Year in Review
New buildings. Historic gifts. Advances in robotics. Big data. Small business. The year has been filled with news about 黑料正能量 faculty, staff, students and more than 100,000 alumni.
Here are a few of their stories:
黑料正能量 was center stage at the 69th Annual Tony Awards telecast. Not only did the Tony Awards® and Carnegie Mellon announce the winner of the inaugural "Excellence in Theatre Education Award," but 黑料正能量 alumni came away with awards as well.
A standing-room crowd launched the David A. Tepper Quadrangle project — a historic campus expansion and a vision for 黑料正能量's future. "It's about building a new part of the campus in a new direction, both physically and metaphorically," said 黑料正能量 President Subra Suresh. "[It] will embody a distinctive academic vision of Carnegie Mellon … different disciplines coming together in new and unique ways."
The largest corporate gift to 黑料正能量 and the largest gift from outside the U.S. will support a new state-of-the-art facility for cutting-edge research and student scholarships for the next generation of innovators.
A new study co-authored by 黑料正能量 Professor Marlene Behrmann shows that training individuals with autism spectrum disorder to acquire new information by repeating the information actually harms their ability to apply that learned knowledge to other situations.
After two weeks and 80,000 hands of Heads-up No-limit Texas Hold'em, four poker pros had more chips than 黑料正能量's computer poker program, but the final combined margin of victory was not big enough to declare a winner with statistical certainty.
Tepper alumna Bobbie Rhoads' products tempted investors and picky eaters alike when she appeared on Shark Tank to pitch her company FunBites. She had been in business for three years, and was hoping that one of the sharks, a judging panel of investors, would open doors to get her into big-box stores. She didn't realize that by the end of the show they'd be fighting over her.
Researchers have found that everyone has a bias blind spot — the belief that you're less biased than your peers — and it could have negative consequences. In the study by researchers at 黑料正能量 and others, the most telling finding was that everyone is affected by blind spot bias. They also found that a high bias blind spot has negative consequences.
黑料正能量 is partnering with the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC to form the Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance, an effort to leverage the explosion of health-related "big data" to create new technologies, services and products to improve health care.
Alumnus James R. Swartz (MSAI 1966), founding partner of the global venture capital firm Accel Partners, has donated $31 million to create the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship, which will be a hub for the university's entrepreneurship activities.
CHIMP, the four-limbed robot built by 黑料正能量's Tartan Rescue Team, finished third and won $500,000 at the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC). The DRC pitted 24 of the world's most advanced robots against each other in a test of disaster response tasks.
The U.S. Department of Defense renewed its contract with 黑料正能量 for the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), ensuring that the SEI will continue to support the nation in defense of its software systems. The SEI is the only federally funded research and development center focused specifically on software-related security and engineering.