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79-522: Frans Mäyrä was the founding president from 2003 to 2006. DiGRA aims to coordinate activities related to academic research of games in different disciplines and in different parts of the world. For this purpose, several local chapters and special interest groups (SIGs) have been set up within DiGRA. Together with local organisers, DiGRA has so far produced eight conferences. DiGRA has also supported smaller regional conferences and, starting in 2014, DiGRA's conference

158-595: A Robotics Innovation Center at Hazelwood Green, in addition to new dormitories and other buildings in the coming years. On February 5, 2013, Carnegie Mellon announced the selection of Subra Suresh , Director of the National Science Foundation and Dean of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Engineering , as its ninth president effective July 1, 2013. Suresh stepped down in June 2017 and

237-470: A campaign which seeks to raise $ 2 billion to advance the university's priorities, including campus development. Alongside the Tepper Quad and Hamburg Hall, Carnegie Mellon finished construction in 2020 on TCS Hall, an innovation center made possible with a $ 35 million gift from Tata Consultancy Services . Carnegie Mellon plans to collaborate with Emerald Cloud Lab to construct the world's first cloud lab in

316-410: A company would contract the institute to solve a specific problem, and the institute would then hire an appropriate scientist to do the research. The results of the research then became the property of the contracting company. In 1928, the institute was incorporated as a nonprofit , independent research center and planning for a new Mellon Institute building began that same year. When completed in 1937,

395-591: A distinct institution, the landmark building bearing its name remains located at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Bellefield Avenue in Oakland , the city's university district. It is sited adjacent to The Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and the University of Pittsburgh 's Bellefield Hall and is across Bellefield Avenue from two other local landmarks: the University of Pittsburgh's Heinz Memorial Chapel and

474-585: A founding member of the University Athletic Association . Carnegie Mellon fields eight men's teams and nine women's teams as the Tartans. The university's faculty and alumni include 21 Nobel Prize laureates and 13 Turing Award winners and have received 142 Emmy Awards , 64 Tony Awards , and 13 Academy Awards . The Carnegie Technical Schools were founded in 1900 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by

553-681: A nearby hill that was leveled to build the College of Fine Arts building. The northwestern part of the campus (home to Hamburg Hall, Newell-Simon Hall, Smith Hall, and Gates Hillman Complex) was acquired from the United States Bureau of Mines in the 1980s. Carnegie Mellon has been purchasing 100% renewable energy for its electricity since 2011. The campus began to take shape in the Beaux-Arts architecture style of George Carnegie Palmer and Henry Hornbostel of Palmer & Hornbostel, winners of

632-562: A new pipe system is installed in the basement of the Cathedral. In 1967, declining use of independent research institutes for the outsourcing of corporate industrial research led Mellon Institute to merge with the Carnegie Institute of Technology to form Carnegie Mellon University. The "Carnegie Institute of Technology" name was retained to refer to the engineering portion of Carnegie Mellon's "College of Engineering and Science". In 2013,

711-844: A part of the University of California, Washington Center . Carnegie Mellon also established the Integrative Media Program at Steiner Studios in Brooklyn , New York. Carnegie Mellon also maintains the Carnegie Mellon Los Angeles Center in North Hollywood, California where students in the Master of Entertainment Industry Management program are required to relocate to Los Angeles in their second year and attend classes at this facility. Mellon Institute of Industrial Research The Mellon Institute of Industrial Research

790-880: A part of the University of Pittsburgh . The university consists of seven colleges, including the College of Engineering , the School of Computer Science , and the Tepper School of Business . The university has its main campus located 5 miles (8 km) from downtown Pittsburgh . It also has over a dozen degree-granting locations in six continents, including campuses in Qatar , Silicon Valley , and Kigali, Rwanda ( Carnegie Mellon University Africa ) and partnerships with universities nationally and globally. Carnegie Mellon enrolls 15,818 students across its multiple campuses from 117 countries and employs more than 1,400 faculty members. Carnegie Mellon

869-413: A university setting. The Carnegie Mellon University Cloud Lab is planned to be completed by the spring of 2023. Carnegie Mellon also plans to construct a new mechanical engineering building by fall 2023 (Scaife Hall), a new $ 105 million athletics center by fall 2024 (Highmark Center for Health, Wellness and Athletics), a $ 210 million Science Futures Building (R.K. Mellon Hall of Sciences) by 2026, as well as

