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Machine Learning Fights Global Warming
CMU's Amir Barati Farimani has made a breakthrough using machine learning to identify ionic liquid molecules.
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CMU Hacking Team Defends Title at MITRE Cybersecurity Competition
For the second year in a row, Carnegie Mellon’s competitive hacking team, the Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP), has taken home the top prize at the MITRE Embedded Capture-the-Flag cybersecurity competition.
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Steidel Honored as ‘Lifelong Tartan’ for 45 Year Admission Career
Family, friends and colleagues gathered to pay tribute and celebrate Mike Steidel's illustrious career at CMU.
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Coming to an Alexa Device Near You: ScottyBot
A simulated robot developed by students in the Language Technologies Institute has made the final round of Amazon's Alexa Prize SimBot Challenge.
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Good Design is the Magic Behind AI Game
A team of Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) students have created a role-playing video game, Hysteria in Howlsbend, that uses ChatGPT to voice its characters.
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Tartan Scholars Program Graduates Its First Cohort
Carnegie Mellon University held its annual end-of-year Tartan Scholars event that included a celebration of the individual and collective success of the program’s first class of graduates.
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Kass Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Robert Kass has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
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CMU Team Wins $1M XPRIZE Digital Learning Challenge
Carnegie Mellon University learning science researchers John Stamper, Norman Bier and Steven Moore are part of a team that won first place in the XPRIZE Digital Learning Challenge, a competition to find and improve the most effective learning tools.
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CMU, Amazon Expand STEM Summer Research Programs for Underrepresented Students
CMU will be a host institution for Amazon's Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program.
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Carnegie Mellon Researchers Design Four-Legged Robotic System That Can Walk a Balance Beam
A team of Robotics Institute researchers have designed a system that makes an off-the-shelf quadruped robot nimble enough to walk a narrow balance beam — a feat that is likely the first of its kind.
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Grasshopping Robots Made Possible with New, Improved Latch Control
A team of researchers at CMU work to enable robots to jump in grass.
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MCS Students Awarded Goldwater Scholarships
The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation named two Carnegie Mellon University students as recipients of its 2023 awards.