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June 30, 2006
This internal publication contains information about recent coverage
of Carnegie Mellon that appeared primarily in national newspapers, magazines
and online publications. Please note that some sources may require registration
or a subscription in order to access their information online.
Please send comments and suggestions to thomas@cmu.edu
The media coverage archive is available at www.cmu.edu/clips
From June 23 to June 29,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 573 references to the university in worldwide
publications. Here is a sample.
National News Stories
BusinessWeek (GameDaily) | June 28
The New York Times (AP) | June 27
The New York Times (Reuters) | June 27
The New York Times (AP) | June 26
MSNBC (Pittsburgh Business Times) | June 25
Education for Leadership
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | June 28
Chemical & Engineering News | June 27
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | June 26
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | June 27
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | June 25
Information Technology
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | June 27
eSchool News | June 26
PC Magazine | June 22
Gamasutra | June 22
Environment
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | June 29
Contra Costa Times | June 28
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | June 26
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | June 27
Pittsburgh Business Times | June 26
The Review | June 26
International News Stories
The Sydney Morning Herald | June 30
Australian IT | June 27
Explore Qatar (Qatar Today) | June 26
The Scotsman | June 26
Explore Qatar (Qatar Today) | June 26
Taipei Times | June 23
Monsters and Critics (UPI) | June 22
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National News Stories
BusinessWeek (GameDaily) | June 28
The Electronic Arts CEO shares his views on game design programs, the value of an MBA, and outsourcing. ... If an aspiring game designer (or producer) could take just one class in college, what class would you recommend? Why? "Building Virtual Worlds" class at Carnegie Mellon's ETC program. Students complete 5 games in 3 months, working in cross-functional teams.
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/
jun2006/id20060628_545112.htm?chan
=innovation_game+room_top+stories | back to top
The New York Times (AP) | June 27
An alliance of businesses, colleges and federal crime fighters will combine their expertise at a new research center that will study the problems of identity theft and fraud. Founding partners of the Center for Identity Management and Information Protection include LexisNexis Inc. and IBM Corp., the U.S. Secret Service and the FBI. Participating schools include Carnegie Mellon University, Indiana University and Syracuse University. The center will be established in upstate New York at Utica College, which pioneered the nation's first curriculum on white-collar crime in 1988. ***This article was placed in more than 75 media outlets.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology
/AP-Identity-Theft-Center.html | back to top
The New York Times (Reuters) | June 27
Parents may worry that violent video games are bad for their children, but the technology can help save the world by raising awareness of the world's downtrodden, a group of socially conscious game designers say. The creators of free educational games such as "Darfur is Dying" and "PeaceMaker" met with humanitarian activists at The New School University in New York on Tuesday for the third annual Games for Change conference. ... In "Peacemaker," players take the role of either the Israeli prime minister or the Palestinian president and try their hand at situations ranging from diplomatic talks to responding to military attacks. Peacemaker co-creator Eric Brown said he hopes to usher video games into a new socially conscious arena. "We believe in the power of interactive media and we think it has a lot of positive potential," said Brown, a Carnegie Mellon University graduate student. "Just by putting someone in the shoes of the other side, they may think of a perspective they might not have thought of before." ***This article was placed in more than 15 media outlets.
