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July 15-21,
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 15-21,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 129
references to the university in worldwide publications. Here is a sample.
National News Stories
The Wall Street Journal | July 21
Pioneer Press (KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS) |
July 20
Los Alamos Monitor| July 20
Science Magazine | July 19
The Wall Street Journal | July 18
Bradenton Herald (NEWSDAY) | July 16
Arts and Humanities
Post-Gazette | July 21
Post-Gazette | July 20
Post-Gazette | July 18
Denton Record-Chronicle | July 17
Information Technology
BusinessWeek | July 25
Tribune-Review | July 21
Environment
Post-Gazette | July 21
Regional Impact
The New York Times | July 20
Herald-Dispatch | July 19
Local News Stories
Tribune-Review | July 20
Pittsburgh Business Times | July 15
International News Stories
Malaysia Star | July 19
The Times of India | July 18
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National News Stories
The Wall Street Journal | July 21
People with certain kinds of brain damage may make better investment
decisions. That is the conclusion of a new study offering some compelling
evidence that mixing emotion with investing can lead to bad outcomes.
By linking brain science to investment behavior, researchers concluded
that people with an impaired ability to experience emotions could actually
make better financial decisions than other people under certain circumstances.
The research is part of a fast-growing interdisciplinary field called
"neuroeconomics" that explores the role biology plays in economic
decision making, by combining insights from cognitive neuroscience,
psychology and economics. The study was published last month in the
journal Psychological Science, and was conducted by a team of researchers
from Carnegie Mellon University, the Stanford Graduate
School of Business and the University of Iowa.
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/0,,SB112190164023291519-
rvYW40ZbTjek4HWCDUyijBCigY8_20060720,00.html | back
to top
Pioneer Press (KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS) | July
20
As Republican leaders in Congress have acknowledged recently, the effort
to overhaul Social Security looks ever more likely to fall short in
2005. Neither the Senate Finance Committee nor House Ways and Means
is prepared to deal with the matter in a serious way before September,
at the earliest. ... "Social Security is something we have to deal
with, but there's plenty of time," said Steven Spears,
an economist at Carnegie Mellon University and a foe
of President Bush's personal accounts. "Even if you want to cut
benefits, I think you have to be a little careful. If the projections
turn out to be wrong, then you will have been punishing people for no
reason."
http://www.twincities.com/mld/
twincities/news/nation/12177353.htm | back to top
Los Alamos Monitor | July 20
Proposals are due today in the competition to manage and operate Los
Alamos National Laboratory, a role [the University of California-Bechtel]
has played for more than six decades. ... Robinson said the University
of Texas System had led an effort to bring in a national consortium
of educational research institutions, ranked by prominence and relevance
to the LANL mission. The list... includes Purdue, Johns Hopkins, Arizona
and Arizona State, Colorado and Colorado School of Mines, Florida and
Florida State, the Universities of Michigan and Wisconsin, Georgia Tech,
and Carnegie Mellon, as well as Texas Tech and Rice
University.
http://www.lamonitor.com/articles/
2005/07/19/headline_news/news01.txt | back to top
Science Magazine | July 19
E-mail has been touted as a "blind" medium that disregards
race, gender, and other stereotypes. But because e-mail lacks social
cues such as tone of voice, some researchers have speculated that it
can actually cause people to hold onto their prejudices. ... To test
this, Nicholas Epley, a psychologist at the University of Chicago in
Illinois, and colleagues paired up 60 college students. Each participant
was given a fake biographical sketch of the other, including information
about intelligence and a photograph that depicted either a well-dressed
or disheveled person. ... This report is "quite clever" in
its "use of modern [technology] to study how stereotype works,"
says Sara Kiesler, a psychologist at Carnegie
Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. But she cautions
that real-life situations may produce different results because people
are not usually given biographical information about strangers before
e-mailing them.
