Students Organize First 24-hour Hackathon. News Brief |
An article in City Paper focuses on Burr Settles, Machine Learning Department post-doc and musician, for his role in creating and sustaining February Album Writing Month.
Thomas J. Murrin, 1929-2012
Thomas J. Murrin, who as a top Westinghouse Electric Corp. executive played a key role in launching Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute, died Jan. 30. Read More
For more details on Mr. Murrin’s life and accomplishments, see his obituary in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
In a World Economic Forum blog entry, Justine Cassell, director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, says technological innovations won’t reach their potential for solving human concerns if developers fail to understand the goals, fears and experiences of the humans who will use those innovations.
Latest Faculty Interview! Meet Emma Brunskill, new faculty member in the Computer Science Department. SCS Interview Series
LATEST PUZZLE! to tickle the grey cells...... The Puzzle Toad brings you Puzzle No. 36: "Nunchuck Supreme". Check solution to Puzzle No. 35 along with other puzzles and their solutions!
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Hear Me Project Connects USA Network with Clairton SchoolStudents at Clairton High School who are working with Carnegie Mellon University’s Hear Me project interact with the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Hines Ward in “NFL Characters Unite,” a documentary that premieres at 7 p.m. Friday on the USA Network. News Brief
Students Organize First 24-hour TartanHacks Hackathon Carnegie Mellon has long been a hotbed for hackers – programmers who enjoy exploring the boundaries of what computers can do. Expanding that subculture is a major impetus for TartanHacks, a student-organized 24-hour hackathon that begins at 6 p.m. Feb. 10 on the sixth floor of the Gates and Hillman centers. News Brief
Nourbakhsh Wins Carnegie Science Award The Carnegie Science Center has named Illah Nourbakhsh, professor of robotics, as the winner of the Catalyst Award in this year’s Carnegie Science Awards.
The Catalyst Award recognizes excellence in promoting public awareness of scientific issues, and advancing science in society to bring about measurable, beneficial change. News Brief
Two PhD Students Honored by Microsoft Research Yubin Kim, a PhD student in the Language Technologies Institute, and Julia Schwarz, a Phd student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, have received recognition and support through two programs sponsored by Microsoft Research. News Brief
Quarter of Tweets Not Worth Reading, Twitter Users Tell ResearchersStudy at CMU, MIT, Georgia Tech Finds Nine Ways To Improve Tweets
Twitter users choose the microblogs they follow, but that doesn’t mean they always like what they get. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Georgia Institute of Technology found that users say only a little more than a third of the tweets they receive are worthwhile. News Release
iPad Course "Devices in hand, a group of students lucky enough to get into one of Carnegie Mellon University's newest classes are already hard at work. They are learning the art of iPad programming. ....Co-taught by CMU Assistant Professor Niki Kittur and a team of top industry developers, this project-based course will focus on the design and implementation of iPad applications that help users visualize and make sense of large data sets." CMU News Release
Carnegie Mellon University Computer Scientist Wins International Prize for Computational Biology: Ziv Bar-Joseph To Receive Overton Prize, Present Keynote AddressThe International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) has awarded its Overton Prize for outstanding accomplishment to Ziv Bar-Joseph, associate professor in Carnegie Mellon University’s Lane Center for Computational Biology and Machine Learning Department. News Release
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