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Anna Li’s million-dollar idea helps patients help themselves The MD/PhD student has already designed a medical device, earned a patent and launched a company — but it’s what she hasn’t yet accomplished that keeps her going.

Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh MD/PhD student Anna Li has built the first prototype of a home-use electronic stethoscope and it has now turned into a patented medical device and is headed toward FDA approval.

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Duolingo’s founder on billionaire life: ‘I guess it’s nice not to worry’ Raised by a single mother in a nation at war, Luis von Ahn transformed the internet as a student — then did it again with his all-conquering language app

"Luis Von Ahn’s breakthrough came as a computer science expert at Carnegie Mellon University, when he worked out how to stop hackers setting up fake email accounts."

Read more about CMU alum Luis Von Ahn, co-founder of the popular language-learning app Duolingo.

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As we move AI technology forward, it is incumbent upon us all to ensure the positive impacts of AI are worth the substantial energy cost. Owning to work at CMU and elsewhere, we are well-positioned to meet this challenge.

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New privacy threat modeling framework takes a user-centric perspective A new framework developed at CMU seeks to improve privacy notices and choices, which could give users more autonomy over their digital footprint.

CyLab researchers are developing a user-focused privacy threat modeling framework, called UsersFirstOpens, that seeks to help organizations identify and remedy areas where their privacy notices and choices fall short.

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Skarlatos Receives 2025 IEEE TCCA Young Computer Architect Award SCS faculty member Dimitrios Skarlatos earned the 2025 IEEE TCCA Young Computer Architect Award for his contributions to virtual memory management and computer security.

SCS faculty member Dimitrios Skarlatos earned the 2025 IEEE TCCA Young Computer Architect Award for his contributions to virtual memory management and computer security.

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Confronting the AI/energy conundrum The MIT Energy Initiative's annual research spring symposium explored artificial intelligence as both a problem and solution for the clean energy transition.

At Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)'s recent AI & Energy: Peril & Promise symposium, Emma Strubell, assistant professor in the Language Technology Institute, joined the conversation warning against efficiency gains triggering greater overall consumption.

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Channel 11 Exclusive: Carnegie Mellon students get second chance to get their work on the moon “For me personally, in a very self-serving way, this helps create a legacy that lasts on the moon, something that outlasts us.”

@cmu.edu University students are getting a second chance to make history and get their rover Iris to the moon after its first mission in 2024 was cut short.

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Using Hand Gestures To Evaluate AI Biases Humans routinely use hand gestures to communicate, but what might be an innocent gesture in one culture could be offensive in another. CMU researchers created a model to help generative AI systems und...

Humans routinely use hand gestures to communicate, but what might be an innocent gesture in one culture could be offensive in another. CMU researchers created a model to help generative AI systems understand the cultural nuance of gestures.

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How Carnegie Mellon University's computer science academy is preparing kids for the future A Pittsburgh-made coding program just hit 500,000 students and it all started in local schools. We learned more about how Carnegie Mellon University's computer science academy is preparing kids for th...

Carnegie Mellon computer science academy has helped 500,000 students around the globe learn computer science! 🎉

The entirely free, world-class curriculum supports educators and students with the goal of making computer science education accessible for anyone.

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Informatica and CMU's School of Computer Science have partnered to advance the development and application of GenAI technologies for data management.

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CyLab to host Robotics Security and Privacy Workshop July 28-29 On July 28-29, CyLab will host a Robotics Security and Privacy Workshop on the Carnegie Mellon University campus, convening leading researchers and experts from across academia and industry to discuss...

CMU's Cylab is hosting a Robotics Security and Privacy workshop. This workshop will convene leading researchers and experts from across academia and industry to discuss strategic approaches to building trusted middleware and toolchains.

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Carnegie Learning’s AI-powered ClearTalk Wins "Language Learning Innovation Award" in 2025 EdTech Breakthrough Awards Program PITTSBURGH, June 16, 2025--Carnegie Learning announced that its ClearTalk AI-powered speaking practice tool has been selected as winner of the "Language Learning Innovation Award" in the 7th annual Ed...

Carnegie Learning announced that its ClearTalk AI-powered speaking practice tool has been selected as winner of the "Language Learning Innovation Award" in the 7th annual EdTech Breakthrough Awards program.

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CMU CS Academy has reached 500,000 students globally, spanning 2,000 schools in 66 countries. And this milestone is just the beginning! Now offering six online courses, our goal is to make computer science education accessible to students everywhere—for free. Learn more: academy.cs.cmu.edu

Check out our new work on making robots process touch more like brains!

Surprisingly, ConvRNNs best matched mouse cortex—passing the NeuroAI Turing Test. We also developed tactile-specific SSL augmentations and an Encoder-Attender-Decoder framework unifying ConvRNNs, SSMs & Transformers.

Artificial intelligence models developed and evaluated by faculty throughout Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science are transforming education using novel approaches that teach critical thinking skills and improve equity for all students.

