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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
Modified Logistic Regression: An Approximation to SVM and Its Applications in Large-Scale Text Categorization: Logistic Regression LR has been widely used in statistics for many years, and has received extensive study in machine learning community recently due to its close relations to Support Vector Machines SVM and Ad-a-Boost. This paper uses a modified version of LR to approximate the optimization of SVM by a...; Tags: Carnegie-Mellon University, Approximation, Logistic Regression, Engineering; White papers 2007-12-01
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
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

Images: Photo editing for dummies: Carnegie Mellon University researchers are applying Google's concepts for sifting through data to the tasks of adding or removing images from digital photos.; Tags: photograph, Carnegie-Mellon University, digital photograph, researcher, image, Google Inc.; Image galleries 2007-07-12
Intel Santa Rosa chips destined for MacBooks: Intel Santa Rosa chips destined for MacBooksI almost bought a MacBook Pro a few months ago...I almost bought a MacBook Pro a few months ago when the LED LCD rumor started making the rounds. Decided I'd hold off until WWDC and it looks like it might pay off. ...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Notebooks, Carnegie-Mellon University, Berkeley, Sun Microsystems Inc., Apple MacBook, Microsoft Windows Vista, status symbol, Intel Corp., graphics, NAND, Apple Inc., chip; Discussion threads 2007-05-10
Compatibility Is Not Transparency: VMM Detection Myths and Realities: Recent work on applications ranging from realistic honeypots to stealthier rootkits has speculated about building transparent VMMs - VMMs that are indistinguishable from native hardware, even to a dedicated adversary. This paper surveys anomalies between real and virtual hardware and consider methods for detecting such anomalies, as well as possible...; Tags: Carnegie-Mellon University, Hardware, Anomaly, Rootkits, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware; White papers 2007-04-12
Disk Failures in the Real World: What Does an MTTF of 1,000,000 Hours Mean to You?: Component failure in large-scale IT installations is becoming an ever larger problem as the number of components in a single cluster approaches a million. This paper presents and analyzes field-gathered disk replacement data from a number of large production systems, including high-performance computing sites and internet services sites. About 100,000...; Tags: Disk, Carnegie-Mellon University, High-performance Computing, Internet; White papers 2007-02-16
Approximation Algorithms for Degree-Constrained Minimum-Cost Network-Design Problems: Several problems in the design of communication networks can be modeled as finding a network obeying certain connectivity specifications. For instance, the network may be required to connect all the nodes in the graph a spanning tree problem, a specified subset of the nodes in the graph (a Steiner tree...; Tags: Algorithm, Carnegie-Mellon University, Network, Problem, Node, Networking; White papers 2007-01-01
CMU researchers see through eBay fraud: Popular auction sites such as eBay have a new allies at Carnegie Mellon University. Computer science professors there have developed data mining techniques to seek out fraudsters in online auctions, reports Carnegie Mellon News. Online auction sites are immensely popular. eBay, by far the largest online auction, reported third...; Tags: online auction, NetProbe, fraud, Education Technology, Computer science; Blog posts 2006-12-28
Investigating Storage Layouts to Improve Parallelism in Interactive Brute-Force Search: As the storage and processing of data becomes less expensive, huge amounts of new data is being generated by government agencies, research labs and other organizations. It is becoming increasingly important to be able to store and search this data efficiently. This paper investigates different storage layout approaches and their...; Tags: Carnegie-Mellon University, Diamond, Storage, Hardware; White papers 2006-12-11
A new system to fight phishing: CyLab researchers at Carnegie Mellon University CMU have developed a new anti-phishing tool to protect mobile users. Their Phoolproof Phishing Prevention system can prevent users of cell phones, PDAs or even laptops from network-based attacks, even when they make mistakes. This system is based on a really simple concept. It...; Tags: Carnegie-Mellon University, phishing; Blog posts 2006-09-04
Forensic Analysis for Epidemic Attacks in Federated Networks: This paper presents the design of a Network Forensic Alliance NFA, to allow multiple Administrative Domains ADs to jointly locate the origin of epidemic spreading attacks. ADs in the NFA collaborate in a distributed protocol for post-mortem analysis of worm-like attacks. Information exchange between any two participating ADs is limited...; Tags: Carnegie-Mellon University, Network, Analysis, Attack, Security; White papers 2006-09-01
CMU and Lego put advanced robots in Pa schools: Are you ready for the four Rs of education - reading, writing, ritmatic and robots? In Pittsburgh and southwestern Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon is teaming up with Lego Education to put robot-building programs in over 60 schools, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. "The goal here is using the motivational...; Tags: robot; Blog posts 2006-08-10
Carnegie Mellon attacks the data center problem: Data centers are notorious for being massive and unwieldy, storing enormous amounts of data and eating up human resources to power them. A new research center has recently opened at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh to study the problems of making data crunching more effiecent, reports eSchool News. ...; Tags: Carnegie-Mellon University, data center; Blog posts 2006-06-26
Placement, Coordination and Tasking of Static and Mobile Sensor Networks: Sensor networks consist of nodes that can measure characteristics of their local environment, perform computations, and communicate with each other over a wireless network. In recent years, advancements in hardware and low-level software have led to viable, medium-scale sensor networks consisting of hundreds of nodes that can instrument unstructured environments...; Tags: Carnegie-Mellon University, Mobile, Network, Sensor, Networking; White papers 2006-06-01
Photos: Building an army of robots: DARPA and Carnegie Mellon University unveil Crusher--a new vehicle in the growing military fleet of robots on wheels.; Tags: Robots, robot, DARPA, Carnegie-Mellon University, army; Image galleries 2006-05-02
Photos: Building an army of robots: DARPA and Carnegie Mellon University unveil Crusher--a new vehicle in the growing military fleet of robots on wheels.; Tags: Robots, robot, DARPA, Carnegie-Mellon University, army; Image galleries 2006-05-02
Invited Research Overview: End-User Programming: In the past few decades there has been considerable work on empowering end users to be able to write their own programs, and as a result, users are indeed doing so. The "Programming" systems used by these end users include spreadsheet systems, web authoring tools, business process authoring tools such...; Tags: Carnegie-Mellon University, Web Authoring, Spreadsheet, Programming, Productivity, Operational Planning, Development Tools, Business Operations, Software Development, Software/Web Development; White papers 2006-04-22