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July 8-14,
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 July 8-14, 2005,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 131
references to the university in worldwide
publications. Here is a sample.
National News Stories
Student Experience
Post-Gazette | July 13
Valley News Dispatch | July 9
Arts and Humanities
New York Times | July 10
Tribune-Review | July 10
Information Technology
Tribune-Review | July 13
Tribune-Review | July 10
Tribune-Review | July 10
Tribune-Review | July 9
Tribune-Review | July 9
Pittsburgh Business Times | July 8
Environment
Sioux Falls Argus Leader | July 14
Pittsburgh Business Times | July 8
Regional Impact
Connellsville Daily Courier | July 8
Local News Stories
Post-Gazette | July 13
Post-Gazette | July 12
Tribune-Review | July 12
Tribune-Review | July 11
Post-Gazette | July 10
Post-Gazette | July 8
Post-Gazette | July 8
International News Stories
BBC News | July 13
International Herald Tribune | July 11
Red Nova News | July 10
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National News Stories
New York Times | July 14
The fantasy of a home robot capable of performing household chores is
as old as science fiction itself, but the reality has been slow to arrive.
... "In some ways it can be more practical for a person to interact
with a machine that has a human form," said Sara Kiesler,
a professor at Carnegie Mellon who specializes in human
interaction with computers. "If a robot is handing you a tool,
and it reaches out with a humanlike arm, not only is it practical, but
the act is a form of communication that a human understands."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/14/garden/14robot.html?
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New York Times (CNET News) | July 13
Whizzing around a 1.5-mile racetrack in a military-style Hummer for
seven hours may not be hard, but try it without a driver. Carnegie
Mellon's Sandstorm—an artificially intelligent, robotic
car with drive-by-wire modifications, GPS (Global Positioning System)
and radar sensors, and remote control emergency safeguards—drove
200 miles, or 131 laps, autonomously last week. That's a milestone for
the university's Red Team in the race to out-drive 39 other robotic
vehicles and win the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, a desert race with
a $2 million prize sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency, the research arm of the U.S Department of Defense.
http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/
CNET_2100-7337_3-5787038.html | back to top
ABC News | July 12
On Wednesday, more than 400 research teams from more than 35 countries
will converge on Osaka, Japan, for RoboCup 2005. As in the previous
eight international competitions, scientists and developers will show
off their latest attempts at developing teams of robots that can compete
against others in a game of football -- or soccer, as it's more commonly
referred to in the United States. While images of gangs of automatons
-- some shaped like toy robot dogs -- furiously chasing after a colorful
ball may seem like pure entertainment, robotics researchers say it isn't
just about fun and games. If developers can create the computer and
mechanical tools that allow machines to automatically perform effectively
as a team, a whole new world of robots may arise. ... "There's
always a need for teamwork when it comes to certain tasks," says
Manuela Veloso, a computer science professor at Carnegie
Mellon University, and faculty adviser behind one of the U.S.
teams competing in Osaka. "Because they [RoboCup robots] are a
team, they could perform beautiful things cooperatively."
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/FutureTech
story?id=928167&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 | back
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New York Times | July 10
For all their murderous power, the four terrorist bombs detonated in
London on Thursday morning have not created anything close to mass panic.
