Take Me to Your Robot!
Robot 250, a massive, citywide art and technology program will run July 11-27. See Opening Day Photos! See news release. Also, read Pittsburgh Tribune-Review article. |
General Motors, Carnegie Mellon Commit To Develop Driverless Vehicles: General Motors Corp. and Carnegie Mellon University announced a new Collaborative Research Lab (CRL) and a renewed commitment to work jointly on technologies that will accelerate the emerging field of autonomous driving. 
RI alumni and adjunct faculty member Henry Schneiderman, and Takeo Kanade, U. A. and Helen Whitaker University Professor, CSD, RI, have won the Longuet-Higgins prize for a seminal paper on face detection. Henry is CEO of Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition, a company he co-founded in 2004 that is developing state-of-the-art technologies for finding, tracking and recognizing faces and other objects in images and video.
CMieux team, led by Norman Sadeh, Professor, Institute for Software Research, and graduate student Michael Benisch, won this year’s Procurement Challenge, a tournament at AAAI in which teams develop autonomous trading agents to procure PC components.