Seventy years ago this week, Herbert Simon and Allen Newell, of the then-Carnegie Institute of Technology, and their RAND colleague Cliff Shaw, published Logic Theorist, the first AI program.

Yang Liu, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department, has received a NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award for his research advancing the mathematical foundations of algorithms, optimization and data analysis. 👉 https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/2026/liu-career-award

An SCS team created an exoskeleton that combines functionality with wearability to help people with mobility issues adopt a more natural gait without the bulk of a robotic device.

“I’m good at being a mirror, reflecting back to people who they are,” Hatcher said. “My heart was in my work, long before I learned that was Andrew Carnegie’s motto. That’s just who I am.”

Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Innovation Center welcomed global technology company Fujitsu Limited as its latest corporate tenant in the university’s robotics and artificial intelligence research facility at Hazelwood Green.

Whether we’re enjoying downtime after a long day, forging new connections with other people or practicing a new skill, we gravitate toward the joys of entertainment. And SCS has a long history of impacting the art of amusement.

SCS alumni like Sara Adkins are developing methods for computers to understand music, while making it easier for any musician, no matter their skill level, to compose it.

A CMU robotics team arrived in Venezuela this week to assist search and rescue crews following two devastating earthquakes. Snake robots designed by CMU’s Biorobotics Lab can squeeze into tight spaces. A camera on the front of the robot can help direct the search for survivors.

Deepak Pathak, the Raj Reddy Associate Professor of Robotics in @cmurobotics.bsky.social, has received a 2026 Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Young Researcher Award at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

Whether they're watching on TV or navigating with a LiveSplats prototype, we hope Fernando and his family have a blast cheering for Spain tomrrow!

Researchers in @cmurobotics.bsky.social have designed an autonomous navigation robot that can move through orchard rows, detect fire blight symptoms and map infected trees in real time.

With the World Cup starting getting started, we thought it'd be a great time to highlight Shivaas Gulati, the SCS alum who's applying machine learning to help improve Southend United, the English football club he's co-owned since 2024.

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have shown that bacteria can learn from past experiences, store memories across generations and adapt their behavior to changing environments all without a brain or nervous system.

Computational biology researchers are working to better understand the role that genes play in bipolar disorder — work that's deeply rooted in decades of student ingenuity supported by the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program.

Tuomas Sandholm received the ACM SIGecom Test of Time Award for research that combined automated mechanism design with techniques from optimal stopping theory to develop online auction mechanisms that can make near-optimal decisions under uncertainty.

For the fifth straight year, CMU students took first place in the MITRE Embedded Capture the Flag cybersecurity competition, further cementing the university’s status as the top program in one of the nation’s most demanding collegiate security contests.

Recent CMU studies show that as older adults embrace AI, they want the technology to be more in tune with their emotional needs.

SoundBubble helps isolate and amplify the sounds of fingers as they tap, trace or rap various surfaces, or use different tools. That information could provide contextual hints about what users are doing and how the computer might help them.

Want to learn programming fundamentals and earn Carnegie Mellon credit along the way? 3CS, from CMU CS Academy, offers high school students with basic coding knowledge a jumpstart on college-level computer science with actual college credit! https://academy.cs.cmu.edu/3cs

Congrats to Parallel Data Lab researchers including SCS faculty member Eric Xing on receiving the Test of Time Award during the 2026 EuroSys Conference! https://www.ece.cmu.edu/news-and-events/story/2026/05/test-of-time-award.html

“I envision a future where epidemic forecasting is everywhere, properly understood and useful.”

“The whole point is to bring joy to people’s lives — that’s next level for me. I think it’s a fantastic way to really be at the forefront of technology, art and helping people join together.” The LINK looks at the Center for Transformational Play.

Don't let the headline fool you: the number of employers hiring SCS undergrads and grad degree holders has significantly increased, from 267 in 2022 to 367 last year. Our grads are working in more fields than ever!

"We're not far from a time when people will be able to look on their phone and see what is the current level of circulation of any major pathogen in their city and what is the current prediction of when a wave will arrive.”

As the inaugural Bachelor of Science in Robotics graduate, Beverly (Bev) Da Costa not only moved through a brand-new curriculum but also helped define it #TartanProud #CMUgrad 🎓 🎉 Hear from Bev in a Q+A where she reflects on her BSR experience: https://www.ri.cmu.edu/work-hard-and-dream-harder/

SCS researchers have developed a tool that uses AI to analyze medical images, reducing the time healthcare professionals spend finding and labeling organs in scans.

Irene Kaplow, an assistant professor in the Ray and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department and the Department of Biological Sciences, has been named a 2026 Searle Scholar.

School of Computer Science faculty member Roni Rosenfeld has been named a University Professor, the highest distinction a faculty member can receive at @cmu.edu. 👉https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/2026/rosenfeld-university-professor

Eric Xing has been named a 2026 fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/2026/xing-iscb-fellow

“When I came to CMU, my eyes were opened to machine learning and how limitless its capabilities were."

An SCS team developed a tool to keep anxious searchers grounded when they're looking for medical information on Reddit. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/2026/evidotes-prevents-anxiety-spirals

Researchers in the @hcii.cmu.edu found that small design changes in online tutoring platforms can help students push through their mistakes and keep learning.

Terrible Workers, a card game designed by a team of recent SCS alums, helps middle and high school students practice interpersonal skills like active listening, adaptability and conflict resolution.

AI Venture Studio is hosting Demo Day on Thursday, April 30, including open coffee and live pitches!Come hear from founders building the next generation of AI ventures, connect with innovators, investors and the community! Registration is open and free! https://www.aivs.co/demo-day-2026

AI Venture Studio is hosting Demo Day on Thursday, April 30, including open coffee and live pitches!Come hear from founders building the next generation of AI ventures, connect with innovators, investors and the community! Registration is open and free! https://www.aivs.co/demo-day-2026

Take a quick tour of the School of Computer Science with some of our most directionally astute students!

Shivaas Gulati’s work exemplifies a broader trend among Carnegie Mellon alumni, who are reshaping professional sports organizations across the globe. @southendunited.bsky.social

A recent CMU study explored how people reacted to AI agents that sounded like they were physically in the same room with the humans using them.

CMU's Phillip Compeau has been inducted into the 2026 College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering for his contributions to computational biology education.

SCS faculty member Justin Chan has received an @americanheart.bsky.social Career Development Award to support his research on using AI-enabled hearables to expand access to cardiac monitoring. www.cs.cmu.edu/news/2026/ch...

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.