CMU School of Computer Science

Christini Earns Krulcik Scholarship SCS senior Cole Christini has earned this year's Scott Robert Krulcik Scholarship in Computer Science.

SCS senior Cole Christini has earned this year's Scott Robert Krulcik Scholarship in Computer Science.

Arthur C. Sanderson, one of the founding co-directors of the CMU Robotics Institute (@cmurobotics.bsky.social), died in December at his home in Florida. He was 79.

An AI Model for Scientists A team of researchers led by an incoming SCS professor built an open-source AI model specifically designed to synthesize current scientific research.

A team of researchers led by an incoming SCS professor built an open-source AI model specifically designed to synthesize current scientific research.

Carnegie Mellon launches summer undergraduate research program to expand pathways into security and privacy Carnegie Mellon University’s Software and Societal Systems Department is inviting undergraduate students from across the country to take part in its Security and Privacy Undergraduate Research (SPUR) Scholars program, a 10-week immersive experience designed to introduce students to the world of security and privacy while helping them explore academic and research careers.

The Security and Privacy Undergraduate Research Scholars program is a 10-week immersive experience for undergrads, designed to introduce students to the world of security and privacy while helping them explore academic and research careers.

IROS 2026 | IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems Join us in Pittsburgh for IROS 2026, the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, bringing together global leaders in robotics research and innovation.

We're so excited to show the world what an incredible #robotics hub #Pittsburgh has become when IROS comes to town this fall!

As AI-Generated Music Advances, Humans Still Lead in Creativity, CMU Research Finds AI can write songs, but still has a way to go before matching the creativity of tunes made by people, according to Carnegie Mellon University research.

“I do believe at some point AI systems will be able to generate a waveform that evokes the same kinds of captivating interests that human-created music currently does."

CyLab study uncovers 270 million crypto phishing attempts A new study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University reveals that a little-known but highly effective cryptocurrency scam known as “blockchain address poisoning” has quietly become one of the largest phishing schemes operating on public blockchains today.

Carnegie Mellon researchers analyzed Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain transaction data representing two years of crypto wallet transfers to track a simple but extremely effective phishing scam.

Preserving Pittsburgh’s Public Art, One Pixel at a Time - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University Public art, especially murals, can be fleeting. But Pittsburgh native Richard Palmer, a longtime collaborator with Carnegie Mellon University's CREATE Lab, has spent the last five years using innovative CMU technology to ensure the city's art and public murals won't be lost to history.

At the core of the archive is Gigapan, a robotic panoramic imaging system developed by CREATE Lab researchers that creates ultra-high-resolution images. Over time, Gigapan has transformed the archive from a collection of photographs into a dynamic record of Pittsburgh’s evolving visual landscape.

From Sci-Fi to Reality: SCS Alumni Reimagine Robot Locomotion - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University Aditya Sripada (left) and Abhishek Warrier (right) Curiosity allows humans to pull ideas from fiction and give life to them in the real world. For Carnegie Mellon University alumni Aditya Sripada and Abhishek Warrier, a question inspired by a fictional robot in the film

For two @cmurobotics.bsky.social alumni, a question inspired by a robot in the film “Interstellar” served as the impetus for building, testing and ultimately reenvisioning how robots can move. 🧠💭

What is object-oriented programming? How did it start?

Learn about the foundations of OOP--encapsulation, inheritance, and dynamic method binding--some basic constructs, and its Norwegian origins in simulation language research in my latest Programming Language Pragmatics video!

What Virtual Zebrafish Can Teach Us About Autonomous AI Inspired by the natural curiosity he saw in animals, MLD Assistant Professor Aran Nayebi and his CMU colleagues created a virtual zebrafish that acted like a real zebrafish without any prior training.

Inspired by the natural curiosity he saw in animals, MLD Assistant Professor @anayebi.bsky.social and his CMU colleagues created a virtual zebrafish that acted like a real zebrafish without any prior training.

Scaling Olympus - The Link - The Magazine of CMU's School of Computer Science Tucked into a corner of Pittsburgh's Oakland neighborhood on Henry Street, slightly apart from the bustle of Carnegie Mellon University's campus, stand a house and a former horse stable with architecture hewing closely to the buildings' early-20th century roots. But behind the Victorian façade - home to Project Olympus - is a portal to the future.

Founded in 2007, Project Olympus provides support and resources to faculty, students, alumni and staff seeking to transform research and ideas into startup businesses. To date, it has helped launch more than 1,600 startups, with countless others waiting in the wings.

Robotics Institute Pathways Fellowship Expands Opportunities for Emerging Founders - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University The Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute Pathways Fellowship, an initiative designed to nurture non-traditional entrepreneurial talent in robotics and technology is now accepting applications for it’s 2026-2027 cohort. The Pathways Fellowship provides a launchpad for aspiring founders who want to build or expand ventures that integrate robotics, automation, or related technologies.

The Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute Pathways Fellowship, an initiative designed to nurture non-traditional entrepreneurial talent in robotics and technology is now accepting applications for its 2026-2027 cohort.
 

Empowering Everyday Folks To Audit AI WeAudit helps users test AI tools to discover issues like biases that developers might have missed. For example, if a user prompts a generative AI tool to produce images of a nurse and a doctor, and the nurses are all female and the doctors are male — as they are in the image above — then the user could generate a report about the bias.

