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Tuesday, December 19, 2017

CyLab study mentioned as facial detection finds its challengers

Last year, ECE/CyLab’s Lujo Bauer, Sruti Bhagavatula, and Mahmood Sharif were part of a research study that developed facial-recognition-fooling eyeglasses.
Monday, December 18, 2017

Datta’s 2015 algorithm bias study referenced by HuffPost UK

Embrace an android. That’s the rallying cry of the UK’s deputy Labour leader, Tom Watson. His party’s Future of Work Commission recently released a study finding, in part, that the “increasing use of hi-tech machines could create as many jobs as it destroys,” but only if the government invests in training low-skilled workers to fill those jobs. With the rise of automation in the workplace, the Commission also recommended the establishment of ethics and algorithm training to prohibit discrimination by algorithm.
Monday, December 18, 2017

Students mentor teens in hackathons

Students and faculty from Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley are working to support the next generation of technologists by mentoring high school students competing in community hackathons.
Friday, December 15, 2017

Datta’s research referenced in story addressing AI liability

In 2015, Anupam Datta co-authored a study that revealed digital ads for high-paying jobs were shown to significantly more men than women.
Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Bhagavatula named Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

Vijayakumar Bhagavatula of Carnegie Mellon University has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), the organization announced Tuesday.
Monday, December 11, 2017

Kumar comments on the use of aluminum foil to enhance Wi-Fi Signals

Every day, we use devices like iPhones, computers, and tablets to complete tasks at work or finish school projects. These devices, as we know, require Wi-Fi signals to function properly. Without a strong Wi-Fi connection, we can’t access the internet, email our co-workers, or conduct online research for a school project.
Monday, December 04, 2017

Rajkumar quoted on semi-autonomous big rigs in city and highway settings

With the recent announcement of Tesla's electric 18-wheeler, the conversation on autonomous vehicles is moving toward applications for trucking companies.
Friday, December 01, 2017

Koopman provides voice of reason on safety for self-driving car development

The first self-driving cars are finally operating on real streets, but doubts about their safety continue to plague passengers and pedestrians.
Thursday, November 30, 2017

Franchetti quoted on AI chip startups

As companies continue to invest heavily in hardware to run deep-learning systems, the limitations of existing chips, such as Nvidia’s graphic chips, are being exposed. Despite having been tweaked to adapt, they soak up a lot of energy when working in parallel. CMU has had to ask its researchers to throttle back their chip use due to the strain they placed on the university’s power system.
Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Datta study cited in article about fairness in AI

Recent advancements in artificial intelligence have revealed the presence of bias within the learning processes of neural networks. Anupam Datta conducted a study in 2015 that offers proof: in certain settings, Google ads that promised help for applicants in getting jobs with salaries greater than $200,000 were shown to significantly fewer women than men.
Monday, November 27, 2017

CMU and KMITL to launch research & education collaboration

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), a leading engineering university in Thailand, today announced a long-term collaboration to significantly expand research and education in the areas of information, computing, and autonomous technologies.
Monday, November 20, 2017

Powerful storage, tiny space

Imagine a building the size of the entire city of Chicago, filled with rows and rows of hard disk drives. That’s what a big data storage center would have looked like twenty years ago. Thanks to improvements in storage technology, data centers have scaled down to the size of a football field. But there’s still a great need to shrink the size of storage technology while the amount of data increases.
Friday, November 17, 2017

Zhang receives Test of Time Award 2017

ECE/INI associate research professor Pei Zhang recently received the ACM SenSys Test of Time Award (ToTA) 2017 for his 2004 research paper, “Hardware design experiences in ZebraNet.”
Monday, November 13, 2017

Rajkumar quoted on self-driving car lidar tech

Self-driving car companies are expanding their testing locations to cities with narrow, bumpy roads, bad weather, and culturally-specific driving conventions. Using a combination of radar, lidar, laser scanners, and cameras, self-driving vehicles are gearing up to work in the worst conditions possible.
Thursday, November 09, 2017

Veteran Ph.D. student tackles robots in space
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