... People understand bombs, for one thing; they know what the weapons
can do, and why certain targets are chosen. This allows residents to
feel that they have some control over the situation: They can decide
not to take trains at rush hour, avoid buses or drive a car, psychologists
say. "Unfortunately, and I think people sensed this in watching
the coverage in London, bombings have become familiar," and, as
such, less frightening to those not directly affected, said George
Loewenstein, a professor of psychology and economics at Carnegie
Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/10/
weekinreview/10carey.html | back to top
Pioneer Press (KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS) | July
8
Leaders from the world's top eight industrial nations ended their annual
summit Friday by agreeing that humans are a major cause of global warming
and pledging to work toward reducing it, but they didn't commit to any
specific actions or timetables. The Group of Eight also pledged to double
financial aid to African nations to $50 billion a year by 2010, forgive
the debts of 18 of the world's poorest nations and provide up to $9
billion over three years to the Palestinian Authority to assist its
drive to become an independent state. The outcome of the gathering of
leaders from the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan,
Russia and Great Britain fell short of the ambitious agenda that the
summit's host, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, had set, but he hailed
it as progress. ... Experts in the United States viewed the G-8 statement
on climate change as equivocal. "The document has the kind of political
urgency that the Europeans have been saying, but it also kind of lacks
the political specifics that say you've got to actually do something,"
said Lester Lave, a Carnegie Mellon
University economics professor and noted energy expert.
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/
news/nation/12088025.htm | back to top
Student Experience
Post-Gazette | July 13
The CLO ensemble is as hard to get into as always. ... It's often where
young performers earn their Equity cards, de facto emblems of entry
into the profession. ... Call them Pittsburgh's hardest working group
of young professionals in the making. The Post-Gazette set out to interview
a representative sample. ***See this article for profiles on Carnegie
Mellon students.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/05194/536778.stm | back to top
Valley News Dispatch | July 9
Carson Cooman is fervent in his belief that contemporary music is for
everyone. "We need living music. Everybody who has an interest
in music needs to connect with the art of their own time," the
prolific composer and concert organist says. Cooman, 23, will provide
that opportunity in his performance at 6 p.m. Sunday at Trinity Lutheran
Church, Freeport. ... Cooman, who lives in Shadyside, is a native of
Rochester, N.Y., who came to Pittsburgh last year to begin graduate
study in composition at Carnegie Mellon University
School of Music. ... The recital also will include two pieces by Millvale
composer Nancy Galbraith, professor of composition
at Carnegie Mellon.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/newssummary/s_351749.html | back to top
Arts and Humanities
New York Times | July 10
When combined with technology that allows them to sound like music instead
of its tinny shadow, and programs that allow anyone to make, mix or
otherwise devise his or her own ringtones, the seven songs on the Timbaland
album - among the first meant to be played on a phone, not a radio or
CD player - suggest that ring tones are not merely a new money-maker;
they are a new art form. ... Mainstream musicians are not the only ones
intrigued by the possibility of the ringing opus. In 2001, the multimedia
artist Golan Levin, now a professor of electronic art
at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, was the
co-creator of "Dialtones," a "telesymphony" composed
entirely of the rings of audience members' cellphones.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/10/
arts/music/10ryzi.html | back to top
Tribune-Review | July 10
Recently, 30 of [botanical artist Margaret Mee's] magnificent watercolor
and gouache paintings of orchids, bromeliads and other epiphytes, along
with several of her sketchbooks, diaries and painting equipment on loan
from the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, were placed on view at the Hunt
Institute for Botanical Documentation on the campus of Carnegie
Mellon University. And, as visitors will see, they comprise
a curious arrangement of art and objects that offer a compelling biographical
story and serve as a testament to a remarkable life. "She was really
intrigued by the interrelationship and interdependency of all the specimens
and creatures that lived in the forest," says Lugene Bruno,
assistant curator of art at Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
entertainment/arts/s_351762.html | back to top
Information Technology
Tribune-Review | July 13
Grace was one of 19 robots participating in the conference's 14th annual
Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition. Her job was to entertain the
crowd and allow her Carnegie Mellon University team
of creators to test how she uses social interactions, rather than sight
and sound, to achieve a task—in this case, finding a team member
in a pink hat. "She is supposed to be entertaining for the conference
attendees and get people to play with her," said Mark Michalowski,
25, a Carnegie Mellon doctoral student who helped prepare Grace for
the conference. "But on a more serious note, in any environment
where there are people, we think we should design robots that can interact
with them in a social way. That way, people will be more eager to help
if it is trying to deliver something or find somebody," he said.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/regional/s_352806.html | back to top
Tribune-Review | July 10
David Farber has an intimate knowledge of the latest
high-tech developments. At Bell Labs in the 1960s, he helped develop
the first electronic telephone switches. His research on distributed
computing in the 1970s helped foster the personal computer revolution,
and he's also served as the chief technologist for the Federal Communications
Commission. Presently the distinguished career professor of computer
science and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University's
School of Computer Science, Farber isn't too impressed with iPods. "What
(Steve) Jobs did with iPods is create an image," Farber says of
Apple's renowned chief executive officer and innovator. "And that
image both certified the field and created a powerful marketing thing.
