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July
14, 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 July 7 to July 13,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 151 references to the university in worldwide
publications. Here is a sample.
National News Stories
Forbes | July 24
USA Today | July 12
FOX News | July 11
The New York Times | July 11
San Jose Mercury News | July 10
San Francisco Chronicle | July 9
Education for Leadership
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | July 13
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | July 13
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | July 10
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | July 9
Information Technology
Los Angeles Times (Financial Times) | July 10
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | July 8
Biotechnology
Philadelphia Business Journal | July 10
Environment
The Daily Telegram | July 10
University Business | June 2006
Regional Impact
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | July 11
Houston Chronicle (AP) | July 10
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | July 12
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | July 7
International News Stories
News-Medical.Net | July 13
Monsters and Critics (UPI) | July 10
IT Week (VNU) | July 10
Rediff (Forbes) | July 7
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National News Stories
Forbes | July 24
Cody Cutrer turned down full scholarships from the University of Utah and Brigham Young University to attend Neumont University, a fledgling for-profit school in an office park near his home just south of Salt Lake City. ... So far Neumont has pulled students from 44 states and 10 foreign countries. But some in the educational establishment are still skeptical of Neumont's rush-through, hands-on approach. "What you learn in technology is gone in five years, so you need to learn the principles," says Pradeep Khosla, dean of the engineering school at Carnegie Mellon. Khosla says students need to know how semiconductor chips and operating systems are built, not merely how to program them.
http://www.forbes.com/forbes
/2006/0724/118.html | back to top
USA Today | July 12
In the media and the halls of Congress, the Internet, phone and cable TV industries are raising a ruckus over "net neutrality." What's the squabble about? Here's a look at both sides. ... Political allies: Internet pioneer David Farber, renowned computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University; technology entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban; League of United Latin American Citizens.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news
/techpolicy/2006-07-11-net-
neutrality_x.htm?POE=TECISVA | back to top
FOX News | July 11
Months after President Bush first announced his American Competitiveness Initiative, Congress is getting around to funding the program aimed to keep the United States in the forefront of capitalistic prowess and innovation. ... The attention paid to education, research and development and workforce training may be arriving just in the nick of time. Experts in the fields most impacted by a slip in the country's competitive edge say trend lines indicate the United States is beginning to lose its advantage to growing global behemoths like India and China. ... According to Pradeep Khosla, dean of the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, China and India have vastly improved their graduate studies programs, and, if the numbers are correct, statistics show their citizens are increasingly choosing to remain in their home countries to study instead of coming to the United States to pursue an education and career. "We are losing access to that top talent," Khosla said, noting that college students in the United States appear to be more interested in going into law, finance and business.
http://www.foxnews.com/story
/0,2933,203044,00.html | back to top
The New York Times | July 11
To the Editor: "Physics Awaits New Options" reflects correctly a certain frustration of particle physicists looking for physics beyond the present Standard Model. But the writer neglected to mention two important discoveries in the last 30 years that demonstrate new physics. The first is the discovery of neutrino masses and mixing. The original Standard Model set the masses to zero. The second is the overwhelming evidence that more than 80 percent of the matter of the universe is not in the form of the particles included in the Standard Model; this is the so-called dark matter. This demonstrates that the Standard Model is incomplete, and a major goal is to determine which of the proposed extensions is the correct explanation of dark matter. ***This letter was written by Lincoln Wolfenstein, a professor of physics at Carnegie Mellon.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/11/science/
11webletters.html?_r=1&oref=slogin | back to top
San Jose Mercury News | July 10
For more than 20 years, Stanford University psychiatrist Alan F. Schatzberg has been hunting for a better way to treat the most severely depressed patients. A few years ago, he announced with considerable fanfare that he may have found it in an unlikely place--a repackaged version of RU-486, the controversial abortion pill. It "may be the equivalent of shock treatments in a pill" without the side effects, he said in a Stanford news release. Yet Schatzberg has more than a purely scientific interest in this particular pill. He has a financial conflict of interest. ... Disclosure is a key element in the university's approach to dealing with conflicts like Schatzberg's. But one study, by Don A. Moore and others at Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business in Pittsburgh, suggests that disclosure can have the opposite of the intended effect.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/
mercurynews/living/education/15004512.htm | back to top
