The CS+X Grant is closed until January 13th 2025

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Description

The CS+X awards project proposals with $1k – $7K of financial support by juried application. CS+X aims to catalyze innovation through collaborative projects involving advanced computation technologies, with a focus on novel and creative applications in disciplines outside of mainstream computer science. These projects should expand creatively on the possibilities found at the intersection of the disciplines studied here at Carnegie Mellon University. The X in “CS + X” refers to these disciplines, which include the Arts, Humanities and beyond.

Eligibility

We highly recommend discuss your proposal with Thomas Cortina!

We accept applications for creative projects by teams composed of currently enrolled SCS students + “X”, aka students from programs outside of SCS.

Jury

The jury will be composed of CMU faculty familiar with CS research, that is to say – not exclusively SCS faculty. The Director of the STUDIO will participate as a member of the jury to ensure the projects are within the scope of support offered by the STUDIO.

Further opportunities

There will be a late Spring showcase of the supported work in the STUDIO.

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Past Awardees

“Too Many Captains”

Only one star ship remains: yours. Unfortunately, you’re missing some key crew members… actually, your crew is entirely captains, and one engineer. You’ll need need to work together to operate the ship’s weapons, shields, and thrusters to survive the dangers of outer space. There’s just one problem: the engineer can’t see the screen, so everyone will need to talk it out, FAST!

“Songs in the Key of What”

Exploded Ensemble is Carnegie Mellon University’s experimental music research wing. In creating our concerts we consider an “exploded view” of how music is composed, performed, and presented – examining the details of each piece and part before putting it back together. Our Spring concert for 2017, Songs in the key of What, presents new electro-acoustic arrangements of songs and compositions from a wide variety of artists including the Computer Music pioneer Laurie Spiegel, the experimental Icelandic group Múm, and California noise-rap group Death Grips, as well as original works.