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Podcasts Across CMU
The latest offering from the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries won't be found in a book. "Cut Pathways," a podcast drawing from over 50 hours of oral history interviews with 34 subjects, released...
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SEI Announces Establishment of AI Division, Names Director
Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute has announced the establishment of a new research division dedicated to artificial intelligence (AI) engineering and named Matthew Gaston as...
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Renfroe Receives Critical Language Scholarship
Devon Renfroe, a recent graduate with a master's degree in applied second language acquisition from the Department of Modern Languages in the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, has...
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The Future Of Office Work
Carnegie Mellon University experts say that companies planning for employees to shift back to the office should prepare for a very different workplace of the future, and employers also should consider...
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Heinz Experts Eye Future of U.S. Energy Infrastructure
This year, a series of devastating events highlighted the growing gaps and weaknesses in the American energy infrastructure. In February, a historic cold snap exposed vulnerabilities in Texas' power...
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Company Co-founded by LTI Faculty To Enhance Zoom's Translation Capabilities
A machine translation company co-founded by Alex Waibel, a professor in the Language Technologies Institute, has been acquired by Zoom to bolster the platform's real-time translation. KITES, founded in...
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Wearable Tech Aids Freedivers, Cardiac Patients
With dives lasting more than four minutes and reaching depths of more than 100 meters on a single-breath hold, freedivers test the limits of human endurance. Carnegie Mellon University researchers are...
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"Godspell" Celebrates 50 Years of Performances
It was 1971, and the world needed some good news. The United States was almost six years into the Vietnam War, Charles Manson was sentenced for leading a murderous spree on the West Coast, and Marvin...
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AI Allows Legged Robots To Adapt in Real-Time to Changing Conditions
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Facebook AI didn't just teach a robot to walk — they taught it how to learn to walk. The distinction is key. A...
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Researchers Develop Fabric-friendly Sensors
Sensors are part of modern-day technology. From contactless payment to key fobs, credit card chips to smart devices, near-field communication (NFC) allows for humans to communicate with objects. But...
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New Study Looks at Effects of Clean Air Act on Power Plants
The Clean Air Acts of 1970 and 1963 changed America's energy industry. A new study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Montreal found that the legislation helped lead to...
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Small Changes Can Have Drastic Impacts in Health Care
The U.S. health sector is a huge, sprawling, complicated network of providers, payors and policies that can seem hopelessly complex and stubbornly resistant to change. And while that is true in some...
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Study Finds Support for India During COVID-19 Surge
India and Pakistan have fought four wars in the past few decades, but when India faced an oxygen shortage in its hospitals during its recent COVID-19 surge, Pakistan offered to help. On Twitter,...
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CMU Alumni Recognized by Emmy Nominations
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the nominations for the Emmy Awards July 13, and at least 16 Carnegie Mellon University alumni received 17 nods for their work. Additionally, one...
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Music Streaming Consumption Fell During COVID-19 Lockdowns
The COVID-19 pandemic was expected to change how people consume media. A new study analyzed online music streaming data for top songs for two years in 60 countries, as well as COVID-19 case and...
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A Passion for Entrepreneurship
While watching the 2012 Olympics, Avika Bansal fell in love with fencing. "I was hooked by the speed and the agility of the people who were competing," said Bansal (left), a rising junior in chemical...
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Carnegie Mellon University Launches The Robotics Project
In a grainy video shot in the early 1980s on Carnegie Mellon University's campus, Ivan Sutherland rides on top of the Trojan Cockroach, a six-legged machine considered the first controlled by a...
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Manuela Veloso Ranked Among Most Influential Women in Engineering
Manuela Veloso, a renowned artificial intelligence researcher, computer scientist and roboticist at Carnegie Mellon University, is among the most influential women in engineering, according to a new...
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CMU AI, Robotics Team Up With Apple To Improve Device Recycling
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are working with Apple to develop new ways to disassemble old technology. This builds on Apple's existing recycling innovations, including its recycling robots...
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Fang, Sandholm Honored for Significant Contributions to AI
Fei Fang and Tuomas Sandholm, both faculty members in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, were recently recognized by the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence...
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