"I came to Carnegie Mellon in 1978 as a graduate student. The robotics institute started in 1979. I was here from the …"

"I am slowly trying to learn quantum mechanics. Right now I’m reading Noson Yanofsky and Mirco Mannucci’s Quantum Comp…"

"One interesting experience I had as a computer scientist occurred when the Motion Picture Association filed a lawsuit…"

"I designed a hexapod robot called the Chiara (see photo), which some students of mine have used to do really cool thi…"

"For him delicious flavors dwell In books as in old Muscatel."

"And in the evening, everywhere Along the roadside, up and down, I see the golden torches flare Like lighted street-la…"

"Song like a rose should be; Each rhyme a petal sweet; For fragrance, melody, That when her lips repeat The words, her…"

"The hunter catches a dreadful prey, the seaman steers his ship into an unspeakable harbor, the plowman sows and reaps…"

"You are the king no doubt, but in one respect, at least, I am your equal: the right to reply. I claim that privilege …"

"When Hector heard that challenge he rejoiced and right in the no man's land along his lines he strode, gripping his s…"