# carnegie mellon university (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover carnegie mellon university. Page: Feed: --- ## [RI Alum Damion Shelton Named Associate VP and Executive Director of the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship](https://www.ri.cmu.edu/damion-shelton-swartz/) _2026-08-17 · Mallory Lindahl · Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University_ Carnegie Mellon University has named Damion Shelton (SCS 2004, 2007) as associate vice president and the next executive director of the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship, appointing an experienced entrepreneur, technology executive and Carnegie Mellon alumnus to lead the university's next phase of growth in entrepreneurship, enterprise creation and research commercialization. His first day will… ## [Erickson Earns NSF CAREER Award](https://www.ri.cmu.edu/erickson-earns-nsf-career-award/) _2026-08-11 · Mallory Lindahl · Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University_ Zackory Erickson, an assistant professor at the Robotics Institute in Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, has earned a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award. The program recognizes early career faculty who show exemplary dedication to their institution's mission and act as academic role models. Erickson’s project, “Scaling Up… ## [Connecting Autonomous Laboratories to Speed Scientific Advancement](https://www.ri.cmu.edu/connecting-autonomous-laboratories-to-speed-scientific-advancement/) _2026-08-03 · Mallory Lindahl · Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University_ Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University will develop AI-based tools that will enable autonomous laboratories to work together as one connected research ecosystem. The project has been selected to receive funding by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as part of the Genesis Mission. The post Connecting Autonomous Laboratories to Speed Scientific Advancement appeared first on Robotics Institute… ## [Harnessing AI to Find Critical Minerals](https://www.ri.cmu.edu/harnessing-ai-to-find-critical-minerals/) _2026-07-24 · Mallory Lindahl · Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University_ Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University will develop a new artificial intelligence framework to better identify critical minerals in the ground, increasing America’s access to these valuable materials and reducing the cost and time for exploration and extraction. The post Harnessing AI to Find Critical Minerals appeared first on Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University . ## [Snake Robots Support Earthquake Search and Rescue in Venezuela](https://www.ri.cmu.edu/snake-robots-support-earthquake-search-and-rescue-in-venezuela/) _2026-07-21 · Mallory Lindahl · Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University_ Carnegie Mellon University researchers worked alongside international search and rescue teams in Venezuela to explore collapsed buildings with snake robots following two massive earthquakes that devastated cities. The post Snake Robots Support Earthquake Search and Rescue in Venezuela appeared first on Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University . ## [Healthcare Blind Spots: AI Models Prone To Fabricating Diagnoses](https://www.ri.cmu.edu/healthcare-blind-spots-ai-models-prone-to-fabricating-diagnoses/) _2026-07-20 · Mallory Lindahl · Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University_ The Breakdown In 18% of cases, Claude, GPT-5 and Gemini fabricated medical diagnoses, despite supporting images being omitted. The AI models used demographic-based clinical assumptions to invent these diagnoses. CMU research emphasizes the need for demographic sensitivity testing and verification before deploying AI tools in medical systems. \* \* \* Siddharth Vohra is in \[...\] The post Healthcare… ## [CMU Advances Defense Manufacturing and Military Education at Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit](https://www.ri.cmu.edu/cmu-advances-defense-manufacturing-and-military-education-at-pennsylvania-defense-and-innovation-summit/) _2026-07-17 · Mallory Lindahl · Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University_ Carnegie Mellon University showcased a number of exciting new partnerships, technologies and research during the 2026 Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit. The event, hosted by U.S. Sen. David McCormick, ran from July 14-15 at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The post CMU Advances Defense Manufacturing and Military Education at Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit… ## [Carnegie Foundry, Carnegie Mellon and American Drone Manufacturers Launch Initiative to Supercharge America’s Drone Manufacturing Base](https://www.ri.cmu.edu/carnegie-foundry-carnegie-mellon-and-american-drone-manufacturers-launch-initiative-to-supercharge-americas-drone-manufacturing-base/) _2026-07-15 · Mallory Lindahl · Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University_ Leveraging more than $50 million in Carnegie Mellon investments in robotics, advanced manufacturing and commercialization infrastructure, the initiative brings together CMU’s National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC), Carnegie Foundry and multiple leading U.S. drone manufacturers to create a new Autonomous Systems Manufacturing Platform (ASMP). The post Carnegie Foundry, Carnegie Mellon and… ## [Translating Phillip’s 1860 memoir on the mathematics of telling time](https://yetanothermathblog.com/2026/07/15/translating-phillips-1860-memoir-on-the-mathematics-of-telling-time/) _2026-07-15 · wdjoyner · Yet Another Mathblog_ In 1860, a French mining engineer named Édouard Phillips published a 54-page memoir in the Journal de mathématiques pures et appliquées that (among other things) solved a problem watchmakers had been attacking by trial and error for nearly two centuries: what shape should the ends of a balance spring have, so that a watch keeps \[…\] ## [Fujitsu Joins CMU Robotics Innovation Center](https://www.ri.cmu.edu/fujitsu-joins-cmu-robotics-innovation-center/) _2026-07-08 · Mallory Lindahl · Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University_ Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Innovation Center (RIC) welcomed global technology company Fujitsu Limited as its latest corporate