Research
CMU's rigorous humanities tradition, in combination with world-class strengths in computation, AI, and machine learning, creates an unmatched scholarly environment.
Carnegie Mellon’s programs in the computational humanities offer exciting pathways for students and scholars eager to make the most of this new era of technology-driven knowledge and discovery. Scholars in the humanities work alongside leading researchers in computer vision, natural language processing (NLP), and data science, while remaining grounded in the interpretive, historical and ethical questions that drive humanistic inquiry. The field's range and ambition are evident in recent faculty work appearing in leading humanities journals like Shakespeare Quarterly as well as venues such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) and the Harvard Data Science Review.
The Banned Books Project
The Banned Books Project is a public scholarship project by Carnegie Mellon University students enrolled in CMU English’s Banned Books course. In honor of the American Library Association’s Banned Books Week, students select a banned or challenged book to profile, providing readers with information about the books, their authors, and their histories of controversy and censorship.
Digitizing Civil War Pension Records
Digitized Civil War pension records reveal the intimate, day-to-day details of enslaved people's lives and could help millions of African Americans recover their family history.
DREaM (Distant Reading Early Modernity)
DREaM (Distant Reading Early Modernity) is a text analysis and archive project that opens up new possibilities for working with the collection of early modern texts in the university’s Early English Books Online - Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP).
Electronic Database on Black Europe
Description forthcoming
MapReader
MapReader allows users to explore and analyze map images at scale. An open-source python library, MapReader was initially developed to analyze large collections of historical maps but can be applied to many different kinds of images in a variety of domains.
MyProse
MyProse is an AI-enhanced writing instruction platform that supports the writing process from first to final draft. It is designed to enhance students’ awareness of tone, organization and argumentation, and how they relate to content and audience.
Print and Probability Project
Using computational tools and methods like computer vision and machine learning, the Print and Probability Project seeks to uncover the identities of letterpress printers whose names have eluded scholars for several hundred years. Print and Probability is funded by the NEH, NSF and Schmidt Sciences.
Proofs and Reasons
Proofs and Reasons tackles the philosophy behind math. The project explores the cognitive science of how humans discover and understand mathematical proofs, asking how AI tools which can discover and verify proofs might fundamentally alter our understanding of mathematics.
The Shakespeare-VR Project
Shakespearean drama in a whole new way. Users step into a recreated Elizabethan playhouse to perform alongside virtual actors and explore the theatrical world of early modern England. By combining historical accuracy with emerging technology, the project invites users to actively participate in Shakespeare’s work.