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Stephen Colbert turned his satiric eye on robots, including Howie Choset’s Snakebot, on the Sept. 30 edition of “The Colbert Report” on Comedy Central. Watch the clip.
Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings list Carnegie Mellon University as #11 worldwide in engineering and technology. Read article
Carnegie Mellon University has the nation’s top computer science program, according to the Wall Street Journal! Read more
Akshay Dave, a senior computer science major, has begun writing about his job search for the Wall Street Journal’s Hire Education blog. Akshay's WSJ Blog
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Never Ending Language Learning project featured in New York TimesThe Never Ending Language Learning (NELL) project, headed by Tom Mitchell, chair of the Machine Learning Department, is featured in the Oct. 5 issue of the New York Times. The story by Steve Lohr is part of the newspaper’s series on artificial intelligence, “Smarter Than You Think.” NELL has been running 24/7 since the beginning of the year, constantly reading Web pages and extracting more than 390,000 facts to date, as it attempts to “learn as humans do.” News Brief
Carnegie Mellon Releases Specifications, Software For Low-Cost Automated Braille Writing Tutor Carnegie Mellon University’s TechBridgeWorld program has publicly released the hardware specifications and software for its Braille Writing Tutor, an innovative device that helps visually impaired students learn the tricky task of writing Braille letters with a traditional slate and stylus. News Release
NSF Funds Computer Systems Research Center At New Mexico Consortium in Los AlamosGarth Gibson, professor of computer science, is part of a new $10 million project funded by the National Science Foundation that will build and operate the Parallel Reconfigurable Observational Environment (PRObE), a one-of-a-kind computer systems research center that will be housed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. This innovative concept uses decommissioned supercomputing systems from Department of Energy labs to provide a very large-scale systems research capability. News Release
Science by the Billboard: Gigapixel Images Featured In Gallery Show at Carnegie Museum of Natural HistoryA “bait ball” of salema fish swirling off the Galapagos Islands, one of the world’s largest Adelie penguin colonies basking on an Antarctic beach and ancient petroglyphs in northern Saudi Arabia depicting hunters and their prey are three of the arresting scientific panoramas selected for a juried gallery show in conjunction with the Fine International Conference on Gigapixel Imagery for Science. Each of the eight giant images selected for the show, which will be unveiled at Carnegie Museum of Natural History when the scientific conference begins in Pittsburgh Nov. 11, is a very high-resolution image created by combining tens or hundreds of individual digital photos. News Release
Lockheed Martin official to present lecture, awards Michael Kirkland, vice president and chief technology officer of Lockheed Martin’s Information Systems & Global Solutions (IS&GS) Security Business, will present a special lecture on the challenges of cyber security at 12:30 p.m. today in the Rashid Auditorium. He also will honor four Carnegie Mellon students for creating technologies that enhance the government’s ability to stay at the leading edge of the cyber arms race. News Release
Carnegie Mellon Will Lead HP-Sponsored Consortium Developing New Ways of Measuring LearningAnanda Gunawardena of CSD and Candace Thille of the Open Learning Initiative will lead a global consortium funded by the HP Catalyst Initiative to develop new technologies for measuring students’ competency in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The six members of the consortium include institutions of higher learning in France, Hong Kong, Russia, South Africa and the United States, as well as a New Jersey high school. News Release
Christos Faloutsos Wins Test of Time Award Computer Science Professor Christos Faloutsos and his brothers, Michalis (University of California-Riverside) and Petros (UCLA), were honored with the Test of Time Award for their 1999 paper, "On the Power Law Relationships of the Internet Topology" by SIGCOMM, the premier computer communications conference. News Release
Researchers Develop Block-Based Method To Help Computer Vision Systems Decipher Outdoor ScenesComputer vision systems can struggle to make sense of a single image, but a new method devised by computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University enables computers to gain a deeper understanding of an image by reasoning about the physical constraints of the scene. News Release
Carnegie Mellon Hosting First Conference To Explore Scientific Use of Gigapixel Imagery Scientists who are pioneering the use of gigapixel imagery will discuss how they are leveraging this new technology Nov. 11-13 at the first Fine International Conference on Gigapixel Imaging for Science, hosted by Carnegie Mellon University. News Release