The Link | Winter 2021

In This Issue:

The LINK: Studying the Unknowable

Research into a decision-making algorithm that could help model the evolution of the universe.

Cover Story: Lessons Learned from the SubT Challenge

Team Explorer, led by Carnegie Mellon researchers and roboticists competes in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge, and comes away with a massive knowledge base.

image of man controling a robot picking apples in an apple orchard

The Global Reach of CMU AI

School of Computer Science AI Research will lead four National Science Foundation AI Institutes to solve some of the world’s most complicated problems.

Heated Conversations and Cold Realities

How disinformation about climate change has its roots in conspiracy theories.

Letting Imagination Run Wild

CMU invites students from across campus to collaborate and explore AI with the opening of the JPMorgan Chase & Co AI Maker Space.

The above illustration depicts an enlarged view of a cell’s nucleus.

The Higashi Algorithm

Machine learning offers a high-definition glimpse of how genomes organize in single cells, which dictates the fate of that person’s health.

Professor in the Robotics Institute, holding Baymax dolls from “Big Hero 6,” inspired by his soft bots

Building The Robot Archive

A team of Carnegie Mellon Library archivists and roboticists seek to collect and display CMU’s massive impact on the history of robotics, built from the remains of robots, prototypes, films and images.

Photo of Kayo Yin smiling while sitting on a sofa

Student Spotlight: Kayo Yin

A life-changing experience brings Kayo Yin (SCS 2022) to CMU and drives her visionary research.