Latest News SCS Alum, CMU Trustee Named to National Academy of Engineering by | Friday, February 9, 2018 Carnegie Mellon University alumnus and trustee Edward Frank, who led the development of four generations of Macintosh computers, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering — one of the highest professional distinctions an engineer can receive. Read More Tartan Team Competes for 2018 Amazon Alexa Prize CMU Team Will Receive $250,000 To Develop Socialbot by | Tuesday, February 6, 2018 Amazon has selected a Carnegie Mellon University team as one of eight worldwide to compete for its Alexa Prize by developing a socialbot to converse coherently and engagingly with people on a range of popular topics and current events, from sports to technology. Read More Widdowson Earns Alumni Award by | Friday, February 2, 2018 School of Computer Science alumnus Andrew Widdowson will receive Carnegie Mellon University's 2018 Alumni Service Award, which recognizes alumni for their dedication to serving CMU and the impact of that service on the university and its alumni. Read More Winter 2017 Issue by | Monday, January 29, 2018 Download the Winter 2017 issue.(PDF reader required - https://get.adobe.com/reader/) Read More CMU WEF Contingent Boasts Strong SCS Participation by | Wednesday, January 24, 2018 The School of Computer Science is a large component of Carnegie Mellon University's contingent this week at the World Economic Forum, held in Davos, Switzerland, through Jan. 26.This year's theme at Davos, "Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World," aims to rededicate international leaders from across industries and disciplines to developing a shared narrative that improves the world. Read More Harchol-Balter, Guruswami Named ACM Fellows by | Thursday, December 21, 2017 The Association for Computing Machinery has selected Mor Harchol-Balter and Venkatesan Guruswami, both professors in the Computer Science Department, as ACM Fellows in recognition of their major contributions to computer science.They are among 54 members of the 2017 class of ACM fellows, including MIT’s Shafi Goldwasser, a CMU alumna and Turing Award recipient. They join 33 current and former CMU faculty members previously named as fellows. Read More Carnegie Mellon Reveals Inner Workings of Victorious Poker AI Libratus AI Defeated Top Pros in 20 Days of Poker Play by | Sunday, December 17, 2017 Libratus, an artificial intelligence that defeated four top professional poker players in No-Limit Texas Hold'em earlier this year, uses a three-pronged approach to master a game with more decision points than atoms in the universe, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University report. Read More GeekWire Chooses Pittsburgh for Temporary HQ2 by | Tuesday, December 12, 2017 GeekWire is coming to Pittsburgh — at least for a while.The Seattle-based technology news hub announced today that it will establish a second, temporary headquarters in Pittsburgh for the month of February. The idea to create a reporting outpost was prompted by the much-publicized Amazon HQ2, with GeekWire placing special emphasis on choosing a city that it considers a strong contender for the Amazon prize. Read More Garlan Named Associate Dean for Master's Programs by | Thursday, December 7, 2017 David Garlan, professor of computer science in the Institute for Software Research, has been named associate dean for master's programs in the School of Computer Science."We are very lucky to have David in this role because he was one of the original pioneers of master's education within the college, successfully nurturing the Master of Science in Software Engineering to its current status as the gold standard around the world for graduate education in software engineering," said SCS Dean Andrew Moore. Read More Research Paper on Libratus AI Wins NIPS Best Paper Award by | Tuesday, December 5, 2017 A research paper describing a key component of Libratus, an artificial intelligence that displayed its poker prowess earlier this year, won one of three best paper awards at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2017) conference this week in Long Beach, Calif. Read More First-Years Weigh-In on First Semesters by | Wednesday, November 29, 2017 We're racing toward the end of the semester in the School of Computer Science, and now seemed like an opportune time to catch up with a few first-year students. We asked them what kinds of expectations they had coming into SCS, and how their experiences on campus this semester compared to those expectations. Here are their answers, in their own words.Trevor Arashiro Read More All Aces: Libratus AI Wins Supercomputing Prize Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Receives Five HPCwire Awards by | Monday, November 13, 2017 Carnegie Mellon University's Libratus artificial intelligence, which scored an historic victory over four human poker pros earlier this year, has won the HPCwire Reader's Choice Award for Best Use of AI. The award from the supercomputing trade publication was announced at the 2017 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC17) in Denver, Colo. Read More Ph.D. Women Take Women@SCS to the Next Level by | Monday, November 13, 2017 The School of Computer Science's Ph.D. women are hard at work bringing new and exciting opportunities to Carnegie Mellon's Women @ SCS program. Directed by Carol Frieze, Women @ SCS creates and supports academic, social and professional opportunities for women in computer science. The program includes a wide range of women