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- 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
- Do we need another CERT?
- Yes. Google's backing of oCERT is a major milestone in the history of open source. It's not that I have anything against the Computer Emergency Response TeamCERT at Carnegie-Mellon. They do important work, not only in identifying risks but in educating people on them. ...
- Tags: Vulnerability, CERT, Windows Machine, Dana, Security, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Photos: 'Mobot' races test design skills
- Carnegie Mellon University's mobile robot races test whether students, staff, and alums can create a robot fast and smart enough to navigate an outdoor slalom course. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Photograph, Robots, Emerging Technologies, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-04-21
- Census for open-source apps kicks off
- Project expects to offer the first detailed look at how businesses are using open-source software and how widespread it's become.(By Matthew Broersma of ZDNet UK) A project aimed at delivering the first detailed survey of how open-source software is used in businesses is off the ground. Open-source...
- Tags: Open source
- News items 2008-04-18
- Yahoo vs. Microsoft: Thanks for the letter Steve; Now give us more money or get lost
- Yahoo vs. Microsoft: Thanks for the letter Steve; Now give us more money or get lostI'd rather see Apple buy them out...At least with Apple, they would be guaranteed to be infused with some true innovation on top of what they already have. Microsoft would suck the life force right...
- Tags: Corporate governance, Investment, Financial accounting, MICROSOFT TODAY, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-07
- Give your computer the sense of touch
- Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have developed a new haptic interface using magnetic levitation to give computer users the sense of touch. Unlike current haptic systems, this new device doesn't use gloves or robotic arms. It uses 'magnetic levitation and a single moving part to give users a highly...
- Tags: Carnegie-Mellon University, Coil, Computer, Haptic Device, Hollis, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
- Novell acquires PlateSpin: Will everything fall to the floor?
- Novell acquires PlateSpin: Will everything fall to the floor?clarificationPlatespin was founded in 2000 and the technology was created by an innovative group of six people, myself, Mark Verdun, David Richards, Bruno Baloi, Simon Howard and Dave Campbell.Be ware, the innovative spirit left Platespin long ago in 2002 just after...
- Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Capacity Planner, Novell Inc., VMware Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-26
- Microsoft Windows Live Mail's CAPTCHA defense falls to spam bots
- Microsoft Windows Live Mail's CAPTCHA defense falls to spam botsI'll second that...They, or someone, has also figured how to do the same with Yahoo accounts. One of my email accounts, not Hotmail or Yahoo, gets 5 - 10 spams a day from Hotmail, Yahoo US, Yahoo UK, Yahoo Taiwan,...
- Tags: Operating systems, CAPTCHA, CAPTCHA defense, Microsoft Windows Live Mail, spam bot, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Live, WLM, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-02-07
- Turning any monitor in to a 3D VR display
- Turning any monitor in to a 3D VR displayFreaky and Far OutntMost Cool thing I have seen in awhileGeorge this has to be one of the coolest things I have seen in years. It is exciting to think of the possibilities, an the 3d effect was amazing. I can imagine...
- Tags: Games, Webcam, Nintendo Wii, Wii Remote, monitor
- Discussion threads 2008-01-25
- Turning any monitor in to a 3D VR display
- After seeing the above video sent to me by Justin James, I only have one thing to say: Give Jonny his PhD! Johnny Lee is a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University who took a standard Nintendo Wii remote and turned a monitor in to something special. You can check out...
- Tags: 3D, Monitor, Webcam, George Ou
- Blog posts 2008-01-25
- Gates: secret admirer of Linux, open source?
- Gates: secret admirer of Linux, open source?Charity Begins at HomeSo I'm curious. How does the price of Microsoft's main reasonably-full-functioned software (I'm guessing that's MSWinVistaHomePremium or some such and the Business version of MSOffice) compare between the wealthiest and poorer countries?Just to pull five at random out of the...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, secret admirer, Linux open source, admirer, Linux, open source, software
- Discussion threads 2008-01-24
- Vista deactivates me for upgrading motherboard firmware
- Vista deactivates me for upgrading motherboard firmwareBe careful of flashing through Windows ...... no jokes about the above statement please :-)Seriously though, be careful. I don't know about MSI because it's been a while since I've handled a board, but ASUS has a Windows-based flash that's dangerous to use....
- Tags: Corporate governance, Operating systems, Nothing, MSI, BIOS, Microsoft Windows, board, Linspire, motherboard firmware, motherboard, Microsoft Windows Vista, firmware
- Discussion threads 2007-12-24
- Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (eBook) (exe)
- Best-selling author Napoleon Hill teaches you the 17 success principles used by the great success stories of the early 20th century. Napoleon Hill interviewed with William Wrigley, Alexander Graham Bell, Andrew Carnegie and 500 others. He shares with you the secrets that helped all of these great leaders rise to...
- Tags: E-books, Leadership, Personal Technology, Management
- Software downloads 2007-11-26
- Open source and the copycat charge
- Proprietary vendors still accuse open source of just copying their innovations in order to drive down value for innovators. In some ways they have a point. VMWare will not get the monopoly rents it feels it deserves on virtualization because it has many open source competitors. ...
- Tags: Innovation, Leadership, Strategy, Open Source, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-11-14
- carnegie mellon wins the Urban Challenge
- And the winner is ... Sunday, DARPA announced the winning teams in the super-challenging robot car race the Urban Challenge. The big boys are: In first place, Carnegie Mellon's Tartan Racing Team. Prize: $2 million. Second place: the Stanford...
- Tags: Virginia Tech, Carnegie-Mellon University, Robot, Minute, Robots, Team Management, Emerging Technologies, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2007-11-05
- Stopping failure in its tracks
- Some IT projects become a negative self-fulfilling prophecy, gaining a drive toward failure that seems inevitable. How can one interrupt this downward spiral before it's too late? In an article called Surviving Failure, Watts S. Humphrey, founder the Software Process Program of the Software Engineering Institute at...
- Tags: Failure, Strategy, Leadership, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-10-28
- Images: carnegie mellon's car navigation system
- The MOVE system operates on the premise that, as with subway maps, less is more and you don't need to see everything in proper scale. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Carnegie-Mellon University, MOVE System, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2007-10-26
- A watch to measure your stress
- Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the University of Pittsburgh are using a wrist-mounted watch to measure stress. This watch, which is in fact a wearable computing system, contains several sensors that gather information about the user and his environment. Now it will be used to conduct 3-minute interviews...
- Tags: Carnegie-Mellon University, Study, Stress, eWatch, Productivity, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-10-18
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