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Carnegie Mellon Achieves Robotics Innovation Center Construction Milestone
Carnegie Mellon University held a topping-off ceremony to mark the occasion of the completion of the structural phase of construction for its Robotics Innovation Center.
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CyLab Brings Cybersecurity to High School Educators
The picoCTF for GenCyber boot camp shares cybersecurity concepts typically taught at the college level, with the goal of helping high school teachers integrate these topics into their curriculum.
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New CMU Tool Monitors Wildlife Conservation in Low-Resource Languages
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University worked with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) for Nature to develop a tool that monitors and identifies media articles related to environmental conservation.
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Researchers Seek to Reduce Harm to Multicultural Users of Voice Assistants
In a new study, HCII Ph.D. student Kimi Wenzel and Associate Professor Geoff Kaufman identified six downstream harms caused by voice assistant errors and devised strategies to reduce them.
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Christin Named Head of Software and Societal Systems Department
Nicolas Christin will be the new department head of Carnegie Mellon's Software and Societal Systems Department.
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CMU’s picoCTF Seeks To Make Cybersecurity Education More Accessible
Eleven years after its inception, the picoCTF Capture The Flag (CTF) has expanded beyond the range of a simple hacking competition and now serves as an educational platform for various concepts in cybersecurity.
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Generative AI for Educators: Three Seed Grants Awarded for Research & Development
CMU announces three seed grants have been awarded for faculty to further research and develop their proposed generative AI tools for educators.
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How Should AI Depict Marginalized Communities? CMU Technologists Look to a More Inclusive Future
As artificial intelligence becomes more sophisticated and more capable of closely depicting reality, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) are working to ensure that the outputs of large language models are representative of the communities they reference.
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Carnegie Mellon Rocket Command Competes in NASA Event
Tanner Aikens and his Carnegie Mellon Rocket Command teammates designed a rocket and payload for NASA’s Student Launch competition.