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June 24
- 30, 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 June 24 - 30,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 152
references to the university in worldwide publications. Here is a sample.
Special Coverage: Carnegie Mellon Posner Center
Post-Gazette | June 27
Philadelphia Inquirer (ASSOCIATED PRESS) |
June 27
National News Stories
Philadelphia Daily News (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
| June 30
Discovery Channel News | June 30
Akron Beacon Journal (ASSOCIATED PRESS) | June
30
Qatar Campus
Khaleej Times, United Arab Emirates | June
30
Gulf Times, Qatar | June 29
Gulf Times, Qatar | June 29
Student Experience
Post-Gazette | June 26
Arts and Humanities
Post-Gazette | June 30
Post-Gazette | June 28
Belleville News Democrat (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
| June 27
Post-Gazette | June 24
Information Technology
Tribune-Review | June 29
Pittsburgh Business Times | June 27
The Washington Post | June 26
Biotechnology
Post-Gazette | June 26
Science Magazine | June 24
Local News Stories
Post-Gazette | June 30
Tribune-Review | June 28
Post-Gazette | June 27
Post-Gazette | June 27
International News Stories
Nature, UK | June 30
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Special Coverage: Carnegie Mellon Posner Center
Post-Gazette | June 27
On March 1, 1792, then Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson drafted a
letter to the governors of the 14 states in the fledgling union briefly
explaining that he was sending along copies of three pieces of legislation
of national interest ... The language aside, Jefferson was sending the
states the first printing of the Bill of Rights ratified just 10 weeks
earlier in Philadelphia, then the country's seat of government. The
first printing of the document included the legislation's text as originally
proposed, with 12 amendments to the Constitution, 10 of which -- numbers
3-12 -- had been ratified. (The first two amendments, dealing with congressional
size and pay, were not endorsed because of their administrative nature.)
Of the original 28 copies of the legislation -- two for each state --
only four are known to exist, one of which is at Carnegie Mellon
University. The others are held by a private collector, the American
Antiquarian Society and, of course, the Library of Congress. In honor
of Independence Day, the document is on display to the public at the
Carnegie Mellon's Posner Center, which houses the Posner Memorial Collection.
"The premier piece in this collection is the Bill of Rights, an
original from the first printing," said Gloriana St. Clair,
dean of the Carnegie Mellon libraries.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05178/528957.stm
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Philadelphia Inquirer (ASSOCIATED PRESS) | June
27
Visitors to Carnegie Mellon University's Posner Memorial
Collection can see a rare gem this week. The university has put on display
a rare original copy of the Bill of Rights. Of the original 28 copies
of the document that were sent to the states in 1792, only four are
known to exist. Besides the university's copy, the other three are held
by a private collector, the American Antiquarian Society and the Library
of Congress. The document is on display to the public at Carnegie Mellon's
Posner Center, which houses the Posner Memorial Collection. Gloriana
St. Clair, dean of the Carnegie Mellon libraries, said the
document is going on display to commemorate Independence Day. ***Please
note that this story was also covered by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review,
WDUQ-FM radio, KDKA-TV news, Fox 53-TV news, Metro Radio at 1360 AM,
as well as other regional newspapers with AP coverage.
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/11996611.htm
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National News Stories
Philadelphia Daily News (ASSOCIATED PRESS) |
June 30
Benjamin Franklin's ghost is haunting Philadelphia. A new interactive
kiosk at Independence National Historical Park's Lights of Liberty show,
using technology developed by Carnegie Mellon University,
lets visitors can ask the historical figure anything they want and -
POOF! - a ghostly image of Franklin appears, answers their queries,
then vanishes. The university's Entertainment Technology Center taped
hundreds of hours with Franklin - portrayed by well-known Philadelphian
Ralph Archbold - for the new display. After visitors touch or type questions
into a book at the kiosk, Franklin answers the questions in real time
using a technique called synthetic interview, developed by Carnegie
Mellon. Franklin's image appears to be floating in front of the visitors
thanks to a mirror and pane of glass in a trick known as Pepper's Ghost
that is historically used at haunted houses. "We have a lot of
video that is just really funny," said Jessica Trybus,
edutainment director for Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology
Center. "They ask a question that doesn't make sense and you're
going to get a good response."
