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.
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.
Congratulations to
@justinesherry
, winner of the
@VMware
Systems Research Award. She is recognized for her contributions to networking, particularly her influential work on middleboxes.
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.
@siggraph
@CSDatCMU
@isrcmu
@CMU_Robotics
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
@CMUEngineering
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.
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
@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.
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.
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:
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
#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.
@CarnegieMellon
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.
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.
#CSed
In 1986, โI co-taught a CMU course with Geoff and Allen Newell on โArchitectures for Intelligence,โ" 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.โ
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
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
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:
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.
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.
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
@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.
@CarnegieMellon
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.
SCS undergraduate computer science ranked
#1
in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, mobile/web apps and software engineering by US News and World Report,
#2
overall
@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.
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!
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!
@hadmoni
@fangf07
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.
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
@SCSatCMU
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.
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:
Remember to scroll down to leave a message for Raj or share a story about him.
An artificial intelligence program developed by
@CarnegieMellon
in collaboration with
@Facebook
AI has defeated leading professionals in six-player No-Limit Texas Hold'em.
Congratulations to Bernhard Haeupler and
@jeanqasaur
of
@CSDatCMU
and LP Morency of
@LTIatCMU
, winners of
@NSF
's prestigious CAREER awards for young investigators
Congratulations to
@astrobotic
,
@CMU_Robotics
spinoff, which NASA has selected to deliver its VIPER rover to the moon in 2023 to look for water
@CarnegieMellon
researchers for decades have helped NASA prepare for this mission.
Congratulations to Jodi Forlizzi
@cmuhcii
and Manuel Blum
@CSDatCMU
. Both have been named
@TheOfficialACM
Fellows for 2020 for their outstanding accomplishments in computer science.
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.
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.
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
Bailey Flanigan, who will begin work on her PhD this fall at
@CSDatCMU
, is the second of two
@CarnegieMellon
recipients of 2019 Hertz Fellowships . She is interested in the robustness and ethics of algorithms.
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!
@CarnegieMellon
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
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 โ a feat that is likely the first of its kind.
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
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.
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.
@fangf07
@IJCAIconf
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
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.
@argoai
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:
.
@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.
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.
$2 million gift from
@amazon
Future Engineer will support
@CMU_CS_Academy
, a free, online computer science curriculum for secondary schools.
Thanks!
Our goal is to reach 1 million students by 2024.
@CSEdWeek
@CarnegieMellon
Machine Learning Can Be Fair and Accurate! CMU Researchers Dispel Theoretical Assumption About ML Trade-Offs in Policy Decisions:
@mldcmu
@HeinzCollege
@rayidghani
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.
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
).
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.
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.
@icpr2020milan
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."
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.
Thanks for your many contributions and good luck!
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
.
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
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.
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.
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.
@CSDatCMU
@cmuhcii
@CMU_Robotics
@mldcmu
Weโre proud to announce a partnership with
@PittTweet
to form a new research center to better understand and prevent the spread of extremist hate: Collaboratory Against Hate โ Research and Action Center.
#TartanProud
#H2P
Chieko Asakawa,
@IBMResearch
Fellow and distinguished service professor
@CMU_Robotics
, wins 2020 Helen Keller Achievement Award for her life's work on improving accessibility for the blind. Congratulations!