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Look, Ma, No Hands
Dean Pomerleau and Todd JochemIt's big news when a car drives itself across the country. Earlier this year, news accounts heralded a car, outfitted by automotive supplier Delphi and using software from...
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FDA Approves Robot Developed at Carnegie Mellon for Surgical Procedures
By Ken Walters / 412-268-1151 / walters1@andrew.cmu.eduThe Flex® Robotic System, based on the research of CMU's Howie Choset, enables surgeons to access and visualize hard-to-reach anatomical locations...
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Sunny Days for Sonia
"Somebody come and play, somebody come and play today-ay," sang Sonia Manzano (A 1972), describing a scene from a "Sesame Street" film of a playful gorilla at the zoo. The scene was designed to help...
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How Sweet the Sound
From left, CMU alumnus Chris Hoch, Leslie Becker, CMU alumna Erin Mackey, Savannah Frazier and Elizabeth Ward Land perform in "Amazing Grace." From bagpipes to basic piano, the song "Amazing Grace" is...
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Study Finds State Vehicle Safety Inspections Should Continue
By Tara Moore / 412-268-9673 / tararaemoore@cmu.edu Pennsylvania legislators have been trying for years to phase out passenger vehicle safety inspection programs, but a study published by Carnegie...
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Scott Mory To Join Carnegie Mellon as Vice President for University Advancement
By Ken Walters / 412-268-1151/ walters1@andrew.cmu.edu Scott Mory, associate senior vice president and director of the University of Southern California’s campaign, has been appointed vice president...
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CMU’s Software Engineering Institute Contract Renewed by Department of...
By Richard Lynch / 412-268-4793 / public-relations@sei.cmu.edu The U.S. Department of Defense has renewed its contract with Carnegie Mellon University for the Software Engineering Institute. The...
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CMU’s Soccer-Playing Robots Score Fifth International RoboCup Win
By Abby Simmons / 412-268-4290 / abbysimmons@cmu.eduByron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@andrew.cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon University’s robot soccer team took home its fifth world championship without...
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LearnLab Summer School
By Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu When Bill Buttlar, a professor and associate dean in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's (UIUC) College of Engineering, and his colleagues were...
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We Still Love "Lucy"
When one thinks of the 1950s television program "I Love Lucy," it's hard not to imagine the comedy's redheaded protagonist, played by Lucille Ball, clowning around. She was impeccable, she was...
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Carnegie Mellon Spinoff Ottomatika Acquired by Delphi
By Sherry Stokes / 412-268-5976 / stokes@cmu.eduand Ken Walters / 412-268-1151 / walters1@andrew.cmu.edu Professor Raj Rajkumar poses between CMU's latest self-driving car, a Cadillar SRX, and the...
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CMU Aims To Three-peat at "World Series of Hacking"
By Daniel Tkacik / 412-268-1187 / dtkacik@andrew.cmu.edu This week, Carnegie Mellon University’s cybersecurity team, The Plaid Parliament of Pwning, will compete for its third consecutive title at this...
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World Economic Forum Selects CMU BrainHub Startup as Technology Pioneer
By Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu Neon’s proprietary technology uses cognitive science, neuroscience and machine learning tools to understand how humans see and react to images, and selects...
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Milky Way-Like Galaxies May Have Existed in the Early Universe
By Jocelyn Duffy / 412-268-9982 / jhduffy@andrew.cmu.edu A new, large-scale computer simulation has shown for the first time that large disk galaxies, much like our own Milky Way, may have existed in...
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Patient-Funded Trials May Do More Harm Than Good, Ethicists Warn
By Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu In the era of launching Kickstarter campaigns to pay for just about anything, Carnegie Mellon University ethicists warn that the trend of patients funding...
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Children's Innovation Project
In 2010, a question was posed in Carnegie Mellon University's CREATE (Community Robotics, Education and Technology Empowerment) Lab, "What might innovation with technology look like in a kindergarten...
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Energy-Efficient Depth-sensing Camera Gleans 3-D Information In Bright...
By Byron Spice / CMU / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.eduand Sean Bettam (Toronto) / 416-946-7950 / s.bettam@utoronto.ca Depth-sensing cameras, such as Microsoft’s Kinect controller for video games, have...
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Experience Perception
Jeremy Lasky's fascination with superheroes as a child has served him well as an adult. So well that the Carnegie Mellon University alumnus and partner Danny Gonzalez have built a business — Perception...
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'Apology to the Moon' Is Latest Poetry Collection by Jim Daniels
By Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu As a writer, Carnegie Mellon University’s Jim Daniels frequently draws on his life for inspiration, capturing working-class urban life and struggles with...
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BrainHub Engineers Receive NSF Grant To Study Neuron Variability and Motor...
By Jocelyn Duffy / 412-268-9982 / jhduffy@andrew.cmu.edu When we move, we rarely move in the exact same way twice. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Carnegie Mellon University Assistant...
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