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Warning: The mediocre robots are coming - and they're after our jobs

...implications wherever robots or robotics are deployed, according to both Winfield and Carnegie Mellon University's Nourbakhsh - who cite the use of unmanned drones (UAVs... Read more

21 October, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

Google bins Social Graph in 'New Year' cull

...will open-source Sky Map, its location-based astronomy app. Students from Carnegie Mellon University will develop Sky Map in student projects Read more

23 January, 2012

Photos: Microsoft's OmniTouch - The tech that turns any surface into a touchscreen

The world at your fingertips... Researchers from Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University have shown off technology that can turn any surface into... Read more

18 October, 2011 by Nick Heath

Robot zoo: World's best animal-inspired automata

...lobster The Chiara robot is an open-source educational robot developed in Carnegie Mellon University's Tekkotsu lab, with the aim of making it onto... Read more

12 May, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

Gesture control: Touching the future of computing

...users control computers by touching buttons projected onto their armPhoto: Chris Harrison/Carnegie Mellon University ...about 70 per cent accuracy mapping finger movements using EMG... Read more

17 March, 2011 by Nick Heath

What Microsoft really gets from its $9bn in R&D

Microsoft is famous for spending vast amounts of money on research and development (R&D), and journalists tend to... Read more

8 March, 2011

High-security microkernel goes on release

...SeL4) microkernel always installs exactly as specified. The theory is defined by Carnegie Mellon University as a technique to model complex systems as mathematical entities... Read more

29 January, 2011 by Darren Pauli

HP promises private cloud in 30 days

...technologies from Intel, Samsung and VMware, for a private cloud implementation at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA. Using CloudStart, several dedicated computer clusters were... Read more

31 August, 2010 by Jack Clark
Intel Research Day spotlights at-home tech

Intel Research Day spotlights at-home tech

...Home Exploring Robot Butler, is a joint project between Intel Labs and Carnegie Mellon University that has been going on since 2006. Herb is a... Read more

1 July, 2010 by Erica Ogg

Microsoft launches internet fraud alert system

...be operated by the NCFTA, which is backed by the FBI and Carnegie Mellon University, among others. "One of the challenges of e-crime response... Read more

18 June, 2010 by Matthew Broersma

Photos: Robots through the ages: From lunar explorers to emotional machines

...The robot was built in both the MIT Leg Laboratory and at Carnegie Mellon University. Nick Heath/silicon.com Read more

2 June, 2010 by Nick Heath
gogoNavi Japanese English Dictionary 2.0.2

gogoNavi Japanese English Dictionary 2.0.2

...and http://www.edrdg.org/CMUdict 0.7 Copyright (C) 1993-2008 Carnegie Mellon University. All rights reserved Read more

14 March, 2012
Bulletproof Mindware 0.9.1

Bulletproof Mindware 0.9.1

...a joint Ph.D in cognitive psychology and neuroscience from the joint Carnegie Mellon University and Pittsburgh University Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition... Read more

11 March, 2012
Risk Management Measures in CMMI

Risk Management Measures in CMMI

...Model Integration (CMMI). CMMI is developed by Software Engineering Institute (SEI) in Carnegie Mellon University in USA Read more

1 January, 2012

The Weekly Round-Up: Invasion of the mediocre robots, and the mystery of the ghost-free datacentre

...jobs," warned Illah Nourbakhsh, professor of robotics at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, in a recent panel debate organised by the Imperial College... Read more

28 October, 2011 by The Round-Up

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