http://nytimes.com/reuters/technology/
tech-games.html?pagewanted=print | back to top
The New York Times (AP) | June 26
The seven crew members of the space shuttle Discovery will arrive at Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday to take one of the biggest risks of their lives. They have a 1-in-100 chance of dying during their spaceflight next month. Those, at least, are the official odds that NASA has long given. ... The more NASA studies what goes on, the more the agency finds that the risks were really far higher than originally thought, because so much more could go wrong than engineers figured, said Paul Fischbeck, a Carnegie Mellon University engineering and decision sciences professor. But at the same time, problems are getting fixed, so the shuttle is getting safer to fly than before, he said. ***This article appeared in over 75 media outlets.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/
AP-Shuttle-Risk.html?_r=2&oref=
slogin&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin | back to top
MSNBC (Pittsburgh Business Times) | June 25
Funding from the Idea Foundry and a project from Mine Safety Appliances Inc. enabled Sim Ops Studios to spin out of Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center this spring. Sim Ops is the sixth local company to evolve from the ETC. It opened its South Side office in March. "Sim Ops validates the notion that ETC is generating companies not limited to what people think of as video game developers," said David Gurwin, an ETC adjunct professor who also chairs the technology transactions and entertainment and media law practices at Downtown law firm Buchanan Ingersoll PC. "The skill sets learned and refined there have much broader applicability to industry in general." Sim Ops aims to create video games used to train people working in hazardous situations and conditions. But its first product actually is being used as a marketing tool. CEO Shanna Tellerman, who earned her master's degree from ETC last year, co-founded Sim Ops with Jesse Schell, a Carnegie Mellon associate professor, and Tony Mussorfiti of the New York City Fire Department.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13548296/ | back to top
Education for Leadership
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | June 28
George Hazimanolis, senior director of corporate communications at WQED, was elected to be alternate trustee for the mid-Atlantic chapter of the National Television Academy of Arts and Sciences, which oversees the regional Emmys. ... Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama master of fine arts screenwriting students Lynne Kuemmel and Mary Unser won bronze Telly Awards for work they did for WQED.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/06179/701553-67.stm | back to top
Chemical & Engineering News | June 27
Environmentally friendlier. Less expensive. Customer satisfaction. These are a few of the descriptors used when discussing the chemistry behind the products and processes honored by the 11th annual Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards, which were presented during a ceremony held on June 26 at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. ... The 2006 Kenneth G. Hancock Memorial Student Award in Green Chemistry, administered by the ACS Division of Environmental Chemistry, also was presented at the ceremony. This year's recipient was Ke Min, a graduate student in Krzysztof Matyjaszewski's group at Carnegie Mellon University. Min was selected for her work to develop a novel electron-transfer polymerization initiation technique used in atom-transfer radical polymerizations that can be carried out on an industrial scale in aqueous dispersed media.
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/84/
i27/8427greenchemistry.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | June 26
Ke Min. Age: 28. Residence: Squirrel Hill Family: Husband, Haifeng Gao Education: Third-year doctoral student in the chemistry department at Carnegie Mellon University; bachelor's degree in chemistry from Nanjing University in China, 1999; master's degree in polymer chemistry and physics from Fudan University in China, 2002. Noteworthy: Selected to receive the Kenneth G. Hancock Scholarship Award for her work in green chemistry. In many cases, green chemistry products are performing as well as or better than conventional products with less risk to human health and the environment. The scholarship will be presented to Min today during the 2006 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards at the National Academies in Washington. President Bush's science adviser, John Marburger III, will attend.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/
pittsburghtrib/search/print_459573.html | back to top
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | June 27
Increased collaboration with the music faculty at Carnegie Mellon University marks the 2006-07 season of the Pittsburgh Symphony Chamber Orchestra that was announced Monday. Many members of the symphony teach at Carnegie Mellon, including concertmaster Andres Cardenes, who leads the series. Each of next season's three orchestra concerts will include a non-symphony member of the university's faculty: violist Toby Appel, guitarist James Ferla and pianist Rodrigo Ojeda.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/
pittsburghtrib/s_459640.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | June 25
Remote in hand, cradled in a recliner, a guy takes advantage of a time-out in the NBA finals to see what else is on TV. His channel surfing seems to turn up nothing but commercials. ... Are guys really liberating themselves from the Oprah-sphere? Are they ditching the salons for the barbershop? ... "I think the old term metrosexual is over, personally," says Frank Ginsberg, chairman and CEO of Avrett Free Ginsberg in New York. ... "Every time some culture or trend or fad starts to emerge, the underculture always gets stronger and stronger and they rule," Ginsberg says. "It's always back to tradition. I think men are men and they will always continue to be such." Kathleen Newman isn't buying it. A professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University, she writes on the history of mass media. Her books include "Radio Active: Advertising and Consumer Activism, 1935-1947." To her, the Burger King "Manthem" commercial smacks of Jerry Seinfeld trying to explain his man-purse by protesting, "It's European!" She sees the elaborate production values as a smokescreen by a corporation that knows America is waking up to the health hazards of cholesterol-laden burgers. "I think the Burger King ad is clever," she says. "It's catchy. Ironically, it draws on a lot of the iconography of the feminist movement--obviously using Helen Reddy's song, a scene trying to invoke the idea of bra burning. Dumping the minivan is also in that vein.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib
/search/s_459326.html | back to top
Information Technology
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | June 27
Carnegie Mellon University won a soccer championship at the RoboCup 2006 World Championship early this month in Germany, and also spectators' hearts, with robots that provided color commentary during robotic soccer games. The success of Carnegie Mellon robots on the international stage has inspired university officials to push technology to the next step in robotic evolution. Those projects include robots that can attend meetings on behalf of humans, observe procedures, then instruct people how to do them, and watch over the elderly. "One scenario is to send a robot to a meeting I cannot attend and tell me what's happening," said Dr. Manuela Veloso, the Herbert Simon Professor of Computer Science and head of Carnegie Mellon's RoboCup teams. "Another scenario is taking care of the elderly. There are many situations ... they can address."
