IDeaS in the News
2021
IDeaS associate Andrew Moore was presented with the keys to the city by Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto.
November 5, 2021
Andy Norman talks about his new book, Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think, on several recents podcasts and interviews.
October 2021
Dr. Kathleen Carley talks about social-cybersecurity and the BEND framework on The Cognitive Crucible, a podcast from the Information Professionals Association. Hear the full episode here.
August 17, 2021
Aman Tyagi and Kathleen M. Carley looked at the polarization of climate change beliefs on social media and offered targeted approaches toward reshaping beliefs in their recent paper, "Climate Change Conspiracy Theories on Social Media."
See full article from CS News here
August 11, 2021
IDeaS student Judeth Oden Choi is announced as a graduate student affiliate at The Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life, CITAP.
August 2021
Knight Fellow Mansi Sood and Dr. Osman Yağan are working to improve distributed systems. “In many distributed systems, connectivity is a fundamental driver of system performance,” Sood says. But, establishing the links between nodes can be costly, and as you set up more, you approach a trade-off between connectivity and cost. Read the article here.
July 19, 2021
Ashique KhudaBukhsh of Carnegie Mellon University’s Language Technologies Institute led a team of researchers who used machine learning to identify supportive tweets from Pakistan during India’s COVID crisis. In the throes of a public health crisis, words of hope can be welcome medicine.
June 28, 2021
Columbia University 's Pandemic Research for Preparedness & Resilience (PREPARE)'s workshop: SBEG: Social, Behavioral, Economic and Governance Issues during a Pandemic featured Dr. Kathleen M. Carley speaking about COVID disinformation campaigns. See the video here.
June 25, 2021
"Convenience nearly always comes at a cost, and there is a danger that this creates opportunities for greater levels of surveillance." IDeaS faculty Jason Hong talks to Lifewire about storing your ID on your phone. Read the article.
June 16, 2021
"Jodi Forlizzi will lean on her background as a designer to address what she calls "a truly wicked problem" in her role as the inaugural associate dean of diversity, equity and inclusion in the School of Computer Science."
June 7, 2021
Dr. Kathleen M. Carley discusses Deepfakes, Disinformation, and Democracy at the D3 Conference, hosted by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), in collaboration with the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) U.S. Technology Policy Committee (USTPC) and the Online News Association (ONA).
June 2, 2021
"Public health messengers should start with a discussion of risks and benefits for kids and teens, said Baruch Fischhoff. Having that discussion sooner rather than later helps get in front of misinformation and makes public health messengers’ jobs easier..." Article in Bloomberg Law
May 5, 2021
Baruch Fischhoff explains how to communicate risk in medical messaging, including the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, in Scientific American
April 30, 2021
Dr. David Danks wins a 2020 Amazon Research Award for his project "An integrated framework for understanding human-AI hybrid decision-making"
April 27, 2021
IDeaS faculty member Mark Kamlet discusses "Cable News and Misinformation" as part of Deitrich Deep Dives, a series of engaging and in-depth presentations about critical political and societal issues through the lens of the humanities, social sciences and related fields. Hosted by Kathy Newman, associate professor, Dietrich College
April 20, 2021
Dr. Kathleen Carley speaks on an expert panel organized by Spotlight PA, Fighting Misinformation. 
April 20, 2021
Dietrich Deep Dives, a series of engaging and in-depth presentations about critical political and societal issues through the lens of the humanities, social sciences and related fields, invited Dr. Kathleen Carley to speak about Social Media and Misinformation, hosted by IDeaS Professor Danny Oppenheimer.
April 1, 2021
Kathleen M. Carley speaks about developing understandings and technologies to manage the safety of online discourse in this Cybercrimeology podcast interview with Michael Joyce.
March 31, 2021
IDeaS faculty member, Michael Shamos, talks about electronic voting machine security for Dietrich Deep Dives, a series of engaging and in-depth presentations about critical political and societal issues through the lens of the humanities, social sciences and related fields. Hosted by Aaditya Ramdas, assistant professor, Dietrich College and School of Computer Science.
March 30, 2021
IDeaS faculty member Conrad Tucker has a new article in the journal Nature.
Read feature summary by Daniel Tkacik: Inferring What We Share by How We Share
Read the article: Classification of unlabeled online media
March 25, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world. CMU asked experts, including Dr. Kathleen Carley, to reflect on the past year and what the changes mean for our future.
March 11, 2021
IDeaS Co-director Dr. David Danks shared thoughts on the Future of Information. The panel discussion moderated by Rebecca MacKinnon is part of the Futures Forum series from Linda Hall Library.
Panelists Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Asta Zelenkauskaite, David Danks
March 4, 2021
Dis/misinformation created false narratives that feuled violence at the Capitol riot on January 6. TribLive talked to experts, including Dr. Kathleen M. Carley, about how these narratives develop.
February 7, 2021
PublicSource asked about the warning signs of radicalization and who is most susceptible. Kathleen M. Carley provided some answers.