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/
news/103-06292005-508817.html | back to top
Discovery Channel News | June 30
In an attempt to explore the safety issues surrounding Internet navigation
while behind the wheel, Meirav Taieb-Maimon, a faculty member at Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev in Israel, designed a voice-activated search
engine. The system allows drivers to dictate a query and navigate the
results while keeping their hands on the wheel. "We wanted to study
the effects of voice-based search engine while driving on drivers' distraction,"
said Taieb-Maimon ... The system does not dictate a long list of Web
addresses, rather it automatically organizes the data into menu choices
— for example, "one" for location; "two" for
price; or "three" for reviews — for the driver to navigate
through until they come to the desired Web site. "It sounds like
these designers are closer to a conventional interface with a menu-driven
system," said Richard Stern, professor of electrical
engineering and computer science at Carnegie Mellon
University, who for the last 20 years has been involved with automatic
speech recognition and language systems. Conventional interaction is
the kind people find when they call an airline to check on a flight
arrival, for example, said Stern.
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs
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Akron Beacon Journal (ASSOCIATED PRESS) | June
30
There are no belching smokestacks here. No monstrous mills churning
out tons of steel. But in the labs on a sprawling, tree-lined, collegelike
site in this Pittsburgh suburb, steel work is most definitely being
done. Like researchers at other steel companies, the employees inside
the U.S. Steel Research and Technology Center are toiling in a new age
-- perfecting generations-old techniques and developing new technology
to make steel better, cheaper and faster. With growing global competition,
innovation is required to stay in business ... The perception that the
steel industry is antiquated is not in tune with reality, said Ron Ashburn,
executive director of the Warrendale, Pa.-based Association for Iron
and Steel Technology. "It's by no means akin to what our grandfathers,
or even our fathers would have been exposed to in a mill environment,"
he said. But considering overall advances in technology, basic steel
production has not changed that dramatically, said Richard Fruehan,
director of the Center for Iron and Steelmaking Research in Pittsburgh
at Carnegie Mellon University. "There have been
a lot of improvements," he said, "but they are more evolutionary
than revolutionary." Fruehan said the global consolidation of companies
could help speed up that change.
http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/12021554.htm
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Qatar Campus
Khaleej Times, United Arab Emirates | June 30
Qatar’s newly-formed Supreme Council for Information and Communications
Technology (ictQATAR) held the third in a series of four workshops on
cyber security, in collaboration with the Qatar Computer Emergency Response
Team (Q-Cert) — a pioneering organisation in the region. Richard
Pethia, Q-Cert team leader and Director of the Networked Systems
Survivability Programme at Carnegie Mellon University’s
Software Engineering Institute conducted the workshop, highlighting
the increase in the number of global hackers and the subsequent increased
risk to computer networks.
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?
xfile=data/ middleeast/2005/June/middleeast_June868.
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Gulf Times, Qatar | June 29
The Supreme Council for Information and Communication Technology (ictQATAR)
is launching the Qatar Computer Emergency Response Team (Q-CERT) in
September with support from Carnegie Mellon University’s
CERT Co-ordination Centre. "Q-CERT is intended as the national
organisation to conduct and co-ordinate a comprehensive set of cyber
security activities needed to adequately protect Qatar’s critical
infrastructures as cyber space becomes the nervous system of government,
business and education operations," project manager Hamad al-Mannai
explained. The official was addressing Q-CERT’s technical workshop
on cyber security, conducted jointly by ictQATAR and Carnegie Mellon’s
Software Engineering Institute (SEI) yesterday. "In order to become
one of the most successful knowledge-based societies in the world, Qatar
needs to implement initiatives that successfully deal with the increased
risk that comes with dependence on these powerful technologies,"
al-Mannai said.
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=
42402&version=1&template_id=36&parent_id=16 | back
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Gulf Times, Qatar | June 29
The threat posed by Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) continues to
worsen as society becomes increasingly dependent on the reliability
of the Internet, cyber security experts Dr Sven Dietrich
and David Mundie have said. "There has been a
marked increase of extortion cases using DDoS during 2004-2005, with
attackers threatening online businesses with a denial of service (DoS)
if the payment they demand is not made," they said. Dr Dietrich
and Mundie, senior technical staffers of the Carnegie Mellon
Software Engineering Institute (SEI), are in Qatar to give presentations
at technical workshops on cyber security. The workshops are being organised
on behalf of Qatar Computer Emergency Response Team (Q-CERT) by the
Supreme Council for Information and Communication Technology (ictQATAR)
and SEI. Q-CERT, scheduled for launch in September with support from
Carnegie Mellon University’s CERT Co-ordination Centre, is envisaged
as a national organisation to conduct and co-ordinate a comprehensive
set of cyber security activities.
