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September
22, 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 15 to September 22,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 623 references to the university in worldwide
publications. Here is a sample.
Special Section: Tepper rankings
The Wall Street Journal | September 20
The Wall Street Journal | September 20
Special Section: Luis von Ahn
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | September 19
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 19
The Chronicle of Higher Education | September 19
Forbes (AP) | September 19
National News Stories
MSNBC | September 25
The Chronicle of Higher Education | September 22
ABC News (AP) | September 20
Bloomberg | September 20
USA Today | September 17
Education for Leadership
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 21
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 21
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 17
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 17
Information Technology
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 20
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | September 19
East Bay Business Times | September 14
Regional Impact
Leader Times | September 20
phillyBurbs (AP) | September 16
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | September 16
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 17
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | September 17
International News Stories
Gulf Times | September 20
The Peninsula | September 20
ComputerWorld (IDG News Service) | September 19
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Special Section: Tepper rankings
The Wall Street Journal | September 20
Carnegie Mellon's M.B.A. program held steady at No. 3 and has consistently ranked among the top five National business schools in The Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive survey of corporate recruiters. Robust quantitative skills are the hallmark of a Carnegie Mellon M.B.A. degree. In rating the school, most recruiters cite its graduates' technical talent as its major attribute. And for academic excellence, recruiters named the Tepper School one of the best for operations management (No. 1), information technology (No. 2) and finance (No. 4).
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The Wall Street Journal | September 20
If we ever need proof that our annual ranking of M.B.A. programs has quickly become a major player in the business-school world, we don't have to look very far. The schools themselves offer plenty of evidence. The Journal's Ron Alsop, who is the brains and brawn behind the M.B.A. survey, says that from the outset in 2001, schools have told him the rankings get them noticed by both recruiters and applicants. Schools also say the survey offers valuable insight into what they're doing right--and wrong. Carnegie Mellon University, for instance, is offering more workshops on presentation skills to address a communications deficit recruiters saw in its students.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB11586
1631807366693-search.html?KEYWORDS=Editor
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Special Section: Luis von Ahn
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | September 19
Luis von Ahn can now be called a genius. The Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist today became this year's youngest MacArthur Fellow and received $500,000 to spend as he sees fit. "I was totally surprised and very happy," said von Ahn, 28, of Shadyside. "It never occurred to me that I'd win." It's the second honor he's received in as many weeks. Popular Science magazine last week named von Ahn as one of its "Brilliant 10," an honor unrelated to the fellowship. The fellowship -- nicknamed the "genius grant" -- recognizes people who are creative and original and who have the potential to make important contributions, said Daniel Socolow, director of the fellowship program. The Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation awarded this year's fellowships to 25 people, including a country doctor, a jazz violinist and a deep-sea explorer.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 19
When Luis von Ahn received a phone call one week ago while eating lunch, he thought it was another survey. The person asked if he knew any MacArthur Fellows--so-called MacArthur geniuses who receive $500,000 fellowships, no strings attached, "to reflect, explore and create." He said he knew two. "Well, you know one very well," the person said. "You are one." Dr. von Ahn, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, said the call made him "very happy." The 28-year-old Guatemala native is one of this year's 25 MacArthur Fellows who include a sculptor, a country doctor, a jazz violinist and a deep-sea explorer. "All were selected for their creativity, originality and potential to make important contributions in the future," the MacArthur Fellows Program Web site states. ... "Luis is the kind of person to invent the future," said Jeannette Wing, who heads Carnegie Mellon's Department of Computer Science. "He's unique in his creativity. His scientific contributions are joyful, spark curiosity and inspire the young.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education | September 19
Twelve professors are among the 25 MacArthur Fellows for 2006. The new honorees were announced early this morning by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The academic winners include the youngest fellow named this year, a 28-year-old assistant professor of computer science who works on problems of Internet security; several other professors in the sciences; and a creative-writing professor who is also a short-story writer. ... Luis von Ahn, 28, assistant professor of computer science, Carnegie Mellon University. He is a computer scientist working at the intersection of cryptography and artificial and natural intelligence to try to solve problems of profound theoretical and practical importance relating to Internet security and functionality.
