Chair of CMU's Board of Trustees David Coulter, Director of the Richard King Mellon Foundation Sam Reiman and CMU President Farnam Jahanian sign a beam for the Richard King Mellon Hall of Sciences, on Saturday, May 9, 2026, outside the Simmons Auditorium.

Three people in military attire and a civilian examine a small wheeled robot in an industrial setting. They appear focused and engaged in discussion.

CMU and Our Nation’s Military: A Unique and Historic Partnership

For more than a century, Carnegie Mellon University has partnered with the U.S. military to advance innovation, education and workforce readiness. From wartime training to today’s leadership in AI, robotics and data science, CMU continues to help develop the talent and technologies needed to meet evolving national security challenges.

Faculty Who Are Leaders in Their Fields

My dream would be that we get these vehicles miniaturized to such an extent that you can have someone pull out a handful of drones, throw them, have them quickly search a cave or disaster scenario and collaboratively build a map of the scene.
Wennie Tabib
Systems Scientist at CMU’s Resilient Intelligent Systems Lab

+ Faculty

Our professors bring their expertise to classrooms and labs, mentoring students and advancing research across disciplines.

+ Members

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra musicians serve as distinguished faculty in our School of Music to inspire the next generation of talent.

Nobel Prizes

Our faculty and alumni have received this prestigious award, widely recognized as one of the highest honors an individual can receive, in 5 of the 6 possible categories.

Herbert Simon and Allen Newell in a discussion at a desk — **First Artificial Intelligence Program**
Herbert Simon and Allen Newell create Logic Theorist, a computer program that could solve logic puzzles in the same way a human might in a game of chess.

Terregator at 3 different angles outside on CMU's campus — **Terregator**
Terregator pioneered exploration, road following and mine mapping. It was the world’s first rugged, capable, autonomous outdoor navigation robot.

snippet of speech recognition code — **First Language Recognition System**
Kai-Fu Lee, Raj Reddy and Roberto Bisiani create SPHINX, the first real-time recognition of speech to programming with AI techniques.

Navlab 5 outside on campus — **First Self-Navigating Automobile**
Scientist Dean Pomerleau and Ph.D. student Todd Jochem’s Navlab 5 drives from Pittsburgh to San Diego, the longest continuous test of an autonomous vehicle in a real-world setting.

BOSS self-driving vehicle — **First Self-Driving Vehicles**
CMU’s and General Motors self-driving SUV “BOSS” wins the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, a driverless car competition.

Three students looking at a robot and smiling — **First AI Undergraduate Major**
The first offered by a U.S. university in response to extraordinary technical breakthroughs in AI and the growing demand by students and employers.

A group of three people in a workshop setting work with wires, meters and circuit components on a wooden table. — **First AI Engineering Degree**
CMU announces a new first-of-its-kind Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence Engineering degree, combining AI and machine learning with engineering domain knowledge.