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=
42550&version=1&template_id=36&parent_id=16 | back
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Student Experience
Post-Gazette | June 26
Generations of college students have been content to shut their brains
off during summer, hanging out at the shore or waiting tables. Not Matthew
Felbinger. He went into overdrive. The University of Pittsburgh sophomore
stuffed an entire semester of world geography into one week in May by
taking a "fast-track" course at the Community College of Allegheny
County. Like a growing number of his peers nationwide, he decided that
the quickest and shrewdest route to a college degree runs right through
summer ... At Carnegie Mellon University, Sara Brooks,
21, a writing major, hopes the four six-week courses she's taking on
her campus this summer will help her graduate on time, even though she
spent time abroad and took a reduced course load during the regular
academic year.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05177/528733.stm
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Arts and Humanities
Post-Gazette | June 30
Places change. Sometimes their stories are celebrated, sometimes they
vanish, and sometimes they linger beneath the surface, awaiting rediscovery.
The images in "Charlee Brodsky: A Town Without
Steel, Envisioning Homestead," a solo exhibition at the Westmoreland
Museum of American Art, seem to allude to the latter option. The artist
and Carnegie Mellon University professor and chair
of the communication design program documented the mill communities
of Homestead, West Homestead and Munhall in the 1980s and early 1990s
... For this project Brodsky, who frequently works collaboratively,
invited writers and Carnegie Mellon English professors Jim Daniels
and Jane McCafferty to respond to Homestead and her
visual imagery. The result is a trio of interpretations that expand
the viewer's considerations, as opposed to a united choral voice.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05181/530499.stm
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Post-Gazette | June 28
Reiko Goto, a research fellow at Carnegie Mellon
University's Studio for Creative Inquiry watches (above) as Tibetan
Buddhist monks Sopa Gyatso, left, and Lobsang Tenpa work on a sand mandala
Friday at the Chicago Cultural Center. "I wanted to learn how they
make the mandala, such an intricate design" says Goto, an environmental
artist. "I was amazed how the atmosphere was. It was not an intense
situation as I expected, and not noisy, very relaxing," Goto said.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05179/529575.stm
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Belleville News Democrat (ASSOCIATED PRESS) |
June 27
Monks from India worked for almost a week maneuvering millions of grains
of colored sand into a sacred painting called a mandala at the Chicago
Cultural Center. The eight monks from the Drepung Gomang Monastery participated
in the Buddhist ritual on the second stop of their nearly yearlong Sacred
Art Tour. The fundraising tour will take the monks to 16 U.S. states
and nine Canadian provinces. Once completed, a mandala is dismantled
by sweeping the sand into little bags. Some of the bags will be offered
to people as gifts, but the majority will be taken in a procession and
dumped into the Chicago River. At the Cultural Center, the curious filtered
in and out of the room, gathering around the monks as they worked. "I
wanted to learn how they make the mandala, such an intricate design,"
said Reiko Goto, a research fellow at Carnegie
Mellon, who traveled from Pittsburgh to Chicago to see the
monks work.
http://www.belleville.com/mld/
belleville/news/local/11997909.htm | back to top
Post-Gazette | June 24
People still talk about Pittsburgh Filmmakers' first Tonic -- a night
of music, art, food and revelry held in 2001 -- and judging from advance
ticket sales no one wants to miss out this time. At 7:30 tomorrow night
the doors open on Media Tonic II, which fills every corner of Filmmakers'
477 Melwood Ave. building -- even the rest rooms -- with music, performance,
installation and two-dimensional art, food and fun. The lights stay
on until 11:30 p.m. "When you come here Saturday night, you're
going to be embraced by the arts -- physically, mentally," says
event curator and Filmmakers staff member Amy Robeson. The approach
will clue you in to what's ahead when you pop across the fire engine
red bubble wrap of artist Tiffany Sum's piece that begins at the front
door and scrolls up the grand staircase. Sum, a student at Carnegie
Mellon University, will give "a live red carpet performance
outside our building," Robeson says.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05175/527561.stm
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Information Technology
Tribune-Review | June 29
Pressure has been put on a 5-year-old software company to be the region's
next technology breakthrough -- on par with FreeMarkets Inc. and Fore
Systems Inc. Vivisimo Inc. has been tagged by the president of Carnegie
Mellon University and by Pennsylvania's top technology investment
fund as one of the prime local companies to make the next big jump.
