Carnegie Mellon Technology Becomes Annual Tradition in Davos
Illah Nourbakhsh remembers the first time he spoke in Davos, Switzerland, at the World Economic Forum. It was 2014, and the topic was the ethics of artificial intelligence. After his talk, Nourbakhsh...
View ArticleShattering Stereotypes in Davos
In the beginning stages of her esteemed academic career, Justine Cassell was a faculty member at MIT. A senior student walked into her design of interactive systems class and was surprised. "She told...
View ArticleSavvy Use of Data, Technology Tells the Planet's Story
The story of EarthTime begins on Mars. EarthTime today is a technological platform that helps people comprehend massive amounts of data about our planet and come to grips with our biggest global...
View ArticleCREATE Lab Director Visualizes, Inspires Global Impact
Poverty and prejudice shaped robotics professor Illah Nourbakhsh long before he came to Carnegie Mellon University. And since arriving in 1996, Nourbakhsh has devoted his considerable talents to...
View ArticleO'Donnell Helps Empower Communities Around the World
You don't have to dig deep to figure out why Gabriel O'Donnell is committed to making the world a better place. Growing up in Summit Township, a rural southwestern Pennsylvania community, O'Donnell has...
View ArticleOpportunity To Create Social Good Drives Sargent
Randy Sargent doesn't just write code for fun, or to impress his peers. He does it to make the world a better place. A researcher at Carnegie Mellon University's CREATE Lab, Sargent's work is focused...
View ArticleDeep CMU Roots Led CREATE Lab Staffer to EarthTime
As a Lego-loving child, Paul Dille had visions of being an architect. But the native of Pittsburgh's North Hills suburbs was always destined for the CREATE Lab at Carnegie Mellon University. Dille's...
View ArticlePuppet Master Brings His Art to CMU Opera
In the upcoming opera "Zémire et Azor," there is beauty in its beast. One of the earliest tellings of the "Beauty and the Beast," the opera has been adapted by Carnegie Mellon University Guest Director...
View ArticleDietrich College Alumna Fights Human Trafficking With AI
For some students, a senior honors thesis can become much more than a capstone project. Emily Kennedy, a 2012 Carnegie Mellon University alumna and president and co-founder of Marinus Analytics,...
View ArticleCMU's DeltaFS Team Aims To Create Smarter Ways To Organize, Store...
Trinity occupies a footprint the size of an entire floor of most office buildings, but its silently toiling workers are not flesh and blood. Trinity is a supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory...
View ArticleEmery N. Brown Awarded CMU's Dickson Prize in Science
Carnegie Mellon University will award the Dickson Prize in Science to Dr. Emery N. Brown, an esteemed anesthesiologist, neuroscientist and statistician. He is the Edward Taplin Professor of Medical...
View ArticleAlumnus, Students Join Pittsburgh Community at Racial Justice Summit
Kevin Jarbo used to take the bus from his apartment in the Hill District, one of Pittsburgh's predominantly black neighborhoods. At the bus stop, he'd watch kids eating bags of chips for breakfast. The...
View ArticleEating Out, Breathing In
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University recently followed their noses to test how much air pollution comes from restaurants. "Restaurant food-cooking emissions are a major, if not the major, driver...
View ArticleTeam Uses Drones To Inspect Irrigation Canals for Japanese Rice Farms
Kenji Shimada, professor of mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, and his team of engineers are using unmanned aerial vehicles, also known as drones, to detect damage to agricultural...
View ArticleAlumni Awarded Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh Grant
Carnegie Mellon University's Kelli Clark and Andrew Edwards are among the recipients of the latest round of Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh grants. Clark, who graduated with a bachelor's degree of...
View ArticleDean Rebecca Doerge Named Chair-Elect of AAAS Statistics Section
Rebecca W. Doerge, the Glen de Vries Dean of the Mellon College of Science and professor of statistics and data science and biological sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, has been chosen by her...
View ArticleStudents Making an Impact in a “Big Way, Far Away”
Four students took a meaningful and fulfilling winter-break trip they’ll never forget. Christina Ou, Cathy Fang, Melina Driscoll and Ashley Burbano, members of Carnegie Mellon University’s Engineers...
View ArticleProspective Students Get a Taste of Life at Carnegie Mellon
High school students around the world are about to make one of their most important decisions as a young adult — where to go to college. And with choices ranging from major courses of study to...
View ArticleBeyond 5G: The Next Generation
For many of us, when we send a text or make a call from our cellphones, we're relying on 4G. However, as much as we rely on it, very few of us know what it actually means. In reality, the "G" in these...
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon Historian, Collaborating Artists Debut "Casop: A Requiem for...
"Casop: A Requiem for Rice" a new contemporary classical symphonic work that tells the stories of Africans enslaved on Lowcountry South Carolina and Georgia rice plantations, will premiere at 7 p.m.,...
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