including undergraduate, master's and Ph.D. students — as well as faculty. Read More Carnegie Mellon University graduate student awarded Department of Energy fellowship by | Friday, November 10, 2017 Priya Donti, a doctoral candidate co-advised by Zico Kolter and Inês Azevedo at Carnegie Mellon University, has been awarded a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF) to support her Computer Science and Energy Policy research. Read More "I-Cut-You-Choose" Cake-Cutting Protocol Inspires Solution to Gerrymandering CMU Researchers Say Fair Redistricting Possible Even With Partisan Maneuvering by | Wednesday, November 1, 2017 Getting two political parties to equitably draw congressional district boundaries can seem hopeless, but Carnegie Mellon University researchers say the process can be improved by using an approach children use to share a piece of cake.Just as having one child cut the cake and giving the second child first choice of the pieces avoids either feeling envious, having two political parties sequentially divide up a state in an "I-Cut-You-Freeze" protocol would minimize the practice of gerrymandering, where a dominant political party draws districts to maximize its electoral advantage. Read More Undergraduate Women Meet Leading Researchers at OurCS Workshop by | Friday, October 20, 2017 About 100 female computer science majors from across the U.S. and overseas will gather at Carnegie Mellon University this weekend to attend OurCS, a workshop designed to give them hands-on experience with research.Nancy Amato, Regents Professor and Unocal Professor in computer science and engineering at Texas A& M University, and Alison Derbenwick Miller, vice president of Oracle Academy, will share their insights on computer science research during the three-day event, which begins today. Read More Eric Zhu Earns Stehlik Scholarship by | Wednesday, October 18, 2017 Carnegie Mellon University senior Eric Zhu technically majors in computer science, but he's a true Renaissance man. He's served two years on CMU's Student Senate, spent a year as a resident assistant, made an effort to take at least one humanities course each semester, participated in CMU Mock Trial and has never abandoned his love of classical piano. Read More Mason Wins 2018 IEEE Robotics and Automation Award CMU Professor Is Renowned for Work in Robotic Manipulation by | Thursday, October 12, 2017 Matthew T. Mason, a researcher renowned for his work in robotic manipulation, has won the 2018 IEEE Robotics and Automation Award — one of the top awards in the field of robotics. Read More SCS Hosts Computer Science Education Summit Educators Address Challenges of Burgeoning CS Enrollments by | Friday, September 29, 2017 The School of Computer Science is bringing together about 80 educators and computer science leaders for a two-day summit to discuss the challenges facing undergraduate computer science programs as enrollments continue to surge. Read More Shefali Umrania Earns Computational and Data Science Fellowship by | Monday, September 25, 2017 The Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group on High-Performance Computing (SIGHPC) has named School of Computer Science master's student Shefali Umrania a 2017 ACM SIGHPC/Intel Computational and Data Science fellow. She is one of 12 graduate students worldwide to receive the award. Read More Hodgins Elected President of SIGGRAPH by | Monday, September 25, 2017 Jessica Hodgins, professor of computer science and robotics, has been elected president of SIGGRAPH, the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques.SIGGRAPH convenes the premier annual conference on computer graphics, which is attended by tens of thousands of computer professionals. The SIGGRAPH president serves a three-year term. Read More Celebrating Machine Learning for Social Good Mayor Peduto Joins Uptake CEO To Talk Innovation, Collaboration by | Wednesday, September 20, 2017 Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto will sit down with Brad Keywell, Uptake CEO, for a fireside chat about cities as centers of innovation and other issues as Carnegie Mellon University celebrates the launch of the Machine Learning for Social Good fund. Read More PrivacyStreams Helps Developers Create Privacy Friendly Apps Decision To Share Personal Data Need Not Be All or Nothing by | Wednesday, September 13, 2017 A smartphone app that uses the raw feed from a device's microphone or accesses its contact list can raise red flags for a user concerned about privacy. In many cases, however, the app doesn't need all the details that users find most sensitive. Read More To Improve Smartphone Privacy, Control Access to Third-Party Libraries Just 30 Libraries Account for More Than Half of Sensitive Data Taps by | Monday, September 11, 2017 Smartphone apps that share users' locations, contacts and other sensitive information with third parties often do so through a relative handful of services called third-party libraries, suggesting a new strategy for protecting privacy, Carnegie Mellon University researchers say. Read More CyLab’s Bryan Parno shares Distinguished Paper Award win with demonstration of verifiable security by | Thursday, September 7, 2017 Chances are, you’re reading this article on a web browser that uses HTTPS, the protocol over which data is sent between a web browser and the website users are connected to. In fact, nearly half of all web traffic passes through HTTPS. Despite the “S” for security in “HTTPS,” this protocol is far from perfectly secure. 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SCS Alum, CMU Trustee Named to National Academy of Engineering by | Friday, February 9, 2018 Carnegie Mellon University alumnus and trustee Edward Frank, who led the development of four generations of Macintosh computers, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering — one of the highest professional distinctions an engineer can receive. Read More
