SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, Carnegie Mellon

Justine Cassell, director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute; Noah Smith, associate professor of language technologies and machine learning, and Jeannette Wing, former head of the Computer Science Department, will represent Carnegie Mellon at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, Jan. 23-27.

Cassell will be part of panel discussions titled "STEM + ART = STEAM" and "Man versus Machine." Head of the WEF's Global Agenda Council on Robotics and Smart Devices, Cassell also will moderate a panel titled "Shared History."

Wing will serve on a panel regarding "Decoding the Digital Gender Divide" and will present an "IdeasLab" session called "Reinforcing Critical Infrastructure with Cyber Experts." She also will discuss computational thinking in a talk titled "An Insight, An Idea with Jeannette Wing" at 10:15 a.m. (EST), Saturday, Jan. 26. A webcast of the talk will be available at http://www.weforum.org/videos/insight-idea-jeanette-wing.

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Watch Cassell discuss her research on learning technologies in a WEF video interview.

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Contact:

Byron Spice
412-268-9068
bspice@cs.cmu.edu

Justine Cassell

Noah Smith

Jeannette Wing

About Carnegie Mellon: Carnegie Mellon is a private research university with a distinctive mix of programs in engineering, computer science, robotics, business, public policy, fine arts and the humanities. More than 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students receive an education characterized by its focus on creating and implementing solutions for real problems, interdisciplinary collaboration, and innovation. A small student-to-faculty ratio provides an opportunity for close interaction between students and professors. While technology is pervasive on its 144-acre Pittsburgh campus, Carnegie Mellon is also distinctive among leading research universities for the world-renowned programs in its College of Fine Arts. A global university, Carnegie Mellon has campuses in Silicon Valley, Calif., and Qatar, and programs in Asia, Australia and Europe. For more, see www.cmu.edu.