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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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.