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Saturday, December 21, 2013

Press Release: DARPA Selects Carnegie Mellon's Tartan Rescue Team for Funding To Prepare for 2014 Robotics Challenge

The Tartan Rescue Team's CHIMP robot ranked third among teams competing in the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials this weekend, scoring 18 out of a possible 32 points during the two-day competition.
Thursday, December 19, 2013

Press Release: Carnegie Mellon's Diana Marculescu Leads Team Developing Novel Monitoring Tools for Hydropower Generation

A three-year, $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation will help Marculescu and her team investigate and ultimately control large-scale sustainable energy harvesting in river networks. Her team is banking on the efficiency of hydrokinetic, or run-of-the-river, power extraction, which harvests a small portion of kinetic energy in the river at multiple locations.
Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Press Release: Beyond "Boss": Carnegie Mellon, GM Build on Success

Carnegie Mellon has renewed its five-year agreement with General Motors to continue developing technologies that could allow future production vehicles to drive autonomously.
News Brief: Coro Honors Carnegie Mellon's Jim Daniels for Values-Based Leadership
Wednesday, December 18, 2013

News Brief: Coro Honors Carnegie Mellon's Jim Daniels for Values-Based Leadership

An award-winning poet, author and screenwriter, Daniels founded Carnegie Mellon's Martin Luther King, Jr. Writing Awards 15 years ago to encourage Pittsburgh-area high school and college students to explore their personal connections with race and discrimination.
News Brief: CMU Roboticists Join Team WRECS for DARPA Robotics Challenge
Tuesday, December 17, 2013

News Brief: CMU Roboticists Join Team WRECS for DARPA Robotics Challenge

Professor Chris Atkeson and 10 other CMU roboticists have been working with a team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute to prepare a 330-pound Atlas humanoid to perform human-like tasks in the DARPA Robotics Challenge. So far, the team has taken the Atlas from being barely able to walk and transformed it into a machine that can drive a car, climb a ladder and use power tools. Seventeen teams are set to compete in the trials Dec. 20-21, inculding six other teams who are also using an Atlas.
Press Release: Carnegie Mellon's CHIMP Robot Prepares For DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials, Dec. 20-21
Friday, December 13, 2013

Press Release: Carnegie Mellon's CHIMP Robot Prepares For DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials, Dec. 20-21

CMU's Tartan Rescue Team is one of 17 teams competing in the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) at the Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, Fla. The DRC is intended to spur development of advanced robots that can mitigate disasters while working in environments engineered for people. Based on performance at the trials, up to eight teams will receive DARPA funding to help prepare for the DRC Finals next December.
Press Release: Carnegie Mellon Receives $10 Million from The Heinz Endowments For H. John Heinz III College Building Expansion, Renovations
Thursday, December 12, 2013

Press Release: Carnegie Mellon Receives $10 Million from The Heinz Endowments For H. John Heinz III College Building Expansion, Renovations

The gift will provide funds for the construction of new facilities in Hamburg Hall, including new collaborative student project space and an auditorium.
Press Release: Carnegie Mellon's Eswaran Subrahmanian Earns Distinguished Member Recognition
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Press Release: Carnegie Mellon's Eswaran Subrahmanian Earns Distinguished Member Recognition

Subrahmanian, a research professor in CMU's Institute for Complex Engineered Systems, is being honored for his cross-disciplinary study of design through the fields of computer science, social sciences, engineering design and systems design.
News Brief: Garlan Named ACM Fellow
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

News Brief: Garlan Named ACM Fellow

David Garlan,a professor in the Institute for Software Research, is among 50 innovators from the world's leading universities and corporations named by the Association for Computer Machinery as 2013 Fellows. The list also includes three additional Carnegie Mellon Ph.D. alumni.
News Brief: Three CMU Innovators Named 2013 National Academy of Inventors Fellows
Tuesday, December 10, 2013

News Brief: Three CMU Innovators Named 2013 National Academy of Inventors Fellows

Carnegie Mellon University faculty members Krzysztof Matyjaszewski and Raj Reddy and President Subra Suresh were nominated by their peers for outstanding contributions to innovation in areas such as patents and licensing, discovery and technology, significant impact on society, and support and enhancement of innovation.
Press Release: Carnegie Mellon's Chris Bettinger and Jay Whitacre Find Novel Biological Sources for Battery Materials
Monday, December 09, 2013

Press Release: Carnegie Mellon's Chris Bettinger and Jay Whitacre Find Novel Biological Sources for Battery Materials

Ink from the cuttlefish, a close relative of the squid, provides the perfect chemistry and nanostructure to power tiny electronic devices that can be either ingested or implanted into the body for applications ranging from biosensing to drug delivery.
Press Release: Carnegie Mellon's College of Engineering Names Jelena Kovačević To Head Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Monday, December 09, 2013

Press Release: Carnegie Mellon's College of Engineering Names Jelena Kovačević To Head Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Kovačević, a professor of biomedical engineering and electrical and computer engineering and director of the Center for Bioimage Informatics at CMU, succeeds Ed Schlesinger, who has been named dean of the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
Media Advisory: Carnegie Mellon Mechanical Engineering Students Showcase Products To Improve Life in Developing Countries
Friday, December 06, 2013