It's a real cute device. But relative to its technology, there are much
better around. ... It's like a Porsche Boxter; there are better cars
floating around, but boy, it's sexy as hell. And that carries a lot
of weight with people."
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
entertainment/music/s_351763.html | back to top
Tribune-Review | July 10
The tech device of the moment is the iPod, the ultra-cool portable music
player that utilizes digital technology and a small but powerful hard
drive to store and play songs. But while the iPod is new and omnipresent,
the application of digital media is in its infancy -- even though it's
been around longer than one might expect. "Digital media in the
general sense has been percolating for 30 years," says
David Farber, the distinguished career professor of computer
science and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University's
School of Computer Science. ... Roger Dannenberg is
an associate research professor in the school of computer science and
the school of art at Carnegie Mellon University and a musician who specializes
in live performances using computers. Noting the current standard of
listening to music is via a pair of headphones or loudspeakers, he touts
a new technology that will entail dozens, or even hundreds, of small
loudspeakers that will reproduce real sound fields instead of just point
sources of sound. Imagine an entire symphony orchestra in your living
room, and you just begin to get the idea.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
entertainment/music/s_351764.html | back to top
Tribune-Review | July 9
The Air Force has awarded a $411.1 million contract over five
years to the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon
University for software research and development. "In 2010, we
would expect to be able to say the next generation of software is more
reliable, free of defects and accepted by the user community as well
as hardware is now accepted," Clyde Chittister,
chief operating officer of the institute, said in an interview Friday.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/
tribune-review/business/s_351584.html | back to top
Tribune-Review | July 9
More than 1,000 researchers, technologists and analysts are gathering
here starting today for the 20th National Artificial Intelligence Conference
to learn about the latest trends in AI science and technology. ... "It's
very important to have the AAAI conference in Pittsburgh on this occasion
because two of the founders of AI worked at (Carnegie Mellon
University)," said conference program co-chair Manuela
Veloso, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon.
Veloso was referring to Allen Newell and Herbert
Simon, who invented the first "thinking machine"
and launched the field that would become known as artificial intelligence
at Carnegie Tech in the mid-1950s.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/regional/s_351637.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Business Times | July 8
Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute
has been awarded a $411 million Department of Defense contract for software
research and development, the DOD announced Friday. Payment for the
Pittsburgh university will be distributed over five years for work done
by the Software Engineering Institute for a variety of government agencies.
The institute's research would cover areas "pertinent to national
defense," according to a DOD Web site.
http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/
stories/2005/07/04/daily35.html | back to top
Environment
Sioux Falls Argus Leader | July 14
Parker is turning mine-scarred lands into a new athletic complex and
housing development, helping the growing community thrive. In Yankton,
city leaders are working on a vital community plan to bridge the downtown
and riverfront areas over a once-contaminated salvage yard. These are
projects once thought untouchable because of possible environmental
contamination. It took removing some of the potential legal and financial
liabilities to allow development after clean-up of the sites. ... Deborah
Lange calls the Brownfields Program "one of the most successful
environmental initiatives ever to come out of Washington, D.C."
