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...