Media Advisory: Carnegie Mellon Mechanical Engineering Students Showcase Products To Improve Life in Developing Countries

Students in the Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design Course will unveil their prototypes from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Monday, Dec. 9. Among the projects is a rolling water transport and filtration system to ensure the use of clean water in developing nations where infrastructure is sparse.
Press Release: Carnegie Mellon Researchers Developing Tools To Make Buildings Energy Efficient
Friday, December 06, 2013

Press Release: Carnegie Mellon Researchers Developing Tools To Make Buildings Energy Efficient

With a three-year, $1.9 million grant from the Department of Energy, CMU researchers Anthony Rowe and Mario Berges are developing sensor networks and an open-source software platform to optimize energy use in buildings, which annually consume 39 percent of total U.S. energy production.
Media Advisory: Carnegie Mellon's Jendayi E. Frazer Reflects on Nelson Mandela
Friday, December 06, 2013

Media Advisory: Carnegie Mellon's Jendayi E. Frazer Reflects on Nelson Mandela

"Today, the world mourns the loss of one of our greatest leaders, Nelson Rolihlahla "Madiba" Mandela. His spirit lives on forever in every freedom-loving and committed warrior of peace and justice. Mandela not only changed the course of history for South Africa, but he left a legacy that can be appreciated by every person, from every country across the globe," said CMU's Frazer, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (2005-2009) and U.S. Ambassador to South Africa (2004-2005).
Press Release: Carnegie Mellon's Burcu Akinci Co-Leads Team Developing Low-Flying Robots for Bridge Inspections
Thursday, December 05, 2013

Press Release: Carnegie Mellon's Burcu Akinci Co-Leads Team Developing Low-Flying Robots for Bridge Inspections

Akinci is working with researchers from CMU's Robotics Institute and with engineers at Northeastern University to create autonomous aerial robots that will make inspecting infrastructure safer and more efficient.
Press Release: Carnegie Mellon Researchers Create Brand Associations by Mining Millions of Images From Social Media Sites
Thursday, December 05, 2013

Press Release: Carnegie Mellon Researchers Create Brand Associations by Mining Millions of Images From Social Media Sites

Scientists have taken a first step toward mining marketing data from images.
Media Advisory: Carnegie Mellon Biomedical Engineering Students To Host Workshop Featuring Steel City Improv Actors
Wednesday, December 04, 2013

Media Advisory: Carnegie Mellon Biomedical Engineering Students To Host Workshop Featuring Steel City Improv Actors

Professor Jim Antaki says the principles of improvisation inspire students to be more creative and to think on their feet. The session will take place from 5:30 - 8:20 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 5 in the Gates Center for Computer Science.
Press Release: Carnegie Mellon Scheme Uses Shared Visual Cues To Help People Remember Multiple Passwords
Wednesday, December 04, 2013

Press Release: Carnegie Mellon Scheme Uses Shared Visual Cues To Help People Remember Multiple Passwords

Researchers have devised a scheme that enables users to create 100 or more passwords by remembering - and regularly rehearsing - a small number of one-sentence stories.
Media Advisory: Carnegie Mellon Students Build Software Solutions for Nonprofits
Tuesday, December 03, 2013

Media Advisory: Carnegie Mellon Students Build Software Solutions for Nonprofits

Eleven student information systems teams will showcase their final projects to their clients, professors and the community from 3:30 - 5 p.m., Friday, Dec. 6 in Carnegie Mellon's Porter Hall 222.
Press Release: Students Can Create Animations of Garfield the Cat With New Version of Carnegie Mellon's Alice Software
Tuesday, December 03, 2013

Press Release: Students Can Create Animations of Garfield the Cat With New Version of Carnegie Mellon's Alice Software

The new release of Alice, which features Garfield, Odie, Jon, Nermel and other characters from the popular comic strip, is geared to help middle and high school students learn programming concepts as teachers are increasingly requesting educational materials for computer science that are appropriate for that age group.
Press Release: College of Fine Arts Presents Open Studio Day Friday, Dec. 6
Monday, December 02, 2013

Press Release: College of Fine Arts Presents Open Studio Day Friday, Dec. 6

If you love art in any form, you'll find something to do at CFA.
Press Release: Carnegie Mellon's José M.F. Moura Receives Dowd Professorship in Engineering
Monday, December 02, 2013

Press Release: Carnegie Mellon's José M.F. Moura Receives Dowd Professorship in Engineering

The chair acknowledges Moura's work in "changing the face of higher education in Portugal."
Press Release: Carnegie Mellon's Metin Sitti Named IEEE Fellow
Monday, December 02, 2013

Press Release: Carnegie Mellon's Metin Sitti Named IEEE Fellow

Sitti, director of the NanoRobotics Lab at CMU and a professor of mechanical engineering, is being recognized for his outstanding contributions to micro- and nano-scale robotic systems, which can be used to benefit health care and national security.
Press Release: Carnegie Mellon's Jimmy Zhu To Head New Research Center With Sun Yat-sen University
Monday, December 02, 2013

Press Release: Carnegie Mellon's Jimmy Zhu To Head New Research Center With Sun Yat-sen University

The Joint Institute of Engineering will focus on big data, medical applications, the smart power grid, autonomous driving, nano devices and embedded systems security.
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