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
06178/701403-115.stm | back to top
eSchool News | June 26
The massive data centers needed to store and run a university's information systems eat up huge amounts of energy and staff time. To help curb the costs associated with these resources, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa., have opened a dual-purpose facility that is both a working data center and a research vehicle for the study of data center automation and efficiency. ... "One thing that motivated the project was that people have come to us consistently over the years and said, 'This data center stuff is really hard and really expensive,'" said Bill Courtright, executive director of Carnegie Mellon's Parallel Data Lab, which specializes in the study of storage systems. "When you asked them to quantify that [statement], you often got the answer, 'Because it's just really hard and really expensive.'"
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/
showStoryts.cfm?ArticleID=6362 | back to top
PC Magazine | June 22
Baseball has one, as does rock and roll. But perhaps only the robotics industry has a Hall of Fame that inducts imaginary members. The hall's third annual induction ceremony honored two real and three imagined robots, all of which were recognized in a light-spirited and thought-provoking event Wednesday night. The ceremony capped the two-day Robo Business event at the Sheraton Station Square in Pittsburgh, Penn. Founded three years ago by Carnegie Mellon University West's Dean James H. Morris, the Hall recognized the art-deco female robot Maria of Fritz Lang's 1926 film "Metropolis", Daniel the central android boy character from Steven Spielberg's "AI" (portrayed by Haley Joel Osment), Gort from "The Day the Earth Stood Still", Sony's discontinued AIBO robot pup, and the SCARA industrial assembly robot arm. The hall "honors both real robots that have made real technological breakthroughs and the fictional ones that inspire us all," said Matt Mason, director of Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute. Judges included Mason, 2001 Space Odyssey Author Arthur C. Clarke, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and The Sims creator Will Wright.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0
,1895,1980241,00.asp | back to top
Gamasutra | June 22
Today's Gamasutra educational feature, part of the expanded Gamasutra Education section of the site, details the gameplay decisions made by Carnegie Mellon graduate Arnab Basu in constructing a student game. As part of the Experimental Gameplay project at Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center, Basu worked on a game titled Cynosure, which uses the concept of blinking as a game mechanic (to charge up the player's weapons power) in a game in which the player must destroy zombies advancing towards him in a graveyard.
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/
news_index.php?story=9816 | back to top
Environment
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | June 29
Carnegie Mellon University chemists say they have discovered an environmentally friendly way to destroy harmful female sex hormones that contaminate rivers and streams and sometimes drinking water. Estrogens enter the environment after being excreted by livestock that naturally produce these chemicals, or are flushed into sewers by the estimated 16 million American women who take birth control pills. Until now, no practical way existed to break down these hormones in wastewater. They have been linked to developmental disorders and reproductive complications in fish and other wildlife, and could pose a threat to human health, said Carnegie Mellon chemist Colin Horwitz, whose findings will be presented today at a meeting of the Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference in Washington. "These chemicals have been found in the environment at very low levels, but they are very potent," said Gerald LeBlanc, an environmental toxicologist at North Carolina State University. "The goal is to break these things down so they lose their estrogenic activity in a way that doesn't create other problems." To do so, Horwitz and colleagues at the U.S. Department of Agriculture took advantage of a powerful catalyst invented by Terrence Collins, who directs the Institute for Green Oxidation Chemistry at CMU's Mellon College of Science.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/
news/cityregion/print_459990.html
Contra Costa Times | June 28
Hadi Dowlatabadi is a reformed carbon emitter. As a scientist who studies climate change, he's acutely aware of the harmful effects on the environment from human activities that release carbon dioxide in the air, such as car and air travel and using electricity. ... London-based HSBC claims that it became the first major bank last year to offset all of its carbon emissions; Swiss Re, a major reinsurance company based in Zurich, says it will do the same by 2013. Former vice president-turned-environmentalist Al Gore says he offsets all of the emissions that he and his wife, Tipper, are responsible for, and the Dave Matthews Band is about to announce that it will make donations to green causes to offset all the carbon emissions caused by the travel and energy use from its tours going back to 1991. ... "At this point, it's basically symbolic, but the goal is to build a groundswell to get countries to do something about this," says Granger Morgan, head of the department of engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes
