March 15, 2002
Kaigham (Ken) J. Gabriel's role as leader of the new Office for Security Technologies is highlighted in Carnegie Mellon Magazine's Spring 2002 article, "Researchers Respond to Sept. 11: Carnegie Mellon Faculty Collaborate to Counter Terrorism."
Gabriel, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Robotics, will front the faculty's effort to match "technology experts at CMU with government agencies that need their skills."
According to the publication, more than 40 faculty members have the potential to combat terrorist activities by gearing their research to the nation's needs. For example, faculty can adapt their research projects to rescue victims of attacks, search for explosives, and inspect bridges with snake robots, protect the country's infrastructure from sabotage, and root out terrorist intelligence through face-tracking software.
Other relevant work at the university includes language translation software for use with English and Arab communications and studies of corporate organizational systems to understand and weaken terrorist networks.