This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we explore the frontier of crowd-augmented cognition, the concept of humans working together with the help of technology, including new ways that artificial intelligence… Read More
Where have we seen that before? That was my first thought upon reading this week’s coverage of the new Ai Pin from the startup Humane, with features including the ability… Read More
A professor whose tweet about Queen Elizabeth II was called out by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, among others, has been rebuked by the university where she works. Dr. Uju Anya,… Read More
PITTSBURGH — The biggest potential for robots and automation isn’t taking jobs from humans, but instead making those jobs better by allowing people to do what they do best. That’s… Read More
This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we explore the state of the art in robotics and artificial intelligence with Martial Hebert, dean of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer… Read More
Researchers at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University are set to receive hybrid cloud hardware and service credits from Microsoft as it looks to jump-start one of the most prominent sectors of… Read More
After months of work to beef up its artificial intelligence research teams in Seattle and Pittsburgh, Facebook is acknowledging that those two cities are getting official status as AI labs… Read More
Regulations for the proper use of artificial intelligence are almost as inevitable as the rise of AI itself — but the way it’ll be done is far from clear. “This isn’t… Read More
Concerns over the potential abuse of artificial intelligence technology have led Microsoft to cut off significant sales, says Eric Horvitz, technical fellow and director at Microsoft Research Labs. Horvitz laid out… Read More
Robotics pioneers from Carnegie Mellon University, who made their mark in the aftermath of the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl nuclear disasters, are revisiting their heritage with a cutting-edge new… Read More
PITTSBURGH — It’s not just the graduate students and PhD researchers inside Carnegie Mellon University’s top-ranked computer science school that are helping shape the future of technology. For six winter… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Last fall, after we solicited proposals to establish our own temporary “GeekWire HQ2” somewhere in North America, we received submissions from cities around the country to set up… Read More
You’ve no doubt covered a flashlight with your hand in a dark room. Light from the flashlight’s beam makes your hand glow red and orange as it bounces off skin,… Read More
You know Siri and Alexa. Maybe even Cortana. But have you met Sara? She’s pretty amazing. Sure, she can do basic tasks, like help you find a movie that you… Read More
PITTSBURGH — In preparing for this story, I was all set to describe in detail how I had been soundly defeated by Baby Tartanian8, a poker bot built by some… Read More
PITTSBURGH — This city’s tech clout has grown immensely in recent years, yet it is often said that Pittsburgh still suffers from a lack of venture capital to fuel startups.… Read More
Edge computing will change many of the underlying assumptions that applications make in the era of cloud and mobile computing, and a new project led by Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University… Read More
After 13 years in Pittsburgh, Anind Dey grew to love many things about the Steel City, including the people, his colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University, the Penguins hockey team and the… Read More
PITTSBURGH — The education and healthcare giants of this city represent some of Pittsburgh’s biggest advantages in the new economy. But those institutions also present a challenge, as tax-exempt nonprofits… Read More
Depending on who you talk to, or listen to, the popular belief is that there’s not really a distinct accent in Seattle. If you’re from the Northeast United States, or… Read More
Very few people are in a better position to explain Pittsburgh to a bunch of Seattle-based technology journalists than Siddhartha “Sidd” Srinivasa. The robotics expert founded Carnegie Mellon University’s Personal… Read More
To err is human. To prove you’re not a computer by making a mistake is divine. That’s the premise of a patent application from Amazon, made public this week, that… Read More
You got to know when to hold ’em, and know when to fold ’em — and when it comes to betting on human superiority in the game of poker, it may… Read More
Researchers inside the University of Washington’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering in Seattle are developing innovative solutions to some of the world’s biggest challenges. But one… Read More