http://chronicle.com/daily/2006
/09/2006091906n.htm | back to top
Forbes (AP) | September 19
The list of 25 fellows announced by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Each will receive $500,000 over the next five years: ... Luis von Ahn, 28, computer scientist, Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Von Ahn, who was born in Guatemala, helped develop CAPTCHA, a test used on many commercial Web sites to determine whether the user is human. ***This Associated Press article appeared in more than 40 media outlets.
http://www.forbes.com/business/healthcare/
feeds/ap/2006/09/19/ap3026397.html | back to top
National News Stories
MSNBC | September 25
Allan Meltzer ranks as one of the most strident critics of the IMF. As head of a 2000 U.S. congressional inquiry into the Asian financial crisis, which became known as the Meltzer commission, he drew conclusions that were seen as archly conservative at the time but have since become mainstream, including a call for the IMF to quit poverty relief and return to its original mission—fighting financial crises. The Carnegie Mellon University economist spoke to Newsweek's George Wehrfritz about what he considers the IMF's central challenge, the cheap Chinese yuan. Excerpts: Wehrfritz: What do you make of the plan to give China, South Korea, Turkey and Mexico a greater voice at the IMF? Meltzer: It's not a big step. It doesn't address the principal problem, which is to get more incentives into the system so there are better adjustments of exchange rates.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education | September 22
The U.S. Department of Energy announced this month that it has awarded $60-million for supercomputing projects at 70 universities and laboratories. The grants, which last from three to five years, are designed to accelerate research into new energy sources, global climate change, environmental cleanup methods, and physics, among other areas. One of the projects involves developing ways to manage huge amounts of data generated by supercomputers. Carnegie Mellon University scientists are leading the endeavor with help from scientists at the University of California at Santa Cruz and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and researchers at five national laboratories: Los Alamos, Sandia, Oak Ridge, Lawrence Berkeley, and Pacific Northwest. The project has been awarded $11-million over five years.
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ABC News (AP) | September 20
NASA ordered Atlantis' six astronauts to perform a more extensive inspection of the space shuttle using a 50-foot-boom early Wednesday to see if its heat shield was damaged by a mysterious object that apparently floated off the spacecraft. The extra inspection with the boom followed a 4 1/2-hour inspection using cameras on the space shuttle's robotic arm early Wednesday. NASA managers didn't see anything that concerned them during the initial inspection but decided to go ahead with the boom inspection anyway as an extra safety precaution. The boom, which is attached to the shuttle's 50-foot robotic arm and has cameras and sensors at its end, can look at hard-to-reach places. ... There is little downside to taking an extra day to make sure the heat shield is intact, said risk analysis expert Paul Fischbeck, a Carnegie Mellon University engineering professor. "There doesn't seem to be much cost in doing it," Fischbeck said. "It's almost like a freebie; an extra day in space." ***This Associated press article appeared in more than 185 media outlets.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/
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Bloomberg | September 20
Federal Reserve policy makers will probably keep interest rates unchanged for a second month today as they remain divided over the costs of clamping down on inflation. The Fed's case for doing nothing is strengthened by reports yesterday showing a plunge in home building and a drop in wholesale prices. The economic cost of continuing to attack inflation after a two-year tightening may be too high for some officials, including San Francisco Fed President Janet Yellen. At least two of the Fed's dozen district banks have opposed her stance. ... "Monetary policies are judged on taking action or not taking action against extreme uncertainty in forecasts," said Marvin Goodfriend, a former Richmond Fed adviser who teaches economics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. "The questions are where the risks lie in being slightly tighter or slightly easier."
