Carnegie Mellon University

The globalization of the largest city in northern Thailand, Chiang Mai, has led to the development of road networks that break up rice fields and harden the irrigation system used to fill rice paddies in the city’s outskirts. These new road…

Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science (SCS) has launched a new undergraduate degree to educate and train the next generation of roboticists needed for the growing field.The Bachelor of Science in Robotics will fuse the…

In September 2011, Trustee William S. Dietrich II stunned the Carnegie Mellon University community by announcing his intent to create a foundation(opens in new window) upon his death that would direct over half of its annual philanthropic…

If the headlines are to be believed, artificial intelligence (AI) is about to make everyone's jobs obsolete. Nur Naqvi at the American Institute of AI isn't buying it."It's important to realize that AI's going to be used in your job, not…

Carnegie Mellon University has been at the epicenter of artificial intelligence from the creation of the first AI computer program in 1956 to pioneering work in self-driving cars and natural language processing. So it only makes sense that…

The magical mystery of quantum mechanics thrills Beka Modrekiladze. The Carnegie Mellon University physics doctoral student sees artificial intelligence as the way to unlock its secrets."I want to understand what space-time is made of,"…

A Senate subcommittee on consumer protection, product safety and data security convened Sept. 12 in Washington, D.C., with the goal of identifying how to begin helping Americans understand the capabilities and limitations of artificial…

Nothing is easy to predict, especially not the development of organisms. However, predicting neuron cell growth just got a little bit easier, thanks to CMU researchers.Jessica Zhang, a professor of mechanical engineering, and students in…

Today, College of Engineering Dean Bill Sanders(opens in new window) participated in a briefing at the United Nations. He was joined by Carnegie Mellon University Africa(opens in new window) student Choukouriyah Arinloye. The event,…

A new set of protocols will allow researchers to expand the way they look at pathogens.The principle of physically expanding biological study samples for imaging is known as expansion microscopy. The technique uses a hydrogel to…