President Subra Suresh

Pittsburgh Magazine's annual listing of the city's "50 Most Powerful People" includes many with CMU ties, led by President Subra Suresh who comes in at number 8.

"You don't get this high on the list without an astounding resume, and few can match that of Suresh," the magazine states. "His leadership and connections - in Washington, D.C., and internationally - will further leverage CMU's world-renowned reputation."

James Rohr

James Rohr, chairman of CMU's Board of Trustees, is number 15, followed by School of Computer Science Dean Andrew Moore at number 29. Entertainment Technology Center Professor and founder of Schell Games Jesse Schell is number 35. Computer Science Professor and alumnus Luis von Ahn is listed as a "future power broker."

Alumni among the top 50 include Rich Fitzgerald (#4), Rich Lunak (#11), Heather Arnet (#22), Joel Adams (#41), Scott Bricker (#42) and Andy Masich (#50). CMU grads listed among "future power brokers" are John Bares, Dan Gilman, Julie Pezzino and Luke Skurman.

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With 15 faculty members, several robots and Big Data demos, Carnegie Mellon will have one of the largest delegations of any university at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions, Sept. 9-11 in Dalian, China.
 
School of Computer Science Dean Andrew Moore will lead an IdeasLab on Machine Learning for Health on the opening day of the conference, often called Summer Davos. Justine Cassell, associate vice provost of technology strategy and impact and a member of the WEF's Global Agenda Council on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, will moderate and participate in several panel discussions during the week.

Andy will be driven remotely from China.

Participants in a "Meet the Robots" exhibition will be able to remotely drive CMU's lunar rover, Andy, across the moon-like landscape of the LaFarge quarry in West Mifflin, Pa.

They also will see demos of CMU's dynamically balanced Ballbot and of virtual peer technology used to study social skills and learning methods.

The Robotics Institute's CREATE Lab, led by Illah Nourbakhsh, will make 20 presentations of its technology for visually exploring large databases, using a specially constructed, glass-enclosed room with a nine-screen video hyperwall.

Michael Tarr and Sophie Lebrecht, co-founders of CMU spinoff Neon Labs, will be recognized as 2015 Technology Pioneers. And Louis-Philippe Morency, assistant professor in the Language Technologies Institute, will be honored as a WEF Young Scientist, joining four previous CMU winners.

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