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    Listening to Your Fingertips

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    Commencement 2026: ‘Shape What Comes Next’

    Carnegie Mellon University conferred more than 5,800 undergraduate and graduate degrees at its 128th Commencement ceremony on Sunday, May ...

Latest Projects

  • A teacher works with a student while the student engages in tutoring with a remote tutor
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    National Tutoring Observatory

    The mission of the National Tutoring Observatory is to capture and study great teachers and tutors in one-on-one and small-group settings to uncover the “secret sauce” of effective teaching. By partne ...

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    PolicyCraft

    Community and organizational policies are typically designed in a top-down, centralized fashion, with limited input from impacted stakeholders. This can r Community and organizational policies are typically designed in a top-down, centralized fashion, with limited input from impacted stakeholders. This can result in policies that are misaligned with com ...

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    Inkspire

    With recent advancements in the capabilities of Text-to-Image (T2I) AI models, product designers have begun exp With recent advancements in the capabilities of Text-to-Image (T2I) AI models, product designers have begun experimenting with them in their work. However, T2I models struggle to interpret abstract la ...

  • illustration of the proof-of-concept editing interface with map-inspired elements, like district, path and landmark
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    VideoMap

    Video editing is a creative and complex endeavor and we believe that there is potential for reimagining a new v Video editing is a creative and complex endeavor and we believe that there is potential for reimagining a new video editing interface to better support the creative and exploratory nature of video edi ...