It's a challenge Vivisimo is happy to take on, with a verve worthy of
its vibrant name ... Vivisimo's technology aims to conquer the scourge
of the information age --- too much information and the inability to
separate the wheat from the chaff, [CEO Raul] Valdes-Perez says ...
Carnegie Mellon President Jared Cohon said yesterday
that the university is counting on Vivisimo to carry on the tradition
of Fore Systems, the computer networking gear company founded by four
Carnegie Mellon computer scientists in 1990 and acquired in 1999 for
$4.5 billion.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/
tribune-review/business/s_348463.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Business Times | June 27
Carnegie Mellon University is one of 25 schools to
share $2.1 million in wireless technology and cash from Hewlett-Packard
Co. as part of its HP Technology for Teaching Leadership grant program.
The program focuses on improving student success through implementation
of mobile technology in the classroom. Carnegie Mellon will get $120,000
in equipment -- such as a mobile cart with 15 HP Tablet PCs, a wireless
HP digital projector and an HP digital camera - and cash. Palo Alto,
Calif.-based HP (NYSE:HPQ) said Carnegie Mellon, which was a 2004 recipient
of the grant, was selected for additional investment support because
of its success integrating HP technology into classroom curriculum,
demonstrating measurable positive impact on student achievement, and
proposing innovative plans to expand their programs to have broader
impact on student success.
http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/
stories/2005/06/27/daily14.html | back to top
The Washington Post | June 26
E-mails were flooding in from all over the country. Something strange
was going on with the Internet, alarmed computer users wrote. Google,
eBay and other big sites had suddenly disappeared. Kyle Haugsness scanned
the reports and entered crisis mode. Part of the Internet was broken.
For the 76th time that week. As many as 1,000 companies had effectively
had their connections "poisoned," so when their employees
typed in legitimate addresses they were taken to bogus Web destinations
... Built by academics when everyone online was assumed to be a "good
citizen," the Internet today is buckling under the weight of what
is estimated to be nearly a billion diverse users surfing, racing, and
tripping all over the network. Hackers, viruses, worms, spam, spyware
and phishing sites have proliferated to the point where it's nearly
impossible for most computer users to go online without falling victim
to them. Last year, the Carnegie Mellon University
CERT Coordination Center logged 3,780 new computer security vulnerabilities,
compared with 1,090 in 2000 and 171 in 1995. Computer security firm
Symantec Corp. over the past decade has catalogued 11,000 vulnerabilities
in 20,000 technologies, affecting 2,000 vendors.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2005/06/25/AR2005062501284.html | back to
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Biotechnology
Post-Gazette | June 26
Within miles of the convention center where thousands of executives,
entrepreneurs and enthusiasts attended BIO 2005 last week, the reasons
for Philadelphia's leadership in biotechnology are obvious. Housed all
around Philadelphia are such household names as Bayer, Johnson &
Johnson and GlaxoSmithKline. All have been around for decades, spawning
not only new drugs but also money, interest and spinoffs that have made
Pennsylvania's largest city one of the nation's hotbeds for biotech.
It is a story that Pittsburgh has yet to tell, local biotech proponents
agree ... Such a critical mass is still a ways away in Pittsburgh. From
lawyers, accountants and a range of investors to a support system that
connects all the dots, it is just "beginning to come into place
here," said Art Boni, deputy director of the Don
Jones Center for Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon
University's Tepper School of Business and former head of Pitt's office
of technology management.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05177/528318.stm
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Science Magazine | June 24
Researchers have struggled to find an overarching conception of [autism].
And in the past 3 years, they have accumulated tantalizing data suggesting
that the problems in autism result from poor connections in the brain
areas rather than from defects in a specific brain region. Imaging experiments
show a lack of cooperation between different brain areas, as well as
abnormalities in the volume and distribution of the white matter that
insulates neuronal signals. Other studies have found oddities in the
organization, number, and size of neurons in certain brain regions that
could give rise to connectivity problems. So far, the studies are largely
suggestive, and skeptics say that connectivity theory does not get to
the bottom of autism. Yet if the theory is correct, it suggests a new
approach to molecular studies of the disease. For instance, researchers
might look for genes that perturb the development of neural connections
rather than genes that map to specific behaviors. Meanwhile, the work
may enable more precise diagnosis of the disorder and a new way to test
the efficacy of behavioral therapies or future drugs. "We're very
close to finding a biological marker for autism using brain morphology
and activation," says Marcel Just, a cognitive
neuroscientist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/
content/full/308/5730/1856 | back to top
Local News Stories
Post-Gazette | June 30
If President Bush could ask Benjamin Franklin's advice about flagging
opinion poll numbers regarding the Iraq war, what might he say? "There
never was a good war or a bad peace," perhaps? Or maybe: "We
must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately."
