Latest News Four SCS Faculty Members Named University Professors by | Friday, May 15, 2020 Four faculty members from the School of Computer Science have been elevated to the rank of University Professor, the highest distinction a faculty member can achieve at Carnegie Mellon University. Read More "Five Big Ideas in AI" Featured in NSF Video Showcase CSD's Touretzky Leads National Effort To Define K-12 AI Curriculum by | Monday, May 4, 2020 A project to develop an artificial intelligence curriculum for grades K-12 headed by David Touretzky, a research professor in the Computer Science Department, will be featured in the National Science Foundation-funded 2020 STEM for All Video Showcase, which will be online May 5–12. Read More Balcan Receives ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award by | Wednesday, April 8, 2020 Maria Florina "Nina" Balcan, an associate professor in the School of Computer Science's Machine Learning and Computer Science Departments, has received the 2019 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Grace Murray Hopper Award for her significant innovations in machine learning and minimally supervised learning. Read More Rashmi Vinayak Receives Facebook Distributed Systems Research Award One Of Just Eight Researchers To Receive An Award by | Thursday, April 2, 2020 Rashmi Vinayak has been awarded a Facebook Research Distributed Systems research award. Read More Jessica Lee Wins Prestigious Goldwater Scholarship by | Wednesday, April 1, 2020 Jessica Lee, a junior majoring in computer science, is one of four Carnegie Mellon University students selected to receive a 2020 Barry Goldwater Scholarship, which is awarded to sophomores and juniors who show promise as leaders in the natural sciences, engineering and mathematics. Read More CS Academy Provides Free Coding Curriculum, Aiding Transition to Online Learning by | Monday, March 30, 2020 "Remote learning takes more energy than I expected," said Daryl Detrick, who teaches high schoolers how to code in New Jersey, and, like thousands of his peers, is working from home due to the novel coronavirus. But CMU CS Academy is easing his transition to the virtual classroom. CS Academy is a free, online, interactive computer science curriculum that includes teacher training and online technical support. Read More Keenan Crane Receives NSF CAREER Award Research Will Help Software Users Make Use of 3D Data by | Thursday, March 19, 2020 Keenan Crane, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department and Robotics Institute, has been awarded a four-year, $519,000 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, the National Science Foundation's most prestigious award for young faculty members. Read More Seneca Valley Team Wins Second Annual High School Programming Contest by | Monday, March 9, 2020 A team from Seneca Valley High School took top honors in the second annual Carnegie Mellon University High School Programming Contest, hosted by the School of Computer Science on Saturday, March 7. Read More CSD's Vinayak Wins NSF CAREER Award Research Aims To Improve Efficiency of Large-Scale Data Centers by | Wednesday, March 4, 2020 Rashmi Vinayak, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department, has won a five-year, $650,000 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious award for young faculty members. Read More Jaime Carbonell Pioneered Use of Computers for Translation Distinguished Professor Founded CMU's Language Technologies Institute by | Friday, February 28, 2020 Jaime Carbonell foresaw a world where people could freely communicate with each other, no matter what language they spoke. He knew that making this dream a reality would require automation, so he spent his career building machines that could understand human language. Read More Shah Earns NSF CAREER Award by | Friday, February 21, 2020 Nihar Shah, an assistant professor in the School of Computer Science's Machine Learning and Computer Science Departments, has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, the organization's most prestigious award for young faculty members. Read More Kolter, Gkioulekas Named Sloan Research Fellows by | Wednesday, February 12, 2020 Zico Kolter, an associate professor in the Computer Science Department (CSD), and Ioannis Gkioulekas, an assistant professor in the Robotics Institute, are among 126 early career researchers to receive 2020 Sloan Research Fellowships. Read More Ranysha Ware Awarded Prize for Work on Internet Fairness by | Friday, February 7, 2020 Ranysha Ware, a Ph.D. student in Carnegie Mellon University’s Computer Science Department, has received a 2020 Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) from the Internet Engineering Task Force. She is being recognized for her work on congestion control fairness. Read More Hebert Installed as SCS Dean by | Thursday, January 30, 2020 It's fitting that the installation of School of Computer