Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science
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Oct 14, 2026
Randy ScottHOST
Tom, I want to jump ahead a number of years to the late 1990s.
Randy ScottHOST
There's a fair amount going on at CMU around machine learning within the university's School of Computer Science, and you start to get some interest from the statistics department on campus.
Randy ScottHOST
Tell me more about that bit of history and its significance.
Tom MitchellGUEST
There was kind of a growing awareness between the statisticians and me and others in computer science that statistics should play a more foundational role in machine learning than it had up to that point.
Tom MitchellGUEST
And so we went off and wrote a white paper called The Discipline of Machine Learning, a short white paper, but it explained what the field was, how it related to other fields like psychology, evolution, statistics.
Tom MitchellGUEST
And, um, the deans read it, the provost read it, I think the president read it, and they said, "Okay, you're in."
Randy ScottHOST
So in 2006, CMU launched an official machine learning department, believed to be the first of its kind in the world, though by no means the first spin-off department from the School of Computer Science.
Randy ScottHOST
I think the first was actually the Robotics Institute, and there are others like the Language Technologies Institute.
Megan HarrisHOST
In the case of the computer science school, I don't think it was named for anybody already.
Megan HarrisHOST
I think it was just the School of Computer Science.
Megan HarrisHOST
So it was ripe for this.
Megan HarrisHOST
I'm just saying CMU had it ready and waiting for someone to give it money.
Jennifer KingCORRESPONDENT
Rather than academic majors, it will focus on what the university describes as grand challenge areas, such as human health, climate resilience, and industrial transformation.
Jennifer KingCORRESPONDENT
Some of the rest of the funds will go to the Pennsylvania University's priorities and their School of Computer Science, which will be renamed after Griffin.
Jennifer KingCORRESPONDENT
The founder of the Citadel investment firm grew up in Boca Raton and has waterfront compounds in Palm Beach and Coconut Grove.
Jennifer KingCORRESPONDENT
He says the opportunity to bring Carnegie Mellon to Miami places the city at the heart of humanistic and scientific advancement.
DujiHOST
It's expected to begin enrolling students in 2028 and eventually serve more than 3,500 students.
DujiHOST
The remaining money will support Carnegie Mellon's Pittsburgh campus, including $500 million for its School of Computer Science.
DujiHOST
And university leaders also plan to use some of the donation to make attending Carnegie Mellon more affordable.
DujiHOST
Very generous gift.
Karen HendricksHOST
CMU President Farnam Jahanian says part of the Pittsburgh money will go toward the university's computer science program.
Farnam JahanianSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Supporting our university's highest priorities and our world-leading school of computer science, which will be named the Kenneth C. Griffin School of Computer Science.
Karen HendricksHOST
CMU says the Pittsburgh money will also help recruit faculty and students, make the university more affordable, and support research and innovation.
Karen HendricksHOST
The other two billion dollars will pay for a new Carnegie Mellon campus in Miami.
Saif IshoufGUEST
The intentionality of who was in the room, but my favorite part was running into one of my son's friends, a kid from the 305, who is a freshman at...
Saif IshoufGUEST
the Carnegie Mellon Griffin School of Computer Science
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Saif IshoufGUEST
knowing that in a future state someone like my son's friend and I'll say his name because I don't want to say it but his name is Eitan Krajewski Eitan was there and he's like isn't this awesome and I said I love this man and he said can you imagine he's got a younger brother so what if in the world someone like him his younger brother doesn't have to leave South Florida and can build that next economy right here in South
Erica MandyHOST
It's expected to start enrolling students in 2028.
Erica MandyHOST
The rest of the money will go to Carnegie Mellon's Pittsburgh campus, including $500 million for its School of Computer Science, which will be renamed after Griffin.
Erica MandyHOST
Griffin will also join Carnegie Mellon's board of trustees.
Erica MandyHOST
[upbeat music] That's it for the main news today, so now it's time for Thing to Know Thursday.
Jennifer KingCORRESPONDENT
Rather than academic majors, it will focus on what the university describes as grand challenge areas, such as human health, climate resilience, and industrial transformation.
Jennifer KingCORRESPONDENT
Some of the rest of the funds will go to the Pennsylvania University's priorities and their School of Computer Science, which will be renamed after Griffin.
Jennifer KingCORRESPONDENT
The founder of the Citadel Investment firm grew up in Boca Raton and has waterfront compounds in Palm Beach and Coconut Grove.
Jennifer KingCORRESPONDENT
He says the opportunity to bring Carnegie Mellon to Miami places the city at the heart of humanistic and scientific advancement.
Janaki MehtaCORRESPONDENT
The historic donation comes from Kenneth Griffin, a hedge fund executive.
Janaki MehtaCORRESPONDENT
A billion dollars of that money will go toward Carnegie Mellon's Pittsburgh campus, including its School of Computer Science, which will be named for Griffin.
Janaki MehtaCORRESPONDENT
The other two billion dollars will go toward a campus in Miami, where the university says thirty-five hundred students are expected to start enrolling in 2028.
Janaki MehtaCORRESPONDENT
University also says it will, quote, "invert the higher education model." Instead of organizing by traditional academic majors, it plans to instead organize learning around societal challenges like human health, climate resilience, and national security.
Kathy EmmonsHOST
I mean, that's incredibly fast.
Kathy EmmonsHOST
So $2 billion will go toward that, and the remaining $1 billion will be divided evenly between the university's highest priorities and the School of Computer Science, which will be renamed, I mean...
Kathy EmmonsHOST
It's the least they can do, right? It'll be renamed the Kenneth C.
Kathy EmmonsHOST
Griffin School of Computer Science.
Kathy EmmonsHOST
So this guy, Griffin, is really interesting.
Kathy EmmonsHOST
He is a native Floridian.
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