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Frieze Receives Gelfand Award for Educational Outreach

by | Wednesday, April 22, 2015

With the Computer Science Department boasting record-breaking 40 percent women in its first-year class last fall, Carol Frieze's colleagues thought it was the perfect time to nominate her for Carnegie Mellon University's Mark Gelfand Award for Educational Outreach. After all, she's devoted the past 15 years to creating opportunities for women and underrepresented groups in computer science. She will accept the award at the Celebration of Education today at 4:30 p.m. in the Cohon University Center's Rangos Hall.

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Carnegie Mellon Places Fifth in 2014 Putnam Mathematics Competition

by | Thursday, April 2, 2015

Carnegie Mellon University has placed fifth in the Mathematical Association of America's 75th William Lowell Putnam Competition, the premier mathematics contest for undergraduate students. Additionally, Carnegie Mellon had 55 students who scored among the top 507, the second most of any university.

Computer science was well-represented among the top scorers, with senior mathematical sciences and computer science major Albert Gu among the top 16 overall.

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Autodesk Kicks Off Reality Computing Partnership With CMU

Studio Course Taught by Pyry Matikainen Will Launch This Fall

by | Monday, March 30, 2015

Carnegie Mellon University's Integrative Design, Arts and Technology Network (IDeATe) and Autodesk Inc., a world leader in 3-D design software, are launching a Reality Computing studio course for advanced undergraduate and graduate students.

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Citadel Sponsors Redesign of Carnegie Mellon Computer Science Lab and Study Spaces

Reconfigured Spaces Help CMU Train Students To Work in Teams

by | Thursday, January 22, 2015

Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science has dedicated the new Citadel Teaching Commons — a lab and study space featuring collaborative and high-performance clusters that will help educate and train the next generation of computer scientists.

Andrew Moore, dean of the School of Computer Science, hosted the Jan. 27 event at which Joseph Squeri, Citadel's chief information officer, cut a ceremonial ribbon before chatting with students and faculty members.

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Clarke Receives Honorary Degree From University of Crete

by | Tuesday, October 14, 2014

On Oct. 13, FORE Systems University Professor of Computer Science Edmund M. Clarke received an honorary doctorate from the University of Crete’s Department of Computer Science — the first honorary degree ever awarded by the department.

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Sandholm Named Fellow by INFORMS

by | Sunday, October 5, 2014

The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®), the leading professional association for analytics professionals, has named Computer Science Professor Tuomas Sandholm one of 12 new INFORMS Fellows.

He is one of two recipients from Carnegie Mellon University among the fellows being inducted this year. 

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Women Comprise 40 Percent of Computer Science Majors Among Carnegie Mellon’s Incoming First-Year Class

by | Wednesday, June 4, 2014

PITTSBURGH—Women, who historically have been under-represented among computer science majors nationwide, will make up 40 percent of the incoming class of undergraduates this fall in Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science (SCS).

The school has been a leader in efforts to increase the number of women in the discipline of computer science and its female enrollment has long exceeded national averages. The number of women in this fall’s first-year class nevertheless sets a new benchmark for the school.

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