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Artists view our relationship to tech

On a recent trip to Pittsburgh, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi visited the Wood Street Galleries for an exhibit exploring how artists visualize our future relationship to consumer electronics. From hybridized robotic dogs to a piece called "Cellphone Disco," each work is meant to question viewers' level of intimacy with...

Tags: Artist, Consumer Electronics, Cellular Phones, Personal Technology, News, kara tsuboi, robots, pittsburgh, wood street gallery, art, dogs, birds, co2, carnegie mellon, france cadet

Videos 2008-06-04

A C3PO sighting in Pittsburgh

While touring Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi literally bumped into Anthony Daniels, the actor behind Star Wars' lovable android C3PO. You might not recognize his face, but you surely know his voice. Take a walk down memory lane with Daniels, who talks...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Telecommunications, Marketing, News, kara tsuboi, jared kohler, star wars, anthony daniels, pittsburgh, carnegie mellon, entertainment technology center, george lucas, ilm, skywalker, c3po, r2d2

Videos 2008-05-09

A snake-inspired robot

On a recent visit to Pittsburgh, Penn., CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi dropped by professor Howie Choset's Robotics Lab at Carnegie Mellon University to see his latest creation, the Snakebot.

Tags: News, kara tsuboi, jared kohler, snakeBot, carnegie mellon, howie choset, robotics, rescue, surgery, heart, Robots, Emerging Technologies

Videos 2008-05-08

It ain't easy being indie

Are indie game developers the next rock stars? They certainly think so. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi catches up with Kyle Gabler, a developer who may have just hit the jackpot with a Nintendo WiiWare contract. But the path to get there wasn't always easy.

Tags: News, kara tsuboi, tower of goo, kyle gabler, shalin shodhan, experimental gameplay project, etc, carnegie mellon, pittsburgh, gamer

Videos 2008-04-16

Additional Resources

Researchers tout 'wimpy nodes' for Net computing

Researchers believe some work can be managed with lower expense and lower power consumption using a cluster of servers built with lower-end processors and flash memory than with a general-purpose server. Mainstream servers are growing increasingly brawny with multicore processors and tremendous memory capacity, but researchers at Carnegie Mellon...

Tags: Researcher, Computing, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Wimpy nodes, Google, Intel, NetApp, netbooks, Stephen Shankland CNET News

News items 2009-10-19

SharePoint Statistics: The Real Reason Behind SharePoint's Price Tag

Governance and TrainingFrom my experience, the technology is not expensive, when compared to most DMS / ECM / portal solutions. The costs come later, further down the road, when mistakes have already been made and the reputation of the solution is allready marred.It's almost too easy to get a...

Tags: Collaboration, Content management, Groupware, Enterprise software, Microsoft SharePoint, SharePoint Statistics

Discussion threads 2009-10-14

Ubicomp 2009 and the fusion of our digital and physical worlds

Recently, I used my newly downloaded Zipcar app on my iPhone to unlock and honk my booked vehicle from several yards away. It was more novel than useful, but a tall tale example of the countless invisible interactions we're having with sensing, inferring, and data transferring machines every day. It's...

Tags: Ubiquitous Computing, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-10-09

Time to bone up on energy-aware Internet routing

Telecommunications companies have made call-routing as inexpensive as possible. So why shouldn't businesses finetune the most cost-efficient -- and energy-efficient -- path for data to travel their data centers and networks. There are several worth-reading blogs and articles floating around the blogosphere this week focused on the...

Tags: Energy, Internet, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-08-19

Rhymes Terms Dictionary 1.0 (Mobile)

This rhyming dictionary is based on the public domain Carnegie Mellon University Pronouncing Dictionary. Contains 3 830 entries in 97 KB.About BDictyBDicty (pronounced "bee-dikti") is possibly the most popular dictionary reader for the Palm operating system, recently gaining popularity in the Pocket PC and Linux worlds as well.BEIKS Dictionary Reader...

Tags: Mobile, Entertainment, BEIKS LLC, Pocket PC, Advertising & Promotion, Palm OS, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Hardware, Marketing, Software

Software downloads 2009-07-08

(Images: Carnegie Mellon's car navigation system)

(Images: Carnegie Mellon's car navigation system)Carnegie mellon's car navigation systemIsn't this the robocar that won over the other robocar on the desert?