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=
20601103&sid=a5dQOODYsAWY&refer=news | back to top
USA Today | September 17
In the past, scientists believed autism was confined to the brain areas that controlled social interaction, language and behavior. But the new findings indicate that autism affects many parts of the brain and possibly the wiring that connects one brain region to another. Though some children with autism are mentally retarded, University of Pittsburgh researcher Nancy Minshew and colleagues studied 56 children with autism who had an I.Q. of at least 80, close to the average I.Q. of 100. ... A second study suggests a biological explanation for the difficulty: A study published online in the journal Cerebral Cortex indicates that the corpus callosum, which connects one part of the brain to another, may be abnormal in autistic people. In this study, people with autism were asked to complete a computer task that requires two parts of the brain to work together. Brain scans showed that people with autism relied mostly on one brain area to solve the computer puzzle, says Marcel Just, lead author of the study and director of the Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging at Carnegie Mellon University. The findings suggest that people with autism don't have an efficient way to transfer information from one brain region to another, he says.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health
/2006-09-17-autism_x.htm | back to top
Education for Leadership
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 21
Carnegie Mellon men's soccer coach Nick Gaudio doesn't put an age on talent. "I don't care how old you are," said Gaudio, whose 277-104-35 record in 25 years at Carnegie Mellon includes appearances in the NCAA Division III tournament the past six seasons and seven times overall. "If you're ready to play, you'll play." Youth is being served in heavy doses this season with five freshmen in the lineup for the Tartans, who are 5-1 and ranked 13th nationally, up eight notches from last week, in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America poll.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
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Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 21
At the Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, are two very different exhibits, unified by their political content and by activist artist Joyce Kozloff who will give a free talk at 5:30 p.m. Friday at the gallery. "Disarming Images" is an engaging, hour-long, three screen video work made under the sponsorship of the New York-based collective Artists Against the War, of which Kozloff is a member. It includes video and photographic images of Americans publicly protesting what is referred to as the U.S. "invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq." ... Having earned her B.F.A. from then Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1964, and a subsequent M.F.A. from Columbia University, Kozloff returns to her alma mater a heralded artist who's secured several public art commissions including at the United States Consulate in Istanbul and National Airport, Washington, D.C.
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06264/723465-42.stm
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 17
This week, several local musicians are a part of opening the classical music season. Duquesne University voice chair Guenko Guechev shows off his own baritone singing in a recital with wife Xiu-ru Liu, a mezzo-soprano, at 4 p.m. today at Shadyside Presbyterian Church. The duo will sing works by Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saens and others, highlighted by Mussorgsky's "Songs and Dances of Death." Flutist Barbara O'Brien, pianist Yeeha Chiu and cellist Adam Liu give a combined recital at 2 p.m. today at Carnegie Mellon's Kresge Hall, with Prokofiev, Boccherini and Debussy on tap. The Pittsburgh Symphony's Chamber Orchestra is highlighting Carnegie Mellon this year in concerts, beginning with guitarist James Ferla soloing in a Paganini guitar quartet at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Jewish Community Center, Squirrel Hill.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 17
The River City Brass Band began not with row upon row of gleaming metallic instruments, but as a concept. In the late '70s, conductor Robert Bernat, dismayed by the cultural recession that seemed to be following the economic one, decided to create a group to reconnect audiences to classical music. He didn't even have a specific genre in mind at first but realized it would have to be one far removed from his own training as a orchestral violist and conductor. "Bob decided that a brass band was the way to go," says Denis Colwell, RCBB's music director. "The nature of a brass instrument is not off-putting. There is a level of formality that goes along with an orchestra that doesn't [exist] with the more blue-collar association with brass. Bob thought that could be used to his end of making classical music being less threatening. It was an educational experiment, different from every other arts organization in that it was designed to fill a need." ... In November 1981, Bernat assembled a band primarily culled from Carnegie Mellon and Duquesne University faculty and students for a concert at Carnegie Music Hall. Blaring over flugelhorns, trumpets and trombones and more, the concept found success with audiences and the band itself.
