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February
11 - 17, 2005
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 February 11 - 17,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 187 references to the university in worldwide
publications. Here is a sample.
National News Stories
The Chronicle of Higher Education | February
17
USA Today | February 15
The Wall Street Journal | February 14
Christian Science Monitor | February 14
Entrepreneur | February 2005
Student Experience
Philadelphia Inquirer (ASSOCIATED PRESS) |
February 16
Tribune-Review | February 16
InformationWeek | February 14
Arts and Humanities
Boston Globe | February 13
Nature | February 11
Philadelphia Inquirer | February 11
Pittsburgh Business Times | February 11
Information Technology
Post-Gazette | February 16
Post-Gazette | February 11
Philadelphia Inquirer (ASSOCIATED PRESS) |
February 10
Environment
Post-Gazette | February 13
USA Today | February 11
Regional Impact
Post-Gazette | February 17
Local News Stories
Post-Gazette | February 14
International News Stories
The Peninsula | February 16
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National News Stories
The Chronicle of Higher Education | February
17
President Bush announced on Monday the winners of the 2003 National
Medal of Science, the nation's highest honor for scientists and engineers...The
president also announced the recipients of the 2003 National Medal of
Technology, which recognizes technological innovation. Two academic
scholars and an educational organization are among the recipients. They
are Jan D. Achenbach, a professor of mechanical engineering at Northwestern
University; Watts S. Humphrey, a fellow of Carnegie
Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute; and the
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, which manages patents for the
University of Wisconsin at Madison.
http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2005/02/2005021704n.htm
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USA Today | February 15
Welcome to American Ouster — where former technology CEOs who
were booted by their boards compete to see who did the most damage to
their companies. Now, that would be a heck of a reality series. Like
Donald Trump's The Apprentice, only upside down and backward. As you
might expect, the idea for such a show is sparked by the emergence of
a hot new contestant: Carly Fiorina, who was tossed out by Hewlett-Packard's
board last week...In the panoply of deposed executives, just how bad
was Fiorina? How does she rate among her peers who are probably walking
golf courses in Florida as we speak? Here are the six tech CEOs on this
episode of American Ouster: Fiorina, Akers, John Sculley of Apple, Robert
Allen of AT&T, Chris Galvin of Motorola and Joe Nacchio of Qwest.
And the business school profs: Robert Kelley of Carnegie
Mellon University, Jeff Cannon of the University of North Carolina,
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld of Yale University and S.P. Kothari of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. So now — please welcome the contestants!
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries
/technology/maney/2005-02-15-maney_x.htm | back to
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The Wall Street Journal | February 14
There are as many opinions about how the economy has fared under Alan
Greenspan as there are economists. And with the Fed chairman making
one of his last appearances before Congress this week before his term
expires next January, a question inevitably will arise: Will the Fed,
post-Greenspan, make policy decisions with a rules-based system or the
looser, discretionary style he espoused. Opinions vary, based on preferences
for accountability versus flexibility. Allan Meltzer,
professor of political economy at Carnegie Mellon's
Tepper School of Business and author of A History of the Federal Reserve,
prefers rule-like behavior, because "it provides much greater certainty
and it gives the opportunity to challenge [the Fed] when it appears
they're deviating." But he doesn't think things will necessarily
change too much, and notes that much depends on who takes Greenspan's
place.
http://online.barrons.com/article
/SB110816655332852921-search.html | back to top
Christian Science Monitor | February 14
You don't have to look hard for suggested solutions to Social Security.
President Bush proposes private accounts. Liberals want a number of
minor tweaks. One common proposal is to raise the maximum level of wages
subject to payroll tax from its current $90,000 to, say, $150,000. Here's
another solution to the alleged crisis: Do nothing. That's right. Ignore
the doomsayers. Wait for a decade or two, and see if the gloomy predictions
are coming true. It's not as crazy as it sounds because of one simple
fact: No one really knows whether the forecast of a solvency problem
will come true or just gradually fade away..."A perfectly sensible
proposal," says Stephen Spear, an economist at
Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. "I don't
see any rush." The trustees project that the system will have to
start drawing down a huge hoard of special Treasury bonds in 2018. And,
privatization advocates say, Uncle Sam would then have to start raising
taxes or cutting spending to pay off his IOUs. Not so, notes Professor
Spear. Washington could just refinance the federal debt, just as it
has for decades.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0214/p17s01-cogn.html
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Entrepreneur | February 2005
First impressions aren't just for first dates. They matter in the workplace,
too. An owner or manager's perception of a new hire is shaped in the
first few days, and many employees may be on the fast track to failure.
A recent study by the Corporate Leadership Council found that 40 percent
of new hires will be dismissed within the first year and a half--or
worse, they'll stay with the company, but will be seen as hiring mistakes...
