Latest News From high school hacker to DefCon champ SCS’s Zach Wade and PPP teammates seek to shatter DefCon records by | Wednesday, August 8, 2018 While many kids dream of a shopping spree at their favorite toy store or the local candy shop, Zach Wade's preference was a bit uncommon for a youngster: RadioShack. ''I had a RadioShack kit that had bajillions of components, and I kept hand-drawn books on how to connect circuits and how to build stuff,'' says Wade, now a fourth-year undergraduate in the School of Computer Science. ''That kit was my absolute favorite. I spent hours and hours playing with that.'' Read More How a Computer Learns To Dribble: Practice, Practice, Practice Deep Reinforcement Learning Makes Basketball Video Games Look More Realistic by | Tuesday, August 7, 2018 Basketball players need lots of practice before they master the dribble, and it turns out that's true for computer-animated players as well. By using deep reinforcement learning, players in basketball video games can glean insights from motion-capture data to sharpen their dribbling skills. Read More Hodgins, Gupta Join Facebook AI Research by | Tuesday, July 17, 2018 Carnegie Mellon University's Jessica Hodgins will lead a newly established Facebook AI Research (FAIR) lab in Pittsburgh, where she will be joined by CMU's Abhinav Gupta. The appointments are part of an expansion of Facebook's artificial intelligence research activities with academic communities. Read More Summer 2018 Issue by | Wednesday, July 11, 2018 Download the Summer 2018 issue. (PDF reader required.) Read More SCS Faculty Receive NSF CAREER Awards by | Friday, July 6, 2018 Bernhard Haeupler, Louis-Philippe Morency and Jean Yang are the latest School of Computer Science faculty members to receive the National Science Foundation’s prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award. They are among 307 CAREER recipients this year in computer science and engineering in which the NSF has invested $150 million over the next five years, placing their academic careers on firm scientific footing and giving them the opportunity to serve as academic role models in research and education. Read More Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence, Carnegie Mellon Partner To Accelerate AI Research SCS Professor Zico Kolter Will Join Bosch as Chief Scientist of AI, Remain on Faculty by | Wednesday, June 27, 2018 Bosch in North America today announced the launch of the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI) Research Lab in Pittsburgh, which will be the BCAI's fourth location. The lab will conduct advanced research in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The new location is the next step in BCAI's mission to partner with leading institutions around the world to jointly accelerate AI research. Bosch plans to build a team of up to 20 AI experts at Bosch's Pittsburgh Technology Center by the end of 2019. Read More "No Assembly Required" for CMU Students, Faculty at Science Friday's Pittsburgh Show by | Wednesday, May 23, 2018 Robots who converse, provide empathy and play music were among the reasons NPR's "Science Friday" visited the Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall on Saturday, May 19, to build a show about Pittsburgh scientists and roboticists. The special live event had the theme "No Assembly Required," and included interviews with Carnegie Mellon University faculty and students. Read More Calypso for Cozmo Don’t miss Calypso, a robotics education tool that harnesses Cozmo’s powerful robotics technologies and is unlike anything you’ve seen before. by | Tuesday, May 22, 2018 Visionary Machines LLC is here to redefine robotics and AI (artificial intelligence) education. Founded by Dave Touretzky, Research Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, the company has recently released its first product: Calypso.Read more about Calypso & Cozmo: https://developer.anki.com/blog/education/calypso-for-cozmo/ Read More Amal Nanavati Wins Fulbright Award, Inaugural K&L Gates Prize by | Monday, May 14, 2018 Amal Nanavati, a double major in computer science and global studies in the Class of 2018, has received two prestigious prizes — the Fulbright Award and the inaugural K&L Gates Prize. Read More Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artificial Intelligence New AI Major Addresses Growing Demand for AI Specialists by | Thursday, May 10, 2018 Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science will offer a new undergraduate degree in artificial intelligence beginning this fall, providing students with in-depth knowledge of how to transform large amounts of data into actionable decisions.SCS has created the new AI degree, the first offered by a U.S. university, in response to extraordinary technical breakthroughs in AI and the growing demand by students and employers for training that prepares people for careers in AI. Read More Former SCS Dean Shares Personal History With Computing Pioneers by | Monday, May 7, 2018 Professor James Morris, former dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, is a legend in his field. But in a rich and lively lecture looking back on his career, it was the other giants he encountered along the way that Morris wanted to talk about — stories of Alan Perlis, Herb Simon, Robert Taylor, Allen Newell, Raj Reddy and others. Read More Veloso Takes Leave to Join J.P. Morgan by | Friday, May 4, 2018 Manuela Veloso, the Herbert A. Simon University Professor of Computer Science and head of the Machine Learning Department, will take a leave of absence to join