CMU ranks first for overall graduate computer science programs, tied with MIT and Stanford. Among CS programs, CMU also earned No. 1 rankings in Programming Language, Artificial Intelligence, and Systems, along with a No. 2 ranking in Theory. live-cmu-news.pantheonsite.io/stories/arch...

"My mission truly is to make sure that we not only break language barriers, but also biases about where a great AI company can come from.” - SCS alum Akshat Prakash, one of this year's Tartans on the Rise. 👉www.cmu.edu/engage/event...

“How quickly can you discover all the failure cases and fix them?” Schneider asked. “That governs how quickly you can scale up." @cmurobotics.bsky.social faculty member Jeff Schneider talks to @yahoonews.com about what's next for HAVs in Pennsylvania.

CMU computational biologists found that a long-standing idea about how ecosystems work may not hold up when habitats are fragmented. Their work was supported by data from bird species in Japan's Ryukyu Islands.

"Dave is not a household name, but he impacted every household on the planet." SCS remembers "grandfather of the internet," former faculty member David Farber. 👉www.cs.cmu.edu/news/2026/da...

CMU's Center for AI-Driven Biomedical Research chose its first research projects that will use AI and machine learning to unlock the complex information inside genomes and cells, paired with automated laboratory platforms that can run and refine experiments at scale.

SCS seniors Claire de Saint Phalle and Tanisha Saxena have received this year's Stehlik Scholarship for their excellence beyond the classroom. 👉www.cs.cmu.edu/news/2026/st...

A study from the @hcii.cmu.edu found that AI isn't likely to replace managers in the workplace, but it could help with routine tasks.

Congrats to Associate Professor Deepak Pathak for receiving a 2026 Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research! Pathak's project addresses how to make AI systems scale beyond controlled settings in the real world to solve complex tasks. www.ri.cmu.edu/pathak-recei...

Super Odometry allows robots to complete missions in scenarios that would normally stop them in their tracks.

The United Nations appointed SCS faculty member Hoda Heidari to its first-ever global scientific panel on AI.

Congrats to Three Minute Thesis #3MT preliminary round 4 co-winner, Rishi Veerapaneni of @cmurobotics.bsky.social at @scsatcmu.bsky.social! 📣 His presentation is titled, "How to train your ~~dragon~~ robot team!" ⏰ Join us for the #3MTCMU Championship! 🗓️ 3/25, 6-8pm 💻 cmu.is/2026-3MT-Champ

“The Robotics Innovation Center offers Carnegie Mellon researchers new opportunities to develop and test robotics, automation and physical AI in the real world.” www.cmu.edu/news/stories...

How CMU Built a World-Leading Robotics Ecosystem www.cmu.edu/news/stories...

SCS researchers have developed an AI-powered chatbot, PeerCoPilot, designed both with and specifically for people working in behavioral health.

Dana Scott, the Hillman University Professor of Computer Science, Philosophy and Mathematical Logic (Emeritus), has received the 2025 K. Jon Barwise Prize from the American Philosophical Association.

Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Innovation Center has secured its first corporate tenant, bringing the high-growth robotics unicorn FieldAI to the university’s new research facility at Hazelwood Green.

“Machine Learning: How Did We Get Here?,” is a new podcast from the Stanford Digital Economy Lab hosted by CMU's Tom Mitchell, and featuring conversations with Geoffrey Hinton, Kai-Fu Lee, and Daphne Koller, among others. The first two episodes drop today! digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/machine-lear...

Sleep Cycle and CMU's Delphi Group announced a research collaboration focused on understanding how privacy-preserved data and sleep-based signals may complement and enhance respiratory disease surveillance systems and early detection of disease outbreaks.

SCS faculty members Aayush Jain, Aditi Raghunathan and Jun-Yan Zhu have received 2026 Sloan Research Fellowships. www.cs.cmu.edu/news/2026/sl...

@hcii.cmu.edu PhD candidate Alicia DeVrio explores the tension between stability and collapse through woven forms.

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.

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

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.

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

“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."

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.  

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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, 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.

"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.

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.

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.

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.

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.