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February
18 - 24, 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 18 - 24,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 111 references to the university in worldwide
publications. Here is a sample.
National News Stories
The Wall Street Journal | February 23
MSNBC | February 22
MSNBC | February 21
Student Experience
Post-Gazette | February 23
Post-Gazette | February 20
Post-Gazette | February 20
Post-Gazette | February 20
Arts and Humanities
Tribune-Review | February 24
Tribune-Review | February 22, 2005
Information Technology
WPXI-TV | February 23
Post-Gazette | February 21
Biotechnology
MSNBC | February 18
Environment
WTAE-TV | February 18
Local News Stories
Post-Gazette | February 22
Post-Gazette | February 20
Tribune-Review (ASSOCIATED PRESS) | February
18
International News Stories
Times of India, India | February 21
New Scientist, UK | February 20
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National News Stories
The Wall Street Journal | February 23
At a Drexel University campus forum last May, professors complained
about funding cuts at the library. Rather than apologize for the belt-tightening,
President Constantine Papadakis told them he'd prefer to have an all-digital
library with no books at all. Some faculty members and students were
horrified...Another reason Drexel hasn't cracked the top 100: Only 75%
of its faculty members are full time. That's far below the rivals Drexel
has in its sights, such as Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon
University. Ranked No. 22 among U.S. universities in the U.S. News survey,
Carnegie Mellon has a 93% full-time faculty.
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB110912375
606461666-search,00.html | back to top
MSNBC | February 22
In the land that launched Al-Jazeera TV, there’s another revolution
under way. This time, they call it The Doha Debates, a monthly forum
tackling issues at the heart of troubles in the turbulent Middle East.
Held in Oxford Union format, the debates pull no punches. No topic is
off-limits. And there's no interference from the government in a region
where free speech is a rarity...Qatar can afford to be daring. Oil and
vast natural gas deposits surrounding the Connecticut-sized Persian
Gulf state have made the 188,000 population very rich. Sheikh Hamad
spreads the wealth liberally, giving Qataris one of the highest per
capita incomes in the world — ensuring virtually no political
dissent. Still, Qatar’s reforms are unique in the region... The
Qatar Foundation headquarters, where The Doha Debates are held, is on
a vast campus in Doha called Education City. This is no half-baked pet
project of the first lady of an Arab petro-state. It’s a multi-billion
dollar investment that has drawn top U.S. educational institutions (Cornell
University, Texas A&M, Virginia Commonwealth University and Carnegie
Mellon at last count) to Qatar.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6870459/
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MSNBC | February 21
Rising from the sands of Qatar may be the answer to America’s
image problem in the Middle East. At least Anas Abou-Ismail, an 18-year-old
Syrian pre-med student at the Cornell Medical College in Qatar, thinks
so. Abou-Ismail is one of hundreds of Middle Eastern students drawn
to Qatar’s Education City, a 2,500-acre piece of desert being
transformed into a world class educational facility — populated
by U.S. institutions like Cornell, Texas A&M, Carnegie Mellon
and Virginia Commonwealth University. “In the long run, this will
definitely affect the way the Middle East in general will view the United
States,” Abou-Ismail said. “Education in itself is a good
thing, so definitely it changes (the perception of the United States)
in a good way.”
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6870667/
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Student Experience
Post-Gazette | February 23
A trip to the NCAA Division III tournament for the first time since
1976-77, the most wins in a season and the first University Athletic
Association championship are within the grasp of the Carnegie
Mellon men's basketball team. The Tartans (17-5) can reach
these milestones with victories on the road against league opponents
Case Western Reserve (5-18) tonight and the University of Rochester
(20-4) Saturday afternoon. "We talk about those things, absolutely,"
Carnegie Mellon coach Tony Wingen said. "It's
been a progression of four years for these seniors, and we talk about
the legacy of their class, all the things they can accomplish as a group."
Three of the eight seniors on the roster have started at least three
seasons -- 6-foot-2 Michael Divens (14.3 ppg, 7.3 rpg) of Penn-Trafford,
6-1 Eliot Goren (9.6 ppg, 89 assists) and 5-10 Jason Walters (9.2 ppg,
46 percent 3-pointers). "This is the group we decided we were going
to build around," Wingen said.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05054/461582.stm
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Post-Gazette | February 20
The weeks of chaos in the wake of the Indian Ocean tsunami dramatically
underscored the importance of travelers to be able to obtain fast, accurate,
reliable, real-time information about distant corners of the world.
While this sort of information is crucial whenever emergencies occur,
having advance knowledge about more normal conditions and risks travelers
might encounter in an unfamiliar place is perhaps even more important.
