2013 News
Thursday, June 27, 2013
NASA's IRIS Mission to Launch with Antennas from CMU-SV Startup X5 Systems
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Martin Griss, director of Carnegie Mellon University’s Silicon Valley campus since 2009, will step down as director at the end of the 2012-13 academic year. Griss will continue with the campus as a principal research scientist. MORE
CMU-SV Director Martin Griss to Step Down, Continue as Research Scientist
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Carnegie Mellon University’s Silicon Valley (CMU-SV) students love to hack, so it was no wonder they spent yet another weekend participating in a hackathon rather than indulging in some R&R. On June 15-16, a team of CMU-SV students hacked their way to two API prizes at AngelHack Silicon Valley. AngelHack, “the world’s biggest hackathon competition,” organizes hackathons in cities all over the world from London to Singapore, and last weekend’s San Jose, Ca. event brought in close to 1000 submissions. MORE
Graduate Students Hack To Another Win at AngelHack
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Evernote and Honda recently joined together to hold their first design hackathon in Silicon Valley over the course of three days. Teams had a variety of APIs to choose from including Evernote, Honda Silicon Valley Lab (HSVL), LeapMotion, Pebble and NODE. Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley (CMU-SV) Ph.D. student, Le Nguyen, and his teammate, Weiyi Liu, chose to hack wtih the Pebble API and won their category for the app, BeSafe. MORE
Ph.D. Student's Team Creates Winning Pebble App at Evernote & Honda Hackathon
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Carnegie Mellon University’s Silicon Valley (CMU-SV) campus director, Dr. Martin Griss, will be a featured plenary panelist at the 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing. With the theme, “change we are leading,” IEEE Cloud 2013 will be held at the Santa Clara Marriott June 27 – July 2. The world’s largest academic conference in Services Computing will draw some of the field’s biggest names to discuss emerging technology in today’s service industry. MORE
Campus Director to Speak as Keynote Panelist at IEEE Cloud 2013
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
At the second Gathering of the academic year, part-time and full-time Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley students thought outside-of-the-box during workshops to further develop their skills as software engineers, participating in these improv and creativity activities.
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June Gathering Fosters Creativity and Improvisation
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
The Women in Technology Foundation’s (WITI) 2013 Women Powering Technology Summit, held June 2-4 in Santa Clara, Ca., brought together top women executives and researchers in the tech field to share each other’s innovative thinking and knowledge. The conference included numerous speaker sessions, career fair, product expo and a Hall of Fame ceremony. Numerous Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley (CMU-SV) students and professors presented current research at the conference. MORE
CMU-SV Women Researchers Present at 2013 WITI Conference
Friday, June 7, 2013
On June 1-2, 2013, thousands of citizens across the U.S. came together at nearly 100 different locations to hack for change during National Day of Civic Hacking. Using publicly released data, code and technology, ordinary citizens teamed up with software developers, entrepreneurs and government officials to create solutions to challenges that impact our communities. The denizens of Silicon Valley, no strangers to innovation themselves, had the opportunity to participate in a number of events including CityCamp Palo Alto and Google’s Hack for Change hackathon. Carnegie Mellon University’s Silicon Valley (CMU-SV) campus participated in both events showcasing new technology. MORE
CMU-SV Participates in National Day of Civic Hacking
Friday, June 7, 2013
A research paper by a student team--made up of INI students Shrikant Adhikarla, Divya Natesan, Isaraporn (Cherry) Kulkumjon and Matthew Schlau--has been accepted to the IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2013). The team was advised by faculty member Jia Zhang, an associate research professor at Carnegie Mellon's Silicon Valley Campus, and NASA researchers. MORE
Research Paper by Carnegie Mellon Team Accepted to International Conference on Services Computing
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
It’s a not-so-closely guarded secret that a recruiting event should always include free food to entice the talented but constantly hungry graduate student crowd. A team of Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley (CMU-SV) students, lovers of free food themselves, capitalized upon this universal truth to build an application at the recent Tizen Hack Competition, held in conjunction with the first Tizen Developer Conference. The team won 2nd place out of a competitive pool of participants, which included professional developers, adding to the impressive list of CMU-SV hackathon wins in the past year. MORE
CMU-SV Students Place Second at Tizen Hack Competition
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering (CIT)’s Real World Engineering program partnered with CMU’s Silicon Valley campus this spring, bringing twelve rising sophomores to Silicon Valley to provide a first-hand look into what makes an engineering career unique in the global epicenter of innovation. MORE
Envisioning the Future: CIT's Real World Engineering Comes to Silicon Valley
