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September
15, 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 September 8 to September 14,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 273 references to the university in worldwide
publications. Here is a sample.
Special Section: Brilliant 10
Popular Science | October 2006
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | September 13
USA Today | September 11
National News Stories
The Chronicle of Higher Education | September 15
The Chronicle of Higher Educations | September 11
The New Yorker | September 11
USA Today | September 11
The New York Times (AP) | September 11
The Wall Street Journal | September 11
Science | September 8
Education for Leadership
Gamasutra | September 12
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 12
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 12
Baltimore Sun | September 11
History News Network | September 11
Pittsburgh Tribune Review | September 10
Pittsburgh City Paper | September 7
Information Technology
Los Angeles Times | September 12
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 8
Environment
Chemical & Engineering News | September 7
Regional Impact
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | September 10
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | September 10
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 14
Pittsburgh Business Times | September 8
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 7
International News Stories
The Hindu | September 14
Techworld | September 11
Gulf Times | September 8
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Special Section: Brilliant 10
Popular Science | October 2006
By "brilliant," we don't mean smart. Or at least not just smart. Brilliance is marked by insight, creativity and tenacity. It's the confidence to eschew established wisdom in order to develop your own. It's the foolishness needed to set out for the edge of understanding and sail right past it, ignoring the signs reading "Thar be monsters" (not to mention "Turn back lest ye never be awarded a decent research grant again"). That's why, when we started the six-month-long process of selecting our Brilliant 10 awardees, we asked hundreds of respected scientists, university department heads and journal editors to name not the most established or well-known scientists in their fields. ... Luis von Ahn, 27. The Matrix Builder. If something's too hard for computers, he tricks human processing units into solving the problem. Most artificial-intelligence researchers face the gargantuan task of making computers think like humans. Carnegie Mellon University professor Luis von Ahn works the other way around. He harnesses tens of thousands of people’s reasoning skills for those rare yet important jobs that are too hard for computers. His strategy is to make the work seem like a game. Von Ahn’s most popular application tackles one of the most difficult tasks in computer science: labeling every image on the Internet. Computers can’t make fine distinctions in visual information, so in the ESP Game (espgame.org), randomly paired online participants compete to label photos from the Web.
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/80d15f1a587ad
010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd/11.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | September 13
A sure sign of brilliance is tricking others into having fun while unwittingly helping you do work. Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist Luis von Ahn was recognized for achieving that feat Tuesday when the October issue of Popular Science hit newsstands, naming him one of its 5th annual "Brilliant 10." The list recognizes young, relatively unknown scientists who are breaking new ground. "Yeah, I don't know," said von Ahn, 27, of Shadyside, with embarrassed modesty, when asked how it felt to be labeled "brilliant" at such an early stage in his career. Von Ahn, a native of Guatemala, is leading research at Carnegie Mellon to develop tests that determine whether visitors to Web sites are humans or software robots deployed by spammers. He is perhaps best known for creating the popular "ESP game," which harnesses brainpower to label the millions of images on the Internet. ... Von Ahn is the second Carnegie Mellon computer scientist to be named part of Popular Science's "Brilliant 10" in two years. The magazine honored Carnegie Mellon assistant professor Doug James last fall for developing tools that simulate collisions between virtual objects with greater speed and accuracy.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/
pittsburghtrib/search/s_470213.html | back to top
USA Today | September 11
Luis von Ahn, 27; Carnegie Mellon; computer science. The most powerful computers cannot mimic the nuance of a human mind, which is why von Ahn works to harness that brainpower. He has the lofty goal of labeling every image on the Internet by turning the process into a competitive online game (espgame.org) so the word associations offered by Internet users can become aids in finding the images in future Internet searches.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/
2006-09-11-brilliant-ten_x.htm | back to top
National News Stories
The Chronicle of Higher Education | September 15
In recent years, many people have wanted to make the research university more relevant to business and the economy. Advocates of a greater economic role believe that the university's most important contributions are the transfer of research to industry, the production of commercial inventions and patents, and the creation and spinoff of start-up companies. ... I recently studied the effects of the university on each of those three T's across all 331 metropolitan regions in the nation, as defined by the U.S. Census in 2000. I worked with Gary J. Gates, a senior research fellow at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law; Kevin Stolarick, a lecturer in information systems at Carnegie Mellon University; and Brian Knudsen, a Ph.D. student in public policy and management, also at Carnegie Mellon.
