“I want the students to understand how design and policy together shape social life, and to recognize the responsibility designers and technologists carry in shaping the systems, behaviors and institutions that increasingly mediate our everyday experiences.” @hcii.cmu.edu

Designing the Future of Tech Governance | Human-Computer Interaction Institute

Carnegie Mellon University students are stepping out of the classroom ready to prove that the people who design technology are uniquely qualified to help regulate it.

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In a paper published in Science, computational biology researchers at Carnegie Mellon University shed new light on Alzheimer's disease that could lead to improved treatment options.

AI, Single-Cell Technology Reveal How 3D Genome Differs in People With Alzheimer's Disease

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"Even if AI helps write code, humans still have to decide what problems are worth solving, what success looks like and whether a system behaves appropriately." - SCS faculty member Claire Le Goues on why people will always drive software engineering 👉 https://bit.ly/4vSi9ld

At the invitation of Pope Leo XIV, LTI faculty member Alex Waibel participated in the AI and Human Fraternity Working Group at the Vatican, discussing recommendations to ensure AI benefits humanity, and suggesting ways to mitigate AI’s potential risks.

Vatican Calls on Waibel to Help Shape AI Ethics — The Link - The Magazine of CMU's School of Computer Science

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Seventy years ago this week, Herbert Simon and Allen Newell, of the then-Carnegie Institute of Technology, and their RAND colleague Cliff Shaw, published Logic Theorist, the first AI program.

Yang Liu, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department, has received a NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award for his research advancing the mathematical foundations of algorithms, optimization and data analysis. 👉 https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/2026/liu-career-award

An SCS team created an exoskeleton that combines functionality with wearability to help people with mobility issues adopt a more natural gait without the bulk of a robotic device.

Stepping Toward Better Mobility

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“I’m good at being a mirror, reflecting back to people who they are,” Hatcher said. “My heart was in my work, long before I learned that was Andrew Carnegie’s motto. That’s just who I am.”

Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Innovation Center welcomed global technology company Fujitsu Limited as its latest corporate tenant in the university’s robotics and artificial intelligence research facility at Hazelwood Green.

Fujitsu Joins CMU Robotics Innovation Center

CMU's Robotics Innovation Center welcomed global technology company Fujitsu Limited as its latest corporate tenant in the university’s robotics and artificial intelligence research facility at Hazelwo...

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Whether we’re enjoying downtime after a long day, forging new connections with other people or practicing a new skill, we gravitate toward the joys of entertainment. And SCS has a long history of impacting the art of amusement.

Let Me Entertain You: How SCS Trains the Minds Who Shape How We Play — The Link - The Magazine of CMU's School of Computer Science

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SCS alumni like Sara Adkins are developing methods for computers to understand music, while making it easier for any musician, no matter their skill level, to compose it.

Singing a New Tune: Computational Music — The Link - The Magazine of CMU's School of Computer Science

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A CMU robotics team arrived in Venezuela this week to assist search and rescue crews following two devastating earthquakes. Snake robots designed by CMU’s Biorobotics Lab can squeeze into tight spaces. A camera on the front of the robot can help direct the search for survivors.

Deepak Pathak, the Raj Reddy Associate Professor of Robotics in @cmurobotics.bsky.social, has received a 2026 Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Young Researcher Award at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

Pathak Receives 2026 PAMI Young Researcher Award - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Deepak Pathak, the Raj Reddy Associate Professor of Robotics in Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute (RI), has received a 2026 Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) Young Researc...

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Whether they're watching on TV or navigating with a LiveSplats prototype, we hope Fernando and his family have a blast cheering for Spain tomrrow!

Up close and personal with LiveSplats, a new 3D virtual tech tool developed by CMU team

Fernando De la Torre’s 10-year-old son, Nico, wants to attend a FIFA World Cup match this summer in Atlanta, to cheer on Spain. The problem: not only are the tickets themselves costly, they&rsqu...

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Researchers in @cmurobotics.bsky.social have designed an autonomous navigation robot that can move through orchard rows, detect fire blight symptoms and map infected trees in real time.

Carnegie Mellon Team Helps Farmers Fight Crop Disease With Robots - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Fire blight can devastate orchards, killing branches and entire trees while causing major economic losses for growers. To help farmers detect the disease earlier and reduce the spread of infection, a ...

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With the World Cup starting getting started, we thought it'd be a great time to highlight Shivaas Gulati, the SCS alum who's applying machine learning to help improve Southend United, the English football club he's co-owned since 2024.