It allows them to avoid dangerous circumstances completely or to take
appropriate precautions once they arrive. Forewarned, as the adage goes,
is forearmed...Last fall, I was one of a half-dozen panelists assessing
a semester-long project at Carnegie Mellon University
that brought together undergraduate students from the Engineering and
Public Policy departments, the Department of Social and Decision Sciences,
and the Heinz School of Public Policy and Management. The project assignment
was to analyze how and where international travelers get information
about risks they might face, to assess the quality and usefulness of
that information and to develop consistent guidelines for the presentation
of pertinent information and warnings.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05051/459105.stm
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Post-Gazette | February 20
A healthy jump in job offers and recruitment activity at business schools
across the country suggests that companies are getting back in the hiring
game. At Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School
of Business, for instance, the percent of full-time MBA students set
to graduate this spring who had at least one offer in hand by mid-February
was 57.3, up from about 42 percent who had firm offers a year ago. "It
looks like we're taking a quantum step forward," said Ken
Keeley, executive director of the Tepper School's Career Opportunities
Center. "It demonstrates to me that more companies are engaging
or re-engaging in college recruiting." There's similar optimism
nationwide. A MBA Career Services Council survey of 57 business schools,
mostly in the United States, found that recruiting is on the rise, and
students are getting more offers than they did in the first three years
following the 2001 recession.
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Post-Gazette | February 20
Jennifer Binder, a second-year student at Carnegie Mellon
University's Tepper School of Business, willingly cut short her ski
holiday in Colorado during the January semester break and flew to San
Francisco for job interviews at Carnegie Mellon's West Coast campus...Carnegie
Mellon in the past has participated in job fairs on the West Coast,
but this year it partnered with three other schools -- Yale University's
School of Management, Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of
Management, and the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business
School -- and invited companies to conduct interviews at its campus
at Moffett Field, a former naval base south of San Francisco. Among
those that came: Intel Corp., Clorox Co., Yahoo, Apple Computer, Gap
Inc. and Microsoft -- all West Coast-based and unlikely to travel to
Pittsburgh to interview Carnegie Mellon students, said Ken Keeley,
executive director of the Career Opportunities Center at Tepper. The
goal is to "make it easier for companies to interview our students,"
Keeley said. "Pittsburgh is a small MBA town." Although Carnegie
Mellon's Tepper School consistently earns high marks in national rankings
of MBA programs, its location makes it a harder sell to some recruiters.
So for years, Carnegie Mellon has organized trips to major cities where
business students can visit a handful of companies and perhaps mingle
with Carnegie Mellon alumni at networking events.
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Arts and Humanities
Tribune-Review | February 24
If music is truly the international language, then the drums would have
to be among its most lucid and easily understood speakers. But just
banging on a hollow, resonant object isn't enough -- there are almost
as many languages of rhythm as there are languages of words. Calling
the drumming tribes of the world together, Pittsburgh's Afrika Yetu
Master Drummers are hosting a drum summit this weekend, to exchange
and spread the unique knowledge of some of the world's elite drummers...
The symposium will feature Anicet Mundundu, from the Pitt African Drumming
Ensemble and Tim Adams from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Of course,
there's Drum! Magazine columnist and Rusted Root star Jim Donovan. There's
also Tina Blaine, who has recorded with Brian Eno and
Mickey Hart, and is a professor of Entertainment Technology at Carnegie
Mellon University. And there's Dr. John Chernoff, who's written
one of the definitive textbooks on West African drumming, which is used
all over the world.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review
/entertainment/music/s_306365.html | back to top
Tribune-Review | February 22, 2005
Saturday night and everyone was seeing double at The Andy Warhol Museum.
That's not because the hot bites and cool drinks were ever-flowing,
but because of "Seeing Double," the final installation of
the museum's yearlong 10th anniversary celebration...But the show stealers
of the night were without a doubt several art students from Carnegie
Mellon University who not only displayed pieces but offered
some interactive art in which partygoers could partake. For example,
several chose to pose for Ashley Brickman's "Romantic Covers,"
a stylistic set-up like a romance novel cover in which anyone could
stand in appropriate -- some might say ridiculous -- repose. Then there
was Jairan Sadeghi, who served up chocolate fighter planes and letters
spelling such related words as "evil," "terror"
and "peace" to make a point.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review
/entertainment/arts/s_306074.html | back to top
Information Technology
WPXI-TV | February 23
People use computers to connect to the Internet and to friends and family
through e-mail. But now, more people are using it to connect by telephone.
It's called voice over internet protocol, or VOIP service... Dave
Farber is a telecommunications/public policy professor at Carnegie
Mellon University. Farber said, "Nowadays you go to any
hotel, you go to any coffee shop around the world and you can get access
to broadband. For the average person who knows how to use a computer,
this is no more complicated. It's a little telephone and you just key
in the number and hit dial." Farber has his phone connected to
the Internet at home and when he logs on away from home he gets calls
and makes calls using his Internet phone number.
http://www.wpxi.com/consumer/4225208/detail.html
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Post-Gazette | February 21
Watts S. Humphrey is a real American hero, and not
just because he was born on the Fourth of July. He'll even receive confirmation
of this on March 14, when President Bush drapes a medal around his neck.
A fellow at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering
Institute, Humphrey will receive the National Medal of Technology for
his work designing a model for developing software more efficiently.
"The man has revolutionized the quality movement in software production,"
said Angel Jordan, one of the founders of the institute
and a professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie
Mellon. "He has made the greatest accomplishments of the SEI ----
he's everybody's hero."
