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Holladay Earns National Recognition for Robotics Research
By Susie Cribbs Rachel Holladay built a mapping website for the U.S. Department of the Navy and was a longtime veteran of the FIRST Robotics program, all before arriving at Carnegie Mellon University...
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U.S. Team Wins Second Consecutive International Mathematical Olympiad
Olympic success has come early, and now often, to the United States. For the second year in a row, the U.S. team placed first at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), the world championship...
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Computational Design Tool Transforms Flat Materials Into 3-D Shapes
By Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu Researchers used a new computational design tool to make this high-heel shoe. The base of the shoe was 3-D printed, and the upper part was fashioned...
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Alumni Hope They're Binge-Worthy in Amazon Pilots
By Erin Keane Scott CMU alumnus Matt Bomer stars in the pilot of "The Last Tycoon."Television is a brave new world, and CMU alumni are helping to blaze the frontier. While networks crank out hit weekly...
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Researchers Study Whether Renewable Is Always Better
Making plastics from plants is a growing trend. It's renewable, but is it better? A recent study by Carnegie Mellon University researchers examines the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of three...
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Adding Up How Your Brain Does Math
By Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu A new Carnegie Mellon University neuroimaging study reveals the mental stages people go through as they solve challenging math problems. Published in...
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Algorithm Characterizes How Cancer Genomes Get Scrambled
By Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu The above artist's depiction shows extra copies of normally paired chromosomes. Variations in chromosome color show where DNA has become rearranged and...
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Password Perceptions Don't Always Match Reality
By Daniel Tkacik / 412-268-1187 Your password isn't as secure as you think. People's perceptions of password strength may not always match reality, according to a recent study by CyLab, Carnegie Mellon...
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Summer School Helps Students Build Tech Tools To Improve Learning
Ashish Aggarwal wants to help students taking online classes by creating a digital teaching assistant to answer questions. To help turn his idea into reality, Aggarwal needed to learn about data and...
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Work of Art
Students explore the interior of the School of Music building, which is part of Cuba's National Arts Schools. While Cuba and the U.S. are renewing relations, Carnegie Mellon University faculty and...
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Consortium Aims To Unlock 3-D Printing Potential
By Hannah Diorio-Toth From airplane parts to custom hip replacements, 3-D printing — also known as additive manufacturing — is changing how everything can be constructed. Carnegie Mellon University's...
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CMU Professor To Compete in Computer Vs. Computer Hacking
Daniel Tkacik / 412-268-1187 / dtkacik@andrew.cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon University's David Brumley is heading to a national stage to compete against the country's best bug finders. Brumley, co-founder of...
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High School Students Tie World Records for Solving Traveling Salesman Problem
By Joceyn Duffy / 412-268-9982 / jhduffy@andrew.cmu.edu A group of nine high school students participating in the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Sciences (PGSS) at Carnegie Mellon University...
View ArticleAlumna Makes Olympic History for Qatar, Again
She's the only woman from Qatar to compete in two Olympic games. Nada Arakji, a 2016 graduate of Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, has arrived in Rio to swim the 100-meter butterfly. "I am so...
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Carnegie Mellon Lab Expands U.S. Education Network
By Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu Children watch outside of the Hollis Innovation Academy in Atlanta as CMU’s Dror Yaron captures a GigaPan image of the building. GigaPan is one of the...
View ArticleAndroid App Lets Visually Impaired in India Listen to Texts in Native Languages
By Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu Millions of visually impaired people in India may benefit from free, open-source software for Android devices that converts electronic text written in...
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CyLab Faculty Receive $1.1M NSF Award To Help Secure Internet of Things
Daniel Tkacik / 412-268-1187 / dtkacik@andrew.cmu.edu CyLab faculty members Vyas Sekar, pictured above, and Yuvraj Agarwal and Srinivasan Seshan have received a $1.1 million grant from the NSF to help...
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CMU Spinoff Wins $2 Million in Cyber Attack Challenge
Daniel Tkacik / 412-268-1187 / dtkacik@andrew.cmu.edu The ForAllSecure team, from left: Ryan Goulden, Thanassis Avgerinos, Alex Rebert, Ned Williamson, David Brumley, John Davis, Chelsea Mastilak and...
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Discovery Could Help Treatments for Sickle Cell Disease
By Jocelyn Duffy / 412-268-9982 / jhduffy@andrew.cmu.edu Researchers have established new biophysical markers that could help improve the understanding of sickle cell disease treatments. 1) Researchers...
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Carnegie Mellon Wins Third "World Series of Hacking" in Four Years
Daniel Tkacik / 412-268-1187 / dtkacik@andrew.cmu.edu School of Computer Science alumni George Holz (left) and Ricky Zhou are part of this year's winning Capture the Flag team at DefCon. Carnegie...
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