“Many hands make light work,” wrote the English poet John Heywood in the 16th century. Many hands indeed make light work of some of computer science’s thorniest problems, especially when those hands are those of Carnegie Mellon and Intel researchers working together.

The cover cartoon by Carnegie Mellon alumnus and illustrator Frank Harris (A’82) shows the “many hands” representing CMU faculty and students as they help raise the Intel logo over the Collaborative Innovation Center on the Pittsburgh campus.

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Thank you to everyone who filled out the survey in the last issue. It wasn’t scientific, and the response rate was low, but your feedback was interesting nevertheless.

As the research partnership between Carnegie Mellon and the chipmaker turns 10, it provides useful lessons about collaboration between companies and academics

Gordon Bell (H’10) took risks throughout his career and computer science is better because of it

Justine Cassell is the new director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute in the School of Computer Science.

Research suggests Twitter may offer an accurate gauge of public opinion—on certain subjects

CMU-developed Synthetic Interview has commercial potential beyond museum exhibits

CMU’s Software Engineering Institute looks to the next 25 years

Outreach from the Institute for Software Research strengthens international relations between the U.S., Asian allies

Download Bell's 1967 article on "Communications and Computers" along with source documents related to C.mmp.

The complete text of "Introductory Computer Science Education: A Dean’s Perspective" is available for download