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948-563: A welcome center which serves as a public gateway to the university. In April 2015, Carnegie Mellon, in collaboration with Jones Lang LaSalle , announced the planning of a second office space structure, alongside the Robert Mehrabian Collaborative Innovation Center, an upscale and full-service hotel, and retail and dining development along Forbes Avenue. This complex will connect to the Tepper Quadrangle,

1027-653: Is a private research university in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , United States. The institution was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools . In 1912, it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology and began granting four-year degrees. In 1967, it became Carnegie Mellon University through its merger with the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research , founded in 1913 by Andrew Mellon and Richard B. Mellon and formerly

1106-457: Is a division of the School of Computer Science and is considered one of the leading centers of human–computer interaction research, integrating computer science, design, social science, and learning science. Such interdisciplinary collaboration is the hallmark of research done throughout the university. The Language Technologies Institute (LTI) is another unit of the School of Computer Science and

1185-841: Is a university-wide research institute that was founded in 2018 as a successor to an earlier effort, known as Brainhub. Combining research in computer science , engineering , machine learning , statistics , and cognitive science with basic neuroscience , NI aims to promote research that will improve the human condition. Devices developed by the institute have been designed to enable communication for locked-in patients, treatments for Parkinson's disease , improved brain imaging technology using artificial intelligence , and electrodes that work with coarse, curly hair. NI includes over 30 faculty and 100 trainees from four colleges and oversees two PhD programs (the Program in Neural Computation and

1264-518: Is an applied science research institute composed of a partnership of institutions from around the globe, led by New York University with a consortium of universities including Carnegie Mellon, the University of Warwick , the City University of New York , the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay , and the University of Toronto . In September 2012, Carnegie Mellon announced the construction of

1343-487: Is famous for being one of the leading research centers in the area of language technologies . The primary research focus of the institute is on machine translation , speech recognition , speech synthesis , information retrieval , parsing and information extraction . Until 1996, the institute existed as the Center for Machine Translation that was established in 1986. From 1996 onwards, it started awarding graduate degrees and

1422-769: Is known for its Capability Maturity Model (CMM) and Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), which identify essential elements of effective system and software engineering processes and can be used to rate the level of an organization's capability for producing quality systems. The SEI is also the home of CERT/CC , the federally funded computer security organization. The CERT Program's primary goals are to support secure requirements and development of computer systems and ensure that appropriate technology and systems management practices are used to resist attacks on networked systems and to limit damage and ensure continuity of critical services subsequent to attacks, accidents, or failures. The Human–Computer Interaction Institute (HCII)

1501-686: Is known for its advances in research and new fields of study, home to many firsts in computer science (including the first machine learning , robotics , and computational biology departments), pioneering the field of management science , and the first drama program in the United States. Carnegie Mellon is a member of the Association of American Universities and is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very High Research Activity". Carnegie Mellon competes in NCAA Division III athletics as

1580-903: Is located in Doha 's Education City which is home to multiple other U.S. universities all of which are funded by the Qatar Foundation . The Qatari campus has been the subject of controversy, as Islamic cultural values and laws in Qatar differ greatly from the core values of Carnegie Mellon. Additionally, Carnegie Mellon and other U.S. universities in Education City have been criticized for being essentially complicit in Qatar's corruption, connections with Hamas and their questionable human rights record by continuing to operate there. It also has graduate-level extension campuses in Mountain View, California in

1659-489: Is not conceived as a significant revenue stream for the organization, but rather as a mechanism for encouraging and disseminating interest and scholarship in game studies. While the organization's board determines where the conference will be held each year, it is the result of a process that begins with an open "Call for Hosts". The final decision on who the conference host will be is based on a combination of factors. The primary ones include: how well-known, respected, and trusted

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1738-555: Is one of 66 elected members of the Association of American Universities and one of 29 members (one of 13 American members) of the World Economic Forum Global University Leaders Forum . U.S. News & World Report rates admission to Carnegie Mellon as "most selective". For the class of 2026 (enrolling in fall 2022), Carnegie Mellon received 34,261 applications and admitted approximately 3,873 (11%), with 1,736 enrolling. The acceptance rates of