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Sierra Ventures recently partnered with Dr. Stuart Evans of Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley and the Sierra CIO Advisory Board, which includes Fortune 500 CIOs and CTOs, to produce its CIO Survey Report: “Seizing Opportunity – The Transition from Legacy to Innovation in Enterprise IT.” The report is the first in a series that identifies pain points and opportunities for CIOs to increase innovation in IT enterprise. MORE
CMU-SV Professor Partners with Sierra Ventures on CIO Survey Report
Friday, May 24, 2013
Diabetes affects 8.3% of the U.S. population and cost the country $245 billion in 2012 according to statistics by Fast Company. With entrepreneurs and health professionals tackling the issue from every perceivable angle, PRHQL, a startup spun out of Carnegie Mellon University in 2011 is hoping the answer to diabetes management lies in a data-driven approach. PHRQL is currently vying for a $100,000 prize as a finalist in the 2013 Data Design Diabetes Challenge sponsored by pharmaceutical company, Sanofi US. MORE
PHRQL a Finalist in $100K Data Design Diabetes Challenge
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Wedding Party, a mobile app available on iOS and Android devices, creates an engaging experience for wedding guests by creating a forum for them to capture and share candid photos before and during the event. The startup, co-founded by Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley (CMU-SV) Software Engineering alumni (2009), Gordon McCreight, received $1 million in seed funding earlier this year and is poised to make a big splash this summer wedding season. MORE
Alumni Startup Wedding Party: Coming to a Wedding Near You
Friday, May 10, 2013
Brenton Marrelli (MS ’07) and Darwin Widjaja (MS ’07), recently jumped into the entrepreneurial pool with their startup Friend Trusted, a mobile application (and web site) that they like to call the eBay of home improvement. Using either the site or the mobile application, homeowners can easily submit projects, with a brief description and photos if needed, to Friend Trusted in order to obtain three estimates from service professionals willing to take on their job. MORE
Good News for Homeowners Seeking a "Trusted Friend" in Home Improvement
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley (CMU-SV) Software Management Professor Dr. Tony Wasserman will give a talk for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) San Francisco Bay Area Professor Chapter on May 15, 2013 at 6:30 P.M. at HP Palo Alto. His talk, “How the Internet Transformed the Software Industry,” will touch upon the various impacts the growth of the Internet has had on creating new software businesses and processes. MORE
SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award Recipient Tony Wasserman to Give ACM Talk
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
A technical paper by a Carnegie Mellon team was accepted by The Sixth ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec). INI student Shrikant Adhikarla (MS23), ECE student Min Suk Kang along with Silicon Valley faculty member Patrick Tague, assistant research professor at the INI and CyLab, authored the paper, titled "Selfish Manipulation of Cooperative Cellular Communications via Channel Fabrication." WiSec is a major industry conference that took place April 17-19, 2013, in Budapest, Hungary. MORE
Students' Research Presented at the WiSec International Conference
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Chuck Thacker, inventor of the Alto, led a CMU-SV student audience full of aspiring software leaders down memory lane, describing the “magic” at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), which produced numerous networking and computing systems inventions that have laid the groundwork for today’s systems. By delving into the workings of both the Alto and the laboratory that produced it, Thacker shared his thoughts on the relevance and lessons of a forty-year old technology for the 21st century of computer architects. MORE
Chuck Thacker, Pioneering Computing Designer, Speaks at CMU-SV
Monday, April 22, 2013
A team of Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley (CMU-SV) Software Engineering students and alumni took their classroom learning out for a spin at the Hertz Corporation Hackathon held April 19-20, 2013. Class of 2013 masters students Kaushik Gopal, Sumeet Kumar, Clyde Li, David Pfeffer and Sean Xiao, along with 2005 alumni David Jensen and his wife, Liz Jensen, won a $1500 prize sponsored by Nokia HERE and a three-month incubation at nestGSV in Redwood City, Calif., for their connected car interface. MORE
CMU-SV Team Designs Connected Car Rental Experience at Hertz Hackathon
Monday, April 22, 2013
Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley’s Distinguished Service Professor Dr. Ted Selker will give a joint talk with Dr. Annie Gentes of Télécom ParisTech on April 24th, 2013 in Paris, France. Their talk, “Social Science Meets Design Activities in Considerate Systems,” will introduce ideas for how to incorporate social awareness into the design of information systems and artifacts. The pair will also be giving a talk about how models and prototypes are a part of the poetic dimension in the process of design at ENSCI Les Ateliers, a French design school. MORE
CMU-SV Professor Ted Selker to Give Talks at SIGCHI Paris and ENSCI Les Ateliers
Monday, April 15, 2013
Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley’s (CMU-SV) first HTML5 hackathon attracted both undergraduate and graduate students and participants from industry. The event, sponsored by Yahoo!, Meteor, Electronic Arts, and Microsoft, focused on creating single-page HTML5 applications with Javascript for the logic. MORE