WeAudit, from researchers in @hcii.cmu.edu, helps users test AI tools to discover issues like biases that developers might have missed. 
 

SCS Faculty Receive Amazon Research Awards SCS faculty members Andrea Bajcsy, Fernando De La Torre and Maarten Sap have received Amazon Research Awards to advance reliability, safety and performance in emerging AI systems.

SCS faculty members Andrea Bajcsy, Fernando De La Torre and Maarten Sap have received Amazon Research Awards to advance reliability, safety and performance in emerging AI systems.

Making game night count Dr. Jessica Hammer is here to show us how to play smarter, laugh harder and make every game night count.

Jessica Hammer, director of the @cmuctp.bsky.social, went on KDKA-TV's Talk Pittsburgh to talk about about games!

Analysis | This new children's book is a bedtime story for the AI age With "Privacy, Please!" a longtime cybersecurity expert wants preschoolers to start learning about digital privacy.

The @washingtonpost.com profiles SCS's Lorrie Cranor and her work teaching kids the importance of privacy.

Sandholm Earns Alfred Kordelin Prize for AI Research With Global Impact Angel Jordan University Professor of Computer Science Tuomas Sandholm has been awarded the Alfred Kordelin Prize, one of Finland's most prestigious honors.

Tuomas Sandholm has been awarded the Alfred Kordelin Prize, one of Finland's most prestigious honors.

SCS Alumnus Receives ACM SIGOPS Dissertation Award Recent CSD Ph.D. grad Juncheng Yang received the 2025 ACM SIGOPS Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award for his contributions to and impact on software systems research.

ICYMI: Recent CSD PhD grad Juncheng Yang received the 2025 ACM SIGOPS Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award for his contributions to and impact on software systems research.

Beyond the fine print Led by Lorrie Cranor, CyLab director, a team of researchers recently set out to explore how digital platforms can better empower users to make informed privacy decisions

"Something as simple as the words that label a button or a default setting can have a huge effect on what people do."

Robots on the Runway - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University Robots took to the runway -- strutting, spinning and dancing -- in a fashion show that brought art and engineering together to rethink how humans and machines might coexist. Draped in metallic fabric and sculptural garments, the robots appeared alongsid...

As AI and robotics become more popular in the public eye, interdisciplinary efforts like the robot fashion show empower robotics researchers to communicate thought-provoking ideas to a broader audience.

This Camera System Can Focus on Everything, Everywhere, All At Once No more focus stacking.

A trio of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, developed a camera with a specialized lens that can focus individual pixels to different depths, ensuring that everything in a photo is perfectly sharp and in focus.

Team Chiron Advances to Final Phase of DARPA Triage Challenge - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University The quadruped robots explore grass terrain at night. Team Chiron, a group of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, will compete in the third and final phase of the

Team Chiron, a group of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, will compete in the third and final phase of the DARPA Triage Challenge next November.

Opinion | You're a Computer Science Major. Don't Panic About A.I. We taught a generation how to write code. Now we need to teach future generations how to edit code.

"The speed and efficiency of using A.I. to write code is balanced by the reality that it often gets things wrong."

An op-ed in @nytimes.com by SCS faculty Mary Shaw and Michael Hilton describes why a CS education matters in a generative AI world.

Popular AI Models Aren't Ready to Safely Power Robots - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University Rumaisa Azeem and Andrew Hundt, co-first authors of the paper. The Breakdown:  Robots powered by popular AI models failed multiple safety and discrimination tests. The tests revealed deeper risks, including bias and unsafe physical behavior....

Robots powered by popular artificial intelligence models are currently unsafe for general purpose real-world use, according to new research from King’s College London and Carnegie Mellon University.

To kick off #CMU125, Carnegie Mellon welcomed alumnus and entrepreneur Luis von Ahn as part of the 2025 President's Lecture Series.

Best known as co-founder and CEO of Duolingo, von Ahn reflected on his experience in @scsatcmu.bsky.social, which paved the way for his career.

SCS Students Share Passions Through StuCo Roller Coasters: Background and Design is just one of the courses available through StuCo, CMU's Student College initiative that allows students to turn their passions into classes they teach for thei...

Run entirely by students, StuCo gives students the chance to turn their passions into classes offered for pass/no-pass credit. Students get out of the lab, build community and teach their peers about their interests, from hip hop to chess.

Endowed Research Fund Honors Life of Natasha Parker SCS has established an endowed research fund to support CMU students and honor the life of Natasha Parker, an SCS undergraduate who continuously gave back to the school.

SCS has established an endowed research fund to support CMU students and honor the life of Natasha Parker, an SCS undergraduate who continuously gave back to the school.

Arakawa Recognized with Two Awards at UbiComp / ISWC Riku Arakawa, a fifth-year human-computer interaction Ph.D. candidate, received the Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award and Best Doctoral Colloquium Contribution Award during UbiComp / ISWC. The conference was held October 14-16, 2025 at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland.

Riku Arakawa, a Ph.D. candidate in @hcii.cmu.edu, received the Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award and Best Doctoral Colloquium Contribution Award during UbiComp/ISWC.

A slide from my talk, talking about how in many languages compilers can rearrange records, which provides good performance and space usage but loses a layout guarantee

How to records work in programming languages?

My latest Programming Language Pragmatics video covers it all: record syntax, operations, semantics, (sub)typing, and run time layout!

PLP 8.1: Records - youtu.be/qgG555CJPmM