San Francisco Chronicle | July 9
The National Security Agency is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside a code. Secrets lie within. Located in Fort Meade, Md., it dwarfs the CIA. Its budget is black, unknown. And, most disturbing of all, it is the world's largest employer of mathematicians. One of its secrets, recently revealed, is that it's monitoring millions of phone calls to learn just who was calling whom. ... With the NSA data, you can draw a picture with nodes or dots representing individuals, and lines between nodes if one person has called another. Mathematicians who work with pictures like this are called graph theorists. The field of social network analysis deals with trying to determine information about a group from such a graph, such as who the key players are or who the cell leaders might be.... Expert Kathleen Carley of Carnegie Mellon was able to correctly predict--twice--who would take over Hamas when its leaders were assassinated, and her analysis used detailed information about the individuals in the organization, not just what anonymous nodes were linked with what. The moral is that the graph theory approach is inadequate. For useful results, it's important to utilize the lattice theory approach, which takes into account order and hierarchy.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/
chronicle/archive/2006/07/09/INGIVJQ75N1.DTL | back to top
Education for Leadership
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | July 13
The historic past of Braddock and its hopes for the future are symbolized by a lighted sign recently set up on one of the taller buildings in town. Spelling out the last four letters of the town's name in a greenish glow, the final letter alternates between the official "k" and the "c" used in the street culture's version--"Braddocc." "The two c's are symbolic of Braddock moving forward," said Jebediah Feldman, one of Carnegie Mellon University students who helped with the project. "The youth of Braddock have been spelling it with two c's, so we think it represents a new Braddock." ... The sign is on the Ohringer Building on Braddock Avenue, a structure that dates to the 1930s. It is owned by Brandywine Management of North Versailles. ... "Two of the Carnegie Mellon students--Rebecca Bortman and Nkechi Ebubedike--came up with the design." Feldman said the Ohringer building is undergoing a bit of a renaissance. "Since we gained occupancy a few months ago, we've been trying to fill it with musicians so they can rehearse as well as artists," said Feldman. "It will be an arts center of sorts."
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib
/news/today/s_461466.html | back to top
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | July 13
The power and the glory that was Pittsburgh is gone. What remains is a large and evocative body of work documenting "The Valley of Work," and grateful we are to have it. Like tiny tintypes carrying the faces of the long dead, the images remain after the life-force has departed. We marvel that something once so strong and dynamic could so quickly and utterly vanish, survived by something that, in comparison, seems so small and static and insignificant. Who would have thought the mills would die and the art endure? But the works now on the walls of the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg have their own power, the power to conjure up the region in its industrial heyday, in all its fire-breathing, smoke-spewing, air-fouling, water-polluting, job-giving glory. ... The hard-bound catalog--"Born of Fire: "The Valley of Work" (Westmoreland Museum, $37.50)--begins with an essay by the University of Pittsburgh's Edward Muller and Carnegie Mellon's Joel Tarr; the two historians provide a framework for the exhibit with a concise, detailed overview of the steelmaking process and how, why and when the industry came to Pittsburgh.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg
/06194/705354-42.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | July 10
If you think you know what the phrase "power suit" means, a new exhibit at Carnegie Mellon University might expand your definition. Artists Renee Piechocki and Tiffany Ludwig, who collaborate under the sobriquet Two Girls Working, traveled from Alaska and New Mexico to Massachusetts and Mississippi asking females from all walks of life a single question: "What do you wear that makes you feel powerful?" ... The 500-plus interviews form the basis of "Trappings: Stories of Women, Power and Clothing," a multimedia exhibit at the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University's Purnell Center for the Arts.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/06191/704654-314.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | July 9
Photographic Journaling: Pointing the Camera at Your World. Photographer and Carnegie Mellon University faculty member Charlee Brodsky leads a gallery discussion on the exhibition "Yosemite 1938: On the Trail with Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe," focusing on Adams' strategies for capturing and preserving special memories of travels and other experiences. At the second session, participants will work with their photographs to create a photographic journal. The class does not include darkroom work. 6-7:30 p.m. July 12 and 19. $60; $48 for members. Reservations required. 412-622-3288.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/
pittsburghtrib/search/s_461067.html | back to top
Information Technology
Los Angeles Times (Financial Times) | July 10