No one can know exactly what Old Ben might say, of course. But an exhibit
developed by Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment
Technology Center and now open in Philadelphia at least gives the illusion
that the founding father can still keep up his end of a conversation.
Called "Ben Franklin's Ghost," it is open across the street
from Independence Hall in the visitors center for the Lights of Liberty
Show, a sound-and-light walking tour after dark through Independence
National Historical Park. Using a Carnegie Mellon-patented technology
called Synthetic Interview, visitors can ask questions of Franklin,
either by choosing from 160 prepared questions or typing in their own
questions based on a list of key words.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05181/530763.stm
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Tribune-Review | June 28
Longtime North Allegheny High School football coach Jim Rankin, who
resigned last fall, was hired as a full-time assistant by Carnegie
Mellon University on Monday. He will work with the offensive
line as part of a 10-man crew -- three full-time and six part-time assistants
-- under coach Rich Lackner. Rankin said that joining the college ranks
wasn't necessarily his goal, but neither was leaving the game entirely.
"I wasn't ready to not coach football when I left North Allegheny,"
he said. "I was going to retire, but I wasn't ready to be a part-time
assistant or not be in football."
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
sports/college/s_348100.html | back to top
Post-Gazette | June 27
Like a grocery shopper peering at a jar of spaghetti sauce in search
of flecks of basil, physicists have taken a long look at the proton
and have found an extra, if long-suspected, ingredient inside. Physicists
know that the positively charged protons in atomic nuclei are made primarily
of two types of elementary particles, the so-called up and down quarks.
But now an experiment called G-Zero at Jefferson Lab in Newport News,
Va., has confirmed the presence of a third type, or "flavor"
of quark, the strange quark. To find that protons contain strange quarks
isn't a major surprise, said Brian Quinn, a Carnegie
Mellon University physicist who is part of the international
G-Zero collaboration. But what was somewhat startling was the degree
to which strange quarks actually affect the structure and behavior of
the proton, he added. "We're showing that they could be a significant
part of what makes up the proton," agreed Gregg Franklin,
another Carnegie Mellon physicist among the 108 scientists on the G-Zero
team.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05178/528937.stm
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Post-Gazette | June 27
Russell Schwartz, a computational biologist at Carnegie
Mellon University, is one of 58 people this year to receive
the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the
highest honor bestowed on young U.S. researchers. Schwartz, who joined
Carnegie Mellon as an assistant professor of biological sciences in
2002, develops computer techniques that accelerate research into the
basic mechanisms of cells and aid in drug discovery. He was selected
for the presidential award after receiving an $838,000 Faculty Career
Development award from the National Science Foundation a year ago.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05178/529012.stm
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International News Stories
Nature, UK | June 30
US National Science Foundation (NSF) has decided that it's time to span
the great divide between neuroscience and education. Over the next five
years, it is giving more than US$90 million to four large, multidisciplinary
teams incorporating cognitive neuroscientists, psychologists, computer
scientists and educationalists. A further series of grants will be announced
later this year. They aim to devise practical teaching methods that
will complement the brain's natural development, in part by integrating
advances in cognitive neuroscience with cutting-edge information technology.
Until now, science and educational research have not mixed well. Lacking
common measurement standards, educationalists have touted theories that
are more like philosophies, says David Klahr, a psychologist
at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and a member
of another of the NSF-funded teams. "In education it's like: 'Here's
my theory. I think kids can do this or can't do that,'" he complains.
"So theory is very mushy." As a result, the field evolved
into camps of specialists fighting to advance one theory of learning
over another. Meanwhile, neuroscientists were holed up in their labs
testing the ability of new imaging tools to deliver clues about which
areas of the brain are involved in key aspects of learning. ***Please
note that members of the Carnegie Mellon University community have access
to this journal through a subscriptions held by the University Libraries.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/
v435/n7046/full/4351156a.html | back to top
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