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Information Technology
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 20
Imagine a computer understanding everything you say, regardless of how fast you speak or the words you use. And while you're talking to that computer, it's also turning your words immediately into type. Then imagine technology that can do this a thousand times faster than real time as a means of processing thousands of hours of recorded speech in a fraction of the time. These are the goals of Rob A. Rutenbar, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and director of the national MARCO Focus Center for Circuit System Solutions.
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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | September 19
Researchers at Seagate Technology's Pittsburgh center have written the latest chapter in the 50-year history of the computer hard drive, with a device that could hold about three times more data than current top technologies. Mark Kryder, director of the center in the Strip District, announced a recent magnetic recording demonstration that set a world record of 421 gigabits per square inch, during a presentation Friday at a California technology show. ... Seagate, based in Scotts Valley, Calif., created its Pittsburgh research center in 1998 to capitalize on the intellectual capital of Carnegie Mellon University's Data Storage Center, which Kryder directed.
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East Bay Business Times | September 14
Garth Gibson, co-founder and chief technology officer of Panasas Inc., will lead a group of industry experts building an infrastructure for next-generation supercomputers under a five-year, $11 million grant from the Department of Energy. Gibson, also an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University, will be the lead principal investigator in the Petascale Data Storage Institute, which will research data storage issues and technologies. The DOE also has tapped computer scientists from US-Santa Cruz and the University of Michigan, as well as the DOE's Sandia, Lawrence Berkeley, Los Alamos, Oak Ridge and Pacific Northwest national laboratories.
http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories
/2006/09/11/daily75.html?surround=lfn | back to top
Regional Impact
Leader Times | September 20
East Franklin Township is trying to extend sewage treatment facilities to unserviced areas, but there is only so much money to go around, said Mark Snyder, a member of a task force studying water-management challenges in Southwestern Pennsylvania. That is just one of many water issues facing Armstrong County and 10 other counties in the region, he said. Snyder, corporate secretary of Snyder Associated Companies, was appointed by the Armstrong county Commissioners as the county's representative to the 17-member Regional Water Management Task Force. ... Carnegie Mellon University President Jared Cohon, who chaired the Pennsylvania Economy League's Water and Sewer Infrastructure Project five years ago, is the chairman of the task force. "This project is a natural follow-up to the Water and Sewer Infrastructure Project," Cohon said. "That project's report identified Southwestern Pennsylvania's water-quality problems. The new task force will work to identify and implement the most effective mechanisms to solve these problems."
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phillyBurbs (AP) | September 16
In his first two weeks in office, the city's new mayor announced changes to his staff, readied a budget proposal, attended a handful of news conferences--and laughed it up on the "Late Show with David Letterman." It's been a full schedule for the Pittsburgh native and standout high school quarterback who graduated from college just four years ago. At 26, Luke Ravenstahl became the youngest mayor in a major U.S. city on Sept. 1, hours after his 61-year-old predecessor died of a rare brain cancer. Many believe the new mayor can finally help the city shed old stereotypes about smoke-spitting steel mills and a graying population. ... Jared L. Cohon, president of Carnegie Mellon University, where 90 percent of the students come from outside of the area, said students there have taken notice of Ravenstahl. "They like the fact that he's so young. I've talked to some of them and they think it's kind of cool," Cohon said. ***This Associated Press article was featured in more then 30 media outlets.
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news
/103-09152006-713104.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | September 16
Pittsburgh architects are joining local doctors on the front lines in the battle against childhood obesity in the city, trying to tackle the public health crisis pound by pound, and block by block. The U.S. childhood obesity rate climbed from 16 percent in 2002 to 17.1 percent in 2004, and is projected to rise to 20 percent by 2010, according to an Institute of Medicine report issued this week. Experts speaking today at the fourth annual Highmark Childhood Obesity Summit, Downtown, will emphasize that the epidemic cannot be stopped through medical interventions alone. They will make it clear that it will take the cooperation of city planners, policy makers, architects and community and business leaders. "The bottom line is to get people more active, and to do that, you have to make physical changes to our neighborhoods," said Carnegie Mellon University architecture and public policy professor Kristen Kurland, who has used computerized mapping techniques to identify geographic obesity trends and improvements to urban neighborhoods that could promote healthier lifestyles.
