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September
29, 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 22 to September 28,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 208 references to the university in worldwide
publications. Here is a sample.
National News Stories
Popular Mechanics | September 26
USA Today | September 26
CBS | September 22
USA Today (The Christian Science Monitor) | September 22
Education for Leadership
CosmoGIRL! | October 2006
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 24
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | September 28
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 27
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 22
Information Technology
Pittsburgh Business Times | September 25
Pittsburgh Business Times | September 25
Popular Science | September 22
San Jose Mercury News | September 22
Regional Impact
Philadelphia Daily News | September 25
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | September 25
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | September 28
Beaver County Times | September 27
The Courier-Journal | September 25
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 25
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 25
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 22
International News Stories
The Peninsula | September 26
MENA FN | September 26
Computerworld | September 25
Computerworld | September 25
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National News Stories
Popular Mechanics | September 26
The next 20 years of American innovation will be shaped by these 10 cutting-edge science and engineering programs. But before they change the world, these undergraduates will have to finish their homework. ... Robotics. Carnegie Mellon University. Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute in Pittsburgh is the world's biggest academic robotics research center. Undergrads minoring in the subject take courses such as Introduction to Robotics, in which the weekly homework assignment is to build LEGO robots demonstrating that week's concepts. "If the robot works, they get their A," says Howie Choset, who teaches the course. But the real fun happens in the research labs, where students work on projects such as a slithering snake robot for search-and-rescue missions. Students also participate in a dazzling array of competitions, such as the RoboCup, which pits teams of Sony AIBO robot dogs against each other in soccer. The highlight of the year is probably the Mobot Races at the Carnegie Mellon Spring Carnival. "Mobot is more important than the football team," Choset says.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/
science/research/3491456.html?page=1 | back to top
USA Today | September 26
From strobe-lit guitar solos to pink-haired vamps crammed into sequined spandex costumes, the decadent legacy of the video game industry's Electronic Entertainment Expo lived on at the huge Tokyo Game Show. Held over the weekend at the city's Makuhari Messe convention center, the show gave the widest view yet of this fall's battle of the behemoths. Expectations have run high before the U.S. launches Nov. 17 and 19, respectively, of Sony's Blu-ray disc-ready PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's motion-sensing Wii systems. They join Microsoft's Xbox 360 in stores for the holidays. With the war brewing, an estimated 160,000 game fans and industry reps from around the world lined up to watch the Japanese game companies compete for control of the living room. ... Wii was a virtual no-show, with fewer than a dozen titles on display among the more than 569 products featured overall at the show. Still, the console's influence--trying to broaden the market with a lower price, an easy-to-use controller and a focus on games rather than technology--was felt. "It's going to do something never done before," enthused Drew Davidson, director of Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/gaming/
2006-09-26-toyko-game-show_x.htm | back to top
CBS | September 22
All the music majors at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh practice side by side in small rehearsal rooms, CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman reports in this week's Assignment America. That is, all but one. They make Nick Hudson practice in the basement of a whole other building. Such is the life of America's only college bagpipe major. Nick is a sophomore on Carnegie Mellon's bagpipe scholarship. The school offers it ever year, but Nick is one of the few to ever actually take it. "There's something about the sound. You either love it or you hate it," he says. Needless to say, it takes a confident kid to do this--or a lazy one. "It's only nine notes," Nick says. "It's all about how you play those nine notes." Plus, there are other classes like "Bagpipe History" and "Bagpipe Theory." His teacher is three-time world bagpipe champion Alasdair Gillies, who says it's actually a pretty hard degree--which is one reason there aren't more kids taking it.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/
09/22/assignment_america/main2034805.shtml | back to top
USA Today (The Christian Science Monitor) | September 22
Like some 300,000 others in recent weeks, they have logged on to a new website, Eons.com. The site is banking on a digital awakening among recreation-minded boomers and matures, a growing and increasingly active demographic—online and everywhere else. "Our goal is to be the center of gravity on the Web for adults 50-plus," says Linda Natansohn, senior vice president for strategic development at the firm, a Charlestown, Mass., offshoot of job-board giant Monster.com. ... Social-networking sites frequently form organically around interests—stick-shift cars, for example—without regard for networkers' ages. But mixed-topic sites could succeed just by mining broad veins of generational interests. "There's a strong bias that we have toward interacting with people who are demographically and physically similar to ourselves," says David Krackhardt, a professor of organizational behavior at Carnegie Mellon's Heinz School and a leading expert on social networks. Age, he says, "is one of the strongest, most persistent predictors of how networks form."
