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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 Revolutionary 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
