February 7, 2012
In a World Economic Forum blog entry, Justine Cassell, director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, says technological innovations won’t reach their potential for solving human concerns if developers fail to understand the goals, fears and experiences of the humans who will use those innovations.

February 1, 2012
WAY is a gaming experience with no shared spoken language. The idea was developed by a team of students at Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) to encourage cross-cultural communication and collaboration through play. Read CMU News

January 25, 2012
Mk Haley, associate executive producer at the Entertainment Technology Center, will be on a panel of creative industry leaders discussing Pittsburgh’s future at the intersection of art and technology. The Pittsburgh Technology Council event is from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the Carnegie Museum of Art.

January 25, 2012
Pop City reports that Careerimp, a former Project Olympus student PROBE and creator of the Resunate software, has taken control of the Regional Internship Center founded by the Coro Center.

January 11, 2012
Don Tapscott, co-author of the best-selling Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, will share his predictions for 2012 as a guest of The Innovators Forum at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, 17th, in Rashid Auditorium. Ramayya Krishnan, dean of the Heinz College, will lead the conversation and a book-signing session will follow the lecture.

January 10, 2012
PennEnvironment, a statewide environmental advocacy group, will be at the Electric Garage at 12:30 p.m. Thursday to release an analysis of the benefits of fuel-efficient cars written by the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Ben Brown, project scientist on the ChargeCar project housed in the former gas station on Forbes Avenue, and Aftyn Giles, City of Pittsburgh sustainability coordinator, will participate.