http://chronicle.com/weekly/
v53/i04/04b00601.htm | back to top
The Chronicle of Higher Educations | September 11
The creator of Facebook, the popular social-networking Web site, responded on Friday to criticism of two new features that many users have attacked as a violation of their privacy. Since a September 5 redesign that introduced the new features, users have been greeted by a "News Feed" when they log on to the site. Functioning like an RSS feed, the News Feed compiles a list of everything that everyone tagged as a friend has done on Facebook. Whether a friend changes his relationship status, updates his favorite books, comments on a photograph, or posts a message, that action is relayed through the News Feed. ... College officials have noted that the features have made students more aware of the privacy implications of using such services--something that administrators, parents, and potential employers have tried to highlight in recent months. "The Mini-Feed wakes up the Facebook users from what was before a misconception about the power of the network," said Alessandro Acquisti, an assistant professor of information systems and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University who has done research with Ralph Gross, a graduate student there, on what people reveal on Facebook and why they reveal it.
http://chronicle.com/daily/2006
/09/2006091101t.htm | back to top
The New Yorker | September 11
I sometimes wonder what goes on in my head when I make stupid investment decisions. A few weeks ago, I had a chance to find out, when I took part in an experiment at New York University's Center for Brain Imaging, in a building off Washington Square Park. ... In the mid-nineties, Antonio Damasio, a neurologist at the University of Iowa, and Joseph LeDoux, a neuroscientist at N.Y.U., each published a book for lay readers describing how the brain processes emotions. "We were reading the neuroscience, and it just seemed obvious that there were applications to economics, both in terms of ideas and methods," said George Loewenstein, an economist and psychologist at Carnegie Mellon who read Damasio's and LeDoux's books. "The idea that you can look inside the brain and see what is happening is just so intensely exciting."
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/
content/articles/060918fa_fact | back to top
USA Today | September 11
The girl's nightmare was always the same: Her airline pilot father is in the cockpit when terrorists break in and take over. The 757 begins to dive, down, down. Five years later, Claire McGrath's mother can still hear her daughter's cries. "It was a terrible time," Lynette McGrath says. "It's a time I'd like to forget." It's a time no one can forget--late summer and early fall, 2001. It was our season of fear, a season that never really ended. There were the 9/11 attacks; the anthrax scare; a jumbo jet crash in New York that killed all 260 on board, five on the ground, and for a few hours inspired fears of terrorism. ... But for some, the season of fear has never ended. Carnegie Mellon psychologist Jennifer Lerner says her research indicates that, as a result of that period, some Americans still have a "heightened response to fear"—not just of terrorism, but of garden-variety risks like getting the flu.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/
2006-09-11-sept11-fear_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA | back to top
The New York Times (AP) | September 11
Americans were robbed and victimized by gun violence at greater rates last year than the year before, even though overall violent and property crime reached a 32-year low, the Justice Department said on Sunday. The increases buttress reports from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and from mayors and police chiefs that violent crime is beginning to rise after a long decline. Bush administration officials expressed concern but said it was too soon to tell if a new upward trend had begun. ... Professor Alfred Blumstein of Carnegie Mellon University said the rise in gun violence was particularly troubling. "A major police effort to confiscate guns helped bring down the surge in violent crime that occurred in the late 1980's and early 1990’s," Professor Blumstein said. "But gun distribution is easier now because we have begun to back off gun control." ***This Associated Press article was featured in more than 180 media outlets.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/11/
washington/11crime.html?_r=1&oref=slogin | back to top
The Wall Street Journal | September 11
Imagine a cereal box with a lighted display on the back that teaches a child how to hit a softball as she eats her breakfast. Sounds interesting, but even more so if you can throw away the box when it's empty because the display and the solar cell that powers it are so cheap to manufacture. That's the vision of Andrew Hannah, chief executive of Plextronics Inc., a Pittsburgh-based company that is developing technology that aims to incorporate electronics into a variety of everyday objects. Plextronics has developed a method for making "printed" electronics devices, using inks and dyes to replace traditional circuitry. Devices that can benefit from this new manufacturing process include radio-frequency ID tags, which companies are introducing as the next generation of bar codes, and flat-panel displays, as in the cereal-box example. It can also be used to create general white lighting as well as solar cells. It's still in the early stages for many of these potential applications, but Plextronics is closest to commercializing its display technology, thanks in part to $16.5 million in recent venture-capital backing. ***Plextronics is a Carnegie Mellon spin-off company founded by Mellon College of Science Dean Richard McCullough.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB11575535608
4755111-search.html?KEYWORDS=What%27s
+New%3A+The+Latest&COLLECTION=wsjie/6month | back to top
Science | September 8
Modern research in universities, as well as industry, increasingly involves interdisciplinary teams. To facilitate such research, academic departments seek faculty members with multidisciplinary backgrounds--in terms of broad skills gained in training and/or experience working in research teams that include specialists in several fields. ... What is novel is the enthusiasm that research universities now show for the concept. "I see a very strong trend toward multidisciplinary research," says Fred Gilman, head of Carnegie Mellon University's Physics Department. "It has a long history here, with generally low barriers between disciplines and encouragement from the university."
