In the News!

A listing of Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley in the news as it happens.

• Hackers create tools for disaster relief - November 15, 2009
  The GeoCam Disaster Response Project, comprised of researchers from Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley & NASA, win first prize for their "I'm OK" app at Random Hacks of Kindness.

• iPhone app translates between English and Spanish, and vice-versa - October 25, 2009
  Carnegie Mellon celebrates Jibbigo, startup launched by computer science professor Alex Waibal, with numerous research collaborations, including Silicon Valley Research Professor Joy Zhang.

• Carnegie Mellon's Pradeep Khosla To Be Keynote Speaker At Launch of New Policy Network Critical to G-20 Leaders - September 22, 2009
  Dean Pradeep K. Khosla will speak to more than 70 members of a newly formed network of global information technology experts prior to launch of the G20 summit.

• Carnegie Mellon's Pradeep K. Khosla To Receive Lifetime Achievement Award From Engineering Society - August 31, 2009
  Dean Pradeep Khosla is being recognized for his significant impact on the use of computers in engineering practice and education from the Computer and Information in Engineering Division of American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

• Wireless Networks of the Future - July 24, 2009
  Martin Griss describes WiMAX, a 4G wireless network.

• Tony Wasserman named to advisory board - July 22, 2009
  Tony Wasserman was named to the Board of Advisors for the newly created Open Source for America, an organization that will serve as a unified voice for the promotion of open source software in the U.S. Federal Government arena.

• Pei Zhang and SensorFly project highlighted - July 16, 2009
  Pei Zhang and his student Aveek Purohit describe their SensorFly project as a mobile solution to hazardous situations.

• Ted Selker Gives Talk at The San Francisco Bay Area ACM SIGCHI - July 14, 2009
  Ted Selker talks on "Industrial Design Intelligence: Evaluation Supporting Aesthetic and Functional Design" at The San Francisco Bay Area ACM SIGCHI, Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

• Keynote Address Given by Maarten Sierhuis - July 11, 2009
  Maarten Sierhuis was invited to give a Keynote at the Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems (COIN) workshop at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Pasadena

• Picture This - July 6, 2009
  Randy Sargent and GigaPan software are highlighted in the Carnegie Mellon Today magazine

• Pradeep Khosla Named To New Technology Leadership Strategy Initiative - June 22, 2009
  Pradeep Khosla, dean of Carnegie Mellon’s College of Engineering, will join an elite group of academic researchers and business leaders tapped to serve for the next three years on the Technology Leadership Strategy Initiative (TLSI), a collaborative effort designed to chart the most promising frontiers of technology and competitive advantage arenas for the United States.