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/
content/full/2005/719/1 | back to top
The Wall Street Journal | July 18
Recognizing faces, it seems, is yet another in the long list of skills
that human beings can do literally without thinking, but that has computers
utterly stumped. ... Takeo Kanade, a veteran face-recognition
researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, says that
while an unattended and fully automatic face-recognition system is not
currently attainable, useful subsets may be. One example is a setup
that, after being given a photograph of a person, could then search
for matches through videotapes. While the "false positive"
rate would probably be quite high, Dr. Kanade says such a system would
still have value for investigators because it could help whittle down
the number of hours of tape that would need to be viewed following an
event like the London bombing.
http://online.wsj.com/article/
0,,SB112163882608787799,00-search.html | back to
top
Bradenton Herald (NEWSDAY) | July 16
Some people's discomfort about losing is due to the way our society
defines it, says Scott Sandage, a Carnegie
Mellon University history professor and author of the new book
"Born Losers: A History of Failure in America." "There's
a T-shirt that is popular on the campus were I teach that says, 'Coming
in second only means you're the biggest loser.' That's just nonsense,"
he says. "Coming in second is pretty good. Coming in tenth in a
country of 300 million is pretty good." In his book, Sandage explains
how the growth of American capitalism in the 19th century changed people's
ideas about winning and losing. Historically, he says, "winner"
was a military or sporting term for whoever was the strongest or fastest.
"Loser" was a business term that originally was morally neutral
or value-neutral and simply described someone who lost property, for
example, due to fire and theft.
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/
bradenton/living/health/12138277.htm | back to top
Arts and Humanities
Post-Gazette | July 21
Once again, Carnegie Mellon University's School of
Drama will showcase its recent and present playwriting students in a
Summer New Play Festival running through July 30. The festival is designed
to help writers prepare their scripts for full productions in regional
theaters. Six new works in progress will be given staged readings for
one night each in the small Helen Wayne Rauh Theatre.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/05202/541035.stm
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Post-Gazette | July 20
"There was the full moon looking through the branches of the tree
-- magnificent -- and all the time, the sound of night birds."
... The quote is from an interview with Mee about the culmination of
her career, when she was finally able to sketch a rare night-blooming
cactus in flower. It aired in 1988 on PBS. The segment, and 30 of Mee's
exquisite gouache and pencil watercolors and field sketches, are exhibited
in "The Flowering Amazon: Margaret Mee Paintings from the Royal
Botanic Gardens, Kew" at Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation,
Carnegie Mellon University. The exhibition, originally
organized at Kew as a private showing for Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh,
began a tour of the United States at the New York Botanic Garden last
year. The Hunt is the second in a list of distinguished venues that
will house it.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05201/540415.stm | back to top
Post-Gazette | July 18
Composer Roger Dannenberg, [member of Pittsburgh New
Music Ensemble], is on the faculty of Carnegie Mellon's
School of Computer Science. [His art song genre composition],"Feedback,"
called on violinist [Marc] Levine to improvise while a computer added
predetermined audio effects. Like meta-notation, these effects changed
with time, meaning that if Levine played something that worked at one
moment, it might elicit cacophony at another. There were a few such
moments, but the bulk of the piece transpired well. Combined with computer-generated
video, "Feedback" was an intriguing if emotionally detached
sound sculpture.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05199/539480.stm | back to top
Denton Record-Chronicle | July 17
Peter Boatwright, who graduated from Denton High in
the 1980s, is an associate professor of marketing at the Tepper School
of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. He co-authored
the book, ["The Design of Things to Come: How Ordinary People Create
Extraordinary Products"], with Craig M. Vogel, a professor in the
School of Design and director of the Center for Design Research and
Innovation in the College of Design Architecture, Art and Planning at
the University of Cincinnati, and Jonathan Cagan, Ph.D.,
P.E., a professor of mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.
http://www.dentonrc.com/
sharedcontent/dws/drc/entertainment/stories/
DRC_names_in_the_arts.53d4163.html | back to top
Information Technology
BusinessWeek | July 25
The latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics contain a pleasant
surprise: The ranks of "computer and mathematical occupations,"
which include many programmers, actually rose in the second quarter.