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_development
/previous_issues/articles/2006_09_08/
faculty_positions_multidisciplinary_matters | back to top
Education for Leadership
Gamasutra | September 12
For today's Gamasutra feature, James Portnow, master's student at Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology department takes a look at risk, an important defining factor of any game experience. Portnow breaks down the delicate balance of risk and reward and at the dangers of falling too easily into designing the "safe game": one where insubstantial reward is doled out at regular intervals to overcompensate for improperly balanced design.
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/
news_index.php?story=10841 | back to top
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 12
A new season of architecture-related lectures, conferences, exhibits and programs is on the horizon. Here's what's up, in order of appearance: Tomorrow: Good news for teachers, home-schoolers and ultimately students--The National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., launches its first national design education program, providing curricula that make connections among art and design, math, science and engineering. ... Oct. 3: Artist and thematician Martin Wattenberg, whose digital work explores mapping the invisible, heads the Visual Communication Lab at IBM Research, where he develops visualization techniques that help people see and exchange information in novel ways. ... Wattenberg will speak at 5 p.m. in Carnegie Mellon University's McConomy Auditorium in the University Center. ... Oct. 9: New Urbanism in New Orleans will be the topic of architects Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, who will give Carnegie Mellon's annual David Lewis Lecture at 6:30 p.m. at the Carnegie Library Lecture Hall in Oakland. "Stepping up to the Scaffold: Post-Katrina Planning on the Gulf Coast" is the title of the talk, sponsored by Urban Design Associates, the firm Lewis founded in 1964.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
06255/720974-42.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 12
American Shorts Thursday night brings Mary Gaitskill, a novelist with a growing following among younger literati, to town. She's developed the kind of attention that prompts a New York Times interviewer to comment on her "smooth skin" and "affectless voice." ... Thursday is also the night for a book party for Hilary Masters at the Mattress Factory art gallery, 500 Sampsonia Way, North Side. Masters is celebrating the publication of "Elegy for Sam Masterson," his new novel set partly in Pittsburgh. He's professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University and also has written memoirs, essays and nonfiction.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
06255/720979-44.stm | back to top
Baltimore Sun | September 11
Not long ago Angelika Williams was watching television when she saw, once again, videotape of those jets slamming into the World Trade Center. Williams had no personal connection to the events of five years ago: The victims were strangers, the attacks occurred far from her home in Edgewood and job at Aberdeen Proving Ground. But the searing emotions of that terrible morning came flooding back. "I felt the same shock and disbelief again," said the 61-year-old travel agent. Today, the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, will dawn on an America where memories still feel fresh and emotions raw, psychologists say. ... Psychologist Jennifer Lerner of Carnegie Mellon University leads a team conducting a long-range study of the emotional state of Americans since Sept. 11. The team began studying the responses of a representative sample of 1,000 Americans nine days later and has continued to track them ever since. Everyone responded emotionally to the events in his or her own way, Lerner said. But reactions generally fell into two categories: Some people mainly felt fear, while others reacted mostly with anger.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/
nationworld/bal-te.psyche11sep11,0,838445
.story?coll=bal-home-headlines | back to top
History News Network | September 11
When the first plane struck, I was in my Pittsburgh apartment writing a conference paper on images of failure in popular music. My mother phoned: big jet crash, turn on CNN. "I'll have to skip this one," I said. "I'm working." Minutes later, I cut off a neighbor and then a colleague who rang in quick succession. When my spouse called with news of the second plane, I finally clicked the television and quit dylanloser.doc, "The Loser Now Will Be Later to Win: Bob Dylan and the Epiphany of Failure." By mid-morning on September 11, 2001, we knew that thousands were dead in unfathomable horror. Yet, part of me fretted that I really should be getting back to work. *** This article was written by Scott Sandage, Associate Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon.