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/
internetlife/2006-09-22-eons-boomers_x.htm | back to top
Education for Leadership
CosmoGIRL! | October 2006
Even just thinking about deciding where to go to college can be stressful--how are you supposed to figure out the best place to spend those four important years of your life? You probably already have some idea--maybe you want to stay close to home or are looking for a great art program--but there are so many schools to choose from. Well, CG! is here to help! First we selected the 50 best schools based on a criteria important to young women, then we divided those into even more categories to help you narrow it down. Check out our most extensive online College Guide yet and pick up the October issue of CosmoGIRL! for more info on each school! ... Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA. Undergrad enrollment: 5,494. Tuition: $32,044. Student-to-faculty ratio: 10:1. Avg. SAT: V: 610-710; M: 680-760. Avg. ACT: 28-32. ... "Students build booths for a contest during Spring Carnival. They're like mini-houses! For the 'To Be a Kid Again' theme, my sorority went with a monsters-under-the-bed motif. It was like a kid's room with a huge bed and nightstand, and papier-mache monsters hung from the ceiling." --Helen, 22, class of 2006.
http://www.cosmogirl.com/collegeguide | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 24
Conservative Carnegie Mellon opened up its playbook and scored three times in the first quarter on big plays en route to a 34-14 victory against Franklin & Marshall yesterday at Gesling Stadium. The Tartans (4-0) rushed for 72 fewer net yards (220) than they were averaging coming into the contest. However, Carnegie Mellon made up for it by passing for 253 yards, more than twice its average of 114. "You have to have the ability to keep the defense off guard," Tartans coach Rich Lackner said. "Early on, [Franklin & Marshall] was keying on [the run] pretty well. I think if I'm defending Carnegie Mellon, you have to look at their run. But this year we have the ability to do some play-action passing and make people defend the pass as well. We've got good balance."
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
06267/724596-134.stm | back to top
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | September 28
Denis Colwell is Music Director of the Wind Ensemble and Associate Professor of Music at Carnegie Mellon University. He served as Assistant Head of the School of Music from 1988 to 1995. Colwell's first CD recording with the Wind Ensemble was hailed as "...one if the best band recordings in recent years..." by the American Recording Guide (March/April 1996). He has completed the production of a second CD with the ensemble. Colwell is also the conductor and music director of the River City Brass Band. He joined the ensemble in 1982 as a cornetist, and was subsequently promoted to Assistant Principal Solo Cornet. In 1991, he was named Associate Conductor by founder Robert Bernat. Colwell assumed all conducting duties in May 1994, and the responsibilities of music director were added six months later. ... Thursday the 28th of September 2006. Starts at 08:00pm. Location: Carnegie Music Hall.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/events
/index.php?com=detail&eID=5134 | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 27
Two photography shows at Pittsburgh Filmmakers Galleries exhibit the vitality that frequently accompanies early exploration of a medium. In the inner gallery are more than 30 black and white, mostly abstracted, images by Jason Vartikar-McCullough, a Fox Chapel High School senior who is being mentored by Martin Prekop, Carnegie Mellon University professor of art and former dean of the College of Fine Arts. The theme, "Reflections," is dual-edged, a reference to both the imagery--reflected from surfaces such as water or glass--and to the apprentice photographer's metaphysical musings upon the ways distorted representation and perception go hand in hand.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/06270/725215-42.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 22
Over the past three years, violinist Andres Cardenes began to seriously consider leaving his post as the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's concertmaster to follow other ambitions as a conductor or even to form a string quartet. It caused an internal stir, but the prospect of him vacating the leadership position he has held since 1989 is troubling no more. Yesterday, Cardenes signed a five-year contract with the PSO. Retro-dated to Sept. 1, it extends through Aug. 31, 2011. ... In 1982, he won second prize in the Tchaikovsky International Violin Competition in Moscow. He also teaches at Carnegie Mellon University.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg
/06265/723968-42.stm | back to top
Information Technology
Pittsburgh Business Times | September 25
Corporations made venture investments of $3.06 million in four Pittsburgh companies during the first half of 2006, marking the best local performance for that period since 2002. Nationwide, 358 companies received a combined $1.045 billion in corporate venture capital dollars during the first six months of this year, representing 8.2 percent of all venture capital dollars invested during that period, according to data provided by Thomson Financial, PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association. ... Oakland-based Ciespace, a two-year-old software company founded by Kenji Shimada, a Carnegie Mellon University professor and director of its Computer-Integrated Engineering Lab, received $150,000. Shimada did not identify the investor.
