We're sad to announce that Jaime Carbonell of @CarnegieMellon, a pioneer in AI, machine learning and language technologies, has died following an extended illness. The "godfather of language technologies," he led @LTIatCMU from its inception. bit.ly/3cn5LlZ
ALT Jaime Carbonell of Carnegie Mellon's Language Technologies Institute
Sad news today: Edmund Clarke, University Professor Emeritus and co-recipient of the 2007 Turing Award, has died of COVID-19. "The world lost a giant in computer science," says CMU President Farnam Jahanian. bit.ly/3rjoTZv
ALT Edmund M. Clarke, University Professor Emeritus
Congratulations to @justinesherry, winner of the @VMware Systems Research Award. She is recognized for her contributions to networking, particularly her influential work on middleboxes. bit.ly/3mmBO9a
ALT Justine Sherry, assistant professor of computer science , Carnegie Mellon University
Some people have a gift for using diagrams to explain abstract mathematical concepts. Now, @CarnegieMellon researchers have developed an automated system that will enable anyone to translate math into pictures.
bit.ly/2Mnd3u2@siggraph@CSDatCMU @isrcmu @CMU_Robotics
ALT CMU's Penrose system automatically translates math into pictures
Researchers @CarnegieMellon have invented a self-healing material that can be used to make sensors and actuators; when cut, they can heal and regain function. Or, when cut and rearranged, they can gain new functions @cmuhcii@CMUEngineeringbit.ly/2y2dPsX
SCS claimed five of CMU's six top specialty area rankings, including artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, game/simulation development, programming languages and software engineering. And we're No. 1 overall in computer science.
Huge thank you to @NVIDIADC for gifting a brand new #NVIDIADGX B200 to CMU’s Catalyst Research Group! This AI supercomputing system will afford Catalyst the ability to run and test their work on a world-class unified AI platform.
News: @argoai and @CarnegieMellon announce $15 million, 5-year research agreement; CMU/Argo AI Center for Autonomous Vehicle Research will develop methods for operating in real-world conditions, such as winter weather or construction zones bit.ly/2ZJhB2B@CMU_Robotics
Time flies -- the first successful message was sent via ARPANET 50 years ago. @CarnegieMellon was one of the first nodes on that forerunner of today's internet.
ALT A U.S. map shows the first nodes on the ARPANET, the precursor of today's internet
Three @CarnegieMellon research teams are tackling AI fairness issues with support from @NSF and @amazon. Projects address new methods for detecting bias, translating fairness goals into public policy and increasing the diversity of AI users. bit.ly/2N3gASp
ALT Photo of smartphone displaying an emoji via Unsplash
Brothers Henry and Andrew DeYoung recently defended their doctoral theses @CarnegieMellon within a few weeks of each other; Henry in @CSDatCMU, Andrew @CMU_Chem. Both have spinal muscular atrophy; both excelled nonetheless. Here's their story: bit.ly/3a06k4A
We @SCSatCMU are launching the first U.S. undergraduate degree in artificial intelligence this fall; teaching students how to turn massive amounts of data into decisions and perceptions bit.ly/2ryQRD7bit.ly/2ry8HpM#CMUAI
Jian Ma @CMUCompBio will lead a new multi-institutional research center sponsored by @NIH to study 3D structure of cell nuclei and how changes in that structure affect cell functions in health and disease.
bit.ly/3dwofkB@CarnegieMellon
ALT Photo of Jian Ma, associate professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Computational Biology Department
Shruti Rijhwani, a Ph.D. student in the @LTIatCMU, will "define the next decade" and "remake our world," according to the 2022 edition of @Forbes' "30 Under 30" list for science.
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We are launching a free, online curriculum for high school students that helps teach Python programming skills. Developed by our renowned computer science faculty with help from our students, it fills the gap between K-8 materials and AP courses. bit.ly/2REh8yd#CSed
Computer scientist Keenan Crane, PhD, is asked to explain fractals to 5 different people; a child, a teen, a college student, a grad student, and an expert.
Computer Scientist Explains Fractals in 5 Levels of Difficulty
Computer scientist Keenan Crane, PhD, is asked to explain fractals to 5 different people; a child, a teen, a college student, a grad student, and an expert.
We're unreasonably hyped for this: journalist @soledadobrien will deliver the MLK Keynote Address Feb. 8!
Register by Feb. 7 to attend the talk in-person or online: bit.ly/3rhcw1R
In 1986, “I co-taught a CMU course with Geoff and Allen Newell on ‘Architectures for Intelligence,’" said @tommmitchell "Geoff was in the early years of his work on neural networks, but even then he was pretty sure he was on the right track.”