Entrepreneurs sometimes forget that procedures and cultures differ from
company to company, and it takes time for a new employee to adapt. Bosses
also assume that new employees will ask questions, but new hires tend
to keep questions to a minimum for fear of appearing incompetent. Then
they take on too much, too soon, and both the boss and the new hire
are blindsided when errors happen, because neither side expected mistakes.
"[New hires] think, 'Everyone will think I'm a star,' but the odds
aren't in their favor," says Robert Kelley, management
professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
"People make mistakes. It's that the mistake comes as a surprise."
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article
/0,4621,319560,00.html | back to top
Student Experience
Philadelphia Inquirer (ASSOCIATED PRESS) | February
16
It has turned out students who have landed internships and jobs with
the companies behind games like "MechAssault," "The Sims,"
all of the "Madden" football games and the "Grand Theft
Auto" series. But don't call Entertainment Technology Center at
Carnegie Mellon University a video game school. It's
not that Carnegie Mellon would be alone. And it's not that the university
is afraid of the competition. But co-director Randy Pausch
and others maintain that the center, which costs $28,400 for two years,
isn't like the others because it's not too techy and not too artsy.
Pausch shares an office with his co-director Don Marinelli,
a professor of drama and arts management. "He's the right brain
and I'm the left brain. I am free to be the nerd and he is free to be
the artist, so we always have ourselves covered," Pausch said.
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/10917328.htm
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Tribune-Review | February 16
Students at Carnegie Mellon University plan to hold
a rally Thursday before a speech on campus by Malik Shabazz, a controversial
black leader with an anti-Semitic reputation. Shabazz is national chairman
of the New Black Panther Party, an organization that advocates for black
power and the Muslim movement but is disavowed by the original Black
Power group of the 1960s. He will speak at 6 p.m. at Porter Hall "We
just want to bring people together to declare our unity and mutual respect
and tolerance for each other," said Rachel Svinkelstin, 22, a senior
from Fairlawn, N.J. She is president of the Hillel Jewish University
Center in Oakland and an organizer of the 5 p.m. rally at Doherty Hall.
"There are two camps on campus," said Alex Meseguer, 21, a
senior from Wayne, N.J. "One camp is aware of his anti-Semitic
history and are vehemently opposed to his presence. And there's another
camp who wants to see him here to serve the purpose of Black History
Month."
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review
/trib/regional/s_304228.html | back to top
InformationWeek | February 14
Declining enrollment in traditional computer-science and computer-engineering
courses is a legitimate concern, but not a cause for hand-wringing despair.
The next generation of IT professionals may be better prepared than
any preceding one to balance the demands of being both a businessperson
and a technologist, thanks to a growing number of innovative programs
at prestigious schools that combine IT studies with business courses
and high-demand skills, such as game design...The demand for this new
breed of IT professional is growing, says Dion DeLoof, president of
Anteo Group LLC, an IT staffing firm. The gaming industry has plenty
of artists, computer engineers, and designers, but mastering all three
skills typically is something that takes years to do. The Entertainment
Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon, which marries
IT and interactive digital media, is designed to instill all three skills
in students to prepare them for leadership positions, says Jon-Paul
Dumont, a graduate of the university's Entertainment Technology Center.
Dumont is a game designer at Electronic Arts Inc. working on the next
version of a James Bond video game.
http://www.informationweek.com/story
/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=60400089 | back to top
Arts and Humanities
Boston Globe | February 13
Say "sentimental" and most people probably think of Hallmark
cards, posters of adorable kittens, Thomas Kinkade paintings, and anything
pink. But the word, along with the constellation of meanings it represents,
has a long and interesting history, one that's newly relevant in a political
moment when we talk about "values" and "terror"
and even "Social Security" -- to say nothing of a cultural
moment in which Hello Kitty, girly fashions, cupcakes for grown-ups,
and the collected works of Mitch Albom are all swirling in a pastel
bubble around our heads...In the context of 19th-century literature,
" 'sentimentality' generally means a value scheme that is an alternative
to money and the market," says Scott Sandage,
a history professor at Carnegie Mellon University in
Pittsburgh who has just published "Born Losers: A History of Failure
in America." "That means not only 'Oh, poor little Eva dies'
in 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' but the message that Harriet Beecher Stowe is
conveying: that each person's life has value, not just their value to
a buyer in the slave market but an emotional, spiritual, individual
value unto themselves."
http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles
/2005/02/13/a_modern_day_sentimental_journey_
can_be_laced_with_cynicism_or_longing/ | back to
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Nature | February 11
If you're thinking of going speed-dating this Valentine's Day, take
note. In certain contests, candidates who take their turn at the end
of a sequence are consistently ranked higher than those at the beginning.
