News and Awards

The SCS Dissertation Award is awarded annually by CMU’s School of Computer Science in recognition of outstanding work by a graduate of their school-wide doctoral programs. Wesley Deng has been awarded Honorable Mention for the CMU…

Heard of Holoportation? In a country like Ghana with only just 30 plastic surgeons for a population of 35 million, a mobile 3D–consultation system from half the world away, is reaching people who once traveled…

Our SIGSAC Spotlight featured researcher this month is Dr. F. Betül Durak, a principal researcher at Microsoft Research (MSR) and an applied cryptographer whose work explores how trust can be made explicit and measurable in…

Generative image models often depict people with prostheses incorrectly or not at all. With the “Dear AI” initiative, the medical technology group Ottobock wants to change that. Together with those affected, an open data set…

Much of what AI knows about the world comes from data most people never see and from technical processes that determine what’s included or left out. As AI becomes increasingly influential in daily life, a…

As much as artificial intelligence can achieve, it still frequently struggles in its attempts to represent people with disabilities. Anyone who has tried to use AI to create images of people with prostheses will be…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) struggles to create true-to-life images of people with amputations. Now amputees are teaching AI to be responsible and inclusive – with help from prosthetics manufacturer Ottobock and Microsoft.

Microsoft’s AI-powered SPARROW uses solar-powered edge computing and satellite connectivity to monitor and identify biodiversity in real time worldwide

The AI Economy Institute (AIEI) is launching its third cohort of researchers, advancing our mission to understand the adoption of artificial intelligence across economies, industries, and communities.