http://hnn.us/articles/29760.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune Review | September 10
Come Friday night, if you drive by the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, you might think something's not right. For starters, the front lawn will be filled with a cascade of colors that emanates from the basement windows in an unearthly glow. And if you happen to step inside the yellow mansion, whose first room will be awash in a similar multi-colored glow, you will be further pressed by similar curiosities. Extraterrestrial aliens will not have taken up residence. The glowing light is the handiwork of Jane Haskell, the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts' 2006 Artist of the Year. ... Beyond Haskell's pieces, the rear galleries hold the work of Kim Beck, 2006 Emerging Artist of the Year. Beck, 35, is an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Her work, which focuses on peripheral or overlooked spaces, includes drawing, painting, video installation and printmaking. For this exhibition, she has chosen to take the everyday architectonics of street signs and given them a language all their own.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib
/search/s_469809.html | back to top
Pittsburgh City Paper | September 7
In an automobile-based culture with fewer and fewer sidewalks, Pittsburgh alone, even among hilly cities, has a vast network of ascendant concrete footpaths that aspire to the heavens, or at least Stanton Heights. A hybrid of architecture, landscape architecture and civil infrastructure that is at once mundane and fantastic, these paths are only beginning to receive well-deserved attention and appreciation. The Steps of Pittsburgh, a wonderful new book by Bob Regan with photos by Tim Fabian, documents them admirably in maps and photos. However, in Doug Cooper's recent drawings (an exhibition of which opens from 6-8 p.m. Sat., Sept. 9, at Concept Gallery, in Regent Square) the steps reach beyond Pittsburgh's skyward neighborhoods, and to a new artistic plateau. Cooper (my senior colleague on the architecture faculty at Carnegie Mellon University) is an internationally acclaimed perspectivist with large commissioned murals in Frankfurt and Rome, as well as New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Seattle. Pittsburgh is not his limitation, but rather his inspiration. ... "Vision is utterly tied up with moving and engaging the space or spaces where you are," Cooper explains. ***This article was written by Carnegie Mellon adjunct assistant professor of architecture, Charles Rosenblum.
http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/archive
.cfm?type=Writing%20on%20the%20Walls&
action=getComplete&ref=6696 | back to top
Information Technology
Los Angeles Times | September 12
Coastline Community College was a higher-education pioneer in the late 1970s when it started developing television-based courses that students could take from anywhere as long as they had another innovation of the time, a video player. Today the Fountain Valley-based school remains a trendsetter, producing college classes whose lectures and study materials can be viewed on iPods, personal digital assistants and cell phones. ... Online learning could gain further momentum in coming years because of initiatives by such universities as M.I.T. and Carnegie Mellon, along with the Hewlett Foundation and European institutions, to put more course materials online for students and schools around the world. An array of U.S. schools already is using the materials, often called "open educational resources." ... Experts say that trend, in turn, also could translate into demand for technologies that better monitor what students are learning. Artificial intelligence experts are developing "intelligent tutoring systems" that can help students working on problems in, say, algebra or physics where there are many ways to solve a problem--as well as many ways to go wrong. When students ask for a hint, "they'll get different answers based on what they're doing," said Joel M. Smith, vice provost and chief information officer at Carnegie Mellon.
