Latest News Fall/Winter 2020 Full Issue by | Tuesday, January 12, 2021 Download the Fall/Winter 2020 issue. (PDF reader required.) Read More Edmund Clarke Pioneered Methods for Detecting Software, Hardware Errors CMU Professor Earned Turing Award, Computer Science's Highest Honor by | Wednesday, December 23, 2020 Edmund M. Clarke, University Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University and co-recipient of the 2007 Turing Award – computer science's equivalent of the Nobel Prize – died Dec. 22 of COVID-19, following a long illness. Read More CyLab Researchers Design Privacy Icon for Use by California Law by | Wednesday, December 16, 2020 This past January, you may have noticed the phrase "Do not sell my personal information" at the bottom of many webpages. If you didn't, it could be because there's no icon next to it — even though the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) suggests using one. After a year without guidance on what that icon should look like, California has proposed an official icon to include with the opt-out text — one developed by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab and the University of Michigan's School of Information. Read More The Salad Days of AI Students Create Digital Green Thumbs To Nurture Vegetables in Automated Greenhouses by | Wednesday, December 16, 2020 Nidhi Jain has never had much luck growing plants. "I've tried to work with plants, but they didn't want to work with me," said the senior computer science major from California. "So I've stuck to succulents." Read More Justine Sherry Wins 2020 VMWare Systems Research Award by | Tuesday, December 15, 2020 Justine Sherry, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department (CSD), has won the 2020 VMWare Systems Research Award, in recognition of her seminal contributions to the networking field. VMWare presents the award each year to a faculty member who is within the first five years of their first tenure-track appointment. It includes a $125,000 award to support her research. Read More SCS Team Wins Most Influential Paper Award at Data Mining Conference by | Wednesday, December 9, 2020 A 2010 paper by a trio of School of Computer Science researchers that described an algorithm for detecting spammers, faulty equipment, credit card fraud and other anomalous behavior won the Most Influential Paper Award at the 2020 Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD). Read More Von Ahn Named National Academy of Inventors Fellow by | Tuesday, December 8, 2020 Luis von Ahn, a consulting professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department and co-founder and CEO of the language-learning platform Duolingo, is among 175 academic inventors elected as 2020 fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Read More Sandholm Wins AAAI Engelmore Award by | Tuesday, December 1, 2020 Tuomas Sandholm, the Angel Jordan University Professor of Computer Science, has received the 2021 Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture Award from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) for his AI research and service to the AI community. Read More Cranor, Touretzky Named 2020 AAAS Fellows by | Wednesday, November 25, 2020 Lorrie Cranor and David S. Touretzky, both faculty members in the School of Computer Science, are among almost 500 members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to be named 2020 AAAS fellows. Read More World's Fastest Open-Source Intrusion Detection Arrives by | Monday, November 16, 2020 Intrusion-detection systems are the invisible intelligence agencies in computer networks. They scan every packet of data passed through the network, looking for signs of any one of the tens of thousands of cyberattack styles they recognize. As internet speeds increase, data volumes grow. To keep up, intrusion-detection systems have morphed into giant racks and stacks of servers, driving up energy costs for organizations that rely on them. Read More Fragkiadaki Wins Air Force Young Investigator Award by | Tuesday, November 10, 2020 Katerina Fragkiadaki, an assistant professor in the Machine Learning Department, is one of 36 scientists and engineers nationwide — and one of just two from Carnegie Mellon University — to receive funding this year through the Air Force's Young Investigator Research Program (YIP). Read More SCS Celebrates New Professorships Faloutsos, Harchol-Balter, Sycara Honored During Virtual Event by | Thursday, October 22, 2020 A trio of distinguished School of Computer Science faculty members — Christos Faloutsos, Mor Harchol-Balter and Katia Sycara — formally received professorships during a virtual celebration on Thursday, Oct. 22. "The onset of the pandemic forced us to delay and modify the usual ceremonies that accompany these professorships, but our appreciation for the academic excellence and service to the school of these three faculty members is in no way diminished," said SCS Dean Martial Hebert. Read More Five SCS Seniors Named ACS Scholars by | Monday, October 19, 2020 Five School of Computer Science seniors have been selected as Andrew Carnegie Society Scholars for 2021. The award recognizes their academic excellence; volunteerism; leadership; and involvement in student organizations, athletics or the arts. Read More Sandholm Named Among Top 100 Entrepreneurs by | Wednesday, October 14, 2020 Goldman Sachs has named Tuomas Sandholm, the