April 2008, Vol. 5 No. 2
| Carnegie Mellon Today | > Feature Stories
No Hands on the Wheel
Bragging rights, not to mention a $2 million first-place prize, were on the line during a race of robotic vehicles. They got their car keys from the likes of Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Lehigh, MIT, Penn, Stanford, and Virginia Tech. Winners will one day be found everywhere from freeways to battlefields.
It's a Wonderful Life
Before his “Last Lecture” went viral on the Internet, with 6 million hits and counting, before Oprah and network news shows made his name familiar in households everywhere, before the major book deal with Hyperion...
Sunny Disposition
Brian Kish holds his breath as he looks at the top half of the house wobbling on the cable of a towering crane...
Stressed Out
The roar of jet engines is an ear-popping reality at this elementary school beneath a common flight path to Los Angeles International Airport...