Framework Helps Entrepreneurs Stay Competitive, Avoid Pitfalls PITTSBURGH—Founders of new ventures may spend most of their time creating business plans, perfecting new technology and contracting with suppliers, but it behooves them to also think about how to treat employees fairly, design and market their products ethically, and be transparent with investors. To help founders establish [...]
The Siebel Scholars Foundation announced that five School of Computer Science graduate students – Brandon Bohrer, Rogerio Bonatti, Megan Hofmann, Hsiao-Yu Fish Tung and Lijun Yu – are among the 2021 recipients of the Siebel Scholars award. Now in its 20th year, the program recognizes almost 100 students annually from the world’s leading graduate schools of computer [...]
Small, Speedy Rover Completes Preliminary Design Review PITTSBURGH — MoonRanger, a small robotic rover being developed by Carnegie Mellon University and its spinoff Astrobotic, has completed its preliminary design review in preparation for a 2022 mission to search for signs of water at the moon's south pole. Whether buried ice exists in useful amounts [...]
Both Elements Are Critical for Applications Such As Self-Driving Cars PITTSBURGH—Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a new metric for evaluating how well self-driving cars respond to changing road conditions and traffic, making it possible for the first time to compare perception systems for both accuracy and reaction time. Mengtian Li, a Ph.D. student [...]
The team of Xinshuo Weng and Ye Yuan, both Ph.D. students in the Robotics Institute, is one of 13 nationwide to win a 2020 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF). The QIF program is unusual because it requires pairs of students to submit proposals. Qualcomm says this approach reflects its core values of innovation, execution and partnership. [...]
Congratulations to authors: Mengtian Li, Yu-Xiong Wang, and Deva Ramanan from Carnegie Mellon University and Argo AI for receiving the Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at the 16th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) for their paper Towards Streaming Image Understanding.
The Robotics Institute's Howie Choset is among four CMU faculty members who will receive new Kavčić-Moura professorships. Howie Choset, the Kavcic-Moura Professor of Computer Science, has joined the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI), an international group founded this year by the United States and 14 other nations to shape a global agenda [...]
New UK Book Provides Perspectives For Navigating Uncertain Times Earthtime refugee flow EarthTime, the innovative data visualization technology developed by Carnegie Mellon University's CREATE Lab, takes center stage in a new book addressing some of the greatest challenges facing mankind. "Terra Incognita: 100 Maps to Survive the Next 100 Years," is being published [...]
Carnegie Mellon Builds Dataset Capturing Interaction of Sound, Action, Vision PITTSBURGH—People rarely use just one sense to understand the world, but robots usually only rely on vision and, increasingly, touch. Carnegie Mellon University researchers find that robot perception could improve markedly by adding another sense: hearing. In what they say is the first large-scale [...]
Researchers led by Saswati Ray, senior research analyst in School of Computer Science's Auton Lab, have once again received top scores among teams participating in the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's program for building automated machine learning (AutoML) systems. The Data-Driven Discovery of Models (D3M) program seeks to automate the process of building predictive models [...]