Code Blue, issue 1.0

TESTING-FREE FUTURE
Building airtight libraries of complex,
widely used software that are ready
for deployment at scale.
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ACCELERATING HEALTHCARE
An accelerated platform for genetic
sequencing leads us toward precision
health in the palm of your hand.
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HACKING REALITY
Our devices are under attack,
and modern methods are
anything but mundane.
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ROBOTS THAT SEE AND
GRASP LIKE PEOPLE
Odd Job, a robot in professor Chad Jenkins’ Laboratory for Progress,
accepts an object from Jenkins’ hand. Odd Job and its double,
Cookie, are able to identify and grab objects based on depth and
color perception. They are additionally able to target objects more
quickly based on environmental context.
The robots are also learning to grasp transparent and other tricky
objects through the use of vision models like GlassLoc. < VIDEO >
Jenkins’ lab aims to discover methods for computational reasoning
and perception that will enable robots to effectively assist people in
common human environments. | Photo: Joseph Xu
How CS is changing education
Researchers respond to COVID-19
Tracking internet censorship
the feed
stats
2020-21 faculty
EDITOR: Steven Crang
DESIGNER: Zach Champion
>CREDITS
WRITERS: Zach Champion, Gabriel Cherry, Steven Crang
PHOTOGRAPHY/ILLUSTRATION: Steve Alvey, Zach
Champion, Joseph Xu
Cover Illustration by Karen Parker Moeller,
MOEdesign. ©2021
Regents of the University of Michigan
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Mark J. Bernstein
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Sarah Hubbard
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Ron Weiser
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