news & events
- CyLab MRC’s Narasimhan Grabs More Headlines with Civic-Minded iPhone App
- Silicon Valley Campus Celebrates 7th Commencement and Alumni Reception
- CyLab News: CyLab MRC Director Martin Griss Named to Lead Silicon Valley Campus
- CyLab Chronicles: Second Age of Carnegie Mellon in Silicon Valley
"Don’t get me wrong. Pittsburgh also has a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship, but there is something about this air out here, once you start breathing it you don’t want a real job anymore, you want to be an entrepreneur,” Khosla remarked wryly, “You want to use somebody else’s money to create something, and maybe it becomes something big, or maybe you lose it. But as we know, more often than not it has become something big."
- CyLab Chronicles: Q & A with Pei Zhang
"SensorFly is a controlled-mobile flying sensor network platform. To the best of our knowledge, it is the most lightweight flying sensor platform implemented to date. SensorFly, with its miniature helicopter-based mobile sensors, addresses the shortcomings of the static sensor networks approach.”
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CyLab News: CyLab Mobility Research Center’s YINZCAM Gives Sports Fans Unprecedented Access to Key Plays
- CyLab News: At Mobile Health Workshop, Leaders from Healthcare, Technology and Academia Develop “Shovel-Ready” Initiatives
- CyLab Researchers Tackle the Gridiron's Greatest Curse
- CyLab Mobility Research Center Holds Summit with Silicon Valley Leaders to Help Design the Future
- CyLab Mobility Research Center: Synching in Anywhere and Everywhere
events & forums
making headlines
- Pittsburgh Stars at the G20 - September 23, 2009
Pittsburgh, including CyLab Researcher Priya Narasimhan, shows other countries visiting it for the G20 how postindustrial America can still bounce back.
- Context-aware mobility can have profound benefits in business - September 21, 2009
Priya Narasimhan co-directs the school's CyLab Mobility Research Center, where she and her students are studying how context affects the mobile experience. - Pittsburgh begins receiving problem reports via mobile phone - August 18, 2009
CyLab's Priya Narasimhan and YinzCam created an iPhone app that allows residents to snap iPhone photos of problems such as potholes and graffiti and send them to the city's 311 complaint system, embedded with Global Positioning System data with the problem's exact location.
- Wireless Networks of the Future - July 24, 2009
Martin Griss describes WiMAX, a 4G wireless network.
- Have "yinz"' seen the latest in mobile video service? - July 24, 2009
Wi-Fi-enabled devices let Pittsburgh Penguins fans get in on the action
- Private Cell Phone Conversations Not So Private After All - July 16, 2009
"It's not illegal to buy this and download on a phone you own. Once you install it, what this gives you is the ability to monitor that phone remotely from anywhere else. You can get to anything happening on that phone remotely without the person holding the phone ever knowing your doing it," CyLab Researcher Priya Narasimhan said.
- Context on ice: Penguins fans get mobile extras - July 2, 2009
CyLab Mobility Research Center's Priya Narasimhan and her team provide context with the mobile video service that delivers Pittsburgh Penguins fans live-action shots and instant replays during game time.
- Pittsburgh TEQ honors Dr. Priya Narasimhan on "Women of the Year" list - 05/11/09
CyLab's Priya Narasimhan makes the list for her Yinzcam project, teaming with the Pittsburgh Penguins to deliver live, high definition video of the game from various unique angles along with automatic instant replays straight to each fan’s wi-fi-enabled phone or iPod Touch.
- At Pittsburgh hockey games, fans dial up live video, replays from mobile phones - 06/18/09
Carnegie Mellon’s YinzCam brings Penguins fans all the video angles
- Carnegie Science Center Announces 2009 Carnegie Science Awards - 01/29/09
CyLab Researcher and ECE Professor Priya Narasimhan is the winner of the 2009 Emerging Female Scientist Award announced by the Carnegie Science Center of Pittsburgh.
- CMU Students Design Equipment that Senses Football Moves - 12/17/08
CyLab Researchers are equipping gloves and a football with remote sensing technology to measure everything from grip and trajectory to speed and position.
- Tech Toys Bring Game to Game-Goers - 10/22/08
Priya Narasimhan said the Yinzcam service she's developing with other researchers at Carnegie Mellon University could debut within weeks at the Uptown arena.