/news/local/states/california/14919169.htm | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | June 26
Build green, build more. That's the gist of a proposal Pittsburgh Councilman William Peduto plans to introduce tomorrow that would give incentives to developers to incorporate features like natural light and flushless toilets into new buildings. ... Pittsburgh ranks among the top five cities nationwide for green construction, said Ms. Flora. Environmentally friendly buildings include the David L. Lawrence Convention Center and PNC Firstside Center, Downtown; KSBA Architects headquarters and Blackbird Lofts in Lawrenceville; WYEP Studios in South Side; Greater Pittsburgh Community FoodBank in Duquesne; Carnegie Mellon University New House Residence Hall in Oakland; and U.S. Steel Research and Technology Center in Munhall.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg
/06177/701188-53.stm | back to top
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | June 27
The Pirates yesterday unveiled a lineup that made history, and not the sad-sack version of events scrawled by the current team. The organization drew back the curtain on its new Highmark Legacy Square project inside the left-field entrance at PNC Park, where life-size bronze statues and interactive kiosks commemorate seven Pittsburgh Negro League greats: catcher Josh Gibson of the Homestead Grays and Pittsburgh Crawfords, Crawfords pitcher Satchel Paige, Crawfords/Grays outfielder Cool Papa Bell, Grays/Crawfords center fielder-manager Oscar Charleston, Grays first baseman Buck Leonard, Grays/Crawfords infielder Judy Johnson and Grays pitcher Smokey Joe Williams. ... The Pirates, who began honoring that history as long ago as the late 1980s, thus become the first Major League Baseball team with what amounts to a miniature Negro League museum. In Kansas City, Mo., home of the celebrated Monarchs of Paige and Buck O'Neil, not to mention the Negro League Baseball Museum, the Royals a decade ago erected a single-wall exhibit at Kauffman Stadium to that city's black-baseball heritage. Yet, nowhere except the NLBM is there a display approximating this one: seven statues, huge commemorative bats overhead and an indoor, 25-seat Legacy Theatre where visitors can see an interactive fans wall created by Carnegie Mellon University and watch a 12-minute video focusing on black baseball in Pittsburgh.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/06178/701417-63.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Business Times | June 26
As far as lonely jobs go, the Maytag repairman still holds the top spot. But many local human resources offices are noticing a marked decrease in the number of employee visits, phone calls and e-mails since turning to third-party, Web-based software to administer their benefits programs. Known as business process outsourcing, the approach allows HR departments to electronically farm out tasks such as medical benefits enrollments, retirement investment options, life insurance elections and more to a single vendor that purchases software and hardware, installs, maintains and updates the system. That, in turn, provides companies with a multitude of time-and cost-saving benefits. ... Even at IT savvy places such as Carnegie Mellon University, BPO earns high marks. "We've been using Web-based technology for nine to 10 years," said Barb Smith, Carnegie Mellon's associate human resources vice president. "It's the fastest, most efficient way to get information to our employees and for them to access benefits information at any time of the day, no matter where they are"--even at Carnegie Mellon's campus in the Persian Gulf nation of Qatar. With BPO, paper forms are nearly nonexistent. At Carnegie Mellon, all forms are online, eliminating printing costs and filing.
http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/
stories/2006/06/26/focus4.html?page=2 | back to top
The Review | June 26
Next week, Carolyn Lambert will dock at a local marina and continue filming her documentary which explores the connectivity of those who live within reach of the banks of the Ohio River. Stopping at 60 cities and towns during her three-month journey, Lambert is searching for interviews with residents who have some connection to the river. "When I first started researching, the concept of a working river was foreign to me," Lambert said. "Many other people don't realize what that means. For me, the Ohio River is very interesting because it has people both working and recreating on it. And the interests of those different people may be in conflict. It's such a busy place with a lot of invested interest and I'm just working on understanding how the river is shared between so many different people." Docking at either the Holiday or East Liverpool Yacht clubs, Lambert will disembark and attempt to find contacts locally to interview for her documentary. ... She obtained sponsorship from her alma mater, Carnegie Mellon University Studio of Creative Inquiry, and found a pontoon boat with a trailer for the price of $800. Using the advice from other boaters to assist her in the fix up project, Lambert's cheap boat soon became the fuel for her film.