http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh
/stories/2006/09/25/story7.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Business Times | September 25
Ever since "The Jetsons," the popular Hanna-Barbera cartoon of the early 1960s, robots like Pearl have had great appeal as aides for their human creators. The cartoon envisioned a day when robots had remarkably human-like qualities, like speech and emotion, and a generation of kids grew up believing in this promise. But the vision has far outpaced science, according to Sara Kiesler, professor of computer science and human computer interaction at Carnegie Mellon University: getting a robot to understand the meaning of "yes" and "no" can sometimes still be problematic, she said. ... The money is being used to create the Quality of Life Technology Engineering Research Center. Its primary goal, according to Rory Cooper, chairman of Pitt's School of Rehabilitation Sciences and Technology, is to allow people to participate in society in a bigger way than is now possible. "There's nothing else like it around the country," said Cooper, who is also co-director of the new center with Takeo Kanade, a professor of computer science and robotics at Carnegie Mellon. "It has the potential to create an industry. That's what's really exciting about it."
http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh
/stories/2006/09/25/focus1.html | back to top
Popular Science | September 22
What do you think happens when you connect your computer to the Internet? In less than an hour, it may not be yours anymore. While you're Googling your name and checking e-mail, a hacker, perhaps in Eastern Europe—let’s call him Ivan—quietly takes over your machine. ... If we want to fight back, we need a new approach, something that fundamentally changes the way computers interact with the Internet and how the Internet functions. Companies and organizations all over the world are working on these kinds of long-term solutions, but one of the most radical ideas is being developed at Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab, the world's largest Internet-security research hub. Launched in 2003, CyLab has 70 faculty researchers and 140 graduate students at its Pittsburgh campus, with satellite facilities in Korea and Japan. Its approach is to make the Internet function like a biological entity that wards off attacks the way a healthy body fights off a cold—in other words, to build a network with an immune system. "Unless we move toward that goal, we'll just spend all our time solving new problems," says Pradeep Khosla, dean of Carnegie Mellon's college of engineering and co-director of CyLab.
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/technology/
8402e1010a0dd010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html | back to top
San Jose Mercury News | September 22
Everybody in Silicon Valley thinks they have the product that will change the world. In November, the Tech Museum of Innovation will honor 25 that might actually succeed. This year's Tech Museum Awards laureates, chosen from 951 entries mailed from 98 countries, were named Wednesday. The downtown San Jose museum is honoring projects aimed at addressing major global challenges in five categories: the environment, economic development, education, health and equality. ... Among the local honorees is the Global Connection Project, a collaboration between NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Mountain View's Google, Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and National Geographic magazine in Washington, D.C. ... Randy Sargent, the NASA and Carnegie Mellon robotics engineer who helped lead the team, hopes the Tech Awards will be a chance to bring even more resources into the project, which currently receives most of its funding from Google. It's an opportunity "for us to meet other people who won the awards who we could partner with,'' Sargent said. ``We might also meet some potential sponsor to help forward the work we're trying to do."
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/
mercurynews/business/15581340.htm | back to top
Regional Impact
Philadelphia Daily News | September 25
The number one demand of local anti-violence activists--who plan to rally in Harrisburg tomorrow while the state House of Representatives holds a special session on violence--is tougher gun laws. But, according to experts and legislators, tomorrow's session is unlikely to do much on guns. "I think until the composition of the Legislature changes you're not going to get the kind of gun control legislation that those who live in urban centers think is necessary," said Jon Delano, a political analyst at Carnegie Mellon University. The session--known as a Committee of the Whole House--is a meeting for the legislators to discuss potential bills and take unofficial tallies to gauge support. Among legislators, it is viewed as little more than a starting point.
