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Carnegie Mellon Experts Launch Flu Forecasting for 2016-17 Season
By Byron Spice Computer scientists and statisticians at Carnegie Mellon University are comparing artificial intelligence and the wisdom of crowds in forecasting flu activity this winter. During the...
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Research Finds Gift Givers Too Focused on "Wow" Factor
By Katelyn Howard Research by Jeff Galak and co-authors shows that while gift givers tend to focus on the moment of exchange when selecting a gift, gift recipients are more focused on the gift's...
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Rajkumar Named Fellow of National Academy of Inventors
By Catherine Graham Raj Rajkumar has helped Carnegie Mellon become a research hub for driverless technology. Raj Rajkumar, the George Westinghouse Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at...
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Stephen E. Fienberg, 1942-2016
By Shilo Rea Stephen E. Fienberg, University Professor of Statistics and Social Science at Carnegie Mellon University, died Wednesday, Dec. 14, in Pittsburgh. He was 74. An internationally acclaimed...
View ArticleStatement in Support of Undocumented Students
In response to questions from students and a discussion taking place throughout the higher education community in the United States, Carnegie Mellon University reasserts its commitment to a diverse and...
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Student-Athletes Embrace Full CMU Experience
By Heidi Opdyke The annual Student-Athlete Academic Achievement Celebration celebrates junior and senior athletes who have excelled balancing studies and sports. Lisa Murphy, the most accomplished...
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2016 In Review
From visits by President Barack Obama and Stephen Colbert to a record-number of first-year women in computer science and technology, Carnegie Mellon University continued to build new foundations and...
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"Injustice" Wins People's Choice Award at CHI PLAY
By Kelly Saavedra A virtual reality experience themed around racially motivated police brutality won the People’s Choice Award at the CHI PLAY conference in Austin, Texas. The interactive story, called...
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Einstein's Visit Created Iconic Image, Sparked Student To Become Influential...
Courtesy of The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio. Americanjewisharchives.org. This is the only known image of Einstein with a variant of his famous equation,...
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Biological Sciences Major Named Schwarzman Scholar
By Jocelyn Duffy Chrystal Thomas, a senior majoring in biological sciences at Carnegie Mellon University’s Mellon College of Science (MCS), has been named to this year’s class of Schwarzman Scholars....
View ArticleHappy New Year
Faculty, staff and students from Carnegie Mellon University programs around the world ring in 2017 by sharing greetings in many languages. The background music, "Auld Lang Syne," was arranged for...
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Program Primes Pump for Pittsburgh Tech Talent
By Meghan Holohan June Beighley, right, is a 1991 graduate of CMU’s Mellon College of Science, and co-teaches AP computer science at Pittsburgh's Creative and Performing Arts High School. Photo by...
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PwC Invests $11 Million in New Innovation Center at Carnegie Mellon
PwC US and Carnegie Mellon University announced today the establishment of the new Risk and Regulatory Services Innovation Center, which will advance how businesses use technology to solve...
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Acquisti Named Director of New PWC-CMU Innovation Center
Alessandro Acquisti has been named the inaugural director of the Risk and Regulatory Services Innovation Center, which was established by PwC and Carnegie Mellon University. Alessandro Acquisti The...
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Upping the Ante: Top Poker Pros Face Off vs. Artificial Intelligence
By Byron Spice and Garrett Allen Poker Pro Dong Kim shown here in the first Brains vs. AI contest in 2015. Four of the world’s best professional poker players will compete against artificial...
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Martin Luther King Writing Award Winners Reveal Personal Stories of...
By Shilo Rea Winners of Carnegie Mellon University’s 2017 Martin Luther King, Jr. Writing Awards tackled topics from self-identity and racism to terrorism and the U.S. presidential election. The awards...
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Carnegie Mellon Launches First-of-its-Kind Behavioral Economics, Policy and...
By Shilo Rea Carnegie Mellon University has created the first and only undergraduate major in behavioral economics to meet the rising demand for trained professionals in the field from the government,...
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From Sight to Recognition: Researchers Map How the Brain Processes Faces
By Shilo Rea Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are getting closer to understanding how your brain perceives faces and recognizes old friends you haven't seen in years. In a study published in...
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Krishnan Discusses Smart Mobility at Consumer Electronics Show
By Michael Cunningham Ramayya Krishnan, dean of Carnegie Mellon University's H. John Heinz III College, shared his expertise on smart cities and mobility as a guest panelist at the Consumer...
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Spinoff's Platform Helps Tackle Large Machine Learning Problems
By Byron Spice Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have spent years inventing and perfecting a platform that uses workstations, distributed computers, mobile devices or embedded devices...
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