1817-519: Is run annually. The published papers from these conferences are collected and made available online in the DiGRA digital library. Starting in 2013, DiGRA began publishing, in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University 's ETC Press, an open access refereed journal called Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association ( ToDiGRA ). One of DiGRA's primary activities is the organization of its yearly conference. The conference

1896-423: Is the full-text collection of all articles published in its conference proceedings as well as white papers. DiGRA uses an Open Access (OA) publishing model and authors retain copyright of their publications. DiGRA is granted non-exclusive publishing rights. In 2013 DiGRA launched the journal Transactions of Digital Games Research Association (ToDiGRA). The journal is refereed, open access, and dedicated to furthering

1975-456: Is the leader in developing computational methodologies to advance biomedical research. Carnegie Mellon is also home to the Carnegie School of management and economics. This intellectual school grew out of the Tepper School of Business in the 1950s and 1960s and focused on the intersection of behavioralistm and management. Several management theories, most notably bounded rationality and

2054-545: The American Chemical Society recognized the Mellon Institute as a National Historic Chemical Landmark for its contributions to industrial research and training from its inception in 1913 until its merger with the Carnegie Institute of Technology. Researchers at the Mellon Institute had contributed more than 4,700 papers, 1,600 patents, and other research products, including George O. Curme, Jr.'s discovery of

2133-531: The Cathedral of Learning . Designed by architect Benno Janssen (1874–1964), the Mellon Institute building has neo-classical architecture and elegant construction, with its signature monolithic limestone columns (the largest monolithic columns in the world). Andrew Mellon, who served as United States Secretary of the Treasury , specified to Janssen a building with a monumental ionic colonnade similar to

2212-739: The Henry L. Hillman Foundation . The Gates Hillman Complex and the Purnell Center for the Arts are connected by the Randy Pausch Memorial Footbridge. On April 15, 1997, Jared L. Cohon , former dean of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies , was elected president by Carnegie Mellon's board of trustees. During Cohon's presidency, Carnegie Mellon continued its trajectory of innovation and growth. His strategic plan aimed to leverage

2291-617: The Marianna Brown Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences after William Dietrich's mother. On April 23, 2012, New York's Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and New York University 's President John Sexton announced an agreement between New York City, New York's MTA, and a consortium of academic institutions, and private technology companies that led to the creation in New York of a Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP). The Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP)

2370-487: The Mellon family . The Institute began as a research organization that performed contract work for government and industry, initially as a department within the University of Pittsburgh . In 1927, the Mellon Institute was incorporated as an independent nonprofit. In 1937, the Mellon Institute's iconic building was completed on Fifth Avenue. In 1967, with support from Paul Mellon , the Carnegie Institute of Technology merged with

2449-585: The Rand Corporation have established a presence on or near campus. In collaboration with Intel, Carnegie Mellon has pioneered research into claytronics . In addition to its Pittsburgh campus, Carnegie Mellon has a branch campus in the Middle East, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar , which offers a full undergraduate curriculum with degree programs in computer science, business administration, biology, computational biology, and information systems. The campus

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2528-594: The Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie , who wrote "My heart is in the work", when he donated the funds to create the institution. Carnegie's vision was to open a vocational training school for the sons and daughters of working-class Pittsburghers, many of whom worked in his mills. Carnegie was inspired for the design of his school by the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York , founded by industrialist Charles Pratt in 1887. In 1912,

2607-519: The 1904 competition to design the original institution and later the founder of the Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture . There was little change to the campus between the first and second World War . A 1938 master plan by Githens and Keally suggested acquisition of new land along Forbes Avenue , but the plan was not fully implemented. The period starting with the construction of the Hall of

2686-608: The 1930s. It came late to the Carnegie Mellon campus because of the hiatus in building activity and a general reluctance among American universities to abandon historical styles. By the 1960s, the International Style was adopted to accomplish needed expansion quickly and affordably with the swelling of student ranks in the aftermath of the GI Bill in 1944. Each building was a unique architectural statement that may have acknowledged

2765-437: The 2000s, Carnegie Mellon solidified its status among American universities, consistently ranking in the top 25 in the national U.S. News & World Report rankings, and in the top 30 (ranking 28th in 2022) amongst universities worldwide. Carnegie Mellon is distinct in its interdisciplinary approach to research and education. Through the establishment of programs and centers outside the limitations of departments or colleges,

