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New Scientist reports on a Robotics Institute project using self-driving vehicles and computer vision to help vineyard managers monitor their grape crops.
A new study by CMU Dietrich College researchers uses brain scans to identify emotions, extending work by SCS’s Tom Mitchell and Dietrich’s Marcel Just that used brain scans to identify words people were thinking about.
In a posting on the Software Engineering Institute Blog, the SEI’s new chief technology officer, Kevin Fall, introduces himself and discusses his strategic goals, which include greater collaboration between SEI and Carnegie Mellon researchers.
The National Science Foundation website features a video of Tuomas Sandholm, professor of computer science, explaining his development of a new auction system for buying and selling advertising time. He received support from the NSF's Accelerating Innovation Research program
Jim Osborn, executive director of the Quality of Life Technology Center, spoke with the Wall Street Journal's Marketwatch about robots that could help people with everyday tasks in their homes. Listen to the podcast.
Robert Harper, professor of computer science, is quoted in a Science News article about category theory, which the magazine calls "perhaps the most abstract area in all of mathematics."
The Institute for Software Research's Norman Sadeh and Lorrie Cranor discuss the need and growing industry demand for privacy engineers in an article in Computing Now. Cranor and Sadeh head the SCS's new masters program in privacy engineering.
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Blue Belt Technologies Wins FDA Clearance Blue Belt Technologies, a Carnegie Mellon spinoff that includes a number of School of Computer Science alumni and faculty members, has received FDA clearance to market its NavioPFS™ orthopedic surgical system. Read More
LTI Ph.D. Student Awarded 2013 Google U.S./Canada Fellowship Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, a Ph.D. student in the Language Technologies Institute advised by William Cohen and Jamie Callan, was recently awarded the 2013 Google U.S./Canada Ph.D. Fellowship in Information Extraction. Read More
Zoë Robot Returns to Chile's Atacama Desert On NASA Mission To Search for Subsurface Life The autonomous, solar-powered Zoë, which became the first robot to map microbial life during a 2005 field expedition in Chile's Atacama Desert, is heading back to the world's driest desert this month on a NASA astrobiology mission led by Carnegie Mellon University and the SETI Institute. Read More
Startup by RI Alums Gets High-Profile Spot at Apple WWDCAnki, a robotics startup founded by a trio of Robotics Institute alumni, emerged from stealth mode to announce its first product during one of the highest profile events in the tech world: the keynote of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference June 10 in San Francisco. Read More
Carnegie Mellon Joins Launch of NSF-Sponsored Alliance To Mentor African-American Computer Scientists Carnegie Mellon University has joined Clemson University and five other university partners to launch the Institute for African-American Mentoring in Computing Science (iAAMCS), a U.S. resource for increasing African-American participation in computing. Read More
Outstanding Students Honored at SCS Diploma Ceremony Six graduating students received special honors during the SCS Diploma Ceremony May 19, which included the first presentation of an award named for Mark Stehlik, former assistant dean for undergraduate education. Read More
Robotics Institute Helps Make Stunning Satellite Imagery Easily Accessible Members of the public can now easily explore almost 30 years of Earth imagery from NASA's Landsat through TIME Magazine's new Timelapse project. Read More
More Than a Good Eye: Carnegie Mellon Robot Uses Arms, Location and More To Discover Objects A robot can struggle to discover objects in its surroundings when it relies on computer vision alone. But by taking advantage of all of the information available to it — an object's location, size, shape and even whether it can be lifted — a robot can continually discover and refine its understanding of objects, say researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute. Read More
Ellis School Student and "Girl of Steel" Wins Dean's List Honor at FIRST Championship Naoka Gunawardena, a junior at The Ellis School and a member of the Girls of Steel, a robotics team sponsored by Carnegie Mellon University’s Field Robotics Center, was one of 10 national winners of Dean’s List honors at the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition Championship April 27 in St. Louis. She is the daughter of Ananda Gunawardena, associate teaching professor in the Computer Science Department. Read More
Carnegie Mellon Researchers Develop Zooming Technique For Entering Text Into Smartwatches, Ultra-small Computers Technology blogs have been abuzz that smartwatches may soon be on their way from companies such as Apple, Google, Samsung and Microsoft. But as capable as these ultra-small computers may be, how will users enter an address, a name, or a search term into them? Read More
Engaging Online Crowds in the Classroom Could Be Important Tool for Teaching Innovation Online crowds can be an important tool for teaching the ins and outs of innovation, educators at Carnegie Mellon University and Northwestern University say, even when the quality of the feedback provided by online sources doesn't always match the quantity. Read More
NREC's Robotic Paint-stripping System Is Edison Award Winner A robotic paint-stripping system being developed by Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center and Concurrent Technologies Corporation of Johnstown, Pa., was named a Gold winner in the materials science category of the 2013 Edison Awards, announced April 25 at an awards ceremony in Chicago. Read More
With Wave of the Hand, Carnegie Mellon Researchers Create Touch-based Interfaces on Everyday SurfacesResearchers previously have shown that a depth camera system, such as Kinect, can be combined with a projector to turn almost any surface into a touchscreen. But now researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have demonstrated how these touch-based interfaces can be created almost at will, with the wave of a hand. Read More
Silly Phone Game Puts Illiterate Pakistanis In Touch With Potential Employers A silly telephone game that became a viral phenomenon in Pakistan has demonstrated some serious potential for teaching poorly educated people about automated voice services and provided a new tool for them to learn about jobs, say researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Pakistan's Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). Read More
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