Daniel Tkacik Senior Staffwriter

Class of 2013

Articles

  • PaDEP asks treatment plants to stop accepting shale-gas wastewater

    The subject of extracting natural gas from the Marcellus Shale has been a sensitive subject in southwestern Pennsylvania, as people have heavily debated the environmental impacts of the techniques used in extraction.

    SciTech | April 25, 2011
  • Carnegie Mellon students to compete in programming world finals

    This May, a team of three Carnegie Mellon students will participate in the world finals of the IBM-sponsored Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), also known as the Battle of Brains. These students are among around 300 out of 97,000 students to advance all the way to world finals, 0.3 percent of the original pool of contestants.

    SciTech | April 11, 2011
  • SciTech Briefs

    New technique makes healthier cheese

    SciTech | April 11, 2011
  • IBM's Watson squares off with Carnegie Mellon and Pitt students

    Many members of the Carnegie Mellon community watched in February as Watson, IBM’s latest supercomputing project, beat Jeopardy! greats Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter on national television by a very convincing margin. This feat displayed just how far the computer science and artificial intelligence community has come in developing machines that can recognize natural human language, as Watson took...

    SciTech | April 4, 2011
  • SciTech Briefs

    Galaxies hungry for other galaxies

    SciTech | April 4, 2011

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