Latest News Three SCS Researchers Named AI2050 Early Career Fellows Kayla Papakie by Kayla Papakie | Wednesday, May 31, 2023 Three School of Computer Science researchers were named to the inaugural cohort of Schmidt Futures' AI2050 Early Career Fellowship to pursue ambitious research in artificial intelligence. Read More Xing Named Institute of Mathematical Statistics Fellow Adam Kohlhaas by Adam Kohlhaas | Tuesday, May 23, 2023 Eric Xing, a professor in the Machine Learning Department, Computer Science Department and Language Technologies Institute, has been named a 2023 Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) fellow. Read More CMU Researcher Uses ChatGPT To Execute Computer Tasks Large Language Models Can Solve Computer Tasks Using Keyboard, Mouse Actions Aaron Aupperlee by Aaron Aupperlee | Tuesday, May 23, 2023 Research spearheaded by Carnegie Mellon University shows that AI systems such as ChatGPT and Midjourney, known best for generating text, code or images, can also handle repetitive tasks. Read More Putting Money Where a Community's Mouths Are CMU Spin-Out Implements Digital Community Currency in Sharpsburg Byron Spice by Byron Spice | Wednesday, May 10, 2023 When you sidle into Dancing Gnome, a brewpub on Sharpsburg's Main Street, and order a glass of its renowned Lustra pale ale, founder Andrew Witchey is happy to accept payment in cash, credit or Sharpsburg Bucks. Read More Carnegie Mellon Leads NSF AI Institute for Societal Decision Making $20M Collaboration Brings Together AI Researchers, Social Scientists To Develop Tools for Societal Challenges Aaron Aupperlee by Aaron Aupperlee | Thursday, May 4, 2023 Artificial intelligence tools have increasingly aided emergency managers, public health officials and other professionals tasked with making critical and timely decisions that directly impact society. During disasters, AI can help efficiently direct and allocate resources. Likewise, AI tools help public health officials, community workers and clinics better target interventions to improve health outcomes. Read More Cranor, Stehlik Named University Professors Christa Cardone and Kristen Bayley by Christa Cardone and Kristen Bayley | Friday, April 28, 2023 School of Computer Science faculty members Lorrie Faith Cranor and Mark Stehlik have been elevated to the rank of University Professor, the highest distinction a faculty member can receive at Carnegie Mellon University. Read More SCS Faculty Honored at Carnegie Mellon's Celebration of Education Susie Cribbs by Susie Cribbs | Friday, April 28, 2023 School of Computer Science faculty members took home top accolades when Carnegie Mellon University honored faculty, staff and students at its annual Celebration of Education Awards on Thursday, April 27. The annual event recognizes the accomplishments of those who exemplify the university's standards of excellence in education and honors their outstanding contributions to the university and their devotion to and effectiveness in teaching. Read More SCS Honors Faculty and Staff at Founders Day Kayla Papakie 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? 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 Adam Kohlhaas 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 Kayla Papakie 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 Aaron Aupperlee 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 Cassia Crogan 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 Adam Kohlhaas 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 Brian Thornton 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 Kayla Papakie 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 Aaron Aupperlee 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 Susie Cribbs 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 Aaron Aupperlee 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. Aaron Aupperlee 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 SCS Team Wins Meta Award for Work To Lower Financial, Environmental Costs of AI Kayla Papakie 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 CMU Programming Team Shines in ICPC World Finals Aaron Aupperlee 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 CMU Professors Awarded NSF Future of Work Grant Funds Will Support AI-Augmented Learning Technologies in Community College IT Courses Aaron Aupperlee and Heinz College 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 CSD Team Wins Prize for Best Student-Written Paper Kayla Papakie 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 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. 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Three SCS Researchers Named AI2050 Early Career Fellows Kayla Papakie by Kayla Papakie | Wednesday, May 31, 2023 Three School of Computer Science researchers were named to the inaugural cohort of Schmidt Futures' AI2050 Early Career Fellowship to pursue ambitious research in artificial intelligence. Read More
Xing Named Institute of Mathematical Statistics Fellow Adam Kohlhaas by Adam Kohlhaas | Tuesday, May 23, 2023 Eric Xing, a professor in the Machine Learning Department, Computer Science Department and Language Technologies Institute, has been named a 2023 Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) fellow. Read More
CMU Researcher Uses ChatGPT To Execute Computer Tasks Large Language Models Can Solve Computer Tasks Using Keyboard, Mouse Actions Aaron Aupperlee by Aaron Aupperlee | Tuesday, May 23, 2023 Research spearheaded by Carnegie Mellon University shows that AI systems such as ChatGPT and Midjourney, known best for generating text, code or images, can also handle repetitive tasks. Read More
Putting Money Where a Community's Mouths Are CMU Spin-Out Implements Digital Community Currency in Sharpsburg Byron Spice by Byron Spice | Wednesday, May 10, 2023 When you sidle into Dancing Gnome, a brewpub on Sharpsburg's Main Street, and order a glass of its renowned Lustra pale ale, founder Andrew Witchey is happy to accept payment in cash, credit or Sharpsburg Bucks. Read More
Carnegie Mellon Leads NSF AI Institute for Societal Decision Making $20M Collaboration Brings Together AI Researchers, Social Scientists To Develop Tools for Societal Challenges Aaron Aupperlee by Aaron Aupperlee | Thursday, May 4, 2023 Artificial intelligence tools have increasingly aided emergency managers, public health officials and other professionals tasked with making critical and timely decisions that directly impact society. During disasters, AI can help efficiently direct and allocate resources. Likewise, AI tools help public health officials, community workers and clinics better target interventions to improve health outcomes. Read More
Cranor, Stehlik Named University Professors Christa Cardone and Kristen Bayley by Christa Cardone and Kristen Bayley | Friday, April 28, 2023 School of Computer Science faculty members Lorrie Faith Cranor and Mark Stehlik have been elevated to the rank of University Professor, the highest distinction a faculty member can receive at Carnegie Mellon University. Read More
SCS Faculty Honored at Carnegie Mellon's Celebration of Education Susie Cribbs by Susie Cribbs | Friday, April 28, 2023 School of Computer Science faculty members took home top accolades when Carnegie Mellon University honored faculty, staff and students at its annual Celebration of Education Awards on Thursday, April 27. The annual event recognizes the accomplishments of those who exemplify the university's standards of excellence in education and honors their outstanding contributions to the university and their devotion to and effectiveness in teaching. Read More
SCS Honors Faculty and Staff at Founders Day Kayla Papakie 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? 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 Adam Kohlhaas 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 Kayla Papakie 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 Aaron Aupperlee 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 Cassia Crogan 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 Adam Kohlhaas 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 Brian Thornton 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 Kayla Papakie 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 Aaron Aupperlee 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 Susie Cribbs 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 Aaron Aupperlee 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. Aaron Aupperlee 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
SCS Team Wins Meta Award for Work To Lower Financial, Environmental Costs of AI Kayla Papakie 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
CMU Programming Team Shines in ICPC World Finals Aaron Aupperlee 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
CMU Professors Awarded NSF Future of Work Grant Funds Will Support AI-Augmented Learning Technologies in Community College IT Courses Aaron Aupperlee and Heinz College 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
CSD Team Wins Prize for Best Student-Written Paper Kayla Papakie 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 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
