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Jordanian Students Translate Alice 3 Software Into Arabic
BY Byron Spice - Friday March 07, 2014
Carnegie Mellon University’s popular educational software tool, Alice 3, is now available in Arabic thanks to a four-month translation project that involved university students across Jordan working with CMU and the Oracle Academy.
CMU’s Shark Tank: Five Fledgling Student Startups Earn Investment Capital At McGinnis Venture Competition
BY Byron Spice - Friday March 07, 2014
Innovation and entrepreneurship took center stage at Carnegie Mellon University’s 2014 McGinnis Venture Competition, a cross-campus entrepreneurial challenge in which students compete for $60,000 in investments for their startup companies.Three teams that included School of Computer Science students and alumni were among the five winners announced March 5 at the conclusion of the multi-round competition.
Robot Butler Preparing For Stage Debut This Spring
BY Jennie Dorris - Wednesday March 05, 2014
Katie Correll (MET'14) has worked with puppets on Broadway and Sesame Street. Now she's helping Carnegie Mellon University's HERB perfect his acting skills for the robot's stage debut. She also recently made her game show debut on TBS' "King of the Nerds." HERB — the Home Exploring Robot Butler from the Robotics Institute (RI) — is no thespian. He's a mobile, two-armed robot that serves as a testbed for software and technologies that will someday enable robots to assist people in their homes.
Aarti Singh Receives AFOSR Award
BY Byron Spice - Tuesday March 04, 2014
The Air Force Office of Scientific Research has announced that Aarti Singh, assistant professor of machine learning, is one of 42 scientists selected this year to receive research funding for three years through the Air Force's Young Investigator Research Program (YIP).
Dubey Wins IBM Ph.D. Fellowship
BY Byron Spice - Tuesday March 04, 2014
Kumar Avinava Dubey, a Ph.D. student in the Machine Learning Department, has been awarded an IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award for the 2014-15 academic year.The IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Awards Program is an intensely competitive worldwide program, which honors exceptional Ph.D. students who have an interest in solving problems that are important to IBM and fundamental to innovation in many academic disciplines and areas of study. Dubey’s research interests include statistical machine learning, non-parametric Bayesian methods, information retrieval and clustering.
Pratt Takes Tennis Game to New Heights with Father
BY Andrea James - Wednesday February 26, 2014
Computer science major Angela Pratt has been swinging a tennis racket since the age of six when her father first introduced her to the game. Now a junior on the nationally ranked Carnegie Mellon University women’s tennis team, Pratt uses her offseason to advance her game by playing in doubles tournaments with her dad. She’s even had the chance to play on grass rather than the traditional hard-court surface.
WEF's Top 10 Emerging Technologies List Cites CMU Research
BY Byron Spice - Wednesday February 26, 2014
The World Economic Forum has released its 2014 list of the Top 10 Emerging Technologies, which cites Carnegie Mellon University’s pioneering research in one of these technologies, the quantified self.
Astrobotic Qualifies for Milestone Funding From Google Lunar XPRIZE
BY Byron Spice - Wednesday February 19, 2014
Astrobotic Technology, which is attempting to win the Google Lunar XPRIZE in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University, has qualified for Milestone Prizes offered by the XPRIZE organization, which could net the team up to $1.75 million for reaching its objectives in three categories – Landing, Mobility, and Imaging.
Carnegie Mellon Researchers Create Brand Associations By Mining Images From Social Media