CMU-SV's First HTML5 Hackathon Attracts Student and Industry Participants, Awards Prizes for Best Apps
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
CMU's Silicon Valley campus is excited for its third annual Carnival West and invites YOU – all alumni, friends and family to attend for games, picnic and fun for the whole family. MORE
CMU-SV Carnival 2013 - Calling All Alumni, Friends and Family
Friday, April 5, 2013
Director of Carnegie Mellon University’s Silicon Valley campus, Dr. Martin Griss, recently gave a talk at the Palo Alto Colloquia, part of Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Center (ATC). Dr. Griss’ talk, “Making Smart Communities Resilient,” focused on recent activities at the campus’ Disaster Management Initiative (DMI) to develop interoperable technologies in efforts to empower and connect citizens in communities, first responders and emergency managers in a disaster situation. MORE
Director Martin Griss Delivers Talk on Smart Communities
Friday, April 5, 2013
Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley (CMU-SV) students are not only frequent fixtures at Bay Area hackathons but also frequent victors in the popular day-and-night coding competitions hosted by prominent Silicon Valley companies. Some students go for the competition, some for the networking opportunities, and some for the ubiquitous free food, but a desire to hone their craft while having fun is a common thread for hackathon participants. Now students need travel no further than their own campus to code late into the night while fueled by free food when CMU-SV hosts a HTML5-themed hackathon April 12-13, 2013. MORE
CMU-SV to Host Campus' First HTML5-Themed Hackathon April 12-13
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Carnegie Mellon University and the San Francisco Bay Area Alumni Chapter recently hosted the first Gateway to Silicon Valley Fireside Chat with Dr. Stuart Evans, CMU-SV Distinguished Service Professor, and Prasad Setty, Google’s Vice President of People Analytics & Compensation, at the CMU Silicon Valley campus in Mountain View, California. MORE
Fireside Chat with Prasad Setty, Google's Vice President of People Analytics and CMU-SV Professor Stuart Evans Held on Campus
Monday, March 25, 2013
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) recently held its 2013 workshop of the Innovation Center for Earth Sciences (ICES) in Menlo Park, Calif. The meeting brought together scientists and researchers from USGS, NASA Ames, Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley (CMU-SV) and UC Santa Cruz for keynote discussions and poster sessions focused on applying new technologies to solve scientific problems. MORE
First ICES Workshop Held Among USGS, NASA and CMU-SV
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
With today’s proliferation of users engaged in Facebook, Twitter and social networks for seemingly every function, it is safe to say that social media has become a way of life. Many of these users are college students and new graduates, or those in the market for “early careers.” Can these early career seekers benefit from a use of social networks specifically geared toward the job search? The team behind collegefeed hopes to situate itself apart from other career sites and job boards by addressing this specific audience using today’s technology to revolutionize early career building. MORE
Collegefeed Launches Beta Program at CMU-SV, Provides a Social Network to Kickstart Careers
Monday, March 18, 2013
Three teams from Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley placed in the top 10 at the Electronic Arts (EA) Hackathon this weekend. The teams represented the Software Management, Ph.D. and Silicon Valley-based Information Networking Institute (INI) students. After arriving at the EA headquarters in Redwood City, Calif. on a Saturday morning, students quickly realized they were not going to be participating in an “average” hackathon. True to their gaming roots, EA’s “Escape from /dev/null hackathon was designed around a science fiction theme MORE
CMU-SV Students Place in Top 10 at EA Hackathon
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Women researchers from Stanford University, UC Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley recently came together for the first research-focused meet-up amongst the three institutions. The meet-up aimed at linking Bay Area women in tech research brought together over 70 graduate and undergraduate women who participated in a program of research talks in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, poster sessions and a social mixer. MORE
Meet-Up Brings Together Bay Area Women in Research
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Tapgreet, a startup co-founded by Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley (CMU-SV) alumnus, Amin Ariana, and sales and marketing leader, Paul Bussi, is on a mission to change the way consumers buy greeting cards. With consumer buying behavior continually shifting toward the most convenient option, most often in the form of online retail, the Tapgreet team recognized an opportunity to disrupt the greeting card industry by introducing self-service greeting card kiosks in small space but high traffic retail environments such as coffee shops. MORE
CMU-SV Alumnus Startup Tapgreet Seeks to Transform Urban Retail Industry
Monday, February 25, 2013
It appears the sky is the limit for the Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley (CMU-SV) alumni team behind EngageClick, a startup with a disruptive approach to human engagement with multimedia content. In a few short months, EngageClick has raised its Series A funding, acquired paid marquee customers in the United States, Asia and Europe and settled into headquarters in downtown Palo Alto. MORE