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CMU Researchers Build Personalized Models To Advance Precision Cancer Care Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science developed a new approach to bridge this gap between available data and actionable insight, creating personalized models to help...

CMU researchers are using personalized models to decode how cancer behaves in individual patients, one of medicine's toughest challenges.

Through individualized data and insights, their work revealed hidden #cancer subtypes that could inform treatment and improve survival predictions.

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Tom Mitchell’s work with AI tools like Google’s NotebookLM explores how automatically generated, conversational learning materials can personalize education and transform the future of teaching and learning. Read more in the latest issue of The LINK Magazine.

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SCS Ph.D. Student Named DOE Computational Science Fellow SCS Ph.D. student Stephen Huan has received a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship for the 2025–26 academic year.

SCS Ph.D. student Stephen Huan has received a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship for the 2025–26 academic year.

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Arm and SoftBank Group Contribute USD 15.5 Million to Advance AI Through Carnegie Mellon University’s Partnership with Keio University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Arm and SoftBank Group Corp. (SBG) today announced that Arm and SBG will contribute USD 15.5 million to CMU to support its partnership with Keio University (Keio), a ...

Arm and @softbankofficial.bsky.social contribute $15.5M to @cmu.edu to support its partnership with Keio University, a collaboration to accelerate the global advancement of AI.

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Project Baseplate Alum to Compete on Season 5 of LEGO® Masters - Center for Transformational Play - Carnegie Mellon University An alumnus of the Center for Transformational Play’s Project Baseplate Brick-By-Brick® facilitator training has earned a spot on season 5 of LEGO® Masters. Krista Kay, along with fellow Pittsburgh LEG...

Krista Kay, an alumnus of Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for Transformational Play’s Project Baseplate will compete against 10 other teams on season 5 of FOX's LEGO Masters.

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Can Generative AI Replace Humans in Qualitative Research Studies? It can be tempting to use LLM-based tools as replacements for human participants in qualitative research studies. But CMU research shows that replacing humans with LLMs has limitations and presents et...

It can be tempting to use LLM-based tools as replacements for human participants in qualitative research studies. But Carnegie Mellon University research shows that replacing humans with LLMs has limitations and presents ethical concerns.

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MiniMates: Miniature Avatars for AR Remote Meetings - Extended Reality Technology Center - Carnegie Mellon University MiniMates aims to reimagine how users interact with each other during conference calls.

David Lindlbauer, assistant professor in CMU Human-Computer Interaction Institute worked with his team to develop an augmented reality experience that enhances communication by incorporating hand gestures, eye contact, and body language—elements often lost in traditional video calls.

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Carnegie Mellon recycling robot may help keep costs down by tearing apart old electronics It’s all about speeding up the process of taking apart e-waste and getting to the materials that can be recycled much faster.

Researchers at CMU Robotics Institute are developing a robot that can take apart old electronics and find gold, silver and other valuable and recyclable materials inside.

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@cmu.edu and Seoul National University (SNU) have announced a new collaboration to advance human-centered artificial intelligence research that prioritizes human well-being, accessibility and social responsibility.

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Congratulations to professor and director of the Language Technology Institute in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, Mona Diab! She has been elected to the Computing Research Association’s (CRA) board of directors.

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CMU Study Shows Large Language Models Have Distinctive Styles It's not unusual for people to have distinctive speech or writing styles, but a recent study shows that text-generating AI models exhibit similar idiosyncrasies.

It's not unusual for people to have distinctive speech or writing styles, but a recent study shows that text-generating AI models exhibit similar idiosyncrasies.

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Congrats to the Purpl3Pwn3rs and Team RedTWIZ! Both teams feature LTI students, and both are finalists in the inaugural Amazon Nova AI Challenge. Read about it here:

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The AI Agent Era Requires a New Kind of Game Theory Zico Kolter, a Carnegie Mellon professor and board member at OpenAI, tells WIRED about the dangers of AI agents interacting with one another—and why models need to be more resistant to attacks.

@wired.com did an outstanding Q&A with CMU Machine Learning Department Director Zico Kolter on agentic systems and how we manipulate AI.

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Freespace Robotics Wins StartUp of the Year Competition at ProMat 2025 Independent judges from industry leaders including Walmart, Whirlpool, Thermo-Fisher, Airbus and Foley Lardner selected Freespace Robotics as the most innovative startup based on the ingenuity, applic...

Congratulations to Freespace Robotics, on winning the Startup of the Year Competition at Promat 2025! The startup out of the National Robotics Engineering Center has been admitted to the StartUp Pavilion, a showcase for new entrants with strong promise.

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Sheng Earns 2025 Krulcik Scholarship BSAI junior Daisy Sheng has received the 2025 Scott Robert Krulcik Scholarship in Computer Science.

"But thanks to the people that I've met throughout my journey — my teachers, mentors, people who've guided me — I've achieved things I never imagined."

AI major Daisy Sheng has received the 2025 Scott Robert Krulcik Scholarship in Computer Science.

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