Exposing humanity through photography
Carnegie Mellon University produces some of the world’s finest visual artists. In addition, we house some of the best of the best among our faculty. One such person is renowned photographer, Charlee Brodsky, faculty in...
Innovation in speech recognition
“James and Janet Baker, now in their 60s, are computer speech revolutionaries,” wrote The New York Times in an article last July (2012) article about the tragic consequences of the sale of the company, Dragon Systems, Inc.,...
CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA
Computer science professor, Manuel Blum, had been thinking about human computation and authentication schemes for quite some time. So in 2000 when Udi Manber, then chief scientist at Yahoo!, mentioned that bots were logging on as...
Heart to Heart: saving lives with Doug Bernstein and PecaLabs
Young Doug Bernstein shouldn’t be alive. And he wouldn’t be but for exceptional medical care when he was born. Doug was born with a congenital defect that gave him a 2% chance for survival. Resolving congenital conditions like...
Reinventing design
We think of design as being a process by which products are developed to certain physical, emotional, and psychological specifications. Design might incorporate certain product characteristics or features that are required or...
StatEasy makes sports stats easy
Mike Ressler, founder and CEO of StatEasy, typifies the young entrepreneur: doing what he loves, loving what he does, and scared to shit about what might happen, or what might not! Mike exudes the qualities that are essential for...
Robots in life, not a dream anymore: Romotive brings robots into our lives
The world has been dreaming of robots that can do something for them every day. Automation has been all over the industries since decades. Either robots are toys that don’t serve a purpose for all or are too expensive and can...
Women entrepreneurs: a global perspective
The gender disparity in the business world in general, and entrepreneurship specifically, has recently garnered renewed attention in light of the recent Global Entrepreneurship Week and Women’s Enterprise Day. The UK’s unofficial...
Teaching entrepreneurship in engineering
Instilling an entrepreneurial mindset in undergraduate engineers is essential if we want our bright young talent to innovate and then productize those innovations to better mankind. Tuition at top engineering schools is close to...
Reinventing how women shop
Two enterprising young women, of Loop de Luxe, are part of the movement to change how we women shop. The pair are providing opportunities for new and upcoming designers to showcase their products online. Loop de Luxe gives women...