Angel Jordan University Professor of Computer Science, one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2020. Sandholm was cited for his role as founder, president and CEO of Strategy Robot Inc., a Carnegie Mellon University spinoff that applies game theory, artificial intelligence and optimization to military, war gaming, force design, portfolio planning, course-of-action creation, security, intelligence, cybersecurity, world stability and policy challenges. Read More CMU Scientists Solve 90-Year-Old Geometry Problem Math Puzzle Resolved by Translating It Into Satisfiability Problem by | Wednesday, September 30, 2020 Carnegie Mellon University computer scientists and mathematicians have resolved the last, stubborn piece of Keller's conjecture, a geometry problem that scientists have puzzled over for 90 years. By structuring the puzzle as what computer scientists call a satisfiability problem, the researchers put the problem to rest with four months of frenzied computer programming and just 30 minutes of computation using a cluster of computers. Read More Five SCS Students Named 2021 Siebel Scholars by | Monday, September 28, 2020 The Siebel Scholars Foundation has announced that SCS graduate students Brandon Bohrer, Rogerio Bonatti, Megan Hofmann, Hsiao-Yu Fish Tung and Lijun Yu are among the recipients of the 2021 Siebel Scholars award. Read More Bugless Code by | Thursday, August 27, 2020 Not long ago, people using Microsoft Word would check for spelling errors by specifically telling the software to run “Spell Check.” The check took a few seconds to do, and users could then go in and fix their typos. Nowadays, Spell Check runs automatically as users write — as I write this story. Read More SCS Students Receive Apple AI/ML Fellowships by | Monday, August 10, 2020 Apple has announced that two Ph.D. students in the School of Computer Science — Graham Gobieski and Xinyi Wang — have received fellowships in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). They're two of a dozen students who earned fellowships through Apple Scholars, a program that supports students in computer science and engineering. Read More Analysis of Complex Geometric Models Made Simple Monte Carlo Method Dispenses With Troublesome Meshes by | Monday, June 29, 2020 Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed an efficient new way to quickly analyze complex geometric models by borrowing a computational approach that has made photorealistic animated films possible. Rapid improvements in sensor technology have generated vast amounts of new geometric information, from scans of ancient architectural sites to the internal organs of humans. But analyzing that mountain of data, whether it's determining if a building is structurally sound or how oxygen flows through the lungs, has become a computational chokepoint. Read More A Master of Transformations Bryant Ready for Next Step: Retirement by | Wednesday, June 24, 2020 When Randy Bryant took the helm of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science in 2004, he quickly realized that SCS, despite its top ranking among computer science schools, had joined its peers in falling a bit behind the research curve. It was a time when Google and Amazon used thousand-machine server farms to perform unimagined feats and develop new computational methods for solving problems. But academics had yet to embrace the power of big data. Read More Schwartz Named Head of Computational Biology Department by | Friday, June 19, 2020 Martial Hebert, dean of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, has named Russell Schwartz the new head of the Computational Biology Department, effective July 1. Read More Three SCS Faculty Members Named Wimmer Fellows by | Monday, June 8, 2020 Three School of Computer Science faculty members — Michael Hilton, Stephanie Rosenthal and Joshua Sunshine — have been named 2020-21 Wimmer Faculty Fellows by the university's Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and Educational Innovation. Read More Carnegie Mellon Tool Automatically Turns Math Into Pictures Visualizations Poised To Enrich Teaching, Scientific Communication by | Tuesday, June 2, 2020 Some people look at an equation and see a bunch of numbers and symbols; others see beauty. Thanks to a new tool created at Carnegie Mellon University, anyone can now translate the abstractions of mathematics into beautiful and instructive illustrations.The tool enables users to create diagrams simply by typing an ordinary mathematical expression and letting the software do the drawing. Unlike a graphing calculator, these expressions aren't limited to basic functions, but can be complex relationships from any area of mathematics. Read More Recent SCS Grad Will Travel to Austria as Fulbright Grantee by | Tuesday, May 26, 2020 Vaidehi Srinivas, who recently graduated with a bachelor's degree in computer science, will head to Austria as one of seven Carnegie Mellon University students selected as 2020-2021 Fulbright Student Grantees. Read More Gibbons Will Receive ACM's Kanellakis Award by | Wednesday, May 20, 2020 The Association for Computing Machinery has announced that Carnegie Mellon University's Phillip Gibbons, professor in the Computer Science and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Departments, will receive the Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award. 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Fall/Winter 2020 Full Issue by | Tuesday, January 12, 2021 Download the Fall/Winter 2020 issue. (PDF reader required.) Read More