January 26, 2021
IDeaS Center Director Kathleen M. Carley talks about disinformation and how media outlets can combat it in an article from Yahoo! Finance.
January 22, 2021
2020
Director Kathleen M. Carley joined a panel and gave a talk "Social Influence and Disinformation in Cyberspace" at The 3rd Carnegie Mellon University Open Science Symposium Tuesday, October 20, 2020. Find more info here.
The IDeaS Center collaborated with Duquesne University for the Inaugural Grefenstette Symposium: Disinformation, Misinformation and Technology: New Ethical Challenges and Solutions on October 7th. Learn more about the symposium here.
The IDeaS Center and the Block Center for Technology and Society will co-presented Combatting Disinformation One Month Before the Election: What State and Local Policy Makers Can Do with panelists Kathleen Carley and Yonatan Bisk on Tuesday, October 6th.
Kathleen M. Carley sits down to talk to Dr. Nick van Terheyden on "The Incrementalist" to discuss social media and misinformation online. Follow this link for the full podcast.
Through guided research opportunities, students are exploring issues related to COVID-19 and other topics at CMU this summer. Prof. Kathleen M. Carley will lead a project course. Find more information here.
Wisconsin Public Radio conversation Kathleen M. Carley about how bots pushed to reopen the economy, wpr.org
Kathleen M. Carley sits down with Julie Rose of "Top of Mind" on BYU Radio June 10th to discuss how Twitter bots are responsible for most tweets about COVID-19.
Center research is discussed in the article by Maya Shwayder in Digital Trends, "Researchers: Bots are spreading conspiracy theories about #blacklivesmatter". Read the full article here.
Director Kathleen M. Carley from Carnegie Mellon University speaks with ABC7's Kristen Sze about its use and power. Read the article here.
NPR interviews Kathleen M. Carley for their article, "Researchers: Nearly Half Of Accounts Tweeting About Coronavirus Are Likely Bots". Read article here.
MIT Technology Review Article, "Nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing to reopen America may be bots" discusses the research of Kathleen M. Carley and the IDeaS Center. Read full article here
Kathleen M. Carley and M. Anthony Mills (R Street Institute) pen the article in The Fulcrum, "Our duty as citizens includes combatting pandemic's digital disinformation", read article here.
VICE News interviews director Kathleen M. Carley about bots and misinformation surrounding COVID-19. Read the article here.
AP News features CASOS Center Research directed by Kathleen M. Carley in the article "Virus misinformation flourishes in online protest groups" about the spread of misinformation on Facebook with protest groups.
Director Kathleen M. Carley contributes to PBS News Hour's Courtney Vinopal article about misinformation and the pandemic, "Why uncertainty about coronavirus breeds opportunity for misinformation"
"There Is 'Way, Way More' Disinformation Related To Coronavirus Compared To Other Events" by Wesa.fm's Liz Reid highlights findings by Director Kathleen M. Carley and CASOS Center on misinformation about COVID-19.
Director Kathleen M. Carley joins CASOS graduate student Geoff Dobson on the podcast The COVID-19 Experience. Listen to this and other episodes here.
Director Kathleen M. Carley is a panelist for the R Street Institute Panel Combatting Digital Disinformation During a Global Pandemic streamed live on March 19, 2020.
Article "Investing in Social Cybersecurity" by CASOS graduate student David Beskow and Director Kathleen M. Carley is featured in the new volume of Naval Science and Technology Future Force pages 16-19.
Article "BEND: A Framework for Social Cybersecurity" by Director Kathleen M. Carley is featured in the new volume of Naval Science and Technology Future Force pages 20-25.
Article "Identifying Misinformation Campaigns" by CASOS graduate student Iain Cruikshank and Director Kathleen M. Carley is featured in the new volume of Naval Science and Technology Future Force pages 36-37.
Popular Science article "Yes, the new coronavirus is mutating—but that’s not a bad thing SARS-CoV-2 is changing at the rate scientists would expect for a coronavirus" Kathleen M. Carley discusses CASOS Center research on Disinformation about Coronavirus Mutations.
Director Kathleen M. Carley discusses disinformation and COVID-19 in the USA Today Article by Jessica Guynn.
CASOS researchers study disinformation and the COVID-19 pandemic, find out more here.
Researchers at Princeton and Carnegie Mellon develop a new model to track epidemics. Article by John Sullivan.
Director Kathleen M. Carley presents CASOS research at the NAS Surprise Resulting from Convergence Workshop in Washington, DC February 6th and 7th.
Director Kathleen M. Carley briefs the hill on CASOS research February 27th in Washington, DC.
Director Kathleen M. Carley participates in panel in Oslo Norway Hacking Democracy: Influence Operations in the Digital Age hosted by Norwegian Defence Research Establishment on February 13th.
2019
Fake news? CMU’s Center for Informed Democracy and Social Cybersecurity forms to counter spread of online disinformation - Next Pittsburgh
August 5, 2019
Researching Democracy in the Digital Age -Inside Higher Ed
July 24, 2019
CMU creates center to fight disinformation online - Pittsburgh Business Times
July 23, 2019