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SCS Remembers Adobe Founder and Ph.D. Alum Charles Geschke
by Aaron Aupperlee | Tuesday, April 27, 2021
A creator of software that revolutionized the way people collaborate, Charles M. Geschke left his mark on Carnegie Mellon University long after earning his degree.
"Chuck" Geschke, who received a Ph.D. in computer science from CMU in 1973 and continued to give back to the university throughout his life, died Friday, April 16, at 81.
Read MoreAlgorithm Uses Online Ads To Identify Human Traffickers
by Aaron Aupperlee | Thursday, April 22, 2021
Ads peddling the victims of human trafficking hide among millions of escort listings online. While identifying similar ads could be the key to taking down a human trafficking organization, the sheer volume of listings — with new ones added each day — makes the task a daunting one for law enforcement.
Read MoreMani Revists AI Grand Challenges in New Article
by Aaron Aupperlee | Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Chess turned out to be an easy one. Translating speech in near real-time is mostly done. The accident-avoiding car? Maybe halfway there.
Read MoreSCS Faculty Awarded Five Grants Through Google's Inaugural Research Scholar Program
by Aaron Aupperlee | Friday, April 9, 2021
Six Carnegie Mellon University faculty members, including five affiliated with the School of Computer Science, received grants through Google's inaugural Research Scholar Program. The program provides up to $60,000 to support the research efforts of early career professors.
Read MoreSCS Juniors Named Goldwater Recipients
by Aaron Aupperlee | Tuesday, April 6, 2021
Two School of Computer Science students received the prestigious Barry Goldwater Scholarship for 2021.
Arvind Mahankali and Jinhyung Park were among four Carnegie Mellon University students granted the scholarship, which is awarded to sophomores and juniors who show promise as leaders in the natural sciences, engineering and mathematics.
Read MoreBlelloch Receives 2021 Babbage Award
by Aaron Aupperlee | Tuesday, March 30, 2021
The IEEE Computer Society has honored Guy Blelloch with the 2021 Charles Babbage Award for his contributions to parallel programming, parallel algorithms and the interface between them.
Read MoreWoodruff Earns Award for Teaching Excellence
by Aaron Aupperlee | Monday, March 29, 2021
To adjust to teaching virtually during the pandemic, David Woodruff let his students set the pace. That meant sticking around on Zoom for an extra 20 minutes at the end of lectures. It meant longer office hours — two hours instead of one. And it meant cutting one lecture from his courses to slow the pace.
Read MoreSCS Grad Student Cracks Mars Rover Code
by Michael Henninger | Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Down here on Earth, nearly 130 million miles from Mars, Adithya Balaji eagerly watched high-definition video of Perseverance and its successful descent onto the red planet. From his desk in Raleigh, North Carolina, Balaji took note of the rover's parachute and its peculiar orange and white pattern. He thought it was likely functional, perhaps for aligning cameras. Within the pattern, however, lay hidden a call for humanity to continue to push out toward the unknown.
Read MoreSCS Faculty Among Team That Earns MURI Award
by Daniel Tkacik | Monday, March 8, 2021
School of Computer Science faculty members Lujo Bauer and Matt Fredrikson are part of a research team that won a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Award.
Read MoreCMU Remembers Computer Science Visionary Howard Wactlar
by Michael Henninger | Friday, March 5, 2021
Carnegie Mellon University lost a remarkable visionary this week with the death of Howard Wactlar, who pioneered computing on campus for nearly half a century while advancing the nation's research agenda through his work with the federal government.
Read MoreSCS Names First Assistant Dean for Entrepreneurship Initiatives
by Matthew Wein | Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Katharine "Kit" Needham has been named the School of Computer Science's inaugural assistant dean for entrepreneurship initiatives.
Read MorePeet Named Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Experience
by Matthew Wein | Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Veronica Peet has been named the School of Computer Science's first assistant dean for undergraduate experience.
Peet joined SCS nearly two years ago as a senior academic advisor to first-year students, working with Tom Cortina, then the assistant dean for undergraduate education. Her new position emerged from departmental restructuring that saw Cortina elevated to associate dean for undergraduate programs.
Read MoreCMU Researchers Win NSF-Amazon Fairness in AI Awards
by Byron Spice | Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Three Carnegie Mellon University research teams have received funding through the Program on Fairness in Artificial Intelligence, which the National Science Foundation sponsors in partnership with Amazon. The program supports computational research focused on fairness in AI, with the goal of building trustworthy AI systems that can be deployed to tackle grand challenges facing society.
Read MoreWorkshop Sparks State Initiatives in AI Education
by Byron Spice | Monday, February 8, 2021
A two-day virtual workshop organized by the AI4K12 Initiative involving education leaders from across the country has helped spark new K-12 artificial intelligence efforts in several states, said David Touretzky, research professor in computer science.
Read MoreSCS Celebrates Simon, Alumni Research Professorships
by Byron Spice | Wednesday, February 3, 2021
Artur Dubrawski will receive the Alumni Research Professorship of Computer Science and Carleton Kingsford will receive the Herbert A. Simon Professorship of Computer Science in a virtual ceremony at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 4.
Read MoreXinyu Wu Wins Ada Lovelace Fellowship
by Byron Spice | Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Xinyu Wu, a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department who studies the theoretical foundations of quantum computing, is one of five recipients of 2021 Ada Lovelace Fellowships, presented by Microsoft Research.
Read MoreHow CyLab researchers are safeguarding digital transactions
CS Faculty Jan Hoffman & PhD Student Ankush Das open-source Nomos
by Daniel Tkacik | Monday, January 25, 2021
In 2013, a Pennsylvania man became the richest person on Earth… for about two minutes. PayPal had accidentally credited his account $92 quadrillion dollars. That’s a 92 with 15 zeros behind it. But within minutes, PayPal realized their mistake, and took it all back. Too bad.
Read MoreBrothers Complete Long Journey To Doctorates
by Heidi Opdyke | Monday, January 25, 2021
Read MoreBlum, Forlizzi Named ACM Fellows
by Byron Spice | Wednesday, January 13, 2021
School of Computer Science faculty members Manuel Blum and Jodi Forlizzi are among 95 distinguished computer scientists named 2020 fellows by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
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Read MoreFrom Video Signals to Bytes: Preserving the Legacy of CS at CMU
by Cristina Rouvalis | Tuesday, January 12, 2021
The image from the videotape is blurry, deteriorated from the passage of time, but the professor is razor-sharp as he talks about the future. Herb Simon stands in front of a class at Carnegie Mellon University, musing about the difference between artificial and natural intelligence.
Read MoreEdmund Clarke Pioneered Methods for Detecting Software, Hardware Errors
CMU Professor Earned Turing Award, Computer Science's Highest Honor
by Byron Spice | 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 MoreCyLab Researchers Design Privacy Icon for Use by California Law
by Daniel Tkacik | 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 MoreThe Salad Days of AI
Students Create Digital Green Thumbs To Nurture Vegetables in Automated Greenhouses
by Byron Spice | 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 MoreJustine Sherry Wins 2020 VMWare Systems Research Award
by Byron Spice | 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.
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