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In the News!

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

2013

  • SFGate release on the CMU-SV student team that won the April CMU-SV HTML5 Hackathon sponsored by Yahoo!
  • Ian Lane and students' work gesture-based interfaces with Yandex featured on TechCrunch. A video is also featured on Yandex's blog. Download the video on Vimeo.
ACM'S Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT) has awarded Dr. Tony Wasserman its 2013 Influential Educator Award.

2012

  • Female Developers and Athletes Take the Leading Role at espnW Hack Day - November 13, 2012
    By the end of the day Saturday, the seven judges chose a winner: iSports, developed by Divya Natesan, Pooja Gada, and Ditaya Das, three graduate engineering students from Carnegie Mellon University’s Silicon Valley campus in Mountain View, California. The app pulls athlete videos from YouTube and relevant facts from ESPN.
  • Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley Researchers Work To Develop New Tools For Improving Communication During Natural Disasters - November 5, 2012
    "As voice and data networks have become more complex, they have also become more vulnerable in the face of natural disasters like hurricanes and earthquakes," said Bob Iannucci, director of the CyLab Mobility Research Center and a distinguished service professor at Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley. "And while police, fire and other emergency responders have their dedicated communication tools, impacted community members may find themselves without the ability to access Internet services, social networks and other popular means of communication."
  • The NRP Post - September 10, 2012
    CMUSV is featured in the Summer 2012 edition of the NRP Post, including CMUSV's 10th Anniversary Celebration.
  • Carnegie Mellon University Honors Zazzle with Inclusion in Time Capsule - June 12, 2012
    “CMU Silicon Valley has come a long way in the past ten years, the people here, this milestone, and the technology we are producing shows we are in the right place and that the university is harnessing and growing innovation,” Martin Griss, Associate Dean and Director of CMU Silicon Valley said glowingly. Part of the event included a time capsule which included proud elements from the past ten years: projects, devices, software, certificates and even a Zazzle ornament!
  • Google’s SPDY and ActivNetworks’ BoostEdge to Allow Faster Web Access - March 21, 2012
    “In an age when mobile users are demanding more bandwidth, the mobile industry needs to develop new ways to increase capacity with minimal cost. Our research team created a test bed to benchmark performance and verify how that need is addressed using BoostEdge and SPDY,” said Dr. Steven Rosenberg, Associate Director of Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley.
  • Disaster recovery: Improving smartphone communications - February 1, 2012
    Martin Griss, director of Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley and the Disaster Management Initiative, explains how to build technologies that will make a difference for individuals and their communities. He spoke at NASA's Disaster Resiliency Panel held at Moffett Field in Mountain View, Calif.
  • NASA To Host Disaster Resiliency Panel - January 27, 2012
    CMUSV Director Martin Griss will speak on, "Community Resilience: What Should One Do?" at the NASA Disaster Resiliency Panel on January 31, 2012.
  • Are our smart devices becoming too smart? - January 24, 2012
    What if your smartphone – or laptop, or remote control – could anticipate what you want and could intuitively respond to your needs? Ted Selker, associate director of mobility research at CMUSV discusses.
  • The Smartphone That Knows What You're Thinking - January 18, 2012
    “It’s astounding and enabling,” said Ted Selker, associate director of mobility research at Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley. “The question really comes down to what won’t [mobile devices] be able to do.”

2011

  • How NASA is Using Aircraft to Fight Fire with Data - December 12
    NASA and Carnegie Mellon University’s Silicon Valley Campus teamed up to test new approaches to managing and obtaining information about these disasters using aircraft and a next-generation emergency operations center (EOC).
  • Strength in Numbers: Dealing with Catastrophe - September 22
    According to CMUSV, emergency managers and response teams often need to find and assess damage over huge areas that can stretch over thousands of kilometres. Researchers at the university are developing hi-tech tools to help speed up disaster relief efforts and recovery.
  • Force for Change - September 20
    The Salesforce.com Foundation’s 2011 Force-for-Change Grants are focused on technology innovations aimed at enhancing collaboration, increasing efficiencies, and supporting effectiveness across the nonprofit sector. CMUSV DMI, part of the Bay Area Cross-Sector Partners in Preparedness (BACSPP), won one of the five Force-for-Change grants.
  • Update on TechWomen - Sept. 7
    "Another woman is continuing her collaboration with her TechWomen Carnegie Mellon University mentors on the social network analysis of the San Bruno, California fire. She is also working on the fatayateInTech.com platform."
  • Carnegie Mellon Opens Year-Long Entrepreneurship Master's in Silicon Valley - August 22
    Ray Bareiss, director of educational programs at the Silicon Valley campus said, "Becoming an entrepreneur not only requires a great idea; it also requires the ability to build a winning team and take your idea to market. You want to succeed or fail based on the merit of your idea, not because you can't manage a software business effectively."
  • Taking command of new communications technology - August 11
    Director Martin Griss began conducting research on mobile application domains that he felt his institution could collaborate with; one of these was emergency services. "I realized that disaster management was potentially about to experience a big change due to mobile devices in the hands of the public as well as first responders, due to worldwide networks (the Internet) and the potential of crowd-sourcing, such as we found in Haiti after the earthquake."
  • Carnegie Mellon Improving Disaster Recovery with Educational Technology - July 22
    “We started this program inspired in part by things like 9/11, Katrina, the tsunami after we got to thinking that we ought to be able to do better than that,” says DMI Associate Director Steven Ray. “Certainly software solutions exist and technology solutions exist.”
  • Emergency rig show and shine - May 26, 2011
    The four-day event at CMUSV was a Silicon Valley style technology meet-up for state and local government agencies -- the first gathering of its kind for California.
  • The Early Adopter's Guide to Space Travel - May 17, 2011
    Beam-powered spaceflight? "I know this sounds like science fiction the first time you hear about it, but when you look at the actual details, the numbers, it's not all that far-fetched," says Kevin Parkin, who heads Carnegie Mellon's Microwave Thermal Rocket project in collaboration with NASA.
  • GigaPan Time Machine shows future of videos - May 9, 2011
    CMU's CREATE Lab and NASA's Ames research Center has developed a way to make extremely high resolution videos -- with consumer cameras -- and show them in a Web browser. They call it the Gigapan Time Machine, because it zooms back and forth through time, too.
  • Course combines business, software - March 21, 2011
    Director of Software Engineering Todd Sedano and adjunct professor Scott Russell at Carnegie Mellon’s Silicon Valley campus are again offering 96-800, Real World Software Engineering for Entrepreneurs, this summer