2844-580: The 2021 fiscal year, the university spent $ 402 million on research. The primary recipients of this funding were the School of Computer Science ($ 100.3 million), the Software Engineering Institute ($ 71.7 million), the College of Engineering ($ 48.5 million), and the Mellon College of Science ($ 47.7 million). The research money comes largely from federal sources, with a federal investment of $ 234.9 million in 2021. The federal agencies that invest

2923-940: The Arts building (former home of the Graduate School of Industrial Administration) in 1952 and ending with Wean Hall in 1971 saw the institutional change from Carnegie Institute of Technology to Carnegie Mellon University. New facilities were needed to respond to the university's growing national reputation in artificial intelligence , business, robotics and the arts. In addition, an expanding student population demanded improved facilities for student life, athletics and libraries. The campus finally expanded to Forbes Avenue from its original land along Schenley Park . The buildings of this era reflected contemporary architectural styles. The International Style , with its rejection of historical tradition and its emphases on functionalism and expression of structure, had been in vogue in European settings since

3002-549: The Arts), business school building ( Tepper School of Business ), and several dormitories. Baker Hall was renovated in the early 2000s, and new chemistry labs were established in Doherty Hall soon after. Several computer science buildings, such as Newell-Simon Hall , also were established, renovated or renamed in the early 2000s. In 2006, Carnegie Mellon Trustee Jill Gansman Kraus donated the 80-foot (24 m)-tall sculpture Walking to

3081-533: The Department of Biomedical Engineering. Further, in November 2013, Carnegie Mellon announced a $ 67 million gift from David Tepper , who previously donated $ 56 million, to develop the Tepper Quadrangle on the north campus. The Tepper Quad includes a new Tepper School of Business facility across Forbes Avenue from a renovated and expanded Hamburg Hall (home to Heinz College) as well as other university-wide buildings and

3160-586: The Department of Defense. The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) is a joint effort between Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh , and Westinghouse Electric Company . PSC was founded in 1986 by its two scientific directors, Ralph Roskies of the University of Pittsburgh and Michael Levine of Carnegie Mellon. PSC is a leading partner in the TeraGrid , the National Science Foundation's cyberinfrastructure program. The Neuroscience Institute (NI)

3239-642: The Heinz College, the Tata Consultancy Services Building, and the Gates-Hillman Center to create an innovation corridor on the university campus. The effort is intended to continue to attract major corporate partnerships to create opportunities for research, teaching, and employment with students and faculty. On October 30, 2019, Carnegie Mellon publicly announced the launch of "Make Possible: The Campaign for Carnegie Mellon University",

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3318-642: The Mellon Institute of Industrial Research to become Carnegie Mellon University. In 1973, Carnegie Mellon's coordinate women's college , the Margaret Morrison Carnegie College, merged its academic programs with the rest of the university. The industrial research mission of the Mellon Institute survived the merger as the Carnegie Mellon Research Institute (CMRI) and continued doing work on contract to industry and government. In 2001, CMRI's programs were subsumed by other parts of

3397-565: The Program in Systems Neuroscience) that have received support from the National Institutes of Health . Numerous philanthropic gifts help support NI research. NI also provides direct administrative and monetary support for the Center for Neural Basis of Cognition, a long-running collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh . The Robotics Institute (RI) is a division of the School of Computer Science and considered to be one of

3476-471: The Purnell Center for the Arts, Doherty Hall, Newell-Simon Hall, Smith Hall, Hamburg Hall , and the Robert Mehrabian Collaborative Innovation Center. It contains 318 offices as well as labs, computer clusters , lecture halls, classrooms and a 255-seat auditorium. The Gates Hillman Complex was made possible by a $ 20 million lead gift from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and an additional $ 10 million grant from

3555-545: The School of Drama 3rd in the world among undergraduate drama schools. In 2015, the same publication ranked the MFA program at the School of Drama 5th in the world. Carnegie Mellon's Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences was ranked 55th for social sciences and 60th for humanities in the world by Times Higher Education for 2020. Dietrich College is also ranked 20th for social sciences among Shanghai Jiao Tong University's world's top 100 universities. Carnegie Mellon

3634-796: The Sherman and Joyce Bowie Scott Hall on the Pittsburgh campus. The new building is situated between Hamerschlag Hall, Roberts Hall, and Wean Hall and houses the university-wide Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation, the Bertucci Nanotechnology Lab, the Engineering Research Accelerator (formerly known as the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems), the Disruptive Health Technologies Institute, and