Science Dean Martial Hebert would begin with a musical intro from Carnegie Mellon University's robot bagpiper, McBlare. After all, Hebert spent his career at the Robotics Institute until taking the helm of SCS this past August. Read More Four SCS Students Named Facebook Fellows by | Wednesday, January 29, 2020 Four Ph.D. candidates in the School of Computer Science are among 36 outstanding students in computer science and engineering from 16 universities who have been named 2020 recipients of the Facebook Fellowship Program. Read More Harlene Samra Earns Inaugural Krulcik Scholarship by | Monday, December 23, 2019 School of Computer Science junior Harlene Samra has so many doubts about whether she belongs in SCS that she's slapped an "imposter" sticker on her laptop. After all, when other people are pulling all-nighters, she's keeping a healthy sleep schedule. She binges TV shows. She works all weekend on assignments that might take someone else all of two hours. Read More Kolter’s Team Wins First Place on Kaggle Competition with Over 2700 Teams by | Wednesday, December 18, 2019 The team of researchers was composed of Zico Kolter, Shaojie Bai, Devin Wilmott, Mordechai Kornbluth, and Jonathan Mailoa, who won a Kaggle competition onPredicting Molecular Properties this past September.Shaojie Bai, a doctoral student with the Machine Learning Department and team member, said the team completed the project during an internship at the Bosch Center for AI (BCAI). Read More Seshan Named 2019 ACM Fellow by | Wednesday, December 11, 2019 The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named Srinivasan Seshan, professor and head of the Computer Science Department, one of 58 new ACM fellows who are being honored for fundamental contributions in such areas as artificial intelligence, cloud computing and wireless networking. The ACM cited Seshan "for contributions to computer networking, mobile computing and wireless communications." Read More SCS Announces Dissertation Award Winners, ACM Nominees by | Monday, December 9, 2019 The School of Computer Science has announced that Carlo Angiuli, who recently earned his Ph.D. from the Computer Science Department, has received the 2018-2019 SCS Dissertation Award. Presented annually, the award recognizes outstanding work by an SCS graduate student and includes a cash prize and distinguished lectures by the recipient. Read More Ding Earns 2019 Stehlik Scholarship by | Monday, December 2, 2019 School of Computer Science senior Wenxin (Freda) Ding always dreamed of being a teacher. And while she's majoring in computer science and math — not teaching — her dedication to helping others ranks high among the reasons she's earned the 2019 Mark Stehlik SCS Alumni Undergraduate Impact Scholarship. Read More CMU Researchers Propose New Rules for Internet Fairness by | Friday, November 15, 2019 Just weeks after a team of Carnegie Mellon researchers demonstrated that Google's new congestion control algorithm (CCA) gives an unfair advantage to its own traffic, the same team has proposed new guidelines for how future algorithms should be developed. Read More Two Endowed Professorships Created for Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Gifts Totaling $6 Million by Cadence Design Systems and CEO Lip-Bu Tan Will Advance Research and Teaching by | Wednesday, November 13, 2019 Cadence Design Systems Inc. and its CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, have made significant gifts of $3 million each to support Carnegie Mellon University faculty members working in computer-related fields. Read More CMU Women Prominent Among Rising Stars 2019 Annual Workshop Boosts Women in Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering by | Friday, November 8, 2019 Women from Carnegie Mellon University outnumbered those from every other institution at Rising Stars 2019, an annual workshop for early career women in computer science and electrical and computer engineering. They also won two of the four prizes in the workshop's Research Pitch Competition. Read More ACM Names Tom Cortina as Distinguished Member by | Monday, November 4, 2019 The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named Thomas Cortina, teaching professor in the Computer Science Department and assistant dean for undergraduate education in the School of Computer Science, one of 62 computer scientists worldwide to be recognized this year as Distinguished Members for their outstanding contributions. Read More CMU Researchers Find Google's New Congestion Control Algorithm Treats Data Unfairly by | Tuesday, October 22, 2019 If the Internet had its own superhero, it might be the congestion control algorithm (CCA), an essential piece of code internet giants use to ensure that the web isn't crippled by a massive data traffic jam. They've been used since the 1980s to slow data transfers when they sense a network is becoming overloaded. 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Four SCS Faculty Members Named University Professors by | Friday, May 15, 2020 Four faculty members from the School of Computer Science have been elevated to the rank of University Professor, the highest distinction a faculty member can achieve at Carnegie Mellon University. Read More
