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Ph.D. student Agha Ali Raza (left) and professor Roni Rosenfeld (right) of the Language Technologies Institute have used the telephone game Polly to help illiterate Pakistanis find suitable employment.

Phone game helps illiterate Pakistanis find employment

Carnegie Mellon Language Technologies Institute professor Roni Rosenfeld and Ph.D. student Agha Ali Raza’s have used the phone game Polly to help illiterate people in Pakistan get in touch employers.

Assistant professor of materials science and engineering and biomedical engineering Christopher Bettinger and professor of materials science and engineering Jay Whitacre have developed an edible battery device, outlined above, to power robotic biosensors in the human gastrointestinal tract.

Researchers create battery for edible robot pills

Carnegie Mellon researchers are working to create electronically active, edible medical devices that can be implanted in a patient’s body.

Albert Gu (left), Michael Druggan (right), and Linus Hamilton (not pictured) recently represented Carnegie Mellon at the William Lowell Putnam Competition.

Mathletes take fifth at Putnam competition

Michael Druggan, Albert Gu, and Linus Hamilton recently represented Carnegie Mellon at the William Lowell Putnam Competition, taking fifth place.

How Things Work: One-way mirrors act as useful surveillance tools

How things work explains how people can see through one-way mirrors.

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