Articles about Carnegie Mellon University

Tech ethicist on why healthcare isn’t ready for ambitious AI overhaul

Within the frothy, exuberant hype around AI’s ability to solve wide-ranging, formerly intractable problems, Alex John London is taking on… Read More

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AI, the brain, and the crowd: Research explores new ways for humans and tech to work together

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we explore the frontier of crowd-augmented cognition, the concept of humans working together with… Read More

Flashback: Microsoft’s ‘Skinput’ research project in 2010 foreshadowed an AI gadget of 2023

Where have we seen that before? That was my first thought upon reading this week’s coverage of the new Ai… Read More

University rebukes professor whose tweet about dying queen drew response from Jeff Bezos

A professor whose tweet about Queen Elizabeth II was called out by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, among others, has been… Read More

Our robot partners: Inside a research lab exploring the future of human-machine collaboration

PITTSBURGH — The biggest potential for robots and automation isn’t taking jobs from humans, but instead making those jobs better… Read More

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The new frontiers of AI and robotics, with CMU computer science dean Martial Hebert

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we explore the state of the art in robotics and artificial intelligence with Martial… Read More

Microsoft plans to support Carnegie Mellon’s edge computing research with hardware, Azure services

Researchers at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University are set to receive hybrid cloud hardware and service credits from Microsoft as it… Read More

FAIR competition? Facebook creates official AI labs in Seattle and Pittsburgh, vying for top talent

After months of work to beef up its artificial intelligence research teams in Seattle and Pittsburgh, Facebook is acknowledging that… Read More

Policy experts trade ideas for intelligent ways to regulate artificial intelligence

Regulations for the proper use of artificial intelligence are almost as inevitable as the rise of AI itself — but the… Read More

Microsoft is turning down some sales over AI ethics, top researcher Eric Horvitz says

Concerns over the potential abuse of artificial intelligence technology have led Microsoft to cut off significant sales, says Eric Horvitz,… Read More

Autonomous robots will crawl inside pipes at former U.S. nuclear sites to detect radiation, speed up process of dismantling

Robotics pioneers from Carnegie Mellon University, who made their mark in the aftermath of the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl… Read More

Meet the Girls of Steel: This badass robotics team at Carnegie Mellon University preps young women for STEM careers

PITTSBURGH — It’s not just the graduate students and PhD researchers inside Carnegie Mellon University’s top-ranked computer science school that… Read More

The future of Pittsburgh and the world: CMU’s Andrew Moore brings GeekWire’s HQ2 project home

PITTSBURGH — Last fall, after we solicited proposals to establish our own temporary “GeekWire HQ2” somewhere in North America, we… Read More

Researchers win $10M grant for ‘super-cameras’ to see through human skin and diagnose disease

You’ve no doubt covered a flashlight with your hand in a dark room. Light from the flashlight’s beam makes your… Read More

What happened to Yahoo’s $10M alliance with CMU, and how it could help AI restore our humanity

You know Siri and Alexa. Maybe even Cortana. But have you met Sara? She’s pretty amazing. Sure, she can do… Read More

I went one-on-one with Carnegie Mellon’s champion poker bot and did NOT get crushed

PITTSBURGH — In preparing for this story, I was all set to describe in detail how I had been soundly… Read More

Is a startup ‘funding gap’ holding Pittsburgh back? Tech leaders disagree over popular theory

PITTSBURGH — This city’s tech clout has grown immensely in recent years, yet it is often said that Pittsburgh still… Read More

How Carnegie Mellon researchers are preparing for the rise of edge computing, with a $27.5M grant

Edge computing will change many of the underlying assumptions that applications make in the era of cloud and mobile computing,… Read More

Geek of the Week: UW’s new iSchool dean Anind Dey happy to be ‘home’ after 13 years in Pittsburgh

After 13 years in Pittsburgh, Anind Dey grew to love many things about the Steel City, including the people, his… Read More

University of Pittsburgh chancellor on Amazon, growth and the tension over the city’s nonprofits

PITTSBURGH — The education and healthcare giants of this city represent some of Pittsburgh’s biggest advantages in the new economy.… Read More

Can GeekWire talk the talk in a new tech town? Here’s what yinz need to know about Pittsburghese

Depending on who you talk to, or listen to, the popular belief is that there’s not really a distinct accent… Read More

Pittsburgh Profile: Robotics expert Sidd Srinivasa on his love for the Steel City, and his leap to Seattle

Very few people are in a better position to explain Pittsburgh to a bunch of Seattle-based technology journalists than Siddhartha… Read More

Are you dumber than a robot? Amazon ‘Turing Test via Failure’ flips CAPTCHA on its head in nod to AI

To err is human. To prove you’re not a computer by making a mistake is divine. That’s the premise of… Read More

How the Libratus AI program bested expert poker players in no-limit Texas Hold’em

You got to know when to hold ’em, and know when to fold ’em — and when it comes to betting… Read More

Robotics expert moves entire team to University of Washington, including famous Oreo-cracking robot

Researchers inside the University of Washington’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering in Seattle are developing innovative… Read More