Congratulations to Geoff Hinton, who shares this year's #TuringAward with Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCunn. Geoff began his work on the backpropagation algorithm, now standard in most neural nets, while he was on the @CSDatCMU faculty, 1982-87
If you're applying to our PhD programs and would like guidance from people familiar with the process, SCS students are here to help! Apply to GASP (Graduate Applicant Support Program) by Nov 11, to get feedback from CMU mentors.
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Happy Birthday, Smiley. The emoticon was created 37 years ago to this minute by SCS's Scott Fahlman. CMU folks: meet at the eastern end of Pausch Bridge RIGHT NOW for our annual celebration #ThatsSoCMU
ALT photo of Scott Fahlman, creator of the Smiley emoticon, signing an autograph
Congratulations to Lt. Gen. Jody Daniels, a computer scientist and @CarnegieMellon alum, who has been named the first female to lead the U.S. Army Reserve in its 112-year history. bit.ly/3fTne6F
New Faculty Alert! Join us in welcoming Christina Harrington (@adapperprof) to @cmuhcii!
Her research is at the intersection of design, HCI, and engineering psychology with special interest on developing and evaluating devices and systems to improve health-related behaviors.
Happy 20th birthday, @getaudacity! The most popular audio editor in the world, it was created by Dominic Mazzoni and Roger Dannenberg @CSDatCMU's Computer Music Project and released as open source software in May 2000 bit.ly/3esWB7z@CarnegieMellon
Researchers @isrcmu have found that almost half of twitter accounts discussing "reopening America" are likely bots. And the bot campaigns are often pretty sophisticated. bit.ly/2z7YV50@CarnegieMellon
They're ba-a-a-a-ck: Goats are once again eating the new growth on the hill between the Gates Center and the Purnell Center, much to the delight of all of us in SCS. Can we keep them this time? If we're good? Expect them to stick around until Wednesday.
ALT Goats eat new growth at Carnegie Mellon University
The browser tab overload struggle is real. That's why @cmuhcii's @nkittur and his team spent the last year building and fine-tuning @SkeemaHQ -- a new @googlechrome browser extension designed to help users stay organized amid the information deluge.
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We're pleased to announce that Nina Balcan of @mldcmu and @CSDatCMU is the winner of this year's @TheOfficialACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for her significant innovations in machine learning and minimally supervised learning. Congratulations! bit.ly/39VBubp
ALT Nina Balcan, associate professor, Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
SCS undergraduate computer science ranked #1 in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, mobile/web apps and software engineering by US News and World Report, #2 overall bit.ly/3mnXzGP@CarnegieMellon
New Faculty Alert! Shubham Tulsiani (@shubhtuls) is joining the @CMU_Robotics Institute this fall as an assistant professor! His work focuses on building perception systems that can infer the spatial and physical structures of the world they observe. Welcome, Shubham!
Congratulations to Henny Admoni, who was named the A. Nico Habermann Assistant Professor in the @CMU_Robotics, and Fei Fang, who was named the Leonardo Assistant Professor in the @isrcmu! We're immeasurably grateful to have them here!
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NEW FACULTY ALERT! Please join us in welcoming Franceska Xhakaj (@francinoxh), who'll be starting as an assistant professor this fall in the @cmuhcii and @CSDatCMU departments!
Franceska's work focuses on developing technologies to help teachers improve their classroom practices!
Congratulations to Mor Harchol-Balter @CSDatCMU, recipient of the Bruce J. Nelson Professorship in Computer Science. Her work focuses on designing new resource allocation policies for distributed systems. bit.ly/35ig4EY
ALT Mor Harchol-Balter, recipient of the Bruce J. Nelson Professorship in Computer Science
The new CMU AI+ Club - a "tribe" of researchers, hackers, entrepreneurs and enthusiasts "envisioning the future powered by morally good AI" - will have its kickoff meeting 5-7:30 pm 3/23 in Rashid Auditorium @CarnegieMellon
Get up-to-date information about the global COVID-19 epidemic with this interactive website, Covid Visualizer, developed by @CarnegieMellon students Navid Mamoon @CMU_DietrichHSS and Gabriel Rasskin @SCSatCMUbit.ly/2wymPoP
Congratulations to Michael Hilton and Joshua Sunshine @isrcmu and Stephanie Rosenthal @CSDatCMU. As 2020-21 Wimmer Faculty Fellows, they will receive support for their efforts to enhance teaching. bit.ly/30gIEWn
An artificial intelligence program developed by @CarnegieMellon in collaboration with @Facebook AI has defeated leading professionals in six-player No-Limit Texas Hold'em.
