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You are extremely bad both at judging how happy that thing with make you, and how long the happiness you do get will last.
By JFB, Archived in Carnegie Mellon



CMU's computer-navigated humvee takes second and third place (or first and second loser) behind Standford's robot car in the Grand Challenge (which hasn't updated it's website yet).
By JFB, Archived in Carnegie Mellon



CMU art student parodies a Walmart website, and Walmart uses the DMCA to take him down.
By JFB, Archived in Carnegie Mellon



CMU student geeks out as he wins on Jeopardy!.
By GMH, Archived in Carnegie Mellon, Via BB



The Nobel Prize winners in economics were announced today. One is Finn Kydland, a professor at Carnegie Mellon.
By JFB, Archived in Carnegie Mellon



CMU engineers build a Jesus-bot (water2wine module still under development).
By GMH, Archived in Carnegie Mellon



CMU Geek creates home-made SteadyCam (the thing that keeps the camera still in those big budget blockbusters). The page even has some super-steady footage of geeks playing sports.
By GMH, Archived in Carnegie Mellon, Via BB



My life has gotten so much better since I embraced the chessiness that is the smiley :) Who knew it all started at CMU?
By MZ, Archived in Carnegie Mellon, Via kottke



Carnegie Mellon's entry into the Grand Challenge, a DoD-funded robot offroad race from LA to Vegas, was the fastest robot out of the gate. "'I think [CMU's robot] Red wanted to make a statement here,' President Jared Cohon said as the red robot zoomed off the finish line." 45 minutes later, Red was disabled by engine trouble.
By JFB, Archived in Carnegie Mellon



carnegie mellon fires receptionist, hires android.
By JFB, Archived in Carnegie Mellon, via mindi