tenant in the university’s robotics and artificial intelligence research facility at Hazelwood Green. The post Fujitsu Joins CMU Robotics Innovation Center appeared first on Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University . ## [8.1% APY Plus Free Stock (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/qrYf04ajEoOL) _2026-07-08 · **Sponsored**_ Claim 8.1% APY and up to $1,030 in SK hynix and Nvidia stock. ## [The Missing Infrastructure for AI-Powered Robots](https://www.ri.cmu.edu/robot-io/) _2026-07-07 · Mallory Lindahl · Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University_ The Breakdown: RIO lets researchers use the same software across different robots, reducing the need to rebuild code for each new platform. This functionality speeds up robot setup and lets researchers spend more time developing and testing robot behaviors. The system helps accelerate robotics research and real-world deployment. \* \* \* Researchers set up \[...\] The post The Missing Infrastructure… ## [A dice game of the Arapaho Indians as a coin-tossing game](https://yetanothermathblog.com/2026/04/04/a-dice-game-of-the-arapaho-indians-as-a-coin-tossing-game/) _2026-04-04 · wdjoyner · Yet Another Mathblog_ In Stewart Culin’s Games of the North American Indians, one of the games he describes is an Arapaho women’s basket dice game. The original game uses five two-sided dice-like pieces tossed in a basket. A simple mathematical way to understand it is to model it instead as a coin-tossing game with 2 nickels and 3 \[…\] ## [A harmonic morphism animation](https://yetanothermathblog.com/2026/03/19/a-harmonic-morphism-animation/) _2026-03-19 · wdjoyner · Yet Another Mathblog_ As mentioned, Caroline and I have a book Exploring Graphs with Harmonic Morphisms coming out. We’ve submitted the “final draft” to Birkhauser. (I’m not sure then it will go on sale.) Here is an animation of Example 6 from that book. Here is an animation of Example 159 from our book: ## [Hans Berliner – a life built around chess](https://yetanothermathblog.com/2026/02/02/hans-berliner-a-life-built-around-chess/) _2026-02-02 · wdjoyner · Yet Another Mathblog_ Lacking a suitable reference, here is a short bio of this fascinating researcher compiled by claude. Early Life and Emigration from Germany Hans Berliner was born in Berlin, Germany in 1929, into a family with a remarkable technological heritage. His great-uncle, Emile Berliner, was the inventor of the gramophone and held the patent on the \[…\] ## [The shell algorithm and a new book](https://yetanothermathblog.com/2026/01/06/the-shell-algorithm-and-a-new-book/) _2026-01-06 · wdjoyner · Yet Another Mathblog_ A Peek Behind the Curtain One feature of my forthcoming book with Caroline Melles, Exploring Graphs via Harmonic Morphisms, is its computational emphasis. Many of the examples and insights emerged not from pure contemplation, but from extensive experimentation using SageMath. This post gives a glimpse into the algorithmic machinery that made this exploration possible. The \[…\] ## [The Elevator Problem](https://yetanothermathblog.com/2025/11/02/the-elevator-problem/) _2025-11-02 · wdjoyner · Yet Another Mathblog_ You are on the bottom floor (floor 0, lets call it) of an apartment building with no basement. There are n elevators, which we index 1,2,…,n. Assume the elevators are on floors f1, f2, … , where fk \> 0 is the floor elevator k is currently on, 1 \<= k \<= n. Assume you \[…\] ## [In the works: a book “Exploring Graphs via Harmonic Morphisms”](https://yetanothermathblog.com/2025/10/07/in-the-works-a-book-exploring-graphs-via-harmonic-morphisms/) _2025-10-07 · wdjoyner · Yet Another Mathblog_ Caroline Melles and I have been working for some years on a 2-volume book in graph theory which investigates harmonic morphisms. These are, roughly speaking, mappings from one graph to another that preserve locally harmonic functions on these graphs. Therefore, this topic fits into the general framework of harmonic analysis on graphs. This post only \[…\] ## [The mathematician and the Pope](https://yetanothermathblog.com/2025/08/21/the-mathematician-and-the-pope/) _2025-08-21 · wdjoyner · Yet Another Mathblog_ Acknowledgement: This could not have been written without the helpful conversations and correspondences with these brilliant scholars: Edray Goins (Pomoma), John Stigall (Howard), Nathan Alexander (Howard), and Susan Kelly (Univ Wisconsin, retired). Also, I thank the librarians at the Catholic University of America for their help. I’m deeply indebted to them for sharing their knowledge \[…\] ## [Mathematics PhD students of Aubrey Edward Landry](https://yetanothermathblog.com/2025/04/26/mathematics-phd-students-of-aubrey-edward-landry/) _2025-04-26 · wdjoyner · Yet Another Mathblog_ Based on information primarily sourced from the Mathematics Genealogy Project and university records, here are the Ph.D. students in Mathematics who graduated from The Catholic University of America between 1910 and 1950 under the advisement of Professor Aubrey Edward Landry: 1. Sister Mary Gervase Kelley (1917)\* Thesis Title: On the Cardioids Fulfilling Certain Assigned Conditions \[…\] ## [My first year as a software engineering manager, pt. 1](https://matthewlincoln.net/2025/04/05/first-year-swe-manager-i.html) _2025-04-05 · Matthew Lincoln, PhD_ Well it’s been over a year since taking on managing the engineering team at JSTOR Labs and I haven’t exactly been posting prolifically on here… I think I am just better at knowing how much I don’t know now, compared to when I began this blog. I also feel as though I haven’t had a lot original to say that hasn’t been said elsewhere, better. It’s high time I get this out of my drafts branch, where… ## [Stream Torrents and IPTV Instantly (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ZFzq4giRKOjE) _2025-04-05 · **Sponsored**_ Search, index, and play music, movies, books, and live TV in your browser. ## [The Beautiful Math of Tangent Lines: Unveiling the Lemniscate’s Secrets](https://yetanothermathblog.com/2025/01/16/the-beautiful-math-of-tangent-lines-unveiling-the-lemniscates-secrets/) _2025-01-16 · wdjoyner · Yet Another Mathblog_ An experimental post I asked Gemini to create a blog post based on this plot (below) and the Python code I wrote (based on ideas explained to me by Edray Goins) that generated it. (The prompt I fed to Gemini was modified from a prompt found online for generating a blog post about food.) The \[…\]