Game Changers: How CMU Computer Scientists Are Reshaping Professional Sport — The Link - The Magazine of CMU's School of Computer Science

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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have shown that bacteria can learn from past experiences, store memories across generations and adapt their behavior to changing environments all without a brain or nervous system.

Bacteria Can Learn and Form Memories Without a Brain

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have shown that bacteria can learn from past experiences, store memories across generations and adapt their behavior to changing environments all without a br...

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Computational biology researchers are working to better understand the role that genes play in bipolar disorder — work that's deeply rooted in decades of student ingenuity supported by the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program.

SURF Grant Powers Research Into the Genetics of Bipolar Disorder

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Tuomas Sandholm received the ACM SIGecom Test of Time Award for research that combined automated mechanism design with techniques from optimal stopping theory to develop online auction mechanisms that can make near-optimal decisions under uncertainty.

Sandholm Receives SIGecom Test of Time Award

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For the fifth straight year, CMU students took first place in the MITRE Embedded Capture the Flag cybersecurity competition, further cementing the university’s status as the top program in one of the nation’s most demanding collegiate security contests.

Carnegie Mellon extends historic run with its fifth straight MITRE eCTF title

For the fifth consecutive year, Carnegie Mellon University students have claimed first place in the MITRE Embedded Capture the Flag (eCTF) cybersecurity competition, further cementing the university’s...

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Recent CMU studies show that as older adults embrace AI, they want the technology to be more in tune with their emotional needs.

How Do Boomers Really Feel About AI?

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SoundBubble helps isolate and amplify the sounds of fingers as they tap, trace or rap various surfaces, or use different tools. That information could provide contextual hints about what users are doing and how the computer might help them.

Listening to Your Fingertips

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Want to learn programming fundamentals and earn Carnegie Mellon credit along the way? 3CS, from CMU CS Academy, offers high school students with basic coding knowledge a jumpstart on college-level computer science with actual college credit! https://academy.cs.cmu.edu/3cs

Congrats to Parallel Data Lab researchers including SCS faculty member Eric Xing on receiving the Test of Time Award during the 2026 EuroSys Conference! https://www.ece.cmu.edu/news-and-events/story/2026/05/test-of-time-award.html

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Parallel Data Lab researchers received the prestigious Test of Time award during the 2026 EuroSys Conference.

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“I envision a future where epidemic forecasting is everywhere, properly understood and useful.”

Delphi Group Uses Data To Forecast the Flu and Other Epidemics

Working to help officials manage future public health emergencies, members of Carnegie Mellon University's Delphi Research Group want to forecast infectious disease outbreaks like meteorologists predi...

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“The whole point is to bring joy to people’s lives — that’s next level for me. I think it’s a fantastic way to really be at the forefront of technology, art and helping people join together.” The LINK looks at the Center for Transformational Play.

Let Me Entertain You: How SCS Trains the Minds Who Shape How We Play -- The Link - The Magazine of CMU's School of Computer Science

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Don't let the headline fool you: the number of employers hiring SCS undergrads and grad degree holders has significantly increased, from 267 in 2022 to 367 last year. Our grads are working in more fields than ever!

Congrats, new grads! Welcome to job market hell.

New computer science grads are trying to start their careers at a time when many experts predict that AI will make their skills obsolete.

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For 15 years after the Great Recession, young Americans flooded into college computer science programs to grab a stable, high-paying career. AI, however, now threatens to undermine that dependable path to a secure future for the Class of 2026.

"We're not far from a time when people will be able to look on their phone and see what is the current level of circulation of any major pathogen in their city and what is the current prediction of when a wave will arrive.”

Delphi Group Uses Data To Forecast the Flu and Other Epidemics

Working to help officials manage future public health emergencies, members of Carnegie Mellon University's Delphi Research Group want to forecast infectious disease outbreaks like meteorologists predi...

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As the inaugural Bachelor of Science in Robotics graduate, Beverly (Bev) Da Costa not only moved through a brand-new curriculum but also helped define it #TartanProud #CMUgrad 🎓 🎉 Hear from Bev in a Q+A where she reflects on her BSR experience: https://www.ri.cmu.edu/work-hard-and-dream-harder/

Work Hard and Dream Harder - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

A mass email from the dean to the entire Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science felt especially personal to Beverly (Bev) Da Costa.  The email, sent by Martial Hebert back in 2023, anno...

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SCS researchers have developed a tool that uses AI to analyze medical images, reducing the time healthcare professionals spend finding and labeling organs in scans.

New CMU Tool Reduces Manual Work To Accelerate Medical Analysis

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