J.P. Morgan as its head of artificial intelligence research, beginning July 1. Read More Procaccia Named 2018 Guggenheim Fellow by | Tuesday, April 17, 2018 The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has named Associate Professor of Computer Science Ariel Procaccia a recipient of its 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship. Read More SCS Junior Reflects on the CMU Experience by | Monday, April 16, 2018 When School of Computer Science undergrad Tanvi Bajpai came to CMU from her competitive New Jersey high school, she knew she was going to be a small fish in a big pond. The intense curriculum and fast-paced culture can sometimes overwhelm incoming first-year students, and Tanvi was no stranger to that feeling. "Getting over the fear and being secure in your own intellect is difficult," she said, "but once you do, there's nothing that gets in the way of your ability to learn and flourish." Read More Lenore Blum Among 2018's "Women of Spirit" Carlow University Awards Recognize Leadership, Service by | Friday, April 6, 2018 Lenore Blum, Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science, was one of six women honored at the 2018 Women of Spirit Awards Gala April 5 at Carnegie Music Hall. Read More Software Automatically Generates Knitting Instructions for 3-D Shapes CMU Researchers Foresee Machines Capable of On-Demand Knitting by | Thursday, March 29, 2018 Carnegie Mellon University computer scientists have developed a system that can translate a wide variety of 3-D shapes into stitch-by-stitch instructions that enable a computer-controlled knitting machine to automatically produce those shapes. Read More SCS Junior Gives Back to Computer Science by | Wednesday, March 28, 2018 From building transportation devices with the CMU Hyperloop team to organizing hackathons with CMU MellonHeads, School of Computer Science junior Hima Tammineedi is busy. But the computer science major — who's also pursuing a machine learning minor — knows that he's been incredibly fortunate to have the chance to expand his computer science interests and participate in meaningful activities with his friends. Read More CMU Names Seshan New Head of Computer Science Department by | Monday, March 26, 2018 Andrew Moore, dean of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, has appointed Srinivasan Seshan head of the Computer Science Department, the school's oldest and largest department, effective July 1.He succeeds Frank Pfenning, who will return to full-time teaching and research. Read More Euiwoong Lee named Edmund M. Clarke Doctoral Dissertation Award Recipient Newly Established Departmental Dissertation Award has First Recipient by | Wednesday, March 7, 2018 Recent Ph.D graduate, Euiwoong Lee, is the first recipient of the newly established Edmund M. Clarke Dissertation Award. Lee was advised by Computer Science Department Professor Venkat Guruswami and is currently doing postdoctoral work at New York University. Read More New AI Helps Make Sense of Privacy Policies by | Friday, March 2, 2018 If you're anything like the average internet user, you probably didn't spend the estimated 244 hours it would take to read every privacy policy for every website you visited last year. That's exactly why a team led by Carnegie Mellon University just launched an interactive website aimed at helping users make sense of their privacy on the web. Read More Enigma Machines Among Computing Gems Added to University Libraries Collection by | Tuesday, February 27, 2018 Crucial World War II encryption devices have found a home at the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries thanks to the generosity of author Pamela McCorduck, wife of late Computer Science Department Head Joseph Traub. Read More Carnegie Mellon Will Help Develop Camera To See Through Skin NSF Awards $10 Million to Interdisciplinary Researchers at Five Universities by | Monday, February 26, 2018 Carnegie Mellon University is part of a five-year, $10 million program sponsored by the National Science Foundation to develop a new type of camera that peers deep beneath the skin to help diagnose and monitor a wide variety of health conditions. Read More AI Pioneer Tuomas Sandholm Receives Angel Jordan Professorship New chair honors late Carnegie Mellon provost, tech visionary by | Tuesday, February 20, 2018 Tuomas Sandholm, a computer scientist whose innovative algorithms have paired donors of life-saving kidneys with recipients and also defeated top professionals in a poker contest, will be the first recipient of Carnegie Mellon University's Angel Jordan Professorship in Computer Science. Read More SCS Scientists Receive Sloan Research Fellowships by | Thursday, February 15, 2018 School of Computer Science faculty members Chris Harrison, Bryan Parno, Andrew Pavlo and Andreas Pfenning have received 2018 Sloan Research Fellowships, which honor early career scholars whose achievements put them among the very best scientific minds working today. They, along with CMU mechanical engineer Venkat Viswanathan, are among 126 outstanding North American researchers honored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.Winners receive a two-year, $65,000 fellowship to further their research. Read More Seventeen Magazine Names CMU "2018 Cool School" Editors Cite "Strong Community of Female Coders" by | Thursday, February 15, 2018 Seventeen magazine has named Carnegie Mellon University one of its 2018 "Cool Schools," citing the large number of women enrolled in science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs. 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From high school hacker to DefCon champ SCS’s Zach Wade and PPP teammates seek to shatter DefCon records by | Wednesday, August 8, 2018 While many kids dream of a shopping spree at their favorite toy store or the local candy shop, Zach Wade's preference was a bit uncommon for a youngster: RadioShack. ''I had a RadioShack kit that had bajillions of components, and I kept hand-drawn books on how to connect circuits and how to build stuff,'' says Wade, now a fourth-year undergraduate in the School of Computer Science. ''That kit was my absolute favorite. I spent hours and hours playing with that.'' Read More