Tartan Team Competes for 2018 Amazon Alexa Prize CMU Team Will Receive $250,000 To Develop Socialbot by | Tuesday, February 6, 2018 Amazon has selected a Carnegie Mellon University team as one of eight worldwide to compete for its Alexa Prize by developing a socialbot to converse coherently and engagingly with people on a range of popular topics and current events, from sports to technology. Read More
Widdowson Earns Alumni Award by | Friday, February 2, 2018 School of Computer Science alumnus Andrew Widdowson will receive Carnegie Mellon University's 2018 Alumni Service Award, which recognizes alumni for their dedication to serving CMU and the impact of that service on the university and its alumni. Read More
Winter 2017 Issue by | Monday, January 29, 2018 Download the Winter 2017 issue.(PDF reader required - https://get.adobe.com/reader/) Read More
CMU WEF Contingent Boasts Strong SCS Participation by | Wednesday, January 24, 2018 The School of Computer Science is a large component of Carnegie Mellon University's contingent this week at the World Economic Forum, held in Davos, Switzerland, through Jan. 26.This year's theme at Davos, "Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World," aims to rededicate international leaders from across industries and disciplines to developing a shared narrative that improves the world. Read More
Harchol-Balter, Guruswami Named ACM Fellows by | Thursday, December 21, 2017 The Association for Computing Machinery has selected Mor Harchol-Balter and Venkatesan Guruswami, both professors in the Computer Science Department, as ACM Fellows in recognition of their major contributions to computer science.They are among 54 members of the 2017 class of ACM fellows, including MIT’s Shafi Goldwasser, a CMU alumna and Turing Award recipient. They join 33 current and former CMU faculty members previously named as fellows. Read More
Carnegie Mellon Reveals Inner Workings of Victorious Poker AI Libratus AI Defeated Top Pros in 20 Days of Poker Play by | Sunday, December 17, 2017 Libratus, an artificial intelligence that defeated four top professional poker players in No-Limit Texas Hold'em earlier this year, uses a three-pronged approach to master a game with more decision points than atoms in the universe, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University report. Read More
GeekWire Chooses Pittsburgh for Temporary HQ2 by | Tuesday, December 12, 2017 GeekWire is coming to Pittsburgh — at least for a while.The Seattle-based technology news hub announced today that it will establish a second, temporary headquarters in Pittsburgh for the month of February. The idea to create a reporting outpost was prompted by the much-publicized Amazon HQ2, with GeekWire placing special emphasis on choosing a city that it considers a strong contender for the Amazon prize. Read More
Garlan Named Associate Dean for Master's Programs by | Thursday, December 7, 2017 David Garlan, professor of computer science in the Institute for Software Research, has been named associate dean for master's programs in the School of Computer Science."We are very lucky to have David in this role because he was one of the original pioneers of master's education within the college, successfully nurturing the Master of Science in Software Engineering to its current status as the gold standard around the world for graduate education in software engineering," said SCS Dean Andrew Moore. Read More
Research Paper on Libratus AI Wins NIPS Best Paper Award by | Tuesday, December 5, 2017 A research paper describing a key component of Libratus, an artificial intelligence that displayed its poker prowess earlier this year, won one of three best paper awards at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2017) conference this week in Long Beach, Calif. Read More
First-Years Weigh-In on First Semesters by | Wednesday, November 29, 2017 We're racing toward the end of the semester in the School of Computer Science, and now seemed like an opportune time to catch up with a few first-year students. We asked them what kinds of expectations they had coming into SCS, and how their experiences on campus this semester compared to those expectations. Here are their answers, in their own words.Trevor Arashiro Read More
All Aces: Libratus AI Wins Supercomputing Prize Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Receives Five HPCwire Awards by | Monday, November 13, 2017 Carnegie Mellon University's Libratus artificial intelligence, which scored an historic victory over four human poker pros earlier this year, has won the HPCwire Reader's Choice Award for Best Use of AI. The award from the supercomputing trade publication was announced at the 2017 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC17) in Denver, Colo. Read More
Ph.D. Women Take Women@SCS to the Next Level by | Monday, November 13, 2017 The School of Computer Science's Ph.D. women are hard at work bringing new and exciting opportunities to Carnegie Mellon's Women @ SCS program. Directed by Carol Frieze, Women @ SCS creates and supports academic, social and professional opportunities for women in computer science. The program includes a wide range of women including undergraduate, master's and Ph.D. students — as well as faculty. Read More