3713-535: The Sky , which was placed on the lawn facing Forbes Avenue between the Cohon University Center and Warner Hall. The sculpture was controversial for its placement, the general lack of input from the campus community, and its (lack of) aesthetic appeal. The Gates Hillman Complex opened for occupancy on August 7, 2009. It sits on a 5.6-acre (2.3 ha) site on the university's West Campus, surrounded by Cyert Hall,

3792-575: The Top 10 nationwide and 16 in the Top 5 nationwide., including three programs ranked first: Artificial Intelligence, Programming Languages, and Information and Technology Management. In particular, the CMU School of Computer Science has been consistently ranked the best in the nation, tied with MIT , Stanford , and UC Berkeley . Globally, Carnegie Mellon is ranked 28th by Times Higher Education and 52nd by QS World University Rankings . Carnegie Mellon

3871-900: The Treasury Building in Washington, D.C. The proportions of the Mellon Institute's street facades are nearly those of the long lateral facade of the Parthenon on the Acropolis in Athens , Greece. The Mellon Institute building was completed and dedicated posthumously to the Mellon brothers in May 1937. The Mellon Institute building houses the Office of the Dean for Carnegie Mellon University's Mellon College of Science , as well as

3950-493: The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation, the Neuroscience Institute , the Simon Initiative, and the Disruptive Healthcare Technology Institute. Carnegie Mellon has made a concerted effort to attract corporate research labs, offices, and partnerships to the Pittsburgh campus. Apple Inc. , Intel , Google , Microsoft , Disney , Facebook , IBM , General Motors , Bombardier Inc. , Yahoo! , Uber , Tata Consultancy Services , Ansys , Boeing , Robert Bosch GmbH , and

4029-400: The administrative offices and research laboratories for the Department of Biological Sciences and Department of Chemistry. From 1986 until 2006, it also housed the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center . The Mellon Institute of Industrial Research was first established as the Department of Industrial Research at the University of Pittsburgh . It conducted research for firms on a contractual basis;

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4108-423: The aims of the organization by disseminating "the wide variety of research within the game studies community combining, for example, humane science with sociology, technology with design, and empirics with theory". The journal does not accept unsolicited submissions, rather it publishes special issues that are usually dedicated, or drawn from DiGRA conferences. Selected papers form the conference are usually invited to

4187-413: The behavioral theory of the firm , were established by Carnegie School management scientists and economists. Carnegie Mellon also develops cross-disciplinary and university-wide institutes and initiatives to take advantage of strengths in various colleges and departments and develop solutions in critical social and technical problems. To date, these have included the Cylab Security and Privacy Institute ,

4266-420: The building was dedicated in 1996. In 2014, Carnegie Mellon re-dedicated the University Center as the Cohon University Center in recognition of the eighth president of the university, Jared Cohon . A large grassy area known as "The Cut" forms the backbone of the campus, with a separate grassy area known as "The Mall" running perpendicular. The Cut was formed by filling in a ravine (hence the name) with soil from

4345-411: The center of student life on campus was Skibo Hall, the university's student union. Built in the 1950s, Skibo Hall's design was typical of mid-century modern architecture but was poorly equipped to deal with advances in computer and internet connectivity. The original Skibo Hall was razed in the summer of 1994 and replaced by a new student union that is fully Wi-Fi enabled. Known as the University Center,

4424-450: The existing campus in its placement, but not in its form or materials. During the 1970s and 1980s, the tenure of president Richard Cyert (1972–1990) witnessed a period of growth and development. The research budget grew from roughly $ 12 million annually in the early 1970s to more than $ 110 million in the late 1980s. Researchers in new fields like robotics and software engineering helped the university to build its reputation. One example

4503-413: The faculty at Carnegie Mellon. On July 1, 2003, Carnegie Mellon launched "Insp!re Innovation", a $ 1 billion comprehensive fundraising campaign. Half of the campaign goal is intended for the endowment to provide long-lasting support for faculty, students and breakthrough innovations. The campaign brought in a total of $ 1.19 billion, with $ 578.5 million going toward Carnegie Mellon's endowment. It also enabled