"Five Big Ideas in AI" Featured in NSF Video Showcase CSD's Touretzky Leads National Effort To Define K-12 AI Curriculum by | Monday, May 4, 2020 A project to develop an artificial intelligence curriculum for grades K-12 headed by David Touretzky, a research professor in the Computer Science Department, will be featured in the National Science Foundation-funded 2020 STEM for All Video Showcase, which will be online May 5–12. Read More
Balcan Receives ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award by | Wednesday, April 8, 2020 Maria Florina "Nina" Balcan, an associate professor in the School of Computer Science's Machine Learning and Computer Science Departments, has received the 2019 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Grace Murray Hopper Award for her significant innovations in machine learning and minimally supervised learning. Read More
Rashmi Vinayak Receives Facebook Distributed Systems Research Award One Of Just Eight Researchers To Receive An Award by | Thursday, April 2, 2020 Rashmi Vinayak has been awarded a Facebook Research Distributed Systems research award. Read More
Jessica Lee Wins Prestigious Goldwater Scholarship by | Wednesday, April 1, 2020 Jessica Lee, a junior majoring in computer science, is one of four Carnegie Mellon University students selected to receive a 2020 Barry Goldwater Scholarship, which is awarded to sophomores and juniors who show promise as leaders in the natural sciences, engineering and mathematics. Read More
CS Academy Provides Free Coding Curriculum, Aiding Transition to Online Learning by | Monday, March 30, 2020 "Remote learning takes more energy than I expected," said Daryl Detrick, who teaches high schoolers how to code in New Jersey, and, like thousands of his peers, is working from home due to the novel coronavirus. But CMU CS Academy is easing his transition to the virtual classroom. CS Academy is a free, online, interactive computer science curriculum that includes teacher training and online technical support. Read More
Keenan Crane Receives NSF CAREER Award Research Will Help Software Users Make Use of 3D Data by | Thursday, March 19, 2020 Keenan Crane, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department and Robotics Institute, has been awarded a four-year, $519,000 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, the National Science Foundation's most prestigious award for young faculty members. Read More
Seneca Valley Team Wins Second Annual High School Programming Contest by | Monday, March 9, 2020 A team from Seneca Valley High School took top honors in the second annual Carnegie Mellon University High School Programming Contest, hosted by the School of Computer Science on Saturday, March 7. Read More
CSD's Vinayak Wins NSF CAREER Award Research Aims To Improve Efficiency of Large-Scale Data Centers by | Wednesday, March 4, 2020 Rashmi Vinayak, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department, has won a five-year, $650,000 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious award for young faculty members. Read More
Jaime Carbonell Pioneered Use of Computers for Translation Distinguished Professor Founded CMU's Language Technologies Institute by | Friday, February 28, 2020 Jaime Carbonell foresaw a world where people could freely communicate with each other, no matter what language they spoke. He knew that making this dream a reality would require automation, so he spent his career building machines that could understand human language. Read More
Shah Earns NSF CAREER Award by | Friday, February 21, 2020 Nihar Shah, an assistant professor in the School of Computer Science's Machine Learning and Computer Science Departments, has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, the organization's most prestigious award for young faculty members. Read More
Kolter, Gkioulekas Named Sloan Research Fellows by | Wednesday, February 12, 2020 Zico Kolter, an associate professor in the Computer Science Department (CSD), and Ioannis Gkioulekas, an assistant professor in the Robotics Institute, are among 126 early career researchers to receive 2020 Sloan Research Fellowships. Read More
Ranysha Ware Awarded Prize for Work on Internet Fairness by | Friday, February 7, 2020 Ranysha Ware, a Ph.D. student in Carnegie Mellon University’s Computer Science Department, has received a 2020 Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) from the Internet Engineering Task Force. She is being recognized for her work on congestion control fairness. Read More