2010

  • What is Super-flexibility? - November 2010
    Professor Stuart Evans discusses coined phrase 'super-flexbility' and his recently published book on the topic.
  • Forcing browswers to use encryption - November 15, 2010
    Jeff Hodges, security engineer at PayPal, wrote the original draft specification for HSTS with Collin Jackson, a former Googler and faculty at CMU Silicon Valley, "This allows for full-session encryption," Jackson told CNET. "A user won't see an insecure version of the site."
  • Mozilla fixes Firefox's DLL load hijacking bug - September 8, 2010
    Among the fixes include a flaw, discovered by Carnegie Mellon's Collin Jackson and David Huang, that could be used by attackers to bypass a site's cross-site scripting (CSS) defenses to inject and execute malicious JavaScript into the Web site.
  • Browsers' private modes leak info, say researchers - August 10, 2010
    "There are some traces left behind [by all browsers] that could reveal some of the sites that you've been to," said Collin Jackson, an assistant research professor at the Silicon Valley campus of Carnegie Mellon University.
  • iPhone Defense Prompts New Debate - July 18, 2010
    Jason Lohn, a professor of electrical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, said the competing phones Apple used in its videos "don't have the antenna's bare metal exposed to the hand, so I'd be surprised if the effect of the hand would be as pronounced as it was on the iPhone 4."
  • Anti-Clickjacking Defenses 'Busted' In Top Websites - May 26, 2010
    Silicon Valley Professor Collin Jackson discusses frame busting, a popular technique that basically stops a website from operating when it's loaded inside a "frame," does not prevent clickjacking.
  • IT disaster recovery planning and earthquake emergency response - April 21, 2010
    News of the Haiti disaster was communicated largely by civilians using social media outlets like Twitter and Facebook, and sending photos and news of the earthquake's destruction through cell phones, said Dr. Martin Griss, director of Carnegie Mellon's Silicon Valley Campus.
  • Overlap of Silicon Valley, Quake Country Producing Web 2.0 Emergency Response - March 31, 2010
    Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley is working to use the Internet and Silicon Valley's location in earthquake country to unite crowd-sourced and corporate emergency information and response with those of government agencies in new ways. (Communications Daily Vol. 30, No. 61, subscription required)
  • Carnegie Mellon University launches Disaster Management Initiative (DMI) - March 25, 2010
    Carnegie Mellon's DMI is working with 70 companies on research and development projects regarding disaster recovery management and working with nine other regional and state agencies including Airship Earth Corporation (AEC), California Emergency Management Agency (CalEMA), Clearwire Corp., Golden Gate Safety Network and MapLab (GGSN), TechNet, TWIKI.NET, Unisys, Wireless Communications alliance (WCA) and WCA eCLIC.
  • Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley Tackles Tech-Driven Disaster Management - March 25, 2010
    With back to back disaster tech-focused events, Director Martin Griss elaborates, "People are beginning to use smart phones, WiFi, Facebook, and Twitter to communicate with each other on the ground in the disasters--between citizens and emergency responders and citizens on ground and the rest of the world."

2009

  • Networked surveillance minicopters can't be kept down - November 28, 2009
    Researchers at Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley aim to fly squadrons of "Sensorfly" craft that coordinate with each other to explore indoor environments – for instance, to check out buildings after a natural disaster.
  • SensorFly robots hunt in packs and can take a battering - November 26, 2009
    The Sensorfly, developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, is the first prototype in what will eventually be a swarm of dual-rotor helicopters, designed to scout dangerous locations in disaster response or urban combat situations.
  • 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.
  • 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.