2012
Friday, May 25, 2012
Carnegie Mellon University on Monday announced a $1 million endowment to name a studio dedicated to the collaboration of art, technology and other disciplines across the university. Alumni Edward H. Frank (CS'85) and his wife, Sarah G. Ratchye (A'83), announced the naming of the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry — part of the College of Fine Arts — during a program in the college's Alumni Concert Hall. Their gift establishes the Fund for Art at the Frontier, which in large part will be used to fund the creation of new works of art that push boundaries and inspire imagination. MORE
Press Release: Silicon Valley Entrepreneur, and Bay Valley Visual Artist Provide $1 Million Endowment to Alma Mater Carnegie Mellon University
Thursday, May 24, 2012
A decade of innovative research, academic excellence and entrepreneurial success stories will take center stage at an event June 9 celebrating the creation of Carnegie Mellon University's Silicon Valley Campus at Moffett Field in Mountain View, Calif. A beacon of technological achievement and a hub for developing creative software management leaders and entrepreneurial startups, CMU's Silicon Valley campus has quadrupled in size since its inception in 2002 and helped launch more than a dozen startups.
Press Release: Carnegie Mellon University's Silicon Valley Campus Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Innovation and Discovery
A decade of innovative research, academic excellence and entrepreneurial success stories will take center stage at an event June 9 celebrating the creation of Carnegie Mellon University's Silicon Valley Campus at Moffett Field in Mountain View, Calif. A beacon of technological achievement and a hub for developing creative software management leaders and entrepreneurial startups, CMU's Silicon Valley campus has quadrupled in size since its inception in 2002 and helped launch more than a dozen startups. Thursday, May 24, 2012
A new study published in Science by Carnegie Mellon University's Charles Kemp and the University of California at Berkeley's Terry Regier shows that kinship categories across languages reflect general principles of communication. The same principles can potentially be applied to other kinds of categories, such as colors and spatial relationships. Ultimately, then, the work may lead to a general theory of how different languages carve the world up into categories.
Press Release: Relatively Speaking: Carnegie Mellon and UC Berkeley Researchers Identify Principles That Shape Kinship Categories Across Languages
A new study published in Science by Carnegie Mellon University's Charles Kemp and the University of California at Berkeley's Terry Regier shows that kinship categories across languages reflect general principles of communication. The same principles can potentially be applied to other kinds of categories, such as colors and spatial relationships. Ultimately, then, the work may lead to a general theory of how different languages carve the world up into categories.Thursday, May 24, 2012
The U.S. Department of Energy awarded a three-year $875,000 grant for a team of Pittsburgh scientists, including Anirban Jana of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, to develop computational models for turbulent mixing in the VHTR (Very High Temperature Reactor), a Generation IV nuclear reactor.
News Brief: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Scientist Participates in Study of Next-Generation Advanced Reactor
The U.S. Department of Energy awarded a three-year $875,000 grant for a team of Pittsburgh scientists, including Anirban Jana of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, to develop computational models for turbulent mixing in the VHTR (Very High Temperature Reactor), a Generation IV nuclear reactor.Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Emma Brunskill, assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, is one of seven recipients this year of a prestigious Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship, which recognizes pioneering young academic researchers working in key areas of computer science.
Press Release: Microsoft Research Awards Faculty Fellowship To Carnegie Mellon Computer Scientist Emma Brunskill
Emma Brunskill, assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, is one of seven recipients this year of a prestigious Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship, which recognizes pioneering young academic researchers working in key areas of computer science.Wednesday, May 23, 2012
New research from Carnegie Mellon University's Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC) shows that the brain's visual perception system automatically and unconsciously guides decision-making through valence perception. Published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, the review hypothesizes that valence, which can be defined as the positive or negative information automatically perceived in the majority of visual information, integrates visual features and associations from experience with similar objects or features. In other words, it is the process that allows our brains to rapidly make choices between similar objects.
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