Promet is a creation of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tsukuba, Japan. He is one of dozens of human-like robots in development in a country that has embraced "humanoids" with an enthusiasm unique in the world. ... Sociologists have devoted considerable effort to explaining why Japan responds so positively to robots. They frequently credit the country's Shinto religion, which gives Japanese the idea that there can be a living spirit in anything. Western Christianity, on the other hand, suggests that there is something sacrilegious about mankind creating robots in its own image. Takeo Kanade, a robotics professor from Japan who has worked at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh since 1980, gives more credit to Japanese popular culture, which has featured friendly robots as toys and cartoon characters for more than 50 years. No one growing up in Japan during the 1950s or 1960s could have escaped the spell of Atom Boy and his successor, Astro Boy. As Kanade noted, it took a Western chief executive, Howard Stringer, to kill off Sony's money-guzzling Qrio and Aibo robots.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-ft
-robots10jul10,1,6144285.story
?coll=la-headlines-business | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | July 8
At a time when anxiety levels over computer security are reaching new heights, Carnegie Mellon University is hosting its second annual Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security from Wednesday to Friday at Carnegie Mellon's Collaborative Innovation Center. Using e-mail to trick computer users to reveal confidential information is just one example of how current security practices are failing, said Lorrie Cranor, an associate professor who directs Carnegie Mellon's Usable Privacy and Security Lab. "Basically, when it comes to phishing, most people are clueless," said Dr. Cranor, who teaches computer science, engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon. Human error, she added is the cause of most security breaches.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/06189/704252-96.stm | back to top
Biotechnology
Philadelphia Business Journal | July 10
Finding talent, raising money and moving out of academia are the three top concerns of biotechnology companies according to a study conducted by the life sciences practice of a Philadelphia law firm. Pepper Hamilton surveyed chief scientific officers of biotechnology companies at this year's Biotechnology Industry Organization annual convention in Chicago. Those participating in the survey were asked to identify the top three challenges confronting their business from a list of 11 choices. ... All the challenges were discussed during the "CSO Boot Camp," a program at the BIO conference. The program--supported by Pepper Hamilton, the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and the Tepper School of Carnegie Mellon University--focused on teaching scientific founders of emerging biotech companies business skills to convert technology and ideas into viable businesses.
http://philadelphia.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/
stories/2006/07/10/newscolumn4.html?t=printable | back to top
Environment
The Daily Telegram | July 10
As Adrian College expands, it also tries to make its facilities more environmentally friendly. ... This spring, Adrian College President Jeffrey Docking asked a team of professors to start looking at the possibilities of bringing green technology to Adrian's campus. "It's my strong belief that we have to become less dependent on foreign energy and foreign oil," Docking said. "I have a strong desire for us to become energy independent as a country, so I believe that has to start with colleges leading the way with new technology." Docking spent the 2003-04 academic year at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and said that university's green campus opened his eyes. "I realized how important it is to live more harmoniously with the natural world. As educated individuals, we need to develop ways to live in the environment that are less destructive," he said.
http://www.lenconnect.com/articles/
2006/07/09/news/news01.txt | back to top
University Business | June 2006
Carnegie Mellon University (Pa.) Key accomplishment: Meet LEED, Behind the scenes: For Carnegie Mellon, the commitment to build in accordance with the U.S. Green Building Councils's LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standards is a step above the crowd: All new construction and significant renovations aim for LEED Silver designation at the Pittsburgh school. The fruits of this commitment have been seen most notably in New House, the nation's first LEED-certified campus residence hall, which opened in 2003. The $12.5 million building uses 31 percent less energy than other non-"green" buildings.
http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks
/pmg/ub0606-GG/index.php | back to top
Regional Impact
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | July 11
Pittsburgh finally is getting it right by building housing Downtown and big sites ready for development in the suburbs, moves that should attract young people and business to the region. That was the message of Robert Ady, one of the nation's premier site selection consultants, who told an audience at the Imperial Business Park yesterday that more and more young people are gravitating to downtown to live and hang out. ... Despite such improvements, the Pittsburgh region all too often still doesn't make the short list with many companies. One reason, said Jim Bruce, president of Business Facility Planning Consultants LLC of Atlanta, is Pittsburgh's "lack of aggressive growth" in recent years. A lot of businesses want to settle in cities that are growing quickly with lots of young people and big labor pools. ... That said, Mr. Bruce believes the region should play to its strength--its reputation as one of the country's leading centers for robotics, high technology and medicine. Those types of industries will help to attract younger people and more business, even if Pittsburgh isn't ranked among the top 10 coolest cities. "If you want to go into robotics, Carnegie Mellon is unsurpassed," he said by way of example. "At least in that particular area, this is the hot place to be."
