Alexander Waibel, professor in the Language Technologies Institute and at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, has been named to the Leopoldina, the National Academy of Germany.Founded in 1652, the Leopoldina is one of the oldest scientific academies in the world, with about 1,500 current members in 30 countries. The ranks of its members total 7,000 since its founding, and include such eminent scholars at Marie Curie, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi and Max Planck. Waibel will be inducted in March 2018.Waibel leads the International Center for Advanced Communications... 

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute have enabled a computer to understand the body poses and movements of multiple people from video in real time — including, for the first time, the pose of each individual's fingers.This new method was developed with the help of the Panoptic Studio, a two-story dome embedded with 500 video cameras. The insights gained from experiments in that facility now make it possible to detect the pose of a group of people using a single camera and a laptop computer.Yaser Sheikh, associate professor of robotics, said these methods for tracking... 

The School of Computer Science is preparing for its largest-ever incoming class of first-years this fall, with 206 students currently committed, continuing the school's efforts to meet the world's growing demand for computer scientists by increasing its undergraduate enrollment.The class represents a 24 percent increase over the size of last year's first-year class of 166, which was a record at the time. The increase also reflects this fall's launch of a new undergraduate degree in computational biology.For the second year in a row, almost half of the new students (49 percent) are women....