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Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 17
One thing can be said about the city's various literary series that start this month--they have nothing in common. For instance, the series presented by the University of Pittsburgh's English Department is heavy on poets, while the Heinz Lectures puts its money on novelists. Carnegie Mellon's Adamson series shifts this season to an all-alumni lineup as the Pittsburgh Speakers Series shifts its focus to the right-wing for its well-paid lecturers. Don't take my word for it. Have a look at the 2006-07 seasons: ... Sept. 22: Cave Canem, a national literary organization for black poets, marks its 10th anniversary with a series of programs at Pitt. Noon: Poets Duriel Harris, Dawn Lundy Martin and Ronald Wilson read at Frick Fine Arts Auditorium. 2 p.m.: Pitt's Toi Derricotte and Carnegie Mellon's Terrance Hayes join the University of Kentucky's Nikky Finney to discuss "Black Consciousness and Contemporary Poetry," 501 Cathedral of Learning. 7 p.m.: Poetry reading by Finney and Hayes, Frick Fine Arts Auditorium.
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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | September 17
The name of the singer might elude even the most devoted music trivia fiend. In 1969, singer Peter Sarstedt briefly topped the British charts with a Euro-pop waltz titled "Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)." Singer and song soon faded into obscurity, but not before casting its spell, via short-wave radio, on a young engineering student named Rabikar Chatterjee. ... "I wanted that particular track, but I didn't want to buy the album," Chatterjee says. "Now it's possible to go online and pick the particular song you want. You're unbundling the album and picking a particular song." This consumer cherry-picking has been dubbed "the long tail." ... Peter Boatwright, associate professor of marketing at Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University in Oakland, points out that long-tail marketing has been with us for some time. It's called a supermarket. "They sell milk, butter and eggs, but the majority of these items--the soy sauce in an 8-ounce container, the larger ketchup size--they sit there and gather dust. The grocery store has to stock these."
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International News Stories
Gulf Times | September 20
As a way to introduce students to the array of business and service opportunities in Doha, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar will host local businessmen and businesswomen as guest speakers this Fall semester. Kicking off the series is ExxonMobil Qatar president and general manager Alex Dodds. Other guest speakers are to visit Carnegie Mellon in Qatar in coming weeks. "Carnegie Mellon has a commitment to developing its students as leaders and good citizens in their communities," said assistant dean for academic affairs, John Robertson.
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article
.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=108728&versio
n=1&template_id=36&parent_id=16 | back to top
The Peninsula | September 20
By the end of next year, 100,000 people will be using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to access government document services such as traffic tickets and exit permits, predicted Wajdi Matar, Planning and Institutional Relations Manager of ictQATAR. ictQATAR's Advisory Council concluded their third-quarter meeting yesterday. "The meeting was a platform for ictQATAR's management to engage in constructive discussions with renowned experts in ICT," said Matar. ... The Advisory Council was established in February 2006 and is comprised of several international experts in the field of ICT. The members of the committee include Kathleen Abernathy, former Commissioner of the US Federal Communications Commission, Dutta, David Newkirk, former board member for the London Business School's global advisory board and Dr. Raj Reddy, former Director of the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon.
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display
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ComputerWorld (IDG News Service) | September 19
A poker-playing robot may help find the answers to some of the most intractable challenges in the business world, such as optimizing e-commerce and auction applications. Programmers have historically tried to teach computers to play chess, setting up the iconic 1996 match between IBM's Deep Blue computer and human champion Gary Kasparov. But poker provides a better test of artificial intelligence, says Tuomas Sandholm, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University: While chess players can see all the game pieces, poker players face many hidden details, like what cards the opponent has been dealt.
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news
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