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews
/news/local/15602014.htm | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | September 25
Even if Western Pennsylvania gets its first slots license this week, West Virginia and Ohio could raise the stakes on casino gambling before the slots parlor opens early next year. Pennsylvania officials plan to decide Wednesday whether to award the first slots licenses to The Meadows harness racing track in Washington County and five other tracks around the state. But neighboring states have made their own plans during Pennsylvania's two-year march toward opening a slots casino. ... Gambling has been on a steady march to legitimacy over the past 30 years, from its expansion to Atlantic City, the proliferation of state lotteries and the legalization at Indian reservations, said Greg Caruso, who teaches a class at Carnegie Mellon University called "Culture of Chance." "There doesn't seem to be anything that will check the tide," he said.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib
/news/cityregion/s_472060.html | back to top
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | September 28
Philip R. LeDuc. Residence: Shaler. Age: 36. Family: Wife, Rachel; son, Joshua, 8 months. Occupation: Assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Education: Bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering, North Carolina State University, 1990 and 1995, respectively; doctorate in mechanical engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 1999.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/
pittsburghtrib/search/s_472523.html | back to top
Beaver County Times | September 27
British-based news weekly shines its light on Pittsburgh. They like us, they like us. That about sums up an article on Pittsburgh in the Sept. 16 issue of The Economist, a British-based news weekly. The article should be required reading for all the naysayers who have nothing good to say about the future of Pittsburgh and southwestern Pennsylvania. The Economist reported that many "of the graduates from Pittsburgh's 34 universities - led by Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh--do stick around, and some are finding work in cutting-edge scientific fields. A couple of decades after the collapse of the local steel industry prompted many Pittsburghers to flee, the city has a rosier future."
http://www.timesonline.com/site/news.cfm
?newsid=17250773&BRD=2305&
PAG=461&dept_id=478566&rfi=6 | back to top
The Courier-Journal | September 25
Maybe the nation's colleges should start offering a course titled Dealing With Venture Capitalists 101. Saying "the next 20 years of American innovation will be shaped by these 10 cutting-edge science and engineering programs," Popular Mechanics highlighted various projects at those colleges, with many of them seeming to have substantial commercial possibilities. ... Carnegie Mellon, Florida State at Panama City, Louisiana State University, MIT, Ohio State and Tufts also were mentioned in the article.
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article
?AID=/20060925/BUSINESS/609250317/1003 | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 25
Teresa Heinz Kerry has many interests, but photojournalism hasn't always been at the top of her list. That was until she studied the pictures of James Nachtwey, a world renowned war photographer for Time magazine and author of three acclaimed books of photographs. ...That's why Mr. Nachtwey is one of six recipients of this year's Heinz Awards, being announced today, which are meant to honor not just excellence for its own sake but the humanitarian impulse behind the work. ... Two recipients of the award are Pittsburghers: Terry Collins, a professor of chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University, and Eric Beckman, a professor of engineering at the University of Pittsburgh.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
06268/724745-84.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 25
Americans are used to reading about the special deals that celebrities demand, from the all-white dressing room Jennifer Lopez insists on to the police escorts that Christina Aguilera requires. It can leave the impression that individualized perks are reserved for the rich and famous. But nothing could be further from the truth, says Denise Rousseau, the H.J. Heinz II professor of organizational behavior and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University. At many businesses in the United States and Europe, her research shows, between 25 percent and 35 percent of all employees have bargained for special workplace arrangements, which she calls idiosyncratic deals, or "i-deals." The i-deals can take many forms: reduced or flexible hours, working from home, travel limitations, child-care assistance and career development opportunities.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/06268/724828-85.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 22
Competing for top software engineers against such giants as Google and Microsoft has forced the guys at up-and-coming startup Netronome Systems to be creative. So the Pine firm's executives didn't just show up at the popular technical job fair at Carnegie Mellon University earlier this week. They planned ahead, wooing professors to get access to their best students, even offering to guest lecture in classes to tell students how their technical studies can be applied to the real world. ... Showing up at job fairs isn't enough. Companies are having to court key professors and academic advisers, use university alumni to chat up prospective hires, highlight company camaraderie and outings, and reel in younger undergraduates for summer internships. Unlike dot.com's post-bubble nuclear winter, when hiring was scarce and talent plentiful, "the economy's rebounded and there's more money for research and development,'' so companies are pulling out all the stops to lure the best students, said Carnegie Mellon's associate dean of students Paul Fowler, who heads the school's career center.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg
/06265/724000-96.stm | back to top
International News Stories
The Peninsula | September 26
The Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar has honored 14 companies in recognition of their dedication in facilitating internship programs for students. The event, held at Four Seasons Hotel on Wednesday, was addressed by Carnegie MellonQ Dean Chuck Thorpe. "Internship programs are important to our students in so many ways. They are a big step toward exploring careers and finding out about the workplace. Beyond that, they offer students the opportunity to apply problem solving skills and team work in a real environment", said Thorpe. ... Addressing the function, Khadra Dualeh, director of professional development, Carnegie MellonQ, said internships give companies a chance to invest in the future of Qatar and the region as a whole. It's a positive experience for both the students and the companies. "By having student interns, corporations benefit from the exuberance and fresh problem-solving approach of Carnegie Mellon students. Employers are also able to pre-screen potential employees," Dualeh said.