http://www.latimes.com/news/education/
la-me-125future12sep12,1,5765026.story?page
=2&cset=true&ctrack=1&coll=la-news-learning | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 8
Every complex system needs a way to prevent failures or mistakes. It's one reason why cars have brakes and electrical systems have circuit breakers. And it's one reason why Carnegie Mellon University has landed a $2 million to $2.5 million grant to develop ways to overcome failures in new-age supercomputers that are used to create models and simulations for scientific research. To accomplish that, the U.S. Department of Energy has created the Petascale Data Storage Institute and awarded $11 million in grants to researchers at Carnegie Mellon, the University of California at Santa Cruz and the University of Michigan. Garth Gibson, associate professor of computer science and electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon, will lead the institute. "This is a demonstration of the leadership of the Pittsburgh area in information or data-storage technology," Dr. Gibson said.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
06251/720038-298.stm | back to top
Environment
Chemical & Engineering News | September 7
Iron tetraamido macrocyclic ligand complexes developed by Terrence J. Collins and his research group at Carnegie Mellon University increase the oxidizing power of hydrogen peroxide under mild conditions, making the inexpensive catalysts useful for many environmental cleanup processes. Some examples include treating pulp and paper processing by-products; reducing sulfur in fuels; deactivating bacterial spores; and degrading trace amounts of bisphenol A, estrogens, and active pharmaceutical ingredients in wastewater. ... The development is one of the first examples of "deliberately producing a highly effective degradation procedure for an endocrine-disrupting chemical with the hope that it might eventually be used for environmental protection," Collins says.
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news
/84/i37/8437iron.html | back to top
Regional Impact
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | September 10
In the weeks after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Americans struggled to understand what had happened. The economy, too, was stunned. ... "It's not like the economy was booming," recalled Stuart Hoffman, chief economist at PNC Financial Services. ... " Today, Pittsburgh International Airport is a more stable business, Hoffman said, transformed into a more diversified facility with a mix of both legacy and low-cost carriers such as Southwest Airline and JetBlue. That's good news for passengers, because average air fares are down 15 percent from August 2001. Hoffman estimates new security practices cost U.S. businesses tens of millions of dollars. But for some, the challenging new security environment offered opportunities. Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute had been in existence since 1984, specializing in software engineering and computer security. The institute's research staff has increased 55 percent, to more than 500 in the past five years. Its funding--much of it from federal contracts--rose 85 percent, to $92.7 million. "The biggest change I've seen is a greater emphasis on security and trustworthy computing," compared to the e-commerce concerns that dominated thinking prior to 9/11, said Michael Reiter, a professor and co-director of Carnegie Mellon's CyLab.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/
pittsburghtrib/business/s_469845.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | September 10
More than two years after lawmakers approved a slots law, Pennsylvania appears likely to get its first casinos by early 2007--whether people are ready or not. With the first gambling licenses expected to be awarded Sept. 27 to racetracks, Western Pennsylvania could have a casino open at The Meadows harness-racing track in Washington County by February, the applicant has said. A permanent casino and grandstand would follow in 2008. Although polls show fewer people today believe that gambling is immoral, Pennsylvania's early delays on slots might represent some "residual hesitation," said Greg Caruso, who teaches a class on the culture of chance at Carnegie Mellon University. "It's been two years since it has been approved, and we're still not there," he said. "It shows there is still a lot of resistance."
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/
pittsburghtrib/news/today/s_469826.html | back to top
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 14
Carnegie Mellon University for "Apparatus and method for detecting obstacles, No. 7,092,075." Inventors were Sanjiv Singh, Pittsburgh, and Parag Batavia, Seven Fields. The present application is related, generally, to a method and apparatus for detecting obstacles in an outdoor environment. For outdoor environments having a high curvature terrain, reliable identification of an obstacle located therein can be a difficult task. The natural rise and fall of the terrain can easily be misconstrued as an obstacle or even result in an obstacle going undetected. Cadence Design Systems Inc. for "Method for generating constrained component placement for integrated circuits and packages, No. 7,093,220." Inventors were Elias Fallon, Pittsburgh, and Rob A. Rutenbar, Pittsburgh. The present invention relates to circuit design and, more particularly, to component placement in a circuit design.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/06257/721589-28.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Business Times | September 8
As Pittsburgh's 250th anniversary approaches in 2008, the Pittsburgh 250 Commission kicked off its marketing effort at a news conference Friday. The marketing campaign, called "Imagine what you can do here", is designed to help drive interest from convention visitors and tourists, as well as stimulate economic growth within southwestern Pennsylvania by encouraging companies and employees to locate and grow here. ... The campaign will include local and national print and electronic advertisements, a Web site (www.ImaginePittsburgh.com), activities and events designed to generate community involvement and commemorate the 250th anniversary and marketing materials that will be sent directly to business decision makers around the world. The new print ads include one designed to highlight the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, with a photo of Pittsburgh on the left and a Carnegie Mellon robot in Antarctica on the right. Another has a birthday cake representing Pittsburgh's upcoming anniversary, next to a Ferris wheel, which was created by local bridge builder George Ferris.