4582-496: The heart of Silicon Valley (offering masters programs in Software Engineering and Software Management). The Tepper School of Business maintains a satellite center in downtown Manhattan and the Heinz College maintains one in Adelaide , Australia. The Heinz College , the Institute for Politics and Strategy, and the Department of Engineering and Public Policy host centers in Washington, D.C. as part of degree programs, research, and government affairs initiatives as well as being

4661-488: The individual colleges and programs range from Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture 's 30% to Carnegie Mellon School of Drama 's 3%. The largest college, in terms of the class of 2025 enrollment, is the College of Engineering with 499 students, followed by the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences with 391, and the Mellon College of Science with 266. The smallest college is the School of Design, with 34. The middle 50% range of SAT scores of enrolled freshmen

4740-432: The institute moved into its new building which sat directly across from the newly completed Cathedral of Learning, and handed its original facility, now known as Allen Hall , back to the University of Pittsburgh. The original design called for two more pillars than architect Janssen decided on. The two extra pillars were buried in the large lawn beside the Cathedral of Learning. The pillars are set to be unburied in 2014 as

4819-596: The institution changed its name to Carnegie Institute of Technology (CIT) and began offering four-year degrees. During this time, CIT consisted of four constituent schools: the School of Fine and Applied Arts, the School of Apprentices and Journeymen, the School of Science and Technology, and the Margaret Morrison Carnegie School for Women . The Mellon Institute of Industrial Research was founded in 1913 by banker and industrialist brothers Andrew Mellon (who went on to become U.S. Treasury Secretary ) and Richard B. Mellon in honor of their father, Thomas Mellon , patriarch of

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4898-461: The journal where they can be further elaborated on, and they undergo a round of peer review. The Editor in Chief of the Journal is Professor José P. Zagal who is faculty at the University of Utah in USA. Dr. Zagal replaced the Journals first editor, Dr. Annika Waern from Uppsala University in Sweden. In 2014, during the Gamergate controversy , DiGRA became the subject of a conspiracy theory promoted by YouTuber Carl Benjamin , who claimed that it

4977-399: The leading centers of robotics research in the world. The Field Robotics Center (FRC) has developed a number of significant robots, including Sandstorm and H1ghlander , which finished second and third in the DARPA Grand Challenge , and Boss, which won the DARPA Urban Challenge . The Robotics Institute has partnered with a spinoff company, Astrobotic Technology Inc. , to land a CMU robot on

5056-430: The local organizers are; how much support the local team can count on; where the last conference was held (ideally it should move around different continents to allow a broader diversity of attendees); ease of access to the venue/location; and the expected expense of the conference to attendees. To date, DiGRA has hosted, in collaboration with local organizers, the following conferences: The main DiGRA conference in 2016

5135-621: The moon by 2016 in pursuit of the Google Lunar XPrize. The robot, known as Andy, is designed to explore lunar pits, which might include entrances to caves. The RI is primarily sited at Carnegie Mellon's main campus in Newell-Simon hall. The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) is a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense and operated by Carnegie Mellon, with offices in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA and Arlington, Virginia. The SEI publishes books on software engineering for industry, government and military applications and practices. The organization

5214-470: The most money include the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense , which contributed $ 70.5 million and $ 90.4 million in 2021, respectively. The recognition of Carnegie Mellon as one of the best research facilities in the nation has a long history. As early as the 1987 federal budget, CMU was ranked as third in the amount of federal research funds received with $ 41.5 million, with only MIT and Johns Hopkins receiving more research funds from

5293-427: The name was changed to Language Technologies Institute. The Ray and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department , one of the seven departments in the School of Computer Science , was established in 2007 (as Lane Center for Computational Biology), officially became a department within the School of Computer Science in 2009, and named the Ray and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department in 2023. The department

5372-462: The university has established leadership in fields such as computational finance , information systems , cognitive sciences , management, arts management, product design, behavioral economics , energy science and economics, human–computer interaction , entertainment technology , and decision science . Within the past two decades, the university has built a new university center (Cohon University Center), theater and drama building (Purnell Center for

5451-462: The university or spun off into autonomous entities. Carnegie Mellon's 157.2 acre (63 ha) main campus is five miles (8 km) from downtown Pittsburgh , between Schenley Park and the neighborhoods of Squirrel Hill , Shadyside , and Oakland . Carnegie Mellon is bordered to the west by the campus of the University of Pittsburgh . Carnegie Mellon owns 81 buildings in the Oakland and Squirrel Hill neighborhoods of Pittsburgh. For decades,

