The October issue of The Atlantic featured LTI Assistant Professor Louis-Philippe Morency's research into using computers to analyze, recognize and predict subtle human behaviors during social interactions. The article, "Machines That Can See Depression on a Person's Face," talks about how machine learning gives scientists news ways to interpret subtle facial expressions, discusses the... Read More
LTI Professor Eric Nyberg has joined forces with Deloitte University Press on the launch of its new massive open online course (MOOC) "Cognitive Technologies: The Real Opportunities for Business." Nyberg serves as a knowledge expert and contributor for the course, which examines artificial intelligence and its impact on businesses across industries.
"AI aims to make machines perform tasks that only humans used to be able to do, and it is no... Read More
LTI Assistant Professor Louis-Philippe Morency's research into multimodal speech and gesture analysis has put him on the international stage. Last month, the World Economic Forum recognized him as one of this year's class of Young Scientists — scientists under the age of 40 who are advancing the frontiers of science, engineering or technology in areas of high societal impact.
"As part of this award, I had the chance to attend the summer meeting of the World Economic Forum," Morency said. "It was a great opportunity to better understand the global view of scientific research and how... Read More
LTI Director and Allen Newell University Professor of Computer Science Jaime Carbonell will lead the new Boeing/Carnegie Mellon Aerospace Data Analytics Lab, an academic research initiative that will leverage the university's leadership in machine learning, language technologies and data analytics.
A joint initiative of Carnegie Mellon University and The Boeing Company, the new lab aims to find ways to use artificial intelligence and big data to capitalize on the data generated in the design, construction and operation of modern aircraft. Creating a maintenance schedule determined... Read More
Po-Yao Huang, a graduate student in the LTI's Master of Language Technologies program, has been named a 2016 Siebel Scholar for his outstanding academic achievement and demonstrated leadership. The program recognizes the most talented students at the world's leading graduate schools of business, bioengineering, computer science and energy science. Each Siebel Scholar receives a $35,000 award for their final year of study.
Huang contributed to speech algorithm development in one of world's largest mobile IC houses, where he... Read More
LTI graduate students Sneha Chaudhari and Mick Zomnir have been named 2015 James R. Swartz Entrepreneurial Fellows. They're two of just 14 fellows selected this year.
An initiative of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Swartz Fellowship fast-tracks the careers of CMU graduate students who are passionate about entrepreneurship in the technology arena. The highly selective program develops each... Read More
Amazon's recent Prime Day was largely written off as a bust, but imagine if it had gone differently. Imagine if instead of offering you an assortment of things you had zero interest in, Amazon instead provided you with a list of things you needed, wanted — or both.
A recent article on Forbes.com, "Super-Smart Retail, Coming Soon To A Device Near You," features LTI Professor Eric Nyberg, whose startup company... Read More
"Pittsburgh seems to have become a center for automated language learning with such companies as Duolingo, Carnegie Speech, Safaba Translation Solutions and WeSpeke headquartered there. In all, twelve language-based businesses have been identified as being started in the Pittsburgh area. The probable cause? Professor Jaime Carbonell founded the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in 1996."
So begins a recent article in Forbes,... Read More
LTI Research Professor Scott E. Fahlman may be known as the father of the emoticon, but his research legacy goes well beyond his smiley fame. A recent profile in the online publication Narratively delves into Fahlman's work in artificial intelligence research, what he's focused on now and where the future may lead.
"Throughout his career as an AI researcher Fahlman has worked toward revolutionizing... Read More
A team of researchers from the LTI and the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), recently earned first place in the Action Classification Task category of the 2015 THUMOS Challenge. Held in conjunction with the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, the THUMOS Challenge aims to automatically recognize a large number of human actions from open source videos in a realistic setting. LTI members participating on the CMU-UTS team included Principal Systems... Read More