How a Computer Learns To Dribble: Practice, Practice, Practice Deep Reinforcement Learning Makes Basketball Video Games Look More Realistic by | Tuesday, August 7, 2018 Basketball players need lots of practice before they master the dribble, and it turns out that's true for computer-animated players as well. By using deep reinforcement learning, players in basketball video games can glean insights from motion-capture data to sharpen their dribbling skills. Read More
Hodgins, Gupta Join Facebook AI Research by | Tuesday, July 17, 2018 Carnegie Mellon University's Jessica Hodgins will lead a newly established Facebook AI Research (FAIR) lab in Pittsburgh, where she will be joined by CMU's Abhinav Gupta. The appointments are part of an expansion of Facebook's artificial intelligence research activities with academic communities. Read More
Summer 2018 Issue by | Wednesday, July 11, 2018 Download the Summer 2018 issue. (PDF reader required.) Read More
SCS Faculty Receive NSF CAREER Awards by | Friday, July 6, 2018 Bernhard Haeupler, Louis-Philippe Morency and Jean Yang are the latest School of Computer Science faculty members to receive the National Science Foundation’s prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award. They are among 307 CAREER recipients this year in computer science and engineering in which the NSF has invested $150 million over the next five years, placing their academic careers on firm scientific footing and giving them the opportunity to serve as academic role models in research and education. Read More
Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence, Carnegie Mellon Partner To Accelerate AI Research SCS Professor Zico Kolter Will Join Bosch as Chief Scientist of AI, Remain on Faculty by | Wednesday, June 27, 2018 Bosch in North America today announced the launch of the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI) Research Lab in Pittsburgh, which will be the BCAI's fourth location. The lab will conduct advanced research in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The new location is the next step in BCAI's mission to partner with leading institutions around the world to jointly accelerate AI research. Bosch plans to build a team of up to 20 AI experts at Bosch's Pittsburgh Technology Center by the end of 2019. Read More
"No Assembly Required" for CMU Students, Faculty at Science Friday's Pittsburgh Show by | Wednesday, May 23, 2018 Robots who converse, provide empathy and play music were among the reasons NPR's "Science Friday" visited the Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall on Saturday, May 19, to build a show about Pittsburgh scientists and roboticists. The special live event had the theme "No Assembly Required," and included interviews with Carnegie Mellon University faculty and students. Read More
Calypso for Cozmo Don’t miss Calypso, a robotics education tool that harnesses Cozmo’s powerful robotics technologies and is unlike anything you’ve seen before. by | Tuesday, May 22, 2018 Visionary Machines LLC is here to redefine robotics and AI (artificial intelligence) education. Founded by Dave Touretzky, Research Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, the company has recently released its first product: Calypso.Read more about Calypso & Cozmo: https://developer.anki.com/blog/education/calypso-for-cozmo/ Read More
Amal Nanavati Wins Fulbright Award, Inaugural K&L Gates Prize by | Monday, May 14, 2018 Amal Nanavati, a double major in computer science and global studies in the Class of 2018, has received two prestigious prizes — the Fulbright Award and the inaugural K&L Gates Prize. Read More
Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artificial Intelligence New AI Major Addresses Growing Demand for AI Specialists by | Thursday, May 10, 2018 Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science will offer a new undergraduate degree in artificial intelligence beginning this fall, providing students with in-depth knowledge of how to transform large amounts of data into actionable decisions.SCS has created the new AI degree, the first offered by a U.S. university, in response to extraordinary technical breakthroughs in AI and the growing demand by students and employers for training that prepares people for careers in AI. Read More
Former SCS Dean Shares Personal History With Computing Pioneers by | Monday, May 7, 2018 Professor James Morris, former dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, is a legend in his field. But in a rich and lively lecture looking back on his career, it was the other giants he encountered along the way that Morris wanted to talk about — stories of Alan Perlis, Herb Simon, Robert Taylor, Allen Newell, Raj Reddy and others. Read More
Veloso Takes Leave to Join J.P. Morgan by | Friday, May 4, 2018 Manuela Veloso, the Herbert A. Simon University Professor of Computer Science and head of the Machine Learning Department, will take a leave of absence to join J.P. Morgan as its head of artificial intelligence research, beginning July 1. Read More
