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Gary Fedder, vice provost for research at Carnegie Mellon University, delved into the area of advanced manufacturing at a Dean’s Lecture on April 12. Fedder focused on additive manufacturing, which is also known as 3D printing. He described how advancements…
At a Dean’s Lecture on April 3, Mostafa Ammar looked back at how networking and its research have evolved. Ammar is a Regents' Professor at the School of Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology. Ammar noted that in 1985, the…
A CMU-Q team comprised of computer science students Daun Chung, Mahmoud Al-Ismail and Yusuf Musleh took second place at the sixth annual Gulf Programming Contest in Kuwait City. Hosted by Gulf University for Science and Technology (GUST), the contest welcomed…
A proposal for research into Arabic language cyber security received an NPRP grant in Cycle 9 of Qatar National Research Fund’s flagship program. Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar’s Anis Charfi, associate teaching professor of information systems, will be the lead…
Alfred Aho delivered a Dean’s Lecture on March 21, outlining how computational thinking is an indispensable skill for virtually anyone living in the information age. Aho’s talk was a joint lecture with the Qatar Computer Research Institute. Aho, who is…
John Lehoczky discussed the challenges of real-time computer systems in a John Patrick Crecine Distinguished Lecture in Social Sciences on March 8. Lehoczky, the Thomas Lord University Professor of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University, explained how real-time systems require a…
35% of incoming students participate in at least one outreach program DOHA, QATAR – Ahead of the March 1 admission deadline, Carnegie Mellon Qatar held a series of workshops to introduce high school students to undergraduate programs in biological sciences,…
The Q-SmartLab Trading Hackathon took place last week, with team Polaris finishing on top. The winning team included Alfred Godwin Ravindrakumar, Anthony Lo and Yijun Dong. The competition took place over three trials which corresponded to three live trading days…
The second annual Winter Institute: Discovering Computer Science wrapped up last week, with 18 Qatari students attending the week-long workshop. The Winter Institute is an outreach program to introduce Qatari high school students to studying and working in the field…
Andrew Moore, dean of the School of Computer Science at CMU, gave an inspiring look at the direction technology is heading at a CMU-Q lecture on Wednesday. In his top recommendations for critical technology investments, Moore named artificial intelligence, augmented…