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Congratulations to Geoff Hinton, who shares this year's #TuringAward with Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCunn. Geoff began his work on the backpropagation algorithm, now standard in most neural nets, while he was on the @CSDatCMU faculty, 1982-87
Mark your calendars: the inaugural Raj Reddy Artificial Intelligence Lecture, marking Raj's 50 years at @CarnegieMellon, will be at 10 a.m. Nov. 18. Register now: bit.ly/34BPwQ7
Remember to scroll down to leave a message for Raj or share a story about him.
ALT photo of Raj Reddy, professor and former dean of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
Jian Ma (@jmuiuc) of the @CMUCompBio will join the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering's (@AIMBE) College of Fellows. bit.ly/3JBS8yO
Congratulations to Jodi Forlizzi @cmuhcii and Manuel Blum @CSDatCMU. Both have been named @TheOfficialACM Fellows for 2020 for their outstanding accomplishments in computer science. bit.ly/2LylmWW
ALT Photo of Jodi Forlizzi of Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute
ALT Photo of Manuel Blum, University Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department
We're so excited to have Sherry Tongshuang Wu (@tongshuangwu) with us as a new member of the @cmuhcii and @LTIatCMU faculty this year! Here, she talks about creating human-centered solutions for debugging and correcting errors in AI.
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Congratulations to @astrobotic, @CMU_Robotics spinoff, which NASA has selected to deliver its VIPER rover to the moon in 2023 to look for water bit.ly/2AhL0Kf@CarnegieMellon researchers for decades have helped NASA prepare for this mission.
ALT This rendering shows the VIPER rover rolling off the Griffin lunar lander
Congrats to Pardis Emami Naeini @isrcmu and Elahe Soltanaghaei, both of @CyLab, two of four winners of the Research Pitch competition at Rising Stars 2019. @CarnegieMellon sent the largest contingent of aspiring CS and ECE academics to the annual workshop bit.ly/2Nu5QcP
ALT Pardis Emami Naeini of Carnegie Mellon University
ALT Elahe Soltanaghaei of Carnegie Mellon University
Virginia Smith (assistant professor @mldcmu), and Priya Donti (Ph.D. candidate @CSDatCMU and Engineering and Public Policy departments), have been named to @techreview annual list of Innovators Under 35.
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The @wef has named Zeynep Temel @CMU_Robotics as one of 25 scientific rising stars in it 2020 class of Young Scientists. She specializes in developing tiny jumping and swimming robots inspired by nature. Congratulations!
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ALT Zeynep Temel of Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute
Congratulations to Leqi Liu, a PhD student in @mldcmu, who is one of 10 U.S. students chosen as 2020 Open Phil AI fellows. Liu is developing learning systems that can infer human preferences from their behaviors and help humans achieve their goals bit.ly/3bEPeYU
ALT Leqi Liu, PhD student in machine learning at Carnegie Mellon University
A team of @CMU_Robotics researchers have designed a system that makes an off-the-shelf quadruped robot nimble enough to walk a narrow balance beam — a feat that is likely the first of its kind.
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Bailey Flanigan, who will begin work on her PhD this fall at @CSDatCMU, is the second of two @CarnegieMellon recipients of 2019 Hertz Fellowships bit.ly/2XhX6sl. She is interested in the robustness and ethics of algorithms.
Congratulations to SCS alum Mike Yin, a software developer who this week was elected to Wyoming's state legislature, becoming its first Chinese-American member
Congrats to 2018 @SloanFoundation Research Fellows Chris Harrison @cmuhcii, Bryan Parno and Andrew Pavlo @CSDatCMU and Andreas Pfenning @CMUCompBio, and Venkat Viswanathan @CMU_Mech "the very best science has to offer" bit.ly/2C0l19o
Researchers @CMU_Robotics have developed the first metric for self-driving car perception systems that combines both reaction time and accuracy. This makes it easier to compare systems and develop insights into how to optimize system performance. bit.ly/3mfzB0C@argoai
ALT Illustration shows how the perception system of a self-driving car tends to lag behind reality as the car keeps moving.
Congratulations to Justine Sherry @CSDatCMU, named by N2Women to its 2018 list of 10 rising stars in computer networking and communications bit.ly/2PCUou2
ALT Justine Sherry, assistant professor of computer science, Carnegie Mellon University
Fei Fang and Tuomas Sandholm, both faculty members in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, were recently recognized by the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence for significant research in AI.