http://www.reviewonline.com/news/story
/0627202006_new01marina.asp | back to top
International News Stories
The Sydney Morning Herald | June 30
Last month researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh began work on a machine that they hope will be able to learn a new language simply getting foreign speakers to talk into it and perhaps, eventually, by watching television. Within the next few years there will be an explosion in translation technologies, says Alex Waibel, director of the International Center for Advanced Communication Technology, which is based jointly at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany and at Carnegie Mellon. He predicts there will be real-time automatic dubbing, which will let people watch foreign films or television programs in their native languages, and search engines that will enable users to trawl through multilingual archives of documents, videos and audio files. Eventually, there may even be electronic devices that work like Babelfish, whispering translations in your ear as someone speaks to you in a foreign tongue.
http://businessnetwork.smh.com.au/
articles/2006/06/29/5104.html | back to top
Australian IT | June 27
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have created an online multiplayer game that allows use of collected data to improve web accessibility for people with visual impairments. The researchers say the web is not built for blind people because most images on it don't have proper captions. Phetch, the game created by the researchers, is intended to encourage web users to generate missing captions. It is an online game for three to five players. Initially, one of the players is chosen at random as the Describer, while the others are the Seekers. ... "Rather than designing a computer vision algorithm to generate natural language descriptions for arbitrary images, we opted for harnessing humans," Phetch team member Shiry Ginosar says.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,
19570575%5E15841%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html | back to top
Explore Qatar (Qatar Today) | June 26
Securing your home computer is no trivial task. It is a thing that most people don't take seriously, though the dangers of intrusion into your privacy is very real. Qatar Today spoke to Lawrence R. Rogers, an expert in computer security systems and senior member of the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute. Rogers is one of the key figures of Carnegie Mellon's Cert-CC program. Rogers was in Qatar to conduct a workshop for internet security for home PC users. The workshop focused on key high-level concepts that home users needed to understand about security, before moving on to the actual tasks home users needed to carry out to protect their systems.
http://www.explore-qatar.com/
indexposts.html?show=1&idz=156 | back to top
The Scotsman | June 26
When students of computer science graduated last year from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, they walked on stage to receive their degrees to the skirl of the pipes playing good old-fashioned Scottish tunes. But this was bagpipe music with a difference. There was no piper to "screw the pipes and gart them skirl" as Robert Burns envisioned Auld Nick in his epic poem Tam O'Shanter, no human to "up and gie them a blaw, a blaw", in the words of songwriter Lady Carolina Nairne. Instead, the university's Class of 2005 came face-to-face with the latest and slightly mind-boggling innovation in bagpipe technology--a robot bagpiper programmed to produce, at the touch of a button, the same sound generated by hundreds of thousands of skilled pipers worldwide. ... "We are close to getting it right but not close enough," says Roger Dannenberg, the university professor who has led the McBlare project. "If the pressure is too low the chanter will stop playing and if it's too high then we get what pipers call gurgling.
http://heritage.scotsman.com/
ingenuity.cfm?id=910372006 | back to top
Explore Qatar (Qatar Today) | June 26
The Mozah bint Nasser University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, Dr. Raj Reddy was a keynote speaker at a symposium on Innovations in Education: Technology, Empowerment and Education. In an exclusive interview to Qatar Today, he spoke about the projects close to his heart, and on narrowing divides created by the IT era.
http://www.explore-qatar.com/indexposts
.html?show=1&idz=157 | back to top
Taipei Times | June 23
U.S. President George W. Bush hopes that a grass that once covered tens of millions of hectares across North America could help the U.S. kick its addiction to foreign sources of oil. The plant, called switchgrass, looks nothing like grass in the traditional sense. It can grow up to 4m tall and has stems as thick and sturdy as pencils. ... To date, most U.S. ethanol efforts are focused on corn, a crop that experts say falls short of sugarcane's qualities because of the energy needed to grow it--in the form of fertilizer and cultivation--and its lower efficiency rating. ... "Corn is not all that efficient as [an] energy crop," said Scott Matthews, who teaches at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. In addition, corn production for ethanol cannot satisfy the US thirst for fuel. Currently, the U.S. produces only 4 billion gallons of ethanol from corn--less than 3 percent of its annual level of consumption.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials
/archives/2006/06/23/2003315169 | back to top
Monsters and Critics (UPI) | June 22
An Italian domestic robot that reminds people when to eat, sleep and even when to take medicine, has won a top prize at the RoboCup tournament in Germany. Lucia, a robotic home helper, was created by a team from the Italian National Research Council. The entry won over hundreds of rivals and came in third in the RoboCup finals this week in Bemen. ... First place in the competition was taken by a U.S. team from Carnegie Mellon University, with second place going to a German team.
http://science.monstersandcritics.com/news/article
_1174998.php/Italian_robot_maid_wins_prize | back to top
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