News Category: Award, Media Coverage

2018.September.30:

Justine Cassell Gave a Keynote at Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC18)

Justine Cassell, associate dean of technology strategy and impact at the School of Computer Science and director emerita of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, was one of three keynote speakers of Grace Hopper Celebration 2018 this year. Her keynote on Friday, September 28, was part of the “The Future as We See It” session and PitcHER Competition winners recognition ceremony. Her talk is […]

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2018.March.27:

Professor Cassell Meets President Emmanuel Macron in Paris

Professor Justine Cassell was invited to the Artificial intelligence summit in France as one of 20 speakers. The night before the Summit, Cassell will attend a small dinner at the Elysee with President Macron.

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2018.February.13:

SARA and RAPT Projects Featured in Google Blog

Carnegie Mellon’s Articulab wanted to understand how robotic assistants could collaborate with humans to complete tasks and build relationships, rather than merely replacing the work of human assistants.

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2017.November.1:

SARA featured in BBC Business Daily “Talking to Robots”

BBC Business Daily “Talking to Robots” (from 06:30) “Chatbots and artificial intelligence: The challenge of making robots sound human. Ed Butler speaks to Bruce Lee, senior director of artificial intelligence research at …

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2017.May.22:

Cassell To Speak at U.N. Event on Innovation and Connectivity

Justine Cassell, associate dean of technology strategy and impact for the School of Computer Science, will present a keynote address on Wednesday, May 17, at a United Nations event…

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2017.February.14:

Media Coverage of SARA at the World Economic Forum 2017

SARA GIF Hate virtual assistants that lack personality or emotion? Able to perform a wide range of tasks whilst being endowed with empathy…

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2016.October.26:

Media Coverage of SARA (Summer 2016)

That future will likely include Sara and other forms of AI that think and behave like humans. And they’ll become an everyday part of our lives sooner than you might imagine.

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