Category: Computer Science

CMU-Q wins Microsoft Imagine Cup for second year in a row

Team Buzzcast from CMU-Q won Microsoft Imagine Cup 2016 in the World Citizenship category. The competition challenged teams aged 16 to 26 years to develop innovative projects and present solutions…

Lebanese School of Qatar wins “Botball 2016” at Carnegie Mellon Qatar

Winning high school team to represent Qatar in global Botball competition DOHA, QATAR – Students from the Lebanese School of Qatar won the 12th Botball Educational Robotics Program, hosted by…

Gary Fedder discusses power of customization

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…

Mostafa Ammar looks at the evolution of networks

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,…

CMU-Q team places second in the Gulf Programming Contest

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…

Arabic language cyber security among CMU-Q projects at ARC

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,…

Computer science pioneer Alfred Aho discusses computational thinking

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…

Lehoczky speaks about real-time computing

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…

Carnegie Mellon Qatar hosts high school workshops to give sneak peek into careers in business, science and tech

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…

CMU-Q Trading Hackathon tests teamwork across disciplines

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…