Tags: car navigation system, Carnegie-Mellon University

Discussion threads 2009-06-23

Carnegie Mellon wins the Urban Challenge

Carnegie Mellon wins the Urban ChallengeCarnegie Melon & Urban ChallengeIndividual winner aside, the contest proved a success for DARPA and for the advancement of robotics technology.RE: Carnegie Mellon wins the Urban ChallengeI want to know what particular chevy parts they modify. I saw the race on Youtube last month,...

Tags: Robots, Carnegie-Mellon University

Discussion threads 2009-06-18

Agriculture ripe for change with robot farmhands

Farmers across the developed world did away with the backbreaking part of the work during the 19th century with the introduction of equipment like tractors and combines. Now, evolving technology is poised to make industrial agriculture greener and more efficient with the use of robots. [caption id=""...

Tags: Laser, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-06-02

Google chief Eric Schmidt's Carnegie Mellon commencement speech (video)

Google chief Eric Schmidt's Carnegie Mellon commencement speech videoGoogle chief Eric Schmidt's commencement speechHere is what I sent to 60 of my colleaguesHi Remember when you were in college - how the commencement speech wasimportant to you? Here is one of the best 2009 Commencement speeches. http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=18293 It is just...

Tags: Corporate communications, video, commencement speech, Google Chief, Eric Schmidt, Carnegie-Mellon University, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-05-23

Google chief Eric Schmidt's Carnegie Mellon commencement speech (video)

Google CEO Eric Schmidt delivered the commencement speech at Carnegie Mellon. He talks blogs, Tweets, how friend is now a verb and innovation. Via: Carnegie Mellon on Twitter. by Larry Dignan

Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Carnegie-Mellon University, Video, Corporate Communications, Blogging, Leadership, Strategy, Marketing, Internet, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-18

An Empirical Evaluation of PhishGuru Embedded Training

Wombat's PhishGuru embedded training system teaches users to avoid falling for phishing attacks by delivering a training message when the user clicks on the URL in a simulated phishing email that it delivered to users' inboxes. It validated the effectiveness of this approach in a series of laboratory and real-world...

Tags: Training, Wombat Security Technologies, Wombat, Phishing, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Human Resources

White papers 2009-04-01

From Chapter Four: The Unix and Open source Culture

This is the 41st excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Roots (2) In its present form this commitment to publication and peer review, originally derived from the core academic and scientific approach giving rise to the science...

Tags: Noorda, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-03-13

Audio CAPTCHAs easy to crack, according to researchers

A great story over at Ars Technica today details the efforts of the Carnegie-Mellon University team behind the reCAPTCHA service, who has turned its attention to the audio CAPTCHAs used by the visually impaired. These audio CAPTCHAs consist of a string of spoken characters, typically masked and distorted by...

Tags: CAPTCHA, Audio, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-12-08

Picking apples with a robot

According to Carnegie Mellon University CMU, specialty crops (fruits, vegetables, horticulture and floriculture) constitute a $45 billion/year industry in the U.S. alone, of which the tree fruit and nursery industries have a farm gate value of $20 billion/year. But because the fruit are hand-picked for the most part, labor costs...

Tags: Carnegie-Mellon University, Emerging Technologies, Fruit, Management, Robots, Roland Piquepaille, Sanjiv Singh, Strategy, Team, Team Management, U.S. Department Of Agriculture

Blog posts 2008-12-08

How our brain sees natural scenes

How our brain sees natural scenesFascinating Topic Bravo! Roland.Professor Luis von Ahn is a professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. ..., Ben Maurer, Colin McMillen, David Abraham and Manuel Blum. These dudes need to get in touch with Dr. Michael Barnsley>Michael.Barnsley@maths.anu.edu.au

Tags: natural scene, L-System

Discussion threads 2008-11-24

How our brain sees natural scenes

Carnegie Mellon University CMU researchers have developed a new computational model explaining how the brain processes images to interpret natural scenes. According to ACM TechNews, the team 'used an algorithm to analyze the patterns that compose natural scenes and determine which patterns are most likely associated with each other.'...

Tags: Vision, Scene, Computer, Productivity, Strategy, Management, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-11-24