SCS Students Named ACS Scholars by | Monday, October 17, 2016 Four School of Computer Science seniors have been named ACS Scholars by Carnegie Mellon University's Andrew Carnegie Society. Kimberly Kleiven, Ananya Kumar, Benjamin Lichtman and Ariana Weinstock join 36 students from across the university honored for embodying CMU's high standards of academic excellence, volunteerism, leadership and involvement in student organizations, athletics or the arts. Read More
Carnegie Mellon Featured on CBS's "60 Minutes" SCS Dean Andrew Moore Discusses Impact of AI With Charlie Rose by | Friday, October 7, 2016 When CBS's "60 Minutes" decided to do a two-part report on the state of artificial intelligence, they came to Pittsburgh to see the state of the art and talk with SCS Dean Andrew Moore about where AI is taking humankind. That report, by correspondent Charlie Rose, aired on Oct. 9. Read More
Shaw To Receive Stibitz Computer Pioneer Award Honored for Contributions to Software Engineering and Computer Science Education by | Monday, October 3, 2016 Mary Shaw, the Alan J. Perlis University Professor of Computer Science, will receive the annual George R. Stibitz Computer and Communications Pioneer Award on Friday, Oct. 7, at the American Computer and Robotics Museum in Bozeman, Mont. Read More
Six Students With SCS Ties Recognized as Siebel Scholars by | Monday, September 19, 2016 The Siebel Scholars Foundation, a program recognizing exceptional students in the world's leading graduate schools of business, computer science, bioengineering and energy science, has named six Carnegie Mellon University graduate students to the 2017 class of Siebel Scholars. Read More
Raj Reddy Speaks at Heidelberg Forum by | Monday, September 19, 2016 Raj Reddy, the Moza Bint Nasser University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, will be among the distinguished researchers speaking this week at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, Sept. 18–23, in Heidelberg, Germany.Reddy will present his talk, "Too Much Information and Too Little Time," on Thursday, Sept. 22. Talks are being streamed live and are available later for playback. Read More
Women Are Almost Half of Carnegie Mellon's Incoming Computer Science Undergraduates Achievement Caps Decades of Effort to Increase Gender Diversity by | Sunday, September 11, 2016 Women make up more than 48 percent of incoming first-year undergraduates this fall in Carnegie Mellon University's top-ranked School of Computer Science (SCS), setting a new school benchmark for diversity.SCS has long been a national leader in increasing the participation of women in computer science, a discipline in which women have been significantly underrepresented nationwide. Read More
CMU Algorithm Detects Online Fraudsters Method Sees Through Camouflage To Reveal Fake Followers, Reviewers by | Wednesday, September 7, 2016 An algorithm developed at Carnegie Mellon University makes it easier to determine if someone has faked an Amazon or Yelp review, or if a politician with a suspiciously large number of Twitter followers might have bought and paid for that popularity. Read More
Carnegie Mellon and Tsinghua Universities Renew Dual-Degree Masters Program Agreement Unites Top-Rated U.S. and Chinese Computer Science Programs by | Tuesday, August 30, 2016 Officials of Carnegie Mellon University and Tsinghua University signed a memorandum of understanding today to offer a dual-degree master's program in computer science. Students will study at both campuses, learning from faculty at the top-ranked computer science programs in both the United States and China. Read More
Upon Further Consideration, Carnegie Mellon Pokerbot Sweeps Contest by | Monday, August 29, 2016 Everyone knew Carnegie Mellon's latest computer poker program, Baby Tartanian8, was good. But it turns out its performance in the Annual Computer Poker Competition this year was even better than people thought. Read More
Jean Yang Named to Prestigious "Innovators Under 35" List New CMU Professor Recognized for Work in Programming by | Monday, August 22, 2016 Jean Yang, who is joining the Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science Department as an assistant professor this fall, has been named to MIT Technology Review's annual list of Innovators Under 35. Read More
Computer-Aided Verification Award Honors Reynolds Late Professor Cited for Pioneering Work on Separation Logic by | Wednesday, August 10, 2016 The late John C. Reynolds is one of a group of scientists awarded the 2016 Computer-Aided Verification (CAV) Award for pioneering work on separation logic, an influential framework for reasoning about computer programs and a very active area of research. Read More
Carnegie Mellon Wins Third "World Series of Hacking" in Four Years by | Sunday, August 7, 2016 Carnegie Mellon University's competitive computer security team, The Plaid Parliament of Pwning, won its third title in four years at the DefCon Capture the Flag competition. Read More
Adding Up How the Brain Does Math Patterns Reveal Four Stages of Thinking That Can Be Used To Improve How Students Learn by | Wednesday, July 20, 2016 A new Carnegie Mellon University neuroimaging study reveals the mental stages people go through as they solve challenging math problems.In the study, which was published in Psychological Science, researchers combined two analytical strategies to use functional magnetic resonance imaging to identify patterns of brain activity that aligned with four distinct stages of problem-solving: encoding, planning, solving and responding. Read More
NSF Project Tackles IoT Security by | Wednesday, July 20, 2016 SCS’s Yuvraj Agarwal and Srinivasan Seshan have joined with Vyas Sekar of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department on a National Science Foundation-funded project to develop a software-based solution to the problem of security for the Internet of Things. Read More