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The Smiley emoticon turns 37 years old Sept. 19. @CarnegieMellon will be celebrating, beginning at the birth minute, 11:44 a.m. tomorrow, on the eastern end of Pausch Bridge. Meet Smiley's creator, SCS's own Scott Fahlman bit.ly/32Otfe0
.@CMU_Robotics Institute faculty member Deepak Pathak (@pathak2206) has received a 2022 Okawa Research Grant to continue his work to improve how robots function in the wild.
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Congratulations to junior Jessica Lee, a computer science major; she is one of four @CarnegieMellon students to receive prestigious 2020 Goldwater Scholarships. She plans to pursue a PhD in computer vision and machine learning. bit.ly/2w5RRnT
Are you applying to join one of @SCSatCMU's top-ranked PhD programs? SCS students want to help. If you submit by Nov. 9, these mentors will provide feedback on your application materials no later than Nov. 16. More details: bit.ly/2HKUdy6
Congratulations to Christos Faloutsos @CSDatCMU, recipient of the Fredkin Professorship in Artificial Intelligence. His interests include large-scale data mining with an emphasis on graphs and time sequences, anomaly detection, tensors, and fractals. bit.ly/35ig4EY
ALT Christos Faloutsos, the Fredkin Professorship in Artificial Intelligence
Congrats to Keenan Crane @CSDatCMU@CMU_Robotics on new @NSF CAREER Award and good luck on efforts to make better use of the growing glut of 3D geometric data.
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Jian Ma (@jmuiuc), of the @CMUCompBio Department in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, has been elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (@AAAS).
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Congratulations to Abhinav Gupta @CMU_Robotics, winner of IAPR's J.K. Aggarwal Prize for his work on self-supervised learning -- enabling robots to learn on their own as they explore their environments. bit.ly/3s6SO7E@icpr2020milan
ALT Photo of Abhinav Gupta, associate professor, Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute
Associate Professor Andrew Begel (@abegel) joined @S3DatCMU this semester after 16 years at @Microsoft. Here, he talks about his work toward building the socio-technical infrastructure that underpins inclusive technology work spaces.
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Ben Eysenbach, PhD student @mldcmu is one of two 2019 Hertz Fellows @CarnegieMellon. Says Ben: "I'm excited to be able to spend the next five years of my life working on difficult research problems with collaborators, unconstrained by funding obligations." bit.ly/2XhX6sl
ALT Ben Eysenbach, Carnegie Mellon University Machine Learning Department PhD student
The first students from @CarnegieMellon's first-in-the-nation AI undergraduate degree program will graduate this weekend. Congratulations to all!
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Assistant Professor Aaditya Ramdas has received the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability's New Researcher Award.
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Manuela Veloso, a renowned artificial intelligence researcher, computer scientist and roboticist at @carnegiemellon and former head of @mldcmu, is among the most influential women in engineering, according to a new list compiled by @AcademicInflux.
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Randy Bryant has transformed his career several times in his 36 years at @CarnegieMellon. Now, SCS's former dean is taking the next step: retirement. bit.ly/37WI6Xz
Thanks for your many contributions and good luck!
ALT Randy Bryant, professor and former dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Congratulations to Scott Hudson @cmuhcii, this year's recipient of @sigchi Lifetime Research Award. the award recognizes his achievements in creating tools and the enabling technologies necessary for building interactive systems. bit.ly/2Zppc8e
ALT Photo of Scott Hudson, professor in the CMU Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Fei Fang @isrcmu: Artificial intelligence for social good -such as using AI to prevent elephant poaching in Africa - is happening here. Our super-talented students are one reason why. If you would like to join the SCS faculty, please apply by Dec. 10 apply.interfolio.com/65336
Congratulations to Xinshuo Weng and Ye Yuan @CMU_Robotics, winners of a 2020 @Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship. They'll be developing a perception system to enable self-driving cars, assistive robots and delivery drones to interact safely with people, etc. bit.ly/2QOglZA
ALT Xinshuo Weng, Ph.D. student in Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute
ALT Ye Yuan, Ph.D. student in Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute
SCS faculty members Andrej Risteski, Wenting Zheng, Jun-Yan Zhu, Matthew O'Toole, Sauvik Das, Zhihao Jia, Dimitrios Skarlatos and Hirokazu Shirado have received @NSF CAREER Awards totaling more than $4.5 million.
bit.ly/3yR0krB@CSDatCMU@cmuhcii@CMU_Robotics@mldcmu