External press
ECE's faculty, staff, and students are newsmakers with a wide range of expertise from applied physics to electrical engineering and computing systems. Our work is featured in newspapers, television, journals, magazines, and online.
- CMU researchers work on Web security, access
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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – September 13, 2010
- Boss Makes Popular Science "Best of What's New in 2008"
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Ever since man discovered fire, we have fantasized about new achievements and inventions that would make our life easier and more fun. The Popular Science Best of What's New in 2008 celebrates all of our latest dreams come true - and the GM-Carnegie Mellon autonomous vehicle, Boss, is one of them.
Boss shares the list with extra-svelte TVs, personal jetpacks, re-growing organs, and a spacecraft that found water on Mars.
Boss is a self-driving, robotized Chevy Tahoe, developed by Carnegie Mellon's Tartan Racing and General Motors. The winner of the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, Boss competed against 11 other autonomous vehicles to win the $2M cash award.
Visit the Popular Science website for a complete list of the Popular Science 2008 Best.
Popular Science – December 15, 2008
- Sight for the Blind and Speech for the Deaf
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ECE Professor Priya Narasimhan and her assistive device technology team, including CMU systems administrator Dan Rossi, are profiled in the June 2008 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Chronicle of Higher Education – June 25, 2008
- Students Develop 'Talking' Glove
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HandTalk, a project of ECE seniors Bhargav Bhat, Hemant Sikaria and Jorge L. Meza, receives more coverage courtesy of KDKA.
KDKA TV – May 9, 2008
- Glove converts sign language into sound
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ECE Seniors Bhargav Bhat, Hemant Sikaria and Jorge L. Meza demonstrate HandTalk at the Meeting of the Minds symposium. Developed as a part of Professor Priya Narasimhan's Embedded Systems Design course, HandTalk "can translate gestures into spoken words on a cell phone."
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – May 8, 2008
- Al Roker's ride in a driverless car
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In this segment of NBC's "Today Show" filmed at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Al Roker climbs into Boss' passenger seat and gets robotically chauffeured around a parking lot. Boss was developed in part by the GM-Carnegie Mellon Collaborative Research Lab (GM-CM CRL).
The Today Show – January 7, 2008
- G.M. to Show a Vehicle That Drives by Itself
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G.M.'s chief executive, Rick Wagoner, unveils a prototype of a self-driving Chevrolet Tahoe sport-utility vehicle developed in part by the GM-Carnegie Mellon Collaborative Research Lab (GM-CM CRL) at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The vehicle, nicknamed "Boss" is also featured in the Wall Street Journal.
The New York Times – January 7, 2008
- How insects walk or bounce on water?
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A team led by Metin Sitti, Associate Professor of MechE, RI, and ECE, at Carnegie Mellon University has built a lightweight spider microrobot able to walk on water.
The Times of India – December 8, 2007
- Carnegie Mellon project redefines network design
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From networks-on-chip for multiprocessor ICs to networks of wireless video sensors, the System Level Design Group at Carnegie Mellon University is breaking new ground in design methodology. The project combines "good science" with electrical engineering, says Radu Marculescu, Associate Professor of ECE.
SCDsource – November 30, 2007
- Qolt: The amazing technology that helps seniors stay independent
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Takeo Kanade directs the Quality of Life Technology (QoLT) Center, a partnership between Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. QoLT develops robotics to help those with reduced functional capabilities live independently. Kanade is the U.A. and Helen Whitaker Professor of CS and Robotics and a Professor of ECE.
Pop City Media – October 3, 2007
- Snooping service techs may make home computers unsafe havens for personal files
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Pradeep Khosla, College of Engineering dean and Phillip and Marsha Dowd Professor of ECE and Robotics, warns computer users that technicians may be able to access your data when they work on your equipment if you do not protect it with a password.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – October 3, 2007
- France's environmental bureaucracy to expand purview
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Granger Morgan encourages France to talk about its plans to combat global warming, predicting heightened communications could indirectly influence emissions world-wide. Morgan is a Professor of ECE and Heinz and is the Lord Professor and Department Head of EPP.
USA Today – September 27, 2007
- OK, smarty pants, chill me a beer then jump in the washing machine
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Daniel Siewiorek, Buhl University Professor of ECE and CS and director of the HCII, mentions while building switches or tiny microphones into clothes that could connect with mobile phones would not be difficult, there are hurdles to developing smart clothing—including incorporating it throughout your daily wardrobe and putting it through the laundry.
Sydney Morning Herald – August 14, 2007
- Storage Guru: Q. & A. With Garth Gibson
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Associate Professor of CS and ECE Garth Gibson, who is chief technology officer of Panasas, discusses PanFS, a parallel file system he co-developed that may evolve into an industry standard, pNFS (parallel network file system).
eWEEK – August 9, 2007
- Experts: Nothing is 100 percent secure
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MySecureCyberspace advises average users on cybersecurity issues, reports Pradeep Khosla, College of Engineering dean and Phillip and Marsha Dowd Professor of ECE and Robotics, in an article about computer security.
ABC News – August 8, 2007
- Summer science program still inspiring students
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Todd Mowry, Associate Professor of CS and ECE, discovered his passion for computers at the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Sciences at Carnegie Mellon 24 years ago. Today, the program is going strong in its 25th year.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – July 31, 2007
- A robot that walks on water
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Researchers in the NanoRobotics Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon led by Metin Sitti, Assistant Professor of MechE, RI, and ECE, are working on a water runner robot that mimics the motions of the Basilisk, or "Jesus lizard," dashing across the water's surface.
Gizmag – July 27, 2007
- Intel center has new director
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David O'Hallaron succeeds Todd Mowry as director of Intel Research Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon. They are both associate professors of CS and ECE.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – July 27, 2007
- National safety communications network touted
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Jon Peha, Professor of EPP and ECE, encourages the government to develop a national safety communications network.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – July 24, 2007
- Wireless Spectrum for Safety Hits Roadblocks
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Jon Peha, Professor of EPP and ECE, comments on the potential returns for wireless investor Morgan O'Brien in a possible agreement with the FCC.
Washington Post – July 23, 2007
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