... This is welcome news for American programmers, but they're not out
of harm's way. The pressure is still on to avoid getting stuck in routine
programming jobs that can easily be moved offshore, and many likely
will be in coming years. "This is going to be a less and less attractive
occupation for people with entry-level skills," says David
Garlan, director of software engineering programs at Pittsburgh's
Carnegie Mellon University. Carnegie Mellon's elite
grads have had little trouble finding jobs. Vermonter Ben Madore, who
graduates in August with a master's degree in information technology,
landed a plum assignment with tech consultancy Accenture Ltd. (ACN )
in San Francisco. He's one of 3,000 programmers the company hired in
the U.S. in the past nine months. He credits his good fortune partly
to the fact that Carnegie Mellon taught him to design software packages,
rather than just routine programming.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/
content/05_30/b3944048_mz011.htm | back to top
Tribune-Review | July 21
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center unveiled Big Ben on Wednesday, bypassing
LeMieux as the center's most powerful supercomputer intended for large-scale,
demanding research. The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is operated
by the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University
and Westinghouse Electric Co.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/regional/s_355584.html | back to top
Environment
Post-Gazette | July 21
Lost amid the bluster of a debate over a new high school in Moon, one
detail has been discussed little: What it would look like. In a word,
green. ... Green buildings incorporate energy-saving features and often
recycled and nontoxic materials. ... Moon's decision to use green is
part of a national trend with local roots. Southwestern Pennsylvania
is in the forefront of the green building movement. Carnegie
Mellon University's Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics
has, since 1997, been training students to measure the impact of innovative
technologies on the physical, environmental and social settings of office
buildings.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05202/540959.stm | back to top
Regional Impact
The New York Times | July 20
Though the steel mills here started to cool off more than 20 years ago,
the city seemed slow to shed its rusty old skin. ... The city's Urban
Redevelopment Authority began its first rehabiliation of steel and coke
works along the Monongahela in 1983, when the Pittsburgh Technology
Center was proposed on a former Jones & Laughlin mill site. The
research and industrial park capitalized on its proximity to Oakland,
home of the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon
University. As the universities outgrew space for bioengineering and
biotechnology operations, former steel making sites - 48 acres on the
northern bank, 35 acres on the South Side - became logical expansion
points.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/20/
realestate/20pitt.html | back to top
Herald-Dispatch | July 19
The federal government and Appalachian states have made progress catching
the Appalachian region up technologically with the rest of the country,
[Anne] Pope, [federal co-chairwoman of the Appalachian Regional Commission]
, said. More areas have acquired wireless and high speed Internet access,
she said, allowing more small businesses to flourish. People of Glenville
have embraced the new wireless access available in the area after Carnegie
Mellon University and Glenville State College installed wi-fi
towers in 2003 at Glenville State College. Technology improvements snowball
as more people experience success using new innovations to fuel their
business, Pope said.
http://www.herald-dispatch.com/
2005/July/19/LNspot.htm | back to top
Local News Stories
Tribune-Review | July 20
Former Lt. Gov. Bill Scranton has signed a valuable free agent in his
run for governor and will march into the territory of former Steelers
receiver Lynn Swann to make the announcement. Scranton has scheduled
a Downtown news conference today to announce that FreeMarkets founder
Glen Meakem, of Sewickley, will serve as chairman of
Scranton 2006, Scranton's statewide campaign organization for his run
for the Republican nomination next year. ... "The minute I met
him, I liked him and I wanted him involved in the effort," Scranton
said. "He's smart. He's successful. He cares about the direction
of this state in general and Pittsburgh in particular, and he understands
the new economy and that the new economy needs new politics. ... [Meakem]
is a member of the board of trustees of Carnegie Mellon University
and chairman of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania-Senator
John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center in the Strip District.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/regional/s_355163.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Business Times | July 15
Timing may be everything for women job applicants seeking higher salaries.
A few years ago, research by Carnegie Mellon University
economics professor Linda Babcock grabbed headlines
when her findings showed that women tend to accept whatever salary is
offered, without questions. ... A subsequent study, recently completed
and with the working title "It Depends Who is Asking," revealed
that should a female candidate negotiate for a higher salary before
a job offer is formally extended, it's likely she won't be hired. But
that doesn't hold for male counterparts -- haggling to up the ante has
no impact on hiring, Babcock found.
http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/
pittsburgh/stories/2005/07/18/focus3.html | back
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International News Stories
Malaysia Star | July 19
Like the Great Sphinx, Sphinx-4 is mute but it doesn't have any secrets
to keep. Sphinx-4 is a state-of-the-art speech recognition system written
entirely in Java. It was created as a research tool from the collaboration
of Carnegie Mellon University, Sun Microsystems Labs,
Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, and Hewlett Packard.
http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/
2005/7/19/prodit/11469345&sec=prodit | back to
top
The Times of India | July 18
In the 1950s it was a strategic partnership between India and American,
British and German universities that created the IITs. Decades later
these institutes of excellence are among India's more valued assets.
Later this week, India and the US hope to kick off the second generation
of revolution in India's science education. The objective this time
is to upgrade the quality of science education in India by exposing
Indian science students to the brains of top-class US professors and
Nobel laureates. A clutch of top US universities, including Stanford
and Carnegie Mellon will enter into a unique agreement
with India. At a meeting in Washington on Wednesday, they will open
the way for top class physics and other pure science professors to give
lectures to Indian students in Indian institutes.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/
articleshow/1174030.cms | back to top
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