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05052/460610.stm
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Biotechnology
MSNBC | February 18
Robotic arms used by amputees are typically controlled by moving some
other part of the body, like the opposite arm. Researchers would like
to make such prostheses respond to the whim of the brain. Now it turns
out researchers have found a method so easy (well, relatively so) that
a monkey can do it. In a new study, a monkey fed itself using a robotic
arm electronically linked to its brain...With a special computer algorithm,
the researchers are able to find an average direction from the small
sample of neurons being measured. This average direction is used to
move the robotic arm. Rob Kass from Carnegie
Mellon University, who was not involved in the new study, said
this type of algorithm has been around since 1960. The computational
shortcut has had a wide range of applications, including missile tracking
and navigation. "The benefit of the algorithm is that it allows
for a more efficient use of data," Kass said. "It also provides
a framework for learning."
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6989239/
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Environment
WTAE-TV | February 18
Health officials are warning about a pollutant called PM2.5. The Pittsburgh
area is second in the nation in having the highest amount of this tiny
killer. It causes premature death from heart and lung disease. A Team
4 analysis finds that where PM2.5 is being released, people are dying
from heart and lung disease at a higher-than-average rate... Dr. Devra
Davis, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute's Center for
Environmental Oncology [and a visiting professor at Carnegie
Mellon University's Heinz School]: "These particles, if
they're 10 microns, the nose stops them through the nosehair. Those
nosehairs work. If they're smaller than 10, they get into the trachea.
If they're smaller than 2.5, they get into the lower lung. The ultrafine
particles, even smaller than that, can get into the bloodstream."
That's why the Environmental Protection Agency has now concluded that
each year, PM2.5 causes tens of thousands of people to die prematurely
from heart disease and chronic lower respiratory disease.
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com
/team4/4211977/detail.html | back to top
Local News Stories
Post-Gazette | February 22
Next month, visitors to a German museum will be able to hear the sounds
of Pittsburgh street corners recorded from cell phones as they watch
a tiny, blue-lit puck zip around a 3-by-7-foot map of the city's East
End. The "audible map" is part of the MapHub project, which
aims to bring people with common interests together around computer
maps loaded with information that could range from the official and
general -- bus schedules for the area -- to the personal and specific
-- comments from residents about whether the buses run on time. This
particular map is considered an exercise to test the technology that
makes it work. The audible map now sits, supported on phone books, in
a cubicle in the College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon
University. Nathan Martin, an adjunct art professor
and fellow at the university's interdisciplinary Studio for Creative
Inquiry, is at work fine-turning the servomotors at the map's upper
corners, which move the 1 1/2-inch diameter metal puck via wires running
through pulleys.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05053/461056.stm
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Post-Gazette | February 20
Fourteen minutes into his speech, the lights around Malik Zulu Shabazz
went out. Give him credit: Shabazz is not one to curse the darkness,
at least not when the Jews are available. "This is the best example
we could have of white racism," Shabazz announced when the room
fell dark. Across the Carnegie Mellon University campus,
in Wean Hall, a hapless technician working the computer-run electrical
system hit a wrong button and rushed to the scene to make amends. Campus
police rescued him from Black Panther guards who wanted to parade him
around the room as proof of a conspiracy. In the world of Malik Shabazz,
there are no accidents.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05051/459815.stm
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Tribune-Review (ASSOCIATED PRESS) | February
18
It has produced 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. There are at least four dozen
schools nationwide, including Caltech, MIT, Michigan State, the University
of Texas and Virginia Commonwealth University, that have courses in
game design or development, according to an informal list compiled by
the Entertainment Software Association, an industry group.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review
/business/s_305051.html | back to top
International News Stories
Times of India, India | February 21
Arjun Shah had excellent academic and extracurricular achievements,
and wanted to apply to the top B-schools in the US. Like most students,
the names that came to his mind were Harvard and Stanford. Without researching
the universities carefully, he sent his applications, only to find out
that the two most popular schools did not offer an Under Graduate (UG)
degree in business...On the other hand, in schools like University of
California - Berkeley, you can earn a BS degree that takes a general
management perspective. Similarly, at Carnegie Mellon
University and The University of Texas at Austin, you can enter the
B-school directly for the BS in Business Administration program.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com
/articleshow/1026128.cms | back to top
New Scientist, UK | February 20
Wireless computer networks could be secured against fraud and identity
theft using a novel cryptographic protocol designed to keep passwords
safe from prying eyes. Markus Jakobsson and Steve Myers of Indiana University,
US, demonstrated the new security scheme, dubbed "delayed password
disclosure", at the American Association for the Advancement of
Science meeting in Washington, DC, US, on Saturday... Adrian
Perrig, whose research at Carnegie Mellon
University in Pennsylvania, US, involves developing different types
of wireless attack, says it is vital to build security into wireless
networks from the outset. "We have a great opportunity to deploy
secure versions of these networks before they are widely implemented,"
he says.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7037
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