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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
