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The Information Networking Institute (INI) offers professional graduate degree programs in Information Networking, Information Security, and Information Technology that integrate technologies, economics, and policies of secure communication networks.

The Information Networking Institute is the educational partner of Carnegie Mellon CyLab.

Faculty positions are open in the areas of networking, security, privacy and/or mobility.
Locations: Japan | Silicon Valley

News & Event Highlights

Research Highlight: Glove Prototype Interprets American Sign Language

May 15, 2008 - A student team advised by Professor Priya Narasimhan has created a research prototype of a glove that can translate American Sign Language (ASL) into text and sound. Narasimhan, who has led research in other assistive technologies, approached students with an idea for a gesture-recognition glove as part of her Embedded Systems Design capstone course.

The glove works through sensors that detect finger movements and then send signatures of these movements to a smart phone through Bluetooth technology. The smart phone, which is loaded with gesture-to-text and text-to-speech programs, then translates the signatures into audible words. The goal is to enable a person with a hearing disability to communicate with people who do not know ASL.

Three ECE seniors, Bhargav Bhat, Jorge Meza and Hemant Sikaria, and an ECE graduate student, Wesley Jin, made up the team that created the prototype during the Spring 2008 course. Narasimhan and the team intend to continue its development.

Narasimhan's previous research in assistive technology includes the Trinetra project for the blind. She is co-director of the CyLab Mobility Research Center, based at Carnegie Mellon in Silicon Valley.

Read the article "Glove converts sign language into sound" in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

See the coverage "CMU students develop talking glove" on KDKA.

INI Graduate Makes Plans to Assist a Ghanaian University

May 9, 2008 - While many INI graduates begin jobs in fast-paced technology environments this summer, MSISTM student Adrienne White will be making a temporary home in the West African country of Ghana, where she and a Heinz School student will work to develop a student records management system for Ashesi University. Adrienne's project is a part of TechBridgeWorld, a program whose mission is to use technology to help developing nations find sustainable solutions to whatever problems they are facing. Read the article.

iGate Corporation's Sunil Wadhwani To Speak at INI Graduation Ceremony

April 24, 2008 – The INI will welcome Sunil Wadhwani, a Carnegie Mellon alumnus with a Master of Science in Industrial Administration, as keynote speaker at the 2008 graduation ceremony. Read more.

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