About SCS / Divisions

The Center for Automated Learning and Discovery (CALD) pursues basic science in automated learning methods, including data mining, statistical methodology, and knowledge discovery.

The Computer Science Department (CSD), the oldest degree-granting unit in SCS, provides a solid foundation in the practical and theoretical aspects of building and maintaining systems as well as the tools needed to adapt easily to changing technologies.

The Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII), the largest and most diverse group of HCI researchers anywhere in the world, is devoted to the design, implementation, and evaluation of interactive computer-based technology.

The Institute for Software Research, International (ISRI) creates innovative solutions to the problems of practical, large-scale, and high-quality software-intensive systems.

· The Language Technologies Institute (LTI) draws on Carnegie Mellon's longstanding accomplishments in the natural language processing of written and spoken language and information management.

· The Robotics Institute (RI), founded in 1979 to conduct basic and applied research in robotics technologies relevant to industrial and societal tasks, and it is recognized worldwide as one of the premier organizations of its kind.

In addition, SCS jointly sponsors the Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) along with the College of Fine Arts. ETC offers a two-year Masters of Entertainment Technology degree in which technologists and fine artists work together on projects that produce artifacts that are intended to entertain, inform, inspire, or otherwise affect an audience/guest/player/participant..