Hebert Installed as SCS Dean by | Thursday, January 30, 2020 It's fitting that the installation of School of Computer Science Dean Martial Hebert would begin with a musical intro from Carnegie Mellon University's robot bagpiper, McBlare. After all, Hebert spent his career at the Robotics Institute until taking the helm of SCS this past August. Read More
Four SCS Students Named Facebook Fellows by | Wednesday, January 29, 2020 Four Ph.D. candidates in the School of Computer Science are among 36 outstanding students in computer science and engineering from 16 universities who have been named 2020 recipients of the Facebook Fellowship Program. Read More
Harlene Samra Earns Inaugural Krulcik Scholarship by | Monday, December 23, 2019 School of Computer Science junior Harlene Samra has so many doubts about whether she belongs in SCS that she's slapped an "imposter" sticker on her laptop. After all, when other people are pulling all-nighters, she's keeping a healthy sleep schedule. She binges TV shows. She works all weekend on assignments that might take someone else all of two hours. Read More
Kolter’s Team Wins First Place on Kaggle Competition with Over 2700 Teams by | Wednesday, December 18, 2019 The team of researchers was composed of Zico Kolter, Shaojie Bai, Devin Wilmott, Mordechai Kornbluth, and Jonathan Mailoa, who won a Kaggle competition onPredicting Molecular Properties this past September.Shaojie Bai, a doctoral student with the Machine Learning Department and team member, said the team completed the project during an internship at the Bosch Center for AI (BCAI). Read More
Seshan Named 2019 ACM Fellow by | Wednesday, December 11, 2019 The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named Srinivasan Seshan, professor and head of the Computer Science Department, one of 58 new ACM fellows who are being honored for fundamental contributions in such areas as artificial intelligence, cloud computing and wireless networking. The ACM cited Seshan "for contributions to computer networking, mobile computing and wireless communications." Read More
SCS Announces Dissertation Award Winners, ACM Nominees by | Monday, December 9, 2019 The School of Computer Science has announced that Carlo Angiuli, who recently earned his Ph.D. from the Computer Science Department, has received the 2018-2019 SCS Dissertation Award. Presented annually, the award recognizes outstanding work by an SCS graduate student and includes a cash prize and distinguished lectures by the recipient. Read More
Ding Earns 2019 Stehlik Scholarship by | Monday, December 2, 2019 School of Computer Science senior Wenxin (Freda) Ding always dreamed of being a teacher. And while she's majoring in computer science and math — not teaching — her dedication to helping others ranks high among the reasons she's earned the 2019 Mark Stehlik SCS Alumni Undergraduate Impact Scholarship. Read More
CMU Researchers Propose New Rules for Internet Fairness by | Friday, November 15, 2019 Just weeks after a team of Carnegie Mellon researchers demonstrated that Google's new congestion control algorithm (CCA) gives an unfair advantage to its own traffic, the same team has proposed new guidelines for how future algorithms should be developed. Read More
Two Endowed Professorships Created for Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Gifts Totaling $6 Million by Cadence Design Systems and CEO Lip-Bu Tan Will Advance Research and Teaching by | Wednesday, November 13, 2019 Cadence Design Systems Inc. and its CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, have made significant gifts of $3 million each to support Carnegie Mellon University faculty members working in computer-related fields. Read More
CMU Women Prominent Among Rising Stars 2019 Annual Workshop Boosts Women in Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering by | Friday, November 8, 2019 Women from Carnegie Mellon University outnumbered those from every other institution at Rising Stars 2019, an annual workshop for early career women in computer science and electrical and computer engineering. They also won two of the four prizes in the workshop's Research Pitch Competition. Read More
ACM Names Tom Cortina as Distinguished Member by | Monday, November 4, 2019 The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named Thomas Cortina, teaching professor in the Computer Science Department and assistant dean for undergraduate education in the School of Computer Science, one of 62 computer scientists worldwide to be recognized this year as Distinguished Members for their outstanding contributions. Read More
CMU Researchers Find Google's New Congestion Control Algorithm Treats Data Unfairly by | Tuesday, October 22, 2019 If the Internet had its own superhero, it might be the congestion control algorithm (CCA), an essential piece of code internet giants use to ensure that the web isn't crippled by a massive data traffic jam. They've been used since the 1980s to slow data transfers when they sense a network is becoming overloaded. Read More
