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CMU Hacking Team Looks for Win at DefCon
by Daniel Tkacik | Tuesday, July 25, 2017
At a time when cybersecurity pervades news headlines, it's fitting that a team of cybersecurity experts from Carnegie Mellon University may grab an unprecedented win this weekend in Las Vegas.
Carnegie Mellon's competitive hacking team, the Plaid Parliament of Pwning, looks to win a fourth title at this year's DefCon cybersecurity conference. No other team has ever won more than three times in DefCon's 21-year history of what many refer to as the "World Series of Hacking."
Read MoreUPMC Professorships Will Help Shape the Future of Healthcare
by Shilo Rea and Byron Spice | Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Carnegie Mellon University's Ruslan "Russ" Salakhutdinov, Kathryn Roeder and Larry Wasserman have received endowed professorships from UPMC to fund work in statistics, artificial intelligence, machine learning and data analytics to help shape the future of healthcare.
Read MoreSCS Will Welcome Largest First-Year Class This Fall
Women Once Again Make Up Almost Half of Incoming Students
by Byron Spice | Wednesday, June 28, 2017
The School of Computer Science is preparing for its largest-ever incoming class of first-years this fall, with 206 students currently committed, continuing the school's efforts to meet the world's growing demand for computer scientists by increasing its undergraduate enrollment.
Read MoreCarnegie Mellon Solidifies Leadership Role in Artificial Intelligence
New Initiative, CMU AI, Unifies Expertise Across Departments and Disciplines
by Byron Spice | Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science (SCS) has launched a new initiative, CMU AI, that marshals the school's work in artificial intelligence (AI) across departments and disciplines, creating one of the largest and most experienced AI research groups in the world.
Read MoreDunietz Receives AAAS Mass Media Fellowship
by Byron Spice | Monday, June 5, 2017
Jesse Dunietz, a Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Science Department, will spend 10 weeks this summer at the New York offices of Scientific American magazine as an American Association for the Advancement of Science Mass Media fellow.
Read MoreShaw, Garlan Receive IEEE Software Engineering Awards
by Joshua Quicksall and Byron Spice | Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Institute for Software Research (ISR) professors Mary Shaw and David Garlan will receive IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE) awards at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), May 20–28 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Read MoreACM Honors Satya, Colleagues for Andrew File System
CMU Created First Distributed File System in 1980s
by Byron Spice | Wednesday, May 3, 2017
The Association for Computing Machinery has named the developers of Carnegie Mellon University's pioneering Andrew File System (AFS) the recipients of its prestigious 2016 Software System Award.
Read MoreShaw Earns University's Highest Education Honor
by Susie Cribbs | Monday, April 24, 2017
Mary Shaw joined the Carnegie Mellon University faculty after she completed her Ph.D. at the university in 1972. Since then, she's designed computer science curricula at all university levels, established software architecture as a recognized discipline, and served as chief scientist of CMU's Software Engineering Institute and associate dean for professional education.
Read MoreCarnegie Mellon Advances Cloud's Capacity for Video Analytics
Research With Intel Addresses Rapidly Growing Volume of Online Video
by Byron Spice | Sunday, April 23, 2017
Carnegie Mellon University is leading a research effort sponsored by the Intel Corporation that will enable cloud-based services to process a rapidly increasing volume of online video and put new analytics and immersive technologies within reach of consumers, businesses and public officials.
Read MoreProject Olympus Hosts Spring Carnival "Show and Tell"
Research, Startups Take Center Stage in McConomy Auditorium
by Byron Spice | Friday, April 14, 2017
The Project Olympus innovation program will host its annual Spring Carnival Show and Tell event, highlighting research and startups of interest to the investment community, from 4:30 to 6 p.m., Thursday, April 20, in the Cohon University Center's McConomy Auditorium.
Read MoreCarnegie Mellon AI Beats Chinese Poker Players
Lengpudashi Tops Humans by $792,327 in Virtual Chips During Five-Day Exhibition
by Byron Spice | Monday, April 10, 2017
Artificial intelligence has once again triumphed over human poker players, as a program developed by Carnegie Mellon University researchers beat six Chinese players by a total of $792,327 in virtual chips during a five-day, 36,000-hand exhibition that ended today in Hainan, China.
Read MoreCarnegie Mellon AI Takes On Chinese Poker Players
China Exhibition Includes $290,000 Winner-Take-All Prize
by Byron Spice | Wednesday, April 5, 2017
A version of Carnegie Mellon University's Libratus, which in January became the first artificial intelligence to defeat top poker pros at Heads-Up, No-Limit Texas Hold'em, will play six top Chinese players for a $290,000 winner-take-all purse.
The 36,000-hand exhibition featuring a different AI, named Lengpudashi or "cold poker master," will take place April 6–10 on the island province of Hainan, China.
Read MoreCarnegie Mellon Makes Strong Showing at Global CodeCon Finals
by Aisha Rashid | Thursday, March 23, 2017
Two Carnegie Mellon University students outcoded more than a hundred of their peers at the 2017 Global CodeCon Finals — a two-hour long coding competition at Bloomberg's offices in New York City and London. Raymond Kang, a junior studying computer science and mathematical sciences, earned ninth place; and Gabriele Farina, a Ph.D. student in computer science, came in 13th.
