CMU is rising to the challenge once again, with a team of LTI, @cmu-ece.bsky.social and @cmus3d.bsky.social students competing in the Amazon Nova AI Challenge for the second year in a row. Read about team Pr1smCode, and what makes CMU students so well suited to the task: lti.cmu.edu/news-and-eve...

Congratulations to MSAII program alum Advaith Sridhar on being accepted into the Y Combinator startup incubator program! Advaith's startup, Matforge, seeks to use AI agents to accelerate material discovery for the semiconductor industry. @scsatcmu.bsky.social

LLMs refuse ambiguous queries that look harmful but aren't. Can they recover once users clarify, while staying safe? Our new interactive multi-turn benchmark measures both. 🚨 Turns out: not both at once.

Congratulations to all of the LTI, @scsatcmu.bsky.social and @cmu.edu students celebrating Commencement this weekend. Go forth and build, Tartans! #tartanproud #cmugrad #ltigrad

Congrats to all of the CMU teams recognized in the Laude Institute's Moonshot competition, including one team featuring three LTI faculty members! Read about all of the CMU awardees here: www.cmu.edu/news/stories...

CMU Teams Recognized in Moonshots AI Competition

CMU research recently earned top recognition in the Laude Institute's Moonshots competition, which concentrates on applying AI to some of society’s most pressing challenges.

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"The tools are having measurable impacts for good and for bad. It's definitely disruptive." The LTI's @daniel-fried.bsky.social believes AI can be a powerful human collaborator – but only after we bridge some communication gaps. Read about how he's working toward that: lti.cmu.edu/news-and-eve...

We’re showing our appreciation for all our students today! Donuts, fresh fruit, and some LTI swag available to all LTI students in the GHC 6th floor Creative Commons until 1pm – come take a break with us!

Join us Friday for our next HCII Seminar Series. Our guest will be Maarten Sap @maartensap.bsky.social, assistant professor @ltiatcmu.bsky.social. 🎤 "Enabling Human-centric and Culturally Aware Safety of AI Agents" 📅 Friday, March 27 🕑 2:00 pm 📍NSH 1305 + livestream 🔗 hcii.cmu.edu/news/event/2...

CMU's Graduate Certificate in Machine Learning & Data Science Foundations program, led by LTI Prof. Carolyn Rosé and taught by LTI faculty members, was recently named the #2 artificial intelligence graduate certificate program in the nation. Read more: lti.cmu.edu/news-and-eve...

Meala-naidheachd* to NACLO in its 20th year! The annual computational linguistics olympiad for middle & high school students, co-founded by LTI Research Professor Lori Levin, was recently featured by @sciam.bsky.social. *Scots Gaelic for "congratulations" www.scientificamerican.com/article/try-...

Can you solve these language puzzles? Test your skills with these problems from North America’s biggest linguistics competition

For 20 years, this computational linguistics competition has inspired new generations of innovators in AI and language preservation

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Are you interested in learning more about the world of language technology? Are you a pre-doctoral student –⁠ even one from a non-CS background? Our Language Technology for All Internship could be right for you! Apply by Feb. 20 for Summer 2026: lti.cmu.edu/news-and-eve...

🎭 How do LLMs (mis)represent culture? 🧮 How often? 🧠 Misrepresentations = missing knowledge? spoiler: NO! At #CHI2026 we are bringing ✨TALES✨ a participatory evaluation of cultural (mis)reps & knowledge in multilingual LLM-stories for India 📜 arxiv.org/abs/2511.21322 1/10

"Responsibility should not be optional, external, reactive, or just an afterthought." In a recent LinkedIn Pulse article, LTI director Mona Diab argues that CS education needs a new core axis of thinking and teaching: Responsible Thinking. Read more: www.linkedin.com/pulse/respon...

Responsible Thinking: The Missing Third Axis in Computer Science Education

By Mona Diab Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views, policies, or positions of their affiliated institutions. The final...

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The LTI will be closed for the holiday break starting today (Dec 23) at 2pm EST. We’ll reopen on Monday, January 5. We wish everyone a joyous and restful holiday season! 🎉🎁❄️

LTI Professor Alex Waibel was one of twelve global experts invited by Pope Leo XIV to advise on ethical guidelines for AI. Their appeal outlines eleven principles for responsible AI and human-centered design. lti.cmu.edu/news-and-eve...

