Category: In the Media

Student-created platform to transform course planning

In CMU News, April 20, 2018 By Julianne Mattera An app created by and for Carnegie Mellon University students is set to streamline course planning across the university. Stellic, the…

Carnegie Mellon Qatar signs MoU with the Jassim & Hamad Bin Jassim Charitable Foundation

Agreement will promote computer science education in Qatar’s schools DOHA, QATAR: Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q) and the Jassim & Hamad Bin Jassim Charitable Foundation signed a Memorandum of…

CMU-Q team makes Top 8 at CFA Institute Research Challenge

A team of Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q) students placed in the Top 8 at the CFA Institute Research Challenge in Dublin, Ireland. Competing against undergraduate and graduate teams from…

Researchers discover new Intel processor vulnerability

Editor’s note: A research team has discovered BranchScope, a variant of the Spectre security vulnerability that could allow an attacker to access sensitive data through a side-channel attack method. The…

Carnegie Mellon Qatar takes top two spots at Al Ruwad

Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar teams placed first and second at the Al Ruwad Business Case Competition, hosted by College of the North Atlantic-Qatar (CNA-Q). The teams were very close…

Farnam Jahanian named 10th president of CMU

Farnam Jahanian, the internationally recognized computer scientist, entrepreneur, senior public servant and respected leader in higher education, has been appointed the 10th president of Carnegie Mellon University. Jahanian’s distinguished and…

Qatar Foundation launches first ‘Innovation in Teaching Week’

In Gulf-Times, February 20, 2018 Qatar Foundation’s (QF) ‘Innovation in Teaching Week’, which aims to bring together lecturers and college deans within Education City to discuss the future of learning,…

QF’s Education City Roadshow in Kuwait a success

In Gulf Times, February 15, 2018 Qatar Foundation (QF) successfully concluded its inaugural Education City Roadshow in Kuwait yesterday. The three-day event provided young men and women with an opportunity…

Education City Career Fair brings opportunities

In The Peninsula, February 7, 2018, by Fazeena Saleem The Minister of Administrative Development, Labour and Social Affairs H E Dr Issa bin Saad Al Jafali Al Nuaimi yesterday inaugurated the…

CMU-Q student leads the third place team at Arab Innovation Academy

Maryam Al-Naemi, a senior in information systems at CMU-Q, led the team that placed third at the first Arab Innovation Academy (AIA), which was held at the Education City Student…