So says a researcher who has evaluated the judging of music competitions
and figure-skating contests. The bias is evident regardless of whether
the judges score each contestant immediately, or rank them all at the
end. Wändi Bruine de Bruin, of Carnegie
Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, noticed that
most experiments in decision science (a relatively new, interdisciplinary
field that probes the mysteries of how humans make choices) present
all of the options to their subjects simultaneously. But in the real
world, when choosing an apartment or meeting a stream of suitors, for
example, one often sees the alternatives in sequence. "Just from
my own experience of looking for apartments or jobs, I know you don't
get all the information at the same time," Bruine de Bruin says.
She studied the judging of World and European Figure Skating Championships
which are scored step-by-step, with judges awarding points to each skater
directly after their routine.
http://www.nature.com/news/2005
/050207/pf/050207-18_pf.html | back to top
Philadelphia Inquirer | February 11
There are only four pieces in the "Representin' " art exhibit.
Perhaps only four pieces are needed to incite discussion, stir up emotion
and awaken the culturally asleep. That's the goal of artist Ayanah
Moor, whose "Representin' " is at the Painted Bride
Art Center through March 19. "I want to invite dialogue about the
different aspects of hip-hop," she told the Daily News recently.
"What I'm offering is what I'm thinking about."... Moor, an
assistant professor of art at Carnegie Mellon University
in Pittsburgh, would like to encourage conversation about women in hip-hop,
and decategorize aspects of the culture that have been charged to gender
- the male gender. "We think of hip-hop now as... a black man with
a microphone rockin' it, and historically, that hasn't been the case
at all."
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/living/10861894.htm
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Pittsburgh Business Times | February 11
Neil Morrow can already hear the early echo of the word 'no' beginning
to ricochet in his ears as he talks of his development plans for two
properties on Penn Avenue. Mr. Morrow, founder and principal of Ibex
Realty, expects to raze an aging structure there and replace it with
a building comprised of two prefabricated shipping containers made from
corrugated steel -- the kind used every day to transport every variety
of goods imaginable throughout the country. Such a plan could perhaps
bring the latest in contemporary design to a stretch of Garfield and
Friendship now comprised mostly of typical commercial and residential
buildings developed in the first half of the 20th century. "I think
there's a lot of chatter about it. And a lot of interest in finding
a way to shorten a construction project," said Dutch McDonald,
a principal at Friendship-based EDGE Studio. Mr. McDonald, who is also
a professor of architecture at Carnegie Mellon University,
is developing a prefab addition for an office client. The plan is to
deliver two 350 square foot shipping containers onto the roof of the
client's building, where they will be combined into one larger room.
http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh
/stories/2005/02/14/focus3.html | back to top
Information Technology
Post-Gazette | February 16
Until 2 p.m. yesterday, Jack Gerbel's demonstration of his UniLect touch
screen voting system was going smoothly. Then, suddenly, the screen
froze up, unresponsive to numerous finger-pokes from Gerbel and a bystander.
"It's worked fine up to this point," Gerbel said, faintly
flustered, fiddling with wires. Minutes later, the UniLect system was
back online, tabulating mock votes correctly, working just the way it's
supposed to...An independent election committee, created after the undervote
came to light, asked the Department of State to re-examine the Unilect
system. Conducting the examination was Michael Shamos,
a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist who
has experience reviewing electronic voting machines in Pennsylvania
and Texas. In a few weeks, Shamos will issue a report, making recommendations
both to UniLect and the State Department. The State Department could
rule that UniLect systems can no longer be used in Pennsylvania, but
it's more likely that UniLect will have to update its software to meet
Shamos' suggestions.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05047/458149.stm
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Post-Gazette | February 11
Carnegie Mellon University will develop a new generation
of armored reconnaissance robots for the U.S. Marine Corps, beating
out defense giant Lockheed Martin for a $26 million government contract.
Working with United Defense Industries of Arlington, Va., Carnegie Mellon
is to deliver six Gladiator Tactical Unmanned Ground Vehicles, known
as TUGVs, by July 2007, the university and the Department of Defense
announced yesterday. Carnegie Mellon researchers will receive an initial
payment of $12.4 million on the $26.4 million contract. A successful
prototype of the robot was created by scientists with Carnegie Mellon's
Robotics Institute, and as many as 200 robots may eventually be manufactured
at United Defense's Fayette County facility in Uniontown. The U.S. military
has increasingly been turning to unmanned vehicles as a way of surveying
hostile terrain while keeping soldiers away from enemy fire. Unmanned
Predator drones armed with Hellfire missiles have been used extensively
in Afghanistan and Iraq to swoop over battlefields, transmitting real-time
images to controllers on the ground. Military officials hope the Gladiator
will do the same thing, moving into potentially hostile areas ahead
of U.S. troops.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05042/456138.stm
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Philadelphia Inquirer (ASSOCIATED PRESS) | February
10
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and a Virginia
defense contractor have received a $26.2 million contract from the U.S.