Edmund Clarke Pioneered Methods for Detecting Software, Hardware Errors CMU Professor Earned Turing Award, Computer Science's Highest Honor by | Wednesday, December 23, 2020 Edmund M. Clarke, University Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University and co-recipient of the 2007 Turing Award – computer science's equivalent of the Nobel Prize – died Dec. 22 of COVID-19, following a long illness. Read More
CyLab Researchers Design Privacy Icon for Use by California Law by | Wednesday, December 16, 2020 This past January, you may have noticed the phrase "Do not sell my personal information" at the bottom of many webpages. If you didn't, it could be because there's no icon next to it — even though the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) suggests using one. After a year without guidance on what that icon should look like, California has proposed an official icon to include with the opt-out text — one developed by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab and the University of Michigan's School of Information. Read More
The Salad Days of AI Students Create Digital Green Thumbs To Nurture Vegetables in Automated Greenhouses by | Wednesday, December 16, 2020 Nidhi Jain has never had much luck growing plants. "I've tried to work with plants, but they didn't want to work with me," said the senior computer science major from California. "So I've stuck to succulents." Read More
Justine Sherry Wins 2020 VMWare Systems Research Award by | Tuesday, December 15, 2020 Justine Sherry, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department (CSD), has won the 2020 VMWare Systems Research Award, in recognition of her seminal contributions to the networking field. VMWare presents the award each year to a faculty member who is within the first five years of their first tenure-track appointment. It includes a $125,000 award to support her research. Read More
SCS Team Wins Most Influential Paper Award at Data Mining Conference by | Wednesday, December 9, 2020 A 2010 paper by a trio of School of Computer Science researchers that described an algorithm for detecting spammers, faulty equipment, credit card fraud and other anomalous behavior won the Most Influential Paper Award at the 2020 Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD). Read More
Von Ahn Named National Academy of Inventors Fellow by | Tuesday, December 8, 2020 Luis von Ahn, a consulting professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department and co-founder and CEO of the language-learning platform Duolingo, is among 175 academic inventors elected as 2020 fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Read More
Sandholm Wins AAAI Engelmore Award by | Tuesday, December 1, 2020 Tuomas Sandholm, the Angel Jordan University Professor of Computer Science, has received the 2021 Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture Award from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) for his AI research and service to the AI community. Read More
Cranor, Touretzky Named 2020 AAAS Fellows by | Wednesday, November 25, 2020 Lorrie Cranor and David S. Touretzky, both faculty members in the School of Computer Science, are among almost 500 members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to be named 2020 AAAS fellows. Read More
World's Fastest Open-Source Intrusion Detection Arrives by | Monday, November 16, 2020 Intrusion-detection systems are the invisible intelligence agencies in computer networks. They scan every packet of data passed through the network, looking for signs of any one of the tens of thousands of cyberattack styles they recognize. As internet speeds increase, data volumes grow. To keep up, intrusion-detection systems have morphed into giant racks and stacks of servers, driving up energy costs for organizations that rely on them. Read More
Fragkiadaki Wins Air Force Young Investigator Award by | Tuesday, November 10, 2020 Katerina Fragkiadaki, an assistant professor in the Machine Learning Department, is one of 36 scientists and engineers nationwide — and one of just two from Carnegie Mellon University — to receive funding this year through the Air Force's Young Investigator Research Program (YIP). Read More
SCS Celebrates New Professorships Faloutsos, Harchol-Balter, Sycara Honored During Virtual Event by | Thursday, October 22, 2020 A trio of distinguished School of Computer Science faculty members — Christos Faloutsos, Mor Harchol-Balter and Katia Sycara — formally received professorships during a virtual celebration on Thursday, Oct. 22. "The onset of the pandemic forced us to delay and modify the usual ceremonies that accompany these professorships, but our appreciation for the academic excellence and service to the school of these three faculty members is in no way diminished," said SCS Dean Martial Hebert. Read More
Five SCS Seniors Named ACS Scholars by | Monday, October 19, 2020 Five School of Computer Science seniors have been selected as Andrew Carnegie Society Scholars for 2021. The award recognizes their academic excellence; volunteerism; leadership; and involvement in student organizations, athletics or the arts. Read More
