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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 MoreJessica 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 MoreCS 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 MoreKeenan 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 MoreSeneca 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 MoreCSD'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 MoreJaime 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 MoreShah 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 MoreKolter, 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 MoreRanysha 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 MoreHebert 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 MoreFour 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 MoreHarlene 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 MoreKolter’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 MoreSeshan 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 MoreSCS 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 MoreDing 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 MoreCMU 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 MoreTwo 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 MoreCMU 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 MoreACM 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 MoreCMU 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 MoreGoogle Supports CMU Outreach to Women Computer Scientists
Grant Program Inspired by Success of SCS's Pioneering OurCS Workshop
by | Wednesday, October 9, 2019
The School of Computer Science's OurCS research-focused workshop for undergraduate women considering graduate studies in computer science is among the recipients of this year's Google exploreCSR grants, which were inspired, in turn, by the success of OurCS.
Read MoreSCS Students Named 2020 Siebel Scholars
by | Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Six Carnegie Mellon University students — five of them from the School of Computer Science — have been named 2020 Siebel Scholars, a highly competitive award that supports top graduate students in the fields of business, computer science, energy science and bioengineering.
Read MoreCMU Computer Science Academy Releases New Curriculum
Free Coursework Suitable for After-School Programs, Summer Camps, Middle Schools
by | Monday, September 16, 2019
Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Academy has released a new version of its free online curriculum for teaching high school computer programming that's tailored for use in after-school programs, summer camps or middle schools.
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