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Take Me to Your Robot!

Robot 250, a massive, citywide art and technology program will run July 11-27.
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Also, read Pittsburgh Tribune-Review article.
Bestselling Book

Professor Randy Pausch has been included in TIME Magazine's 2008 list of the world's 100 most influential people. And his book, "The Last Lecture", is now a New York Times #1 bestseller.
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IM2GPS Algorithm

James Hays, graduate student CSD, and Alexei A. Efros, assistant professor of computer science and robotics have devised the first computerized method, the IM2GPS algorithm, that can analyze a single photograph and determine where in the world the image likely was taken. News release
Education

The School of Computer Science's curriculum grounds learning in real world applications and issues. Faculty works actively with both undergraduates and graduate students, providing valuable hands-on teaching and research experience.
Al Jazeera Children's Channel Films Robot 250 Creators and BigBots

Illah Nourbakhsh Associate Professor, RI, smiles as he's interviewed by Rania Farouk El Jammal, a producer with the Al Jazeera Children's Channel. Find out why Al Jazeera were in town
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Welcome! …to the newly designed SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE web site. We aimed to give the site a more contemporary look while keeping our news and events in the foreground. Did you know that for several years now we have maintained a #1 university ranking for searching “computer science” in Google? We hope to keep you up at the top! Your feedback on the new site is welcome!
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gmGeneral 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.
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gigapangigapanRI 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.
robot250CMieux 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.
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