Professor & Department Chair - Industrial Engineering - The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh, PA
Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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Documentation Academy Aims to Empower Open Source Newcomers
Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
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Bats Inspire 'micro Air Vehicle' Designs
A Virginia Tech study of the inflight movement off fruit bats' wings may be applicable to the design of small flying vehicles.
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As Military Robots Increase, So Does the Complexity of Their Relationship With Soldiers
For a glimpse at the future of human-robot interactions, it might be better to look at what's happening in the United States military than analyzing Her, in which...
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Netflix Is Building an Artificial Brain sing Amazon's Cloud
Nothing beats a movie recommendation from a friend who knows your tastes.
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A Peek at Google's M&a Ambitions
Don Harrison became Google's head of mergers and acquisitions about a year ago.
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The Robots That Saved Pittsburgh
It's hard to pinpoint the moment Pittsburgh began its three-decade climb back from the dead, but Red Whittaker marks the comeback from the instant he heard the...
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In the Eye of the Beholder
Researchers supported by NASA's Astrobiology Science and Technology Instrument Development (ASTID) program are designing algorithms and instruments that could help...
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Painting Robot Lends Surgeons a Hand
A robot invented by a Wake Forest University student could help teach doctors how to perform complex, robot-assisted surgeries.
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Is Google Cornering the Market on Deep Learning?
How much are a dozen deep-learning researchers worth?
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More on Deepmind: AI Startup to Work Directly With Google’s Search Team
Google has been buying a lot of crazy stuff lately.
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The Race to Buy the Human Brains Behind Deep Learning Machines
Any aspiring science fiction writer looking for a good protagonist could do worse than ripping off the Wikipedia page for Demis Hassabis.
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One Day an Elevator Might Ask—are You Getting On?
Microsoft researchers have enabled elevators in a company building to detect the likelihood that a person walking by will want to board it.
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Nasa Receives Mars 2020 Rover Instrument Proposals For Evaluation
NASA has received 58 proposals for science and exploration technology instruments to fly aboard the agency's next Mars rover in 2020, twice the usual number submitted...
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Marvin Minsky Honored For Lifetime Achievements in Artificial Intelligence
MIT Media Lab professor emeritus Marvin Minsky, 86, a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence, has won the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award...
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Meet the Man Google Hired to Make AI a Reality
Geoffrey Hinton was in high school when a friend convinced him that the brain worked like a hologram.
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Human Arm Sensors Make Robot Smarter
Using arm sensors that can "read" a person's muscle movements, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have created a control system that makes robots more...
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Why Google Bought Nest: A Theory
Google is acquiring Nest, makers of a smart thermostat, for a reported $3.2 billion.
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Innovative Technology Spawns Commercial Robotic Gripper
The robot gripper invented by researchers at the University of Chicago and Cornell University is now available commercially.
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Wheeled Wonder
Pay a visit to Manuela Veloso in the Gates and Hillman centers at Carnegie Mellon University and you may be in for a big surprise.
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IBM Doubles Down on Watson
IBM plans to jumpstart Watson with a $100-million venture fund to build a business around the supercomputer that famously beat two human champions at the TV game...
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