Read MoreSCS Undergrads Named KPCB Fellows
by Aisha Rashid | Tuesday, March 21, 2017
The Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers (KPCB) Fellowship Program has announced that two School of Computer Science undergraduates are among the fellows in its 2017 Engineering Fellows Program.
Allison Wang and Serena Wang are among 54 students selected from almost 2,000 applicants across the country to represent their universities this summer in Silicon Valley. The three-month summer program helps fellows develop their technical and design skills under the mentorship of innovative Silicon Valley startups.
Read MoreBlum To Participate on Panel in DC
by Byron Spice | Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Lenore Blum will join a panel, "Mothers of Invention: Celebrating Women Innovators," hosted by the Congressional Inventions Caucus on Wednesday, March 22, in Washington, D.C. Blum will speak about Project Olympus and Women@SCS and the roles they play in increasing the participation of women in computer science and entrepreneurship.
Read MoreFrieze Honored for Increasing Diversity in Computer Science
CMU's Director of Women@SCS and SCS4ALL Will Receive 2017 Habermann Award
by Byron Spice | Tuesday, March 7, 2017
The Computing Research Association has selected Carnegie Mellon University's Carol Frieze as the recipient of its 2017 A. Nico Habermann Award, recognizing her sustained, successful efforts to promote diversity in computer science.
Read MoreKanade Will Receive IEEE Founder's Medal
High Honor Recognizes Leadership in Computer Vision and Robotics
by Byron Spice | Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Takeo Kanade, Carnegie Mellon University's U. A. and Helen Whitaker Professor of Robotics and Computer Science, has been named the 2017 recipient of the IEEE Founder's Medal — one of IEEE's highest honors.
The medal, which will be presented at the annual IEEE Honors Ceremony on Thursday, May 25, in San Francisco, recognizes Kanade "for pioneering and seminal contributions to computer vision and robotics for automotive safety, facial recognition, virtual reality and medical robotics."
Read MoreLibratus Making Headlines in Wake of Historic Poker Win
CMU AI Becomes First to Defeat Top Pros Playing No-Limit Texas Hold'em
by Byron Spice | Monday, February 6, 2017
"A major milestone for AI."
"A powerful and rather unsettling proposition: a machine that can out-bluff a human."
"Libratus's main attribute as a poker player is that it's inhumanly good."
Read MoreCarnegie Mellon Artificial Intelligence Beats Top Poker Pros
Historic Win at Rivers Casino Is First Against Best Human Players
by Byron Spice | Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Libratus, an artificial intelligence developed by Carnegie Mellon University, made history by defeating four of the world's best professional poker players in a marathon 20-day poker competition called "Brains vs. Artificial Intelligence: Upping the Ante" at Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh.
Read MoreSCS Students Named 2017 Facebook Fellows
by Aisha Rashid | Monday, January 30, 2017
Three School of Computer Science graduate students have been named to the 2017 class of Facebook fellows.
Read MorePoker Pros, Sandholm Discuss Brains vs. AI in New Video
by Susie Cribbs | Thursday, January 26, 2017
With more than half the competition in the rearview mirror, Carnegie Mellon University's AI program Libratus has built up a substantial lead against four top poker professionals in Brains vs. Artificial Intelligence: Upping the Ante.
In our latest video, Computer Science Professor Tuomas Sandholm and two of the poker professionals reflect on the competition to date and what it means for the future of artificial intelligence.
Read MorePennington, Stehlik Among Alumni Award Honorees
by Aisha Rashid | Wednesday, January 25, 2017
The Carnegie Mellon Alumni Association annually recognizes alumni, students and faculty for their service to the university and their achievements in the arts, humanities, business and other fields. Since the first Alumni Awards were presented in 1950, more than 880 individuals have been honored through the program.
Read MoreCMU AI Is Tough Poker Player
Libratus Builds Substantial Lead in Brains Vs. AI Competition
by Byron Spice (Carnegie Mellon) and Garrett Allen (Rivers Casino) | Friday, January 20, 2017
As the "Brains vs. Artificial Intelligence: Upping the Ante" poker competition nears its halfway point, Carnegie Mellon University's AI program, Libratus, is opening a lead over its human opponents — four of the world's best professional poker players.
One of the pros, Jimmy Chou, said he and his colleagues initially underestimated Libratus, but have come to regard it as one tough player.
"The bot gets better and better every day," Chou said. "It's like a tougher version of us."
Read MoreComputer Chess Pioneer Hans Berliner Dies at 87
by Byron Spice | Wednesday, January 18, 2017
Former SCS faculty member Hans Berliner, a world champion correspondence chess player who built the first game-playing computer ever to defeat a human champion at any game, died Jan. 13 in Riviera Beach, Fla. He was 87.
Read MorePoker Play Begins in "Brains Vs. AI: Upping the Ante"
Top Pros Will Play 120,000 Hands With Libratus AI
by Byron Spice | Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Game play began on schedule on Wednesday, Jan. 11, for "Brains Vs. Artificial Intelligence: Upping the Ante," a competition at Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh that pits a Carnegie Mellon University artificial intelligence called Libratus against four of the world's best professional poker players.
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