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/06192/704959-53.stm | back to top
Houston Chronicle (AP) | July 10
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has chosen an international team of developers and architects to design a $460 million riverfront neighborhood downtown. The project, in Pittsburgh's cultural district, will be the nation's first mixed-use, environmentally friendly arts and residential development, officials said. ... The project is expected to contribute $1 billion and 9,000 jobs to the regional economy, officials said. "It seems like for the scale of what they're talking about, those numbers are reasonable," said Jerry Paytas, director of Carnegie Mellon University's Center for Economic Development. The new development should also help alleviate the relative dearth of housing in downtown Pittsburgh, he said. "People who predict the death of cities or the death of suburbs are always going to be wrong," Paytas said. "It's going to be an ebb and flow ... But we're seeing a swing back toward urban living."
http://www.chron.com/disp/
story.mpl/ap/fn/4037154.html | back to top
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | July 12
Carnegie Mellon University hopes to meet the phishing epidemic head-on with a forum today that runs through Friday. The second annual Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security in Oakland will feature about 100 technical and human-behavior experts from Carnegie Mellon, Google, Microsoft and elsewhere. Panels and workshops will focus on human interaction with computers, alternate systems to passwords and especially "phishing," where scammers trick computer users into supplying sensitive information used to defraud them. "And it's getting worse," said Lorrie Cranor, a symposium leader and director of Carnegie Mellon's Privacy and Security Laboratory. "More people are using computers, and you even have scammers with phishing tool kits who wake up in the morning and decide which bank they want to pretend to be today."
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/
pittsburghtrib/business/s_461503.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | July 7
Before May, America's two soda superpowers existed only in opposition, mutually exclusive--Coke or Pepsi? But a plot to sell trade secrets transformed the or into and, as the unlikely corporate tandem of Coca-Cola and Pepsi foiled an attempt to shop a new Coke drink recipe to its nemesis. Trade secrets are the most powerful, but also among the most risky, form of protection for a company product or formula. Corporations so rely on secret formulas, accessible to only a small circle, that they hire contractors to test security measures by simulating heists. They hold the information in such sanctity that the rare moments of jeopardy can turn competitors into cooperators. ... "The formula for Coke is the most famous trade secret," said David Tungate, an associate professor of law at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business. "Allegedly, only two or three people have access to a safety box where the secret resides. That's always been the myth about it.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/06188/704045-28.stm | back to top
International News Stories
News-Medical.Net | July 13
In people with autism, the brain areas that perform complex analysis appear less likely to work together during problem solving tasks than in people who do not have the disorder, report researchers working in a network funded by the National Institutes of Health. The researchers found that communications between these higher-order centers in the brains of people with autism appear to be directly related to the thickness of the anatomical connections between them. ... The studies and the theory are the work of Marcel Just, Ph.D., D.O. Hebb Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Nancy Minshew, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and their colleagues.
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=18840 | back to top
Monsters and Critics (UPI) | July 10
U.S. scientists have found a nanocrystalline material that is cheaper, more stable and produces a high-quality energy storage capacity. The team, led by Carnegie Mellon University Professor Prashant Kumta, says the discovery, might increase the longevity of rechargeable car batteries, fuel cells and other battery-operated devices. "We have found that synthesis of nanostructured vanadium nitride and controlled oxidation of the surface at the nanoscale is key to creating the next generation of supercapacitors commonly used in everything from cars, camcorders and lawn mowers to industrial backup power systems at hospitals and airports," Kumta said.
http://science.monstersandcritics.com/news/article
_1179704.php/Nanostructured_materials_are_found | back to top
IT Week (VNU) | July 10
U.S. boffins have created a poker playing robot that knows when to hold, knows when to fold, knows when to walk away and knows when to run. Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a smart learning program that can play a winning hand of Texas hold 'em. Professor Tuomas Sandholm and graduate student Andrew Gilpin are behind the game theory program that will compete in the Computer Poker Competition on July 16 to July 20 in Boston run by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. ... "Poker is a very complex game," said Professor Sandholm. "Computer poker programs require really sophisticated technology." Unlike chess, where the status of all of the chess pieces is known to both players, poker forces players to make decisions based on incomplete information. "You don't know what the other guy is holding," Professor Sandholm explained.
http://www.itweek.co.uk/vnunet/news/
2160014/boffins-deal-poker-playing?page=2 | back to top
Rediff (Forbes) | July 7
Here's a startling fact: By not negotiating their salaries, many women sacrifice more than half a million dollars by the end of their professional lives. "That is pretty scary," says Linda Babcock, the Carnegie Mellon University economics professor who researched that figure. Babcock surveyed M.B.A. students who graduated in 2002 and 2003 and found that those who negotiated received 7 per cent to 8 per cent more than what they were initially offered. And of those two graduating classes, 52 per cent of the men negotiated, compared to only 12 per cent of women. Over time, that adds up, since percentage raises are based on a person's current salary. "Women leave a lot of money on the table," says Babcock, who also co-authored the book, "Women Don't Ask". Women who do negotiate for more are still seen as pushy, even by today's younger generation.
http://inhome.rediff.com/money
/2006/jul/07forbes.htm | back to top
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