Latest News 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. Read More Decoding the Internet of Things Remember that Coke machine in Wean? by | Thursday, April 6, 2023 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. Read More 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. Read More 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. Wenting Zheng Read More 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. Read More 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. Read More 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." Read More 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. Read More 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 Read More 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. Read More 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. Read More 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. Read More 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 Read More 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. Read More 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. Read More 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. Read More 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. Read More Measuring Internet resilience in Ukraine by Ryan Noone | Tuesday, November 1, 2022 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. Read More 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. Read More 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. Read More Award-winning research paves the way for provably-safe sandboxing using WebAssembly by Ryan Noone | Tuesday, October 11, 2022 "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. Read More Carnegie Mellon's hacking team wins DEF CON CTF by | Thursday, August 18, 2022 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. Read More SCS Faculty Receive More Than $1.6M in NSF CAREER Awards by | 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. Read More Researchers propose ephemeral approach to IoT privacy by | Wednesday, July 6, 2022 Whether you are at the office, the gym, or even at a friend’s house for a BBQ this summer, chances are an IoT device is going to gather some sort of data about you. Compounding the fact that this data may be sensitive is the reality that many of these devices gather data on anyone within range, whether they are the owners of the device or not. Read More Optical Microphone Developed by CMU Researchers Sees Sound Like Never Before Dual-Shutter Vibration-Sensing System Uses Ordinary Cameras To Achieve Extraordinary Results by | Tuesday, June 21, 2022 A camera system developed by Carnegie Mellon University researchers can see sound vibrations with such precision and detail that it can reconstruct the music of a single instrument in a band or orchestra. 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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. Read More
Decoding the Internet of Things Remember that Coke machine in Wean? by | Thursday, April 6, 2023 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. Read More
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. Read More
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. Wenting Zheng Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
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." Read More
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. Read More
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 Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
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 Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
Measuring Internet resilience in Ukraine by Ryan Noone | Tuesday, November 1, 2022 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. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
Award-winning research paves the way for provably-safe sandboxing using WebAssembly by Ryan Noone | Tuesday, October 11, 2022 "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. Read More
Carnegie Mellon's hacking team wins DEF CON CTF by | Thursday, August 18, 2022 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. Read More
SCS Faculty Receive More Than $1.6M in NSF CAREER Awards by | 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. Read More
Researchers propose ephemeral approach to IoT privacy by | Wednesday, July 6, 2022 Whether you are at the office, the gym, or even at a friend’s house for a BBQ this summer, chances are an IoT device is going to gather some sort of data about you. Compounding the fact that this data may be sensitive is the reality that many of these devices gather data on anyone within range, whether they are the owners of the device or not. Read More
Optical Microphone Developed by CMU Researchers Sees Sound Like Never Before Dual-Shutter Vibration-Sensing System Uses Ordinary Cameras To Achieve Extraordinary Results by | Tuesday, June 21, 2022 A camera system developed by Carnegie Mellon University researchers can see sound vibrations with such precision and detail that it can reconstruct the music of a single instrument in a band or orchestra. Read More
