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.

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

@cmurobotics.bsky.social alum Lalitesh Katragadda has spent his career using technology to make a world that works for everyone. On Thursday, Oct. 30, he'll share his experience with the CMU community during the Bruce Nelson Memorial Lecture. www.cs.cmu.edu/news/2025/in...

SCS faculty members Carolyn Rosé (@ltiatcmu.bsky.social) and Jun-Yan Zhu (@cmurobotics.bsky.social) recently received endowed chairs to recognize their research contributions and support their future work.

Does Compute Podcast: Nik Martelaro and Sarah Fox (@hcii.cmu.edu) are working with public transit operators and riders across the country to help design the future of public transit systems, and create a model for safely and effectively bringing AI into the workplace. www.geekwire.com/does-compute/

SCS's Matt Fredrikson has received the 2025 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security Test-of-Time Award for work that revealed critical vulnerabilities in systems that deployed machine learning for privacy-sensitive applications.

The Carnegie Mellon Accenture Center of Excellence for AI — will explore the potential of AI to enhance the training process, create modular content personalized for each learner, and capture and analyze learning data for improved outcomes.

Ten Carnegie Mellon doctoral students pursuing artificial intelligence research will receive support from Amazon through the company's new AI Ph.D. Fellowship Program.

As more aspects of life move online, how do we protect personal information? On this episode of Does Compute, Sarah Scheffler (@cylab.bsky.social) discusses how applied cryptography works to protect privacy, and what privacy means in the digital age. www.geekwire.com/does-compute/

Students in AI Tools for Software Development vibe code a lot, but rather than hoping, they're learning how to apply a software engineering mindset to make AI tools more reliable.

MapAnything, has a wide range of flexibility, making it useful for everything from augmented reality to environmental mapping by providing a fast, simple way to turn visual data into accurate 3D representations.

How do programming languages define control flow? In my latest Programming Language Pragmatics video, I talk about precedence, order of evaluation, and expression vs. statements. Control flow matters most for side effects; I talk about tradeoffs involved and forms of assignment.

Congrats, @maartensap.bsky.social!

Today, Carnegie Mellon and Amazon have announced the launch of the CMU-Amazon AI Innovation Hub, reinforcing a shared commitment to advancing cutting-edge research through academic-private sector partnerships.

Researchers in the CMU Human-Computer Interaction Institute are harnessing AI to help everyday objects sense human activity and respond in useful ways.

Increasing dependence on personal data has led to the emergence of privacy engineering as a career. Our Privacy Engineering Certificate Program, offered remotely over four weekends, will help you gain a practical knowledge of privacy engineering. Register today! privacy.cs.cmu.edu/privacy-cert...

Climate TRACE, a first-of-its-kind tool that better tracks pollution worldwide, has research from the Robotics Institute's CREATE Lab at its core.

🌟 If you’re applying to CMU SCS PhD programs, and come from a background that would bring additional dimensions to the CMU community, our PhD students are here to help! Apply to the Graduate Applicant Support Program by Oct 13 to receive feedback on your application materials:

Work led by Carnegie Mellon University researchers to design better robotic hands for use in health, agriculture and manufacturing will receive additional support from the National Science Foundation.

A team in the Interactive Structures Lab developed a fully customizable finger brace that can easily switch from stiff to flexible with the push or flex of a finger. It can also be 3D printed and requires no assembly.

1/6 Recent discussions (e.g. Rich Sutton on @dwarkesh.bsky.social’s podcast) have highlighted why animals are a better target for intelligence — and why scaling alone isn’t enough. In my recent @cmurobotics.bsky.social seminar talk, “Using Embodied Agents to Reverse-Engineer Natural Intelligence”,

Embracing technology in our lives shouldn’t be limited to consumer electronics. On this episode of the Does Compute podcast, SCS's Alexandra Ion explores how tech can be adaptive and interactive, and what technology looks like when we think beyond the screen. www.geekwire.com/does-compute/

Support from Amazon Web Services will cover the cost of continuing to store and host CMU CS Academy's entire program in its cloud.

SCS master's student Ashman Mehra has been selected as a 2025 Quad Fellow, one of 37 students worldwide to earn the distinction.

Since its inception, more than 300,000 students in Western Pennsylvania and 500,000 worldwide have utilized CMU CS Academy, which is designed to help teachers lead high-quality coding and programming lessons.

A tool developed by CMU researchers, including LTI faculty member Chenyan Xiong, could make it easier to identify patients at risk for cancer, bolstering early detection — a crucial step for improving treatment outcomes.

Q: How do you define the meaning of a program? A: With semantics! How program output is computed from input, and checking of rules. Watch my new Programming Language Pragmatics video, covering dynamic vs. static semantics, & how to represent a program with abstract syntax trees.

Just a reminder, applications for our 16-week, full-time coding bootcamp close on September 24 at 11:59 p.m. ET! Get your application in today! bootcamps.cs.cmu.edu/coding-bootc...

Andrea Bajcsy, an assistant professor at the @cmurobotics.bsky.social, has earned a DARPA Young Faculty Award for her work to create models and algorithms that help embodied AI systems make more reliable decisions in diverse environments.

No. 1 in AI, Cybersecurity, Mobile/Web Apps, Programming Languages, and Software Engineering. No. 2 overall in CS. Top five in Biotechnology, Systems, Data Science, Game Development, and Theory.

As a lifelong musician, Chris Donahue merges music, creativity and artificial intelligence to create more opportunities for expression. On this episode of Does Compute, hear how he’s working to improve these tools, and create systems that put artists first! www.geekwire.com/does-compute/

SCS faculty member Mayank Goel is dedicated to providing individuals with first-hand access to their health data and to helping them maintain their health at home.

Martial Hebert, dean of the School of Computer Science, shares his perspective on physical AI — what it is, why it matters now and how it’s set to transform industries and create new opportunities.