May 22, 2013
Jim Osborn, executive director of the Quality of Life Technology Center, spoke with the Wall Street Journal's Marketwatch about robots that could help people with everyday tasks in their homes. Listen to the podcast.

May 22, 2013
The National Science Foundation website features a video of Tuomas Sandholm, professor of computer science, explaining his development of a new auction system for buying and selling advertising time. He received support from the NSF's Accelerating Innovation Research program

May 21, 2013
Robert Harper, professor of computer science, is quoted in a Science News article about category theory, which the magazine calls "perhaps the most abstract area in all of mathematics."

May 16, 2013
The Institute for Software Research's Norman Sadeh and Lorrie Cranor discuss the need and growing industry demand for privacy engineers in an article in Computing Now. Cranor and Sadeh head the SCS's new masters program in privacy engineering.

May 14, 2013
Former SCS faculty member Carlos Guestrin and a number of CMU students/alumni launch GraphLab as company, providing machine learning technology to analyze graph data for recommendation engines. TechCrunch reports the company has raised $6.75 million in funding.

May 13, 2013
The May 5 episode of WPXI's "Our Region's Business" focused on the Quality of Life Technology Center and is available on YouTube.

May 3, 2013
Lorrie Cranor, associate professor of computer science and engineering and public policy, has a solo exhibit of six of her quilts at the Pittsburgh Children's Museum. She expects the quilts will be on display for about a month.

April 29, 2013
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will provide up to $1.6 million to the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and the University of Notre Dame to develop computers and software for a Vector Ecology and Control Network, part of its global malaria eradication project.