Defense Department to build remote-controlled tank-like vehicles for
the U.S. Marine Corps. The Pittsburgh-based university and Arlington,
Va.-based United Defense Industries Inc. will work together to refine
and build more Gladiator Tactical Unmanned Ground Vehicles_ 4-foot-tall,
1,600-pound miniature tanks loaded with a variety of sensors and weapons.
The vehicle would be controlled by a Marine with a 20-pound remote control
with a radio, computer and global positioning system. The Marines hope
to have the first Gladiators in the field by 2007 as part of a Defense
Department push to have a third of the military's ground vehicles unmanned
by 2015. The Gladiators will be built at United Defense Industries'
plant in Fayette County.
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/10869795.htm
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Environment
Post-Gazette | February 13
Pine has been awarded a $62,800 grant from Pennsylvania's Energy Harvest
program to cover half of the purchase and installation of a 50-kilowatt
turbine. The township's $62,800 share is earmarked in the 2005 budget...As
of the end of 2004, the DEP had awarded more than $10 million in grants
in support of projects involving power from wind, sun, water, or waste
coal. Only two projects were funded in Allegheny County in the 2004
awards, she said. One involves a grant to Carnegie Mellon
University and the other is the grant to Pine.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05044/455737.stm
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USA Today | February 11
They're scattered all around the United States, more than 1,200 of them,
waiting for cleanup. Some are old military bases or abandoned factories.
Others are gas stations with leaky underground tanks. And they're only
the beginning of a long, arduous task. Over the next 30 years, the U.S.
may have to clean up as many as 350,000 Superfund sites at a cost of
up to $250 billion, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...
"Developing new technologies capable of locating and effectively
treating areas contaminated with subsurface pollutants is difficult,"
says Greg Lowry, an engineering professor at Carnegie
Mellon University in Pittsburgh. "This is because it is
often difficult to locate the exact site of contamination because records
are poor for many old waste sites and the primary contamination sources,
such as storage tanks, were removed many years ago.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/nano
/2005-02-10-nano-iron-cleanup_x.htm | back to top
Regional Impact
Post-Gazette | February 17
By Barbara Mistick, a professor at the H.J. Heinz School
of Public Policy and Management. Fred Rogers is well known around the
world for his daily reassurance to children -- boys and girls -- that
they are special. Fred believed -- and research has documented -- that
the emotional development of children is equally important as the cognitive
development of children. Some call this the nature vs. nurture question...In
research recently conducted by the Girls, Math & Science Partnership
at Carnegie Mellon University, we have been told by
girls that there are several factors why they are not motivated to pursue
math and science careers; it's because math and science are difficult,
boring and personally irrelevant, they say...Family Communications,
which was founded by Fred Rogers, initiated the Girls, Math & Science
Partnership in response to research by The Heinz Endowments that showed
girls in our Western Pennsylvania region were trailing boys in participation
level and test scores in math and science.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05048/458551.stm
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Local News Stories
Post-Gazette | February 14
Black holes have a reputation for being voracious -- their gravitational
fields are so strong, after all, that not even light can escape their
pull -- but astrophysicists are coming to appreciate that they actually
may regulate the growth of galaxies, as well as their own. This critical
regulatory role of black holes became clear when scientists at the Max
Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Germany developed a computational
model for galaxy formation that for the first time incorporated black
hole dynamics..."We were quite stunned by how much this influences
our view of galaxy formation," said Tiziana Di Matteo,
who led a research team that included her Max Planck colleague Volker
Springel and Harvard University astronomer Lars Hernquist. The regulatory
role of the black hole helps explain why new star formation tends to
end abruptly in galaxies, said Di Matteo, who joined Carnegie
Mellon University last month as an associate professor of physics.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05045/457116.stm
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International News Stories
The Peninsula | February 16
Qatar University (QU) is planning to come up with various academic and
structural reforms to enable it cater to the needs of Qatari society.
In this connecion, QU’s Senior Reform Committee held its first
scheduled series of meetings in the past two days to discuss various
relevant issues. University’s reform initiatives, research and
academic planning, departmental evaluation policies and other issues
of development were discussed. Other issues like changes in administrative
structures, financial and administrative implementation processes, advancing
academic standards were also discussed. The committee is comprised of
a team from Qatar University, five experts representing various higher
education institutions from the universities of Minnesota and Carnegie
Mellon and representative of RAND-Qatar Policy Institute (RQPI).
The committee is responsible to supervise developments of university’s
ongoing reform project which is likely to end in September 2007. The
project aims to strengthen the overall management and structure of QU
to meet contemporary trends in higher education, and enable the university
to serve the nation adequately in the coming decades.
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section
=Local%5FNews&subsection=Qatar+News&month=February2005
&file=Local_News2005021673556.xml
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