Carnegie Mellon University graduate student awarded Department of Energy fellowship by | Friday, November 10, 2017 Priya Donti, a doctoral candidate co-advised by Zico Kolter and Inês Azevedo at Carnegie Mellon University, has been awarded a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF) to support her Computer Science and Energy Policy research. Read More
"I-Cut-You-Choose" Cake-Cutting Protocol Inspires Solution to Gerrymandering CMU Researchers Say Fair Redistricting Possible Even With Partisan Maneuvering by | Wednesday, November 1, 2017 Getting two political parties to equitably draw congressional district boundaries can seem hopeless, but Carnegie Mellon University researchers say the process can be improved by using an approach children use to share a piece of cake.Just as having one child cut the cake and giving the second child first choice of the pieces avoids either feeling envious, having two political parties sequentially divide up a state in an "I-Cut-You-Freeze" protocol would minimize the practice of gerrymandering, where a dominant political party draws districts to maximize its electoral advantage. Read More
Undergraduate Women Meet Leading Researchers at OurCS Workshop by | Friday, October 20, 2017 About 100 female computer science majors from across the U.S. and overseas will gather at Carnegie Mellon University this weekend to attend OurCS, a workshop designed to give them hands-on experience with research.Nancy Amato, Regents Professor and Unocal Professor in computer science and engineering at Texas A& M University, and Alison Derbenwick Miller, vice president of Oracle Academy, will share their insights on computer science research during the three-day event, which begins today. Read More
Eric Zhu Earns Stehlik Scholarship by | Wednesday, October 18, 2017 Carnegie Mellon University senior Eric Zhu technically majors in computer science, but he's a true Renaissance man. He's served two years on CMU's Student Senate, spent a year as a resident assistant, made an effort to take at least one humanities course each semester, participated in CMU Mock Trial and has never abandoned his love of classical piano. Read More
Mason Wins 2018 IEEE Robotics and Automation Award CMU Professor Is Renowned for Work in Robotic Manipulation by | Thursday, October 12, 2017 Matthew T. Mason, a researcher renowned for his work in robotic manipulation, has won the 2018 IEEE Robotics and Automation Award — one of the top awards in the field of robotics. Read More
SCS Hosts Computer Science Education Summit Educators Address Challenges of Burgeoning CS Enrollments by | Friday, September 29, 2017 The School of Computer Science is bringing together about 80 educators and computer science leaders for a two-day summit to discuss the challenges facing undergraduate computer science programs as enrollments continue to surge. Read More
Shefali Umrania Earns Computational and Data Science Fellowship by | Monday, September 25, 2017 The Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group on High-Performance Computing (SIGHPC) has named School of Computer Science master's student Shefali Umrania a 2017 ACM SIGHPC/Intel Computational and Data Science fellow. She is one of 12 graduate students worldwide to receive the award. Read More
Hodgins Elected President of SIGGRAPH by | Monday, September 25, 2017 Jessica Hodgins, professor of computer science and robotics, has been elected president of SIGGRAPH, the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques.SIGGRAPH convenes the premier annual conference on computer graphics, which is attended by tens of thousands of computer professionals. The SIGGRAPH president serves a three-year term. Read More
Celebrating Machine Learning for Social Good Mayor Peduto Joins Uptake CEO To Talk Innovation, Collaboration by | Wednesday, September 20, 2017 Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto will sit down with Brad Keywell, Uptake CEO, for a fireside chat about cities as centers of innovation and other issues as Carnegie Mellon University celebrates the launch of the Machine Learning for Social Good fund. Read More
PrivacyStreams Helps Developers Create Privacy Friendly Apps Decision To Share Personal Data Need Not Be All or Nothing by | Wednesday, September 13, 2017 A smartphone app that uses the raw feed from a device's microphone or accesses its contact list can raise red flags for a user concerned about privacy. In many cases, however, the app doesn't need all the details that users find most sensitive. Read More
To Improve Smartphone Privacy, Control Access to Third-Party Libraries Just 30 Libraries Account for More Than Half of Sensitive Data Taps by | Monday, September 11, 2017 Smartphone apps that share users' locations, contacts and other sensitive information with third parties often do so through a relative handful of services called third-party libraries, suggesting a new strategy for protecting privacy, Carnegie Mellon University researchers say. Read More
CyLab’s Bryan Parno shares Distinguished Paper Award win with demonstration of verifiable security by | Thursday, September 7, 2017 Chances are, you’re reading this article on a web browser that uses HTTPS, the protocol over which data is sent between a web browser and the website users are connected to. In fact, nearly half of all web traffic passes through HTTPS. Despite the “S” for security in “HTTPS,” this protocol is far from perfectly secure. Read More
