Mellon Institute of Industrial Research

The Industrial Fellowships of the Mellon Institute.

Dr. B. T. Galloway, Mr. Charles F. Deering and Professor W. D. Crocker were elected to membership. The program of the evening was devoted to the subject of "The Relation of Plant Succession to Forestry and Grazing." Mr. C. G. Bates discussed the natural regeneration of forest stands in the climax formations of the Rocky Mountain region and called attention especially to the temporary control of...

Introducing Carnegie-Mellon University’s Robotics Institute (Research in Progress)

Carnegie-Mellon University has established a Robotics Institute to bring its expertise in Engineering, Science, and Industrial Administration to bear upon the problem of national industrial productivity The Institute has been established to undertake advanced research and development in seeing, thinking robots and intelligent systems, and to facilitate transfer of this technology to industry Th...

The Research Institute of Industrial Economics

The paper analyses the interaction between economic incentives and work norms in the context of social insurance. If the work norm is endogenous in the sense that it is weaker when the population share of beneficiaries is higher, then voters will choose less generous benefits than otherwise. We also discuss welfare-state dynamics when there is a time lag in the adjustment of the norm in respons...

Vision-Based Autonomous Helicopter Research at Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute 1991-1997

Speech Research at Carnegie Mellon

Carnegie Mellon University is engaged in a broad program of research whose goal is to provide the knowledge, currently missing, that will allow us to effectively integrate speech into the computer interface. We have identified a number of areas that we believe are of crucial importance to the acceptance of speech as a standard modality of human-computer communication. Our separate research area...