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CREATE Lab Honored For Monitoring Emissions at Shenango Coke Works – Joint Effort With Grassroots Advocates Highlighted Pollutants, Smells
Carnegie Mellon University's CREATE Lab and the grassroots advocacy group Allegheny County Clean Air Now (ACCAN) are winners of an inaugural Constellation Prize for their collaboration on the Shenango Channel, an effort to highlight pollutants from a now-defunct coke works near Pittsburgh. The Constellation Prize[...]
CMU Robotics Alum Leads Development of Critical Landing Technology – Computer Vision System Will Enable Safe Martian Landing for NASA’s Perseverance Rover
"LVS Valid" The message would sound cryptic to most people, but for Andrew Johnson, a principal robotics system engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, receiving it from Mars on Thursday will mean everything. It will mean that the lander vision system developed by his team[...]
SCS Celebrates Simon, Alumni Research Professorships
Artur Dubrawski will receive the Alumni Research Professorship of Computer Science and Carleton Kingsford will receive the Herbert A. Simon Professorship of Computer Science in a virtual ceremony at 5:30 p.m. Thursday. The usual ceremonies for these and other new professorships were delayed last year[...]
Carnegie Mellon AI Collaborates With Pentagon To Improve Reliability of Army’s Black Hawk Helicopters
Machine Learning Identifies Precursors of Engine Failure A MH-60 helicopter from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment transports role players from the battlefield during Invincible Sentry 2019 near Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium in Doha, Qatar, March 22. Invincible Sentry is an annual training[...]
NASA Mission To Test Technology for Satellite Swarms – Carnegie Mellon’s Zac Manchester Leads Three-Satellite Experiment
A NASA mission slated for launch on Friday will place three tiny satellites into low-Earth orbit, where they will demonstrate how satellites might track and communicate with each other, setting the stage for swarms of thousands of small satellites that can work cooperatively and autonomously.[...]
Takeo Kanade elected as a member of the Japan Academy and named a Person of Cultural Merit in Japan
Takeo Kanade, U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Professor in the Robotics Institute and Computer Science Department, was elected last month as a member of the Japan Academy, an organization that recognizes researchers with the most distinguished records of academic and scientific achievement. Earlier last year,[...]