5530-431: The university to establish 31 endowed professorships, 97 endowed fellowships and 250 endowed scholarships. On September 7, 2011, William S. Dietrich II , the former chairman of Dietrich Industries, Inc., a subsidiary of Worthington Industries , Inc., pledged a gift of $ 265 million, effective on October 6, 2011, upon his death. In response to this gift, Carnegie Mellon renamed the College of Humanities and Social Sciences as

5609-614: The university's Computational Biology department. On April 12, 2024, Carnegie Mellon broke ground for construction of its new Richard King Mellon Hall of Sciences, a 338,900 square-foot addition to its campus. Nationally, U.S. News & World Report placed Carnegie Mellon in a tie with Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Michigan for 21st place among American research universities in their 2024-2025 rankings. Many of its graduate programs have been ranked in national and international surveys. In 2022, U.S. News ranked Carnegie Mellon as having 23 graduate programs in

5688-623: The university's strengths to benefit society in the areas of biotechnology and life sciences , information and security technology, environmental science and practices, the fine arts and humanities , and business and public policy . In 2006, following negotiations between President Cohon and South Australian Premier Mike Rann , CMU opened a campus of the Heinz College in the historic Torrens Building in Adelaide , Australia. President Cohon's term ended on June 30, 2013, after which he returned to

5767-475: Was 720-770 for reading and writing, and 770-800 for math, while the middle 50% range of the ACT composite score was 34–35. The university is need-blind for domestic applicants. The class of 2026 enrolled students from 46 U.S. states and 42 countries. Undergraduate tuition for 2023-2024 is $ 62,260, and room and board is $ 17,468. CMU is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very High Research Activity". For

5846-555: Was a research institute in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania that became part of Carnegie Mellon University . It was founded in 1913 by Andrew Mellon and Richard B. Mellon as part of the University of Pittsburgh , and was originally located in Allen Hall . After becoming an independent research center and moving to a new building on Fifth Avenue in 1937, the Mellon Institute merged with the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1967 to form Carnegie Mellon University. While it ceased to exist as

5925-451: Was being co-opted by feminists. Mia Consalvo , president of DiGRA at that time, said that the effort to discredit its members' research demonstrated "hostility to feminism" and a failure to understand academic research in humanities. DiGRA is managed by an elected executive board, since the first election for the 2003-2006 period (replacing the initial setup board). Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University ( CMU )

6004-665: Was held jointly with Foundations of Digital Games (FDG), an annual conference organised by the Society for the Advancement of the Science of Digital Games (SASDG). FDG emerged in 2009 from the previous Microsoft Academic Days on Game Development in Computer Science Education (GDCSE), which started in 2006. DiGRA archives and disseminates the proceedings of the various DiGRA conferences via its digital library. The DiGRA Digital Library

6083-576: Was named one of the "New Ivies " by Newsweek . In 2010, The Wall Street Journal ranked Carnegie Mellon 1st in computer science, 4th in finance, 10th overall, and 21st in engineering according to job recruiters. Carnegie Mellon ranks thirteenth among "Best Colleges By Salary Potential (Bachelor's Only)" in the United States according to PayScale 's 2016–17 study. In 2024, Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business placed 9th in an annual ranking of U.S. business schools by Bloomberg Businessweek . In 2016, The Hollywood Reporter ranked

6162-669: Was replaced by Farnam Jahanian , the university's interim-president and former provost, in March 2018. On September 8, 2022, Carnegie Mellon announced a $ 275.7 million partnership with the Mastercard Foundation to support Carnegie Mellon University Africa in Kigali, Rwanda . Carnegie Mellon's Kigali campus provides graduate-level study in engineering and artificial intelligence. On November 6, 2023, Carnegie Mellon Trustee Ray Lane and his wife Stephanie Lane invested $ 25 million in support of

6241-401: Was the introduction of the " Andrew " computing network in the mid-1980s. This project linking all computers and workstations on campus set the standard for educational computing and established Carnegie Mellon as a technology leader in education and research. On April 24, 1985, cmu.edu , Carnegie Mellon's Internet domain, became one of the first six .edu domain names. In the 1990s and into

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