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.
asp?section=Local_News&subsection=Qatar+News&month
=September2006&file=Local_News2006092641535.xml | back to top
MENA FN | September 26
All library research rituals may become a thing of the past real soon. The process of running through drawers of indices searching for a subject has already been consigned to history, and in the near future the whole physical library concept may face the same demise. The days of walking along thousands of bookshelves trying to find a book may become like a fairy tale for grandfathers to tell their grandchildren. Soon, libraries will be replaced by virtual ones; easily and freely accessible sources, from the convenience of your home, work, or school computer lab. The Million Book Project, a name fit for such a legacy project, aims at digitizing a million books in multiple languages, and providing them for free on the internet as part of what is called the "Universal Library." The project, initiated by Carnegie Mellon University, is part of a bigger scheme to create a universal library that will capture all books in publication worldwide. This library is a virtual one that will exist on the internet for people to access freely around the clock.
http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story
_s.asp?StoryId=1093128539 | back to top
Computerworld | September 25
ABL State Chamber has sent an open letter to the Federal Minister for Transport, Warren Truss, and the CEOs of Australian airlines seeking urgent storage provisions for laptops on planes. The open letter follows the introduction of restrictions banning laptops on flights following a foiled terrorist attack on flights out of the United Kingdom on August 10, 2006. ABL State Chamber [which was formed when ABL merged with the NSW Chamber of Commerce in March this year] is calling for provisions to prepare in advance for possible restrictions in Australia. ABL has 28,000 members. ... In a study commissioned early this year, Carnegie Mellon University Department of Engineering and public policy researcher Bill Strauss found electronic devices, notably laptops and mobile telephones, also interfere with flight equipment. Following the UK laptop restrictions, Heathrow airport reported up to 120 laptops, almost three times the average, were handed in by security staff every month, as many passengers are wary of unattended baggage.
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php
/id;761928639;fp;4;fpid;1398720840 | back to top
Computerworld | September 25
Godfrey Pinto has great credentials. He has three master’s degrees, including an MBA, and a bachelor’s in economics. He has a solid position, too, as director of offshore outsourcing, a role he has held for six of the nine years he has worked in IT at a large East Coast technology company. Now Pinto is adding one more accomplishment to his list: earning the certified outsourcing professional (COP) designation. He acknowledges that many people haven't yet heard of the certification, but he believes it's valuable nonetheless. ... The new COP designation is one option for differentiating knowledgeable professionals working in outsourcing. Traditional educational institutions offer others. Carnegie Mellon University and the Stevens Institute of Technology, for example, have outsourcing management concentrations, and the Illinois Institute of Technology provides outsourcing management training for client corporations. ... Carnegie Mellon last year introduced a concentration in service management as part of its full-time master's degree program in information systems management and its part-time master’s program in IT. The courses cover IT program management, contracts, negotiations, service organization management, capability and process improvement, and sourcing management. "Those are things you don't get in a hard-core technology program," says associate professor Bill Hefley, who is also associate director of Carnegie Mellon's IT Services Qualification Center.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.
do?command=viewArticleBasic&
articleId=262497&pageNumber=4 | back to top
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