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Meet the Girls of Steel: This badass robotics team at Carnegie Mellon University preps young women for STEM careers
by Taylor Soper on March 2, 2018 at 4:00 am GeekWire is putting its own HQ2 in Pittsburgh for the month of February 2018 — reporting on the people, technologies and ideas transforming the industrial city into an innovation powerhouse. The Girls of[...]
Carnegie Mellon Will Help Develop Camera To See Through Skin
NSF Awards $10 Million to Interdisciplinary Researchers at Five Universities By Byron Spice Monday, February 26, 2018 Computational illumination and imaging approaches developed at CMU produce images of different body parts that show features up to two millimeters deep. Researchers expect new techniques will[...]
Robotics pioneer Red Whittaker wants to put a robot on the moon, and land Amazon in his backyard
BY TODD BISHOP on February 22, 2018 at 5:00 am GeekWire is putting its own HQ2 in Pittsburgh for the month of February 2018 — reporting on the people, technologies and ideas transforming the industrial city into an innovation powerhouse. Red Whittaker, founder and director of Carnegie Mellon University’s[...]
Gupta Wins Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award
By Byron Spice Thursday, February 22, 2018 In this Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013 photo, Abhinav Gupta stands near one of the computer clusters used in his research at one of the computer server areas on campus at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.[...]
Choset Among Recipients of New Kavčić-Moura Professorships
By Abby Simmons Tuesday, February 20, 2018 The Robotics Institute's Howie Choset is among four CMU faculty members who will receive new Kavčić-Moura professorships. Robotics Institute faculty member Howie Choset is among four Carnegie Mellon University faculty members appointed to[...]
Bill Peduto: ‘Pittsburgh Was Already a Decade Ahead’
An autonomous vehicle crosses one of Pittsburgh's iconic bridges. Gene J. Puskar/AP Richard Florida Feb 8, 2018 Pittsburgh’s mayor talks about the city becoming the capital of autonomous vehicles and the challenge of including everyone in its renewal. Pittsburgh Mayor William (Bill)[...]