Lange is executive director of the Brownfields Center, affiliated with
Carnegie Mellon University.
http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/
20050714/NEWS/507140309/1001 | back to top
Pittsburgh Business Times | July 8
Pittsburgh's knack for overhauling environmentally challenged brownfields
is helping to eclipse its old reputation as a smoke-filled steel town.
"The region has proven over and over that it can manage this type
of property," said Deb Lange, executive director
of the Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research
at Carnegie Mellon University. "There is a lot
of knowledge and experience in Western Pennsylvania and that's the key
to minimizing any misconceptions about brownfields." ... The Steinbrenner
Institute uses its education and research to increase awareness about
environmental concerns and to attempt to change the way the world thinks
and acts with regard to the environment.
http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/
stories/2005/07/11/focus5.html | back to top
Regional Impact
Connellsville Daily Courier | July 8
For the third time in six years, Frazier was chosen as one of two schools
in the Pittsburgh area that students involved in a class at Carnegie
Mellon University visited to learn about the use of technology
in education. The students who comprise the Principals Role in Integrated
Technology class at Carnegie Mellon are already involved in area school
districts such as North Hills, Wilkinsburg, Clairton and Norwin at different
levels. Professor Celeste DiCarlo Nalwasky said the
students are future leaders in schools, some in the field of technology
and other as principals and superintendents. ... The program at Carnegie
Mellon spawned out of the John Heinz School of Public Management with
the idea that running a school district is similar to running a business.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/
dailycourier/news/s_351456.html | back to top
Local News Stories
Post-Gazette | July 13
City Council yesterday approved a resolution committing itself to "fair
and representative" appointments to boards and committees, part
of an effort that was inspired by a dearth of women appointees. ...
Two studies are being conducted for Pennsylvanians for Fair Representation
as part of the push for legislation, both on the local and state levels,
Arnet said. The first, by students at Carnegie Mellon
University's Heinz School of Public Policy and Management, examined
the composition of about 80 boards and committees in Pittsburgh and
Allegheny County and will be unveiled next month.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05194/536945.stm | back to top
Post-Gazette | July 12
In the mid-1980s, Japanese and other foreign investors were snapping
up high-profile business assets in the United States with such frequency
as to bring on a bout of national hand-wringing. ... Now, with Mitsubishi
Heavy Industries' bid for Westinghouse Electric Co., the nation's largest
builder of nuclear plants, following on the heels of China's bid for
Unocal, the ninth-largest oil producer, concerns about U.S. economic
security and even national security are rife once more. ... "I
think the ownership of these companies [Westinghouse and Unocal] are
not terribly important," said Lester Lave, an
economist at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School
of Business.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05193/536399.stm | back to top
Tribune-Review | July 12
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is putting together a bid for Monroeville-based
Westinghouse Electric Co., a deal that would unite two companies that
have worked together since the 1960s. ... Carnegie Mellon
University's Jay Apt said Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
would be a good owner for Westinghouse because the Japanese company
has the money to turn plans into assets. "Nuclear is a very capital
intensive business," said Apt, a professor at the Tepper School
of Business and executive director of the university's Electricity Industry
Center. "With electricity restructuring (power deregulation) on
its fourth go-round in Britain, there is a lot of uncertainty, which
drives up the cost of capital. Mitsubishi's access to capital is probably
at much lower rates."