Sandholm Named Among Top 100 Entrepreneurs by | Wednesday, October 14, 2020 Goldman Sachs has named Tuomas Sandholm, the Angel Jordan University Professor of Computer Science, one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2020. Sandholm was cited for his role as founder, president and CEO of Strategy Robot Inc., a Carnegie Mellon University spinoff that applies game theory, artificial intelligence and optimization to military, war gaming, force design, portfolio planning, course-of-action creation, security, intelligence, cybersecurity, world stability and policy challenges. Read More
CMU Scientists Solve 90-Year-Old Geometry Problem Math Puzzle Resolved by Translating It Into Satisfiability Problem by | Wednesday, September 30, 2020 Carnegie Mellon University computer scientists and mathematicians have resolved the last, stubborn piece of Keller's conjecture, a geometry problem that scientists have puzzled over for 90 years. By structuring the puzzle as what computer scientists call a satisfiability problem, the researchers put the problem to rest with four months of frenzied computer programming and just 30 minutes of computation using a cluster of computers. Read More
Five SCS Students Named 2021 Siebel Scholars by | Monday, September 28, 2020 The Siebel Scholars Foundation has announced that SCS graduate students Brandon Bohrer, Rogerio Bonatti, Megan Hofmann, Hsiao-Yu Fish Tung and Lijun Yu are among the recipients of the 2021 Siebel Scholars award. Read More
Bugless Code by | Thursday, August 27, 2020 Not long ago, people using Microsoft Word would check for spelling errors by specifically telling the software to run “Spell Check.” The check took a few seconds to do, and users could then go in and fix their typos. Nowadays, Spell Check runs automatically as users write — as I write this story. Read More
SCS Students Receive Apple AI/ML Fellowships by | Monday, August 10, 2020 Apple has announced that two Ph.D. students in the School of Computer Science — Graham Gobieski and Xinyi Wang — have received fellowships in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). They're two of a dozen students who earned fellowships through Apple Scholars, a program that supports students in computer science and engineering. Read More
Analysis of Complex Geometric Models Made Simple Monte Carlo Method Dispenses With Troublesome Meshes by | Monday, June 29, 2020 Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed an efficient new way to quickly analyze complex geometric models by borrowing a computational approach that has made photorealistic animated films possible. Rapid improvements in sensor technology have generated vast amounts of new geometric information, from scans of ancient architectural sites to the internal organs of humans. But analyzing that mountain of data, whether it's determining if a building is structurally sound or how oxygen flows through the lungs, has become a computational chokepoint. Read More
A Master of Transformations Bryant Ready for Next Step: Retirement by | Wednesday, June 24, 2020 When Randy Bryant took the helm of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science in 2004, he quickly realized that SCS, despite its top ranking among computer science schools, had joined its peers in falling a bit behind the research curve. It was a time when Google and Amazon used thousand-machine server farms to perform unimagined feats and develop new computational methods for solving problems. But academics had yet to embrace the power of big data. Read More
Schwartz Named Head of Computational Biology Department by | Friday, June 19, 2020 Martial Hebert, dean of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, has named Russell Schwartz the new head of the Computational Biology Department, effective July 1. Read More
Three SCS Faculty Members Named Wimmer Fellows by | Monday, June 8, 2020 Three School of Computer Science faculty members — Michael Hilton, Stephanie Rosenthal and Joshua Sunshine — have been named 2020-21 Wimmer Faculty Fellows by the university's Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and Educational Innovation. Read More
Carnegie Mellon Tool Automatically Turns Math Into Pictures Visualizations Poised To Enrich Teaching, Scientific Communication by | Tuesday, June 2, 2020 Some people look at an equation and see a bunch of numbers and symbols; others see beauty. Thanks to a new tool created at Carnegie Mellon University, anyone can now translate the abstractions of mathematics into beautiful and instructive illustrations.The tool enables users to create diagrams simply by typing an ordinary mathematical expression and letting the software do the drawing. Unlike a graphing calculator, these expressions aren't limited to basic functions, but can be complex relationships from any area of mathematics. Read More
Recent SCS Grad Will Travel to Austria as Fulbright Grantee by | Tuesday, May 26, 2020 Vaidehi Srinivas, who recently graduated with a bachelor's degree in computer science, will head to Austria as one of seven Carnegie Mellon University students selected as 2020-2021 Fulbright Student Grantees. Read More
Gibbons Will Receive ACM's Kanellakis Award by | Wednesday, May 20, 2020 The Association for Computing Machinery has announced that Carnegie Mellon University's Phillip Gibbons, professor in the Computer Science and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Departments, will receive the Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award. Read More
