SCS News 2016

May 2016

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Carnegie Mellon Transparency Reports Make AI Decision-Making Accountable

Figuring Out Why the Computer Rejected Your Loan Application

By Byron Spice - Wednesday, May 25, 2016
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Carnegie Mellon Sweeps Microsoft Build the Shield Competition

By Jessica Corry - Tuesday, May 24, 2016
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RoboTutor Receives ProSEED Grant

By Byron Spice - Wednesday, May 18, 2016
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Robots Get Creative To Cut Through Clutter

Carnegie Mellon Algorithm Balances "Pick And Place" With "Push And Shove"

By Byron Spice - Wednesday, May 18, 2016
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Robot's In-Hand Eye Maps Surroundings, Determines Hand's Location

Precisely Locating Hand Enhances Manipulation, Inspection Tasks

By Byron Spice - Monday, May 16, 2016
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Shun Receives ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award

By Byron Spice - Wednesday, May 11, 2016
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Technique Processes Signals From RFID Tags With Speed Sufficient for Real-Time Interactivity

Objects Can Readily Be Made Interactive With Inexpensive Methods and Materials

By Byron Spice (Carnegie Mellon) and Jennifer Liu (Walt Disney Imagineering) - Wednesday, May 11, 2016
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Big Thinking in Small Pieces: Computer Guides Humans in Crowdsourced Research

Non-Experts Produce Coherent Reports With Only Computer Seeing Big Picture

By Byron Spice - Monday, May 9, 2016
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Stephen Brookes Will Receive 2016 Gödel Prize

He and Peter W. O'Hearn Honored for Inventing Concurrent Separation Logic

By Byron Spice - Monday, May 9, 2016
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SkinTrack Technology Turns Arm Into Smartwatch Touchpad

Carnegie Mellon Researchers Claim Touchscreen-Like Accuracy

By Byron Spice - Thursday, May 5, 2016
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Larry Wasserman Elected To National Academy of Sciences

By Shilo Rea - Wednesday, May 4, 2016
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Ogan Awarded Jacobs Early Career Research Fellowship

By Susie Cribbs - Tuesday, May 3, 2016
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SCS Alums Serve as Presidential Innovation Fellows

By Byron Spice - Monday, May 2, 2016