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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Artur says he will get me in touch with the right people at the DNDO.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Byron Spice <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>412 268 9068<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> awmcmu@gmail.com [mailto:awmcmu@gmail.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Andrew Moore<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 15, 2016 12:33 PM<br><b>To:</b> Artur Dubrawski<br><b>Cc:</b> users@autonlab.org; hebert; Byron Spice; Manuela Veloso<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: CMU Auton Lab publicly recognized by a Department of Homeland Security official<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Can we talk about this one publicly? I think we could get good venues for this one.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Artur Dubrawski <<a href="mailto:awd@cs.cmu.edu" target="_blank">awd@cs.cmu.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Team,<br><br>I was surprised but very pleased to hear one of our projects showcased as the sole template of<br>a success story in a plenary talk by Dr. Joel Rynes, Assistant Director for R&D at the U.S. Department<br>of Homeland Security, at the DNDO ARI conference earlier this week. <br><br>This was completely unexpected, because the government officials at this level of responsibility <br>typically refrain from mentioning any vendor or partner names explicitly in their public appearances. <br>In the past, we had prepared numerous batches of presentation and press-releasable materials for <br>the use by our government sponsors, from which we had to remove any and all references to CMU, <br>the Robotics Institute, or the Auton Lab. <br><br>Dr. Rynes basically said that everyone in the R&D community working in the space of radiation safety<br>should look at how our CMU team has developed the foundations of ERNIE system and how the results of <br>our research are being successfully transitioned to the U.S. Customs practice, and how significant difference<br>it will make when the system is fully deployed throughout the organization.<br><br>Hats go down above all to Saswati who continues to deliver exceptional implementations of our <br>algorithms and who makes our partners from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and various<br>groups of our sponsors and end-users very pleased with them.<br><br>Cheers!<br>Artur <br><br>PS ERNIE stands for " Enhanced Radiological Nuclear Inspection and Evaluation". <br>This is the project in which we look at the data collected using Radiation Portal Monitors <br>at the U.S. ports of entry, and the primary objective is to combine physics of radiation models <br>and machine learning to allow dismissing a large number of alerts that are generated <br>by non-threatening sources of radiation, while never missing a real threat. <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt'><a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awm/" target="_blank">Andrew Moore</a>, Dean, <a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/" target="_blank">School of Computer Science</a>, Carnegie Mellon. <a href="https://twitter.com/awmcmu" target="_blank">Twitter feed</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>