March 30, 2012
The RAID paper by Garth Gibson, along with co-authors David Patterson and Randy Katz, has been selected as one of the winners of the 2012 Jean-Claude Laprie Award in Dependable Computing. The paper is: D. A. Patterson, G. Gibson, and R. H. Katz, "A case for redundant arrays of inexpensive disks (RAID)," in SIGMOD'88 Proceedings of the 1988 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 1988, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 109-116.

March 30, 2012
Peter Kinnaird, a PhD student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, is co-editor-in-chief of XRDS, the Association for Computing Machinery's magazine for students.

March 28, 2012
The first sixth annual SIGBOVIK conference, the flagship conference of the Association for Computational Heresy, will be happening at CMU this Friday, March 30, 5.00pm in Rashid Auditorium! More information

March 27, 2012
NPR's Marketplace, which airs on 90.5 FM, WESA, at 6:30 p.m., is featuring a week-long series called Robots Ate My Job. Anca Dragan, a PhD student in robotics, is in Wednesday's report and David Bourne, principal systems scientist in the Robotics Institute, is included in Friday's installment.

March 20, 2012
With the help of a SURF grant music major Corinne Vassallo pursues her desire to focus on Optical Orbit Determination for the Google Lunar X project working with Professor Red Whittaker (RI). Read CMU story

March 19, 2012
"Bypassing the Password"
Roy Maxion, research professor CSD, and his work on "keystroke dynamics," featured in New York Times.
Researchers are seeking to eliminate the need for computer passwords using software that can recognize you just by the way you type. Read NYT article

March 8, 2012
GigaPan Time Machine and the Robotics Institute's Randy Sargent are featured in a video report by Inside Science Television, which is produced by the American Institute of Physics.

March 1, 2012
The Entertainment Technology Center is ranked among the Top 10 graduate programs in digital game design by the Princeton Review.

March 1, 2012
The Robotics Institute's Howie Choset, Joydeep Biswas, Heather Knight and Marek Michalowski talked with CNN's Geek Out blog about what compels people to build robots.