February 27, 2012
C-SPAN’s “Communicators” visited the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and talked with Curt Stone of the Quality of Life Technology Foundry about commercial spin-offs from the QoLT Center. Watch the video; Stone’s interview begins at about the 13-minute mark.

February 23, 2012
Ziv Bar-Joseph, associate professor of computational biology and machine learning, and graduate student Guy Zinman are among the authors of a paper in the journal Nature that for the first time links overexpression of a gene called sirtuin 6 to increased life span in mammals, specifically mice. Researchers who study aging have been intrigued by the large family of sirtuin genes and their proteins ever since they were linked to longevity in yeast.

February 21, 2012
Patrick Kelley, PhD student in Computation, Organizations, and Society, and Moira Burke, new PhD in Human-Computer Interaction Institute and research scientist at Facebook, talk about how the Internet is reshaping society on WRCT’s “I Wonder.” Listen here.

February 21, 2012
Entertainment Technology Center graduate student Sean McChesney talked with KDKA about the virtual reality project that ETC students are creating for the proposed High Point Pittsburgh facility atop the USX Tower.

February 8, 2012
An article in City Paper focuses on Burr Settles, Machine Learning Department post-doc and musician, for his role in creating and sustaining February Album Writing Month.

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