EngageClick Redefines User Interaction in Advertising Multimedia
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Owen Chu, Kate Liu, Rashmi Devarahalli and Madhok Shivatre. What do these four Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley students have in common? For one, they all moved to the Silicon Valley to pursue their Masters degree and hope to work in industry upon graduation in 2013. More uniquely, they also make up the two married couples undertaking the full-time Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley together. We sat down with Owen, Kate, Madhok and Rashmi this Valentine’s Day to learn about how they make it work – both in school and in marriage. MORE
Student Spotlight: Balancing Graduate School and Marriage
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Leanplum, a mobile app and game optimization startup announced today that it has secured $825K in angel funding from high-profile backers such as TechStars, Kima Ventures, VoiVoda Ventures, and other individuals. The company, which counts a Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley (CMU-SV) campus graduate as a founder, will help mobile app developers optimize mission-critical metrics of mobile applications. MORE
Alumni Startup Leanplum Achieves $825K in Seed Funding
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley (CMU-SV) Campus professors Dr. Ole J. Mengshoel and Dr. Ted Selker along with Ph.D. student Priya Sundararajan were awarded Best Paper at the 2013 Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis. Their paper, “Multi-Focus and Multi-Window Techniques for Interactive Network Exporation,” was recognized along with four other papers at the conference in Burlingame, CA. MORE
Faculty and Student Authors Awarded Best Paper at VDA 2013
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Carnegie Mellon University’s Silicon Valley campus recently unveiled the newly renovated Carnegie Mellon Innovations Laboratory (CMIL). The campus’ main lab space held an Open House to introduce the myriad of “making” possibilities open to students, faculty, staff and researchers, including opportunities to hack gadgets and fabricate prototypes. MORE
Newly Renovated Carnegie Mellon Innovations Laboratory Unveiled to Campus
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Two alumni at Carnegie Mellon University’s Silicon Valley campus have recently launched an iPad app of their startup, ComicBin, a subscription service for digital comics. Jason Goldsmith and Markus Lachinger started ComicBin after graduating in August 2012 from the MS Software Management program focused on software innovation and entrepreneurship. MORE
Alumni Startup ComicBin Launches iPad App
Monday, January 28, 2013
Art Botterell, a diaster management expert, recently joined Carnegie Mellon University’s Silicon Valley Campus as a full-time researcher. CMUSV sat down with him to learn more about his path to becoming a leader in the disaster management domain and the issues he hopes to tackle next. MORE
Disaster Management Expert Joins Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley
Friday, January 18, 2013
The three Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley alumni behind a new iOS app, Poof!, are partnering with Morocco’s Restaurant in Mountain View on Tuesday, January 22nd to host an exclusive launch event with a special dessert and/or wine tasting offer for guests who mention Poof! MORE
Alumni Startup Poof! Launch Event Open to CMU Community
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Carnegie Mellon University’s Silicon Valley campus (CMU-SV) is now offering a new concentration in Connected Embedded Systems as part of its Software Engineering masters degree program. The concentration, which focuses on the fusion of hardware and software as it relates to cloud-based sensor networks, will only be available to full-time students. Applications for Fall 2013 now open. Apply today. MORE
Silicon Valley Campus Announces New Connected Embedded Systems Concentration
Saturday, January 12, 2013
You might not expect to find students happily discussing the latest topics in the software industry on a Saturday morning. Yet that was exactly the scene at Carnegie Mellon University’s Silicon Valley campus at this year’s Gathering, held as an un-conference. The Gathering is an annual CMU-SV event that brings together students and alumni to connect, recharge and reflect on issues in the industry. MORE
The Gathering 2013 Brings Together Students and Alumni for Un-Conference
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
The Eighteenth Annual CIT Staff Awards Ceremony brought together staff from the eleven departments of the College of Engineering (CIT) for a time of celebration and appreciation. Four Silicon Valley staff members – Ngoc, Ho, Ritchie Lee, Hector Rastrullo and Jazz Sabian – received a Five Years of Service Award. In addition, Mikelynn Romero, Associate Director of Career Services & Student Affairs, was nominated for the Rookie Award, and Chris Zeise, Director of Admissions & Alumni Relations, was nominated for the 2013 Staff Recognition Award. MORE
Staff Honored at the Eighteenth Annual CIT Staff Awards Ceremony
Monday, January 7, 2013
Yu Seung Kim, a Ph.D student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon’s Silicon Valley campus, has been awarded the John and Claire Bertucci Fellowship from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (CIT), which provides $10k in tuition support. Kim works with Assistant Research Professor Patrick Tague in the Wireless Network & System Security Group at CMU-SV. MORE
CMU-SV ECE Student Yu Seung Kim Awarded Bertucci Fellowship
CMUSV Researcher Chairs Conference on Cognitive Systems
