by techburgher | Oct 5, 2013 | Contributors
Bill Shuster in the self-driving SRX. A self-driving car developed by Carnegie Mellon University today demonstrated that it could negotiate congestion and highway traffic while safely changing lanes and merging during a challenging 33-mile drive from Cranberry, Pa.,...
by techburgher | Aug 28, 2013 | Contributors
Entrepreneurship in Pittsburgh The city of Pittsburgh has a history of entrepreneurship. Pittsburgh is the city where Andrew Carnegie created a steel empire and George Westinghouse revolutionized the power industry. While once a center of innovation,...
by techburgher | Aug 17, 2013 | Contributors
LighSide Labs Education startup, LightSide Labs, just announced that the company has been awarded a $25,000 from the Gates Foundation to further develop their machine learning platforms that instantly assess student writing. Based in Shadyside, LightSide was founded...
by Claire Brevik | Jun 5, 2013 | Generally Cool Stuff
At Innovation Works 10th AlphaLab Demo Day and University Preview, Lucky invitees were treated to a sneak peek at some of the technologies featured companies have been developing. CEOs made a case for why their product deserved attention at this informative...
by techburgher | Jan 27, 2013 | Contributors
Luis Von Ahn U.S. President Barack Obama named Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist Luis von Ahn as a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on...