The LTI is now accepting applications for teaching-track faculty positions beginning in Fall 2026! If you’re passionate about building scholarly community and shaping the next generation of innovators, we’d love to hear from you. Apply by January 9, 2026: lti.cmu.edu/careers/inde...

Today is Giving Tuesday, but also #GivingCMUDay. Consider celebrating with us by donating to support LTI students, fellowships, and initiatives! Learn more about Giving CMU Day, and donate, at the link below: givenow.cmu.edu/giving-cmu-d...

The LTI is now accepting applications for teaching-track faculty positions beginning in Fall 2026! If you’re passionate about building scholarly community and shaping the next generation of innovators, we’d love to hear from you. Apply by January 9, 2026: lti.cmu.edu/careers/inde...

Can LLMs accurately aggregate information over long, information-dense texts? Not yet… We introduce Oolong, a dataset of simple-to-verify information aggregation questions over long inputs. No model achieves >50% accuracy at 128K on Oolong!

ICYMI: the LTI's Carolyn Rosé has been awarded the Kavčić-Moura Professorship in recognition of her research achievements and support of her future work. Congratulations to a devoted member of the LTI community! lti.cmu.edu/news-and-eve...

SCS faculty members Carolyn Rosé (@ltiatcmu.bsky.social) and Jun-Yan Zhu (@cmurobotics.bsky.social) recently received endowed chairs to recognize their research contributions and support their future work.

SCS Faculty Receive Chaired Professorships

"As a researcher who has dedicated her career to impact in education and who directs one of Carnegie Mellon's largest data science graduate programs, I am honored to receive a chair named after Aleksandar Kavčić, in light of his current work in Serbia to provide free textbooks for schools through his foundation, and José Moura, who has partnered with him and others to invest in data science education at Carnegie Mellon," Rosé said.

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Three LTI students (Danqing Wang, Zichun Yu, and @xinranz3.bsky.social) have been announced as part of the inaugural cohort of the @amazon AI Ph.D. Fellowship Program. Congrats to all recipients! www.cs.cmu.edu/news/2025/am...

Congratulations to Maarten Sap for being named a recipient of a 2025 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering! 👏 Sap, a professor in @ltiatcmu.bsky.social, was recognized for his work to make artificial intelligence adaptive and knowledgeable about diverse cultures. @scsatcmu.bsky.social

Congratulations to our own Maarten Sap on the tremendous honor of being named a 2025 Packard Fellow!

Maarten Sap@maartensap.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I’m ✨ super excited and grateful ✨to announce that I'm part of the 2025 class of #PackardFellows (www.packard.org/2025fellows). The @packardfdn.bsky.social and this fellowship will allow me to explore exciting research directions towards culturally responsible and safe AI 🌍🌈

Our PhD & MLT students took advantage of a beautiful Pittsburgh fall day to explore Mt. Washington’s Emerald View Park. Here’s to making the most of fall break!

Happy Smiley Day, all! The :-) emoticon was first used on this day in 1982 by LTI Professor Emeritus Scott Fahlman.

Carnegie Mellon University@cmu.edu · 11mo ago

43 years ago today our digital vocabulary expanded tremendously through a simple :-) or :-( On Sept. 19, 1982, Scott Fahlman, a research professor in @scsatcmu.bsky.social, proposed the use of smiley emoticons "for joke markers." That makes us :-) ➡️ cmu.is/Smiley-Emoticon | #Emoticon

Carnegie Mellon leaders and faculty shared their expertise amongst fellow researchers and industry experts at AI Horizons 2025. Recap ➡️ cmu.is/AI-Horizons

Incoming LTI assistant professor @akariasai.bsky.social, set to join our faculty in fall 2026, has been named one of @technologyreview.com's 35 Innovators Under 35 for her work in retrieval-augmented generation. Congratulations to Akari on this great honor! lti.cmu.edu/news-and-eve...

I'm excited cause I'm teaching/coordinating a new unique class, where we teach new PhD students all the "soft" skills of research, incl. ideation, reviewing, presenting, interviewing, advising, etc. Each lecture is taught by a different LTI prof! It takes a village! maartensap.com/11705/Fall20...

Language Technologies Institute | CMU@ltiatcmu.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Happy first day of classes to all our students, new and returning! Wishing everyone a happy and enlightening fall semester.

Happy first day of classes to all our students, new and returning! Wishing everyone a happy and enlightening fall semester.