Procaccia Named 2018 Guggenheim Fellow by | Tuesday, April 17, 2018 The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has named Associate Professor of Computer Science Ariel Procaccia a recipient of its 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship. Read More
SCS Junior Reflects on the CMU Experience by | Monday, April 16, 2018 When School of Computer Science undergrad Tanvi Bajpai came to CMU from her competitive New Jersey high school, she knew she was going to be a small fish in a big pond. The intense curriculum and fast-paced culture can sometimes overwhelm incoming first-year students, and Tanvi was no stranger to that feeling. "Getting over the fear and being secure in your own intellect is difficult," she said, "but once you do, there's nothing that gets in the way of your ability to learn and flourish." Read More
Lenore Blum Among 2018's "Women of Spirit" Carlow University Awards Recognize Leadership, Service by | Friday, April 6, 2018 Lenore Blum, Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science, was one of six women honored at the 2018 Women of Spirit Awards Gala April 5 at Carnegie Music Hall. Read More
Software Automatically Generates Knitting Instructions for 3-D Shapes CMU Researchers Foresee Machines Capable of On-Demand Knitting by | Thursday, March 29, 2018 Carnegie Mellon University computer scientists have developed a system that can translate a wide variety of 3-D shapes into stitch-by-stitch instructions that enable a computer-controlled knitting machine to automatically produce those shapes. Read More
SCS Junior Gives Back to Computer Science by | Wednesday, March 28, 2018 From building transportation devices with the CMU Hyperloop team to organizing hackathons with CMU MellonHeads, School of Computer Science junior Hima Tammineedi is busy. But the computer science major — who's also pursuing a machine learning minor — knows that he's been incredibly fortunate to have the chance to expand his computer science interests and participate in meaningful activities with his friends. Read More
CMU Names Seshan New Head of Computer Science Department by | Monday, March 26, 2018 Andrew Moore, dean of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, has appointed Srinivasan Seshan head of the Computer Science Department, the school's oldest and largest department, effective July 1.He succeeds Frank Pfenning, who will return to full-time teaching and research. Read More
Euiwoong Lee named Edmund M. Clarke Doctoral Dissertation Award Recipient Newly Established Departmental Dissertation Award has First Recipient by | Wednesday, March 7, 2018 Recent Ph.D graduate, Euiwoong Lee, is the first recipient of the newly established Edmund M. Clarke Dissertation Award. Lee was advised by Computer Science Department Professor Venkat Guruswami and is currently doing postdoctoral work at New York University. Read More
New AI Helps Make Sense of Privacy Policies by | Friday, March 2, 2018 If you're anything like the average internet user, you probably didn't spend the estimated 244 hours it would take to read every privacy policy for every website you visited last year. That's exactly why a team led by Carnegie Mellon University just launched an interactive website aimed at helping users make sense of their privacy on the web. Read More
Enigma Machines Among Computing Gems Added to University Libraries Collection by | Tuesday, February 27, 2018 Crucial World War II encryption devices have found a home at the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries thanks to the generosity of author Pamela McCorduck, wife of late Computer Science Department Head Joseph Traub. Read More
Carnegie Mellon Will Help Develop Camera To See Through Skin NSF Awards $10 Million to Interdisciplinary Researchers at Five Universities by | Monday, February 26, 2018 Carnegie Mellon University is part of a five-year, $10 million program sponsored by the National Science Foundation to develop a new type of camera that peers deep beneath the skin to help diagnose and monitor a wide variety of health conditions. Read More
AI Pioneer Tuomas Sandholm Receives Angel Jordan Professorship New chair honors late Carnegie Mellon provost, tech visionary by | Tuesday, February 20, 2018 Tuomas Sandholm, a computer scientist whose innovative algorithms have paired donors of life-saving kidneys with recipients and also defeated top professionals in a poker contest, will be the first recipient of Carnegie Mellon University's Angel Jordan Professorship in Computer Science. Read More
SCS Scientists Receive Sloan Research Fellowships by | Thursday, February 15, 2018 School of Computer Science faculty members Chris Harrison, Bryan Parno, Andrew Pavlo and Andreas Pfenning have received 2018 Sloan Research Fellowships, which honor early career scholars whose achievements put them among the very best scientific minds working today. They, along with CMU mechanical engineer Venkat Viswanathan, are among 126 outstanding North American researchers honored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.Winners receive a two-year, $65,000 fellowship to further their research. Read More
Seventeen Magazine Names CMU "2018 Cool School" Editors Cite "Strong Community of Female Coders" by | Thursday, February 15, 2018 Seventeen magazine has named Carnegie Mellon University one of its 2018 "Cool Schools," citing the large number of women enrolled in science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs. Read More