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/
tribune-review/business/s_352378.html | back to top
Tribune-Review | July 11
Faculty inventions generated $11.6 million in licensing fees and royalties
for the region's three research universities during fiscal 2004 and
enabled the schools to launch 19 start-up companies. The figures from
the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon and
Penn State universities show a 38.1 percent jump over the $8.3 million
earned in 2003 and a 58.3 percent increase over the 12 start-up companies
spun off that year.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/regional/s_352044.html | back to top
Post-Gazette | July 10
Team-building exercises have been around for decades, but in recent
years, such excursions have become big business. While there's no official
source to gauge the growth, the anecdotal evidence shows organizations
are spending huge sums to send employees off-site for sports, games
and activities designed to help them forge bonds that will ultimately
improve teamwork and productivity back in the office. ... "You
have to ask yourself, 'What's the business purpose behind the activity,
and will the activity generalize back to the work setting?' " said
Robert Kelley, adjunct professor of organizational
behavior at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School
of Business.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05191/535356.stm | back to top
Post-Gazette | July 8
Pennsylvania's deputy secretary for technology investment, Richard Overmoyer,
is stepping down to join local lobbying firm GSP Consulting. The 35-year-old
Erie native has worked for the state Department of Community and Economic
Development since 2001, initially under the administration of former
Gov. Tom Ridge. ... "Rich was a tremendous ally for this region's
tech efforts in Harrisburg," said Don Smith, director
of economic development at the University of Pittsburgh and
Carnegie Mellon University. "He really understood what
we as a region are trying to do to promote tech."
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05189/534684.stm | back to top
Post-Gazette | July 8
The University of Pittsburgh, West Virginia University and Carnegie
Mellon University are among 19 universities receiving research
grants under the federal government's University Coal Research program.
Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman announced the $3 million in grants yesterday
at West Virginia University in Morgantown. Pitt was awarded $400,000
and West Virginia received $200,000. Carnegie Mellon was the recipient
of $50,000. The research grants, which are awarded annually, are used
to develop clean technologies for the use of coal.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05189/534676.stm | back to top
International News Stories
BBC News | July 13
A robotic Humvee has managed to drive itself for seven hours without
crashing on a race course in the US. The robotic vehicle built by Red
Team Robot Racing from Carnegie Mellon University covered
200 miles (322 kilometres) during the trial. The test was part of preparations
for a robot vehicles race across the Mojave desert organised by the
US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency. The race, called the Grand
Challenge, is due to be held on 8 October.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/
technology/4678565.stm | back to top
International Herald Tribune | July 11
For all their murderous power, the four terrorist bombs detonated in
London last week did not create anything close to mass panic. ...But
terror groups like Al Qaeda are widely thought to be after bigger game
- the psychological unraveling, or loss of confidence, in Western society.
And high explosives have not done the trick. ... And the most unsettling
thing about the current brand of extremist Muslim terror is the certainty
that the enemy will try anything - including using weapons whose psychological
effects are entirely unknown. ... Bioterror scenarios are the most obvious
modern-day example of such terrifying ambiguity. Despite only a handful
of deaths, the anthrax poisonings in 2001 created a rip current of anxiety
for millions anytime they opened their mailboxes. Studies find that
this kind of free-floating concern, when written across neighbors' or
colleagues' faces, is contagious, said George Loewenstein,
a professor of psychology and economics at Carnegie Mellon University
in Pittsburgh.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/
07/10/news/letter.php | back to top
Red Nova News | July 10
Team-building exercises have been around for decades, but in recent
years, such excursions have become big business. While there's no official
source to gauge the growth, the anecdotal evidence shows organizations
are spending huge sums to send employees off-site for sports, games
and activities designed to help them forge bonds that will ultimately
improve teamwork and productivity back in the office. ... "You
have to ask yourself, 'What's the business purpose behind the activity,
and will the activity generalize back to the work setting?' " said
Robert Kelley, adjunct professor of organizational
behavior at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School
of Business. "There are a number of exercises built around scavenger
hunts ... or desert survival or moon survival, but the question is,
how often do we do that at work?" Team-building activities can
be positive, Kelley said, "if they help people view each other
in more dimensions than just work and highlight talents people have
that they can't demonstrate at work. People might then say, 'Hey, this
person is more than a one-dimensional accounting person.'" But
Kelley does not believe they transform organizations "My guess
is many of these things fall more into the category of helping people
get to know each other, or as a quasi-reward," he said.
http://www.rednova.com/news/health/169558/
shooting_to_be_a_team_player/ | back to top
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