http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/
stories/2006/09/04/daily22.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 7
West Allegheny school officials have agreed to borrow $10 million for high school additions and renovations to serve a population expected to increase by 200 students over the next decade. Plans include building more classrooms, adding a balcony to the auditorium for increased capacity, and installing artificial turf in the stadium. The school board approved the $10 million, 20-year bond issue Aug. 16 and agreed to submit preliminary renovation plans to the state Department of Education. Both measures passed 7-0, with members Jeff Sweet and Robert Ostrander absent. ... A recent growth study commissioned by the district found the high school population would increase from about 1,025 to 1,225 over the next 10 years. ... The growth study, completed by Shelby Stewman, a Carnegie Mellon University professor of demography and sociology, accounted for housing developments, birth rates and other factors to project growth patterns through 2015.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg
/06250/719519-57.stm | back to top
International News Stories
The Hindu | September 14
If children learn 26 alphabets in the English language, the visually impaired have to learn 52. In addition to the common version of alphabets, they need to learn to write mirror images of alphabets. "It is difficult to engage visually impaired children in learning because of this drawback in Braille," says Nidhi Kalra, a Ph.D. student from Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon. She says that feedback is delayed until the paper is flipped over and read so that it takes longer to identify mistakes and correct them. Ms. Nidhi, along with fellow team-mate Tom Lauwers, has come up with an automated tutor that teaches children how to read and write Braille. ... The automated tutor is part of "Tech Bridge World" initiative of Carnegie Mellon University. In this program, students are encouraged to use their engineering skills for non-traditional skills.
http://www.hindu.com/2006/09/14/
stories/2006091405190200.htm | back to top
Techworld | September 11
The next generation of supercomputers could be crippled by hard drive failures every few minutes, the U.S. Department of Energy has warned, and so it is funding a Petascale Data Storage Institute to solve the problem. The Los Alamos Laboratory has commissioned RoadRunner, a 32,000 CPU supercomputer from IBM that will operate at petaflop levels--that is a sustained speed of 1,000 trillion calculations per second. Put alternately, this is a quadrillion, a million billion, operations per second. Thousands of hard disks will be needed to keep the thousands of CPUs supplied with data. And Garth Gibson, an associate professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon university, who will lead the new Institute, has warned that this system "likely will require up to hundreds of thousands of magnetic hard disks to handle the data required to run simulations, provide checkpoint/restart fault tolerance and store the output of these modeling experiments. With such a large number of components, it is a given that some component will be failing at all times."
http://www.techworld.com/storage/news/
index.cfm?newsID=6836&pagtype=all | back to top
Gulf Times | September 8
A total of 198 new students have been admitted to the branch campuses of the five internationally renowned American universities at Qatar Foundation's Education City, officials told Gulf Times yesterday. This takes the total number of students in all the five institutions beyond 744, it was revealed on the sidelines of an acquaintance and admissions presentation titled "Discover Education City." ... Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, offering undergraduate degrees in Business and Computer Science, has taken 37 new students from 14 different nationalities, director of admission Bryan Zerbe and assistant director Gehan Samarah said. About 40 percent of the newcomers are Qatari, the male:female ratio is almost 50:50, and the total number of students is 120, they explained.
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/
article.aspx?cu_no=2&item_no=106692
&version=1&template_id=36&parent_id=16 | back to top
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