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July 22-28,
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 22-28,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 136
references to the university in worldwide publications. Here is a sample.
National News Stories
Student Experience
Tribune-Review | July 27
Tribune-Review | July 26
Information Technology
Post-Gazette | July 28
Discovery News | July 27
Post-Gazette | July 24
Tech News World | July 25
Biotechnology
Charlotte Observer | July 25
Environment
Post-Gazette | July 23
Regional Impact
Philadelphia Enquirer | July 27
Tribune-Review | July 26
Post-Gazette | July 26
Local News Stories
Tribune-Review | July 28
Post-Gazette | July 27
Tribune-Review | July 26
Tribune-Review | July 23
Post-Gazette | July 23
Tribune-Review | July 22
International News Stories
Malaysia Star | July 26
The Economic Times | July 23
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National News Stories
Scientific American | August
In the beginning, the universe was a void full of energy but without
form. And so it remained for many millions of years--exactly how long
is still a major mystery of cosmology--until the first stars condensed
from the fog of matter and lit up with a blue nuclear glow. Telescopes
are just like time machines: the farther out in space they look, the
further back into the past they peer. But even the best optical telescopes
cannot make out what the universe was like at an age of less than one
billion years. *** Please note that this article mentions Jeff
Peterson, Carnegie Mellon professor of physics.
It can be viewed with a subscription at:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID
=5&articleID=000875DC-0624-12D8-BDFD83414B7F0000
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The Chronicle of Higher Education | July 29
An orphan work can be a film, a book, a private letter, a painting,
or any other creative work covered by copyright, in which protection,
through the complexity of the law, can extend as far back as 1923. A
work can become orphaned in any number of ways: For example, an artist
can die, and the heirs may not know about the artist's copyrighted work.
A company that published a novel might go out of business or fall into
the hands of another company that does not maintain publication records.
It is particularly hard to figure out who took a photograph, unless
the name of the photographer or studio is cited somewhere on the print.
Works like those add up to a great deal of published material, according
to studies conducted by research libraries. Five years ago Carnegie
Mellon University's library studied a sample of about 270 items
from its holdings; librarians could not find the owners of 22 percent
of the works.
http://chronicle.com/free/v51/i47/47a03301.htm
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Newsday | July 28
With the effective grounding of the space shuttle program due to launch
debris concerns, NASA is facing a frustrating redesign of the problematic
external fuel tank - and a potentially extended downtime that may force
the space agency to rethink its plans for the International Space Station
and the Hubble Space Telescope. ... Paul Fischbeck,
a risk analyst at Carnegie Mellon University who co-authored
a 1994 risk assessment of the shuttle's protective tiles, said space
shuttles always have returned home with hits or dings. During mission
STS-27 in 1988, in fact, Atlantis returned with more than 300 hits measuring
an inch or more in diameter. After some of the missions, he said, the
shuttles' bellies have looked "polka-dotted."
http://www.newsday.com/news/health/
zny-hsding284361072jul28,0,2573077.story | back
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Los Angeles Times | July 25
In the perennial conflict between germs and humans, the influenza virus
has a distinguished roster of battlefield victories. But now, far from
America's shores, a new round of hostilities is brewing. For the first
time, scientists and public health officials are preparing to fight
back. ... Critics... say the U.S. is woefully unprepared for an outbreak.
But some who study the risk of catastrophic events suggest that the
government's efforts are a reasonable response to the uncertainties
of bird flu. Julie Downs, director of Carnegie
Mellon University's Center for Risk Perception and Communication,
says it may be wiser for the federal government to invest in the capability
to mass-produce a flu vaccine rapidly than to stockpile millions of
doses of a vaccine formulated to counter bird flu. But such a strategy,
adds Downs, must acknowledge that "our canaries in a coal mine"
— the early victims of a pandemic flu outbreak — will not
be helped by the government's preparations. "That's a trade-off
that we have to decide as a country, and that's a scary thought for
a lot of people," Downs says.
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/
la-he-birdflu25jul25,0,5690322.story?
coll=la-home-health | back to top
Student Experience
Tribune-Review | July 27
Nate Maurer, a Carnegie Mellon senior basketball player,
has been named to a United States collegiate all-star team. Maurer will
get to play against the Italian national and pro teams on a tour of
Spain from August 8-16. He was the only non-Division I player selected.
He was the second-leading scorer for Carnegie Mellon, averaging 17.3
ppg.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
sports/college/s_357563.html | back to top
Tribune-Review | July 26
Lisa Dickter, assistant director of the Career Center
at Carnegie Mellon University, says most students she
sees are "incredibly excited -- and ready -- to enter the career
world." One of Dickter's former students, Nancy Adler, 22, has
already secured a three-year position with Ford Motor Company near Detroit.
The engineering major says she's "very nervous," but feels
confident overall. "At Carnegie Mellon, career counselors put it
in our head that 'you need to know what you're doing,'" she says.
Consequently, "people seem to be more driven. If they're not looking
for a career, they're looking to get their master's."
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/style/
family/s_356999.html | back to top
Information Technology
Post-Gazette | July 28
A grant from the Technology Collaborative, a local economic-development
engine, has lured a Washington state software firm to set up a robotics
testing facility in town. ... The recipients, including the University
of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, were
selected from among 22 proposals submitted to the Collaborative for
grants to help develop technologies that have commercial potential.
The Collaborative supports research and firms primarily in the fields
of advanced electronics, robotics and cyber security.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05209/544747.stm | back to top
Discovery News | July 27
An amphibious snake robot has, for the first time, allowed researchers
to compare the locomotion of swimming and crawling in the same animal
model. The results bring scientists one step closer to understanding
the neural networks that control motion in snakes and fish, and could
eventually contribute to new kinds of robots built to explore aquatic
zones not suitable for humans, such as underwater construction sites,
pipes and flooded disaster areas. ... "This type of amphibious
animal would enable us to understand how we could switch from one to
another locomotion by just changing some motion parameters, rather than
changing the whole motion pattern," said Metin Sitti,
assistant professor in the NanoRobotics Laboratory at Carnegie
Mellon University.
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/
20050725/amphibot.html | back to top
Post-Gazette | July 24
Across the country, local governments are beginning to replace or upgrade
their voting machines to be ready for the next election involving candidates
at the federal level. In Pennsylvania, that election will be May's primary.
... Officials hope to have a list of certified machines by the end of
the summer, but that won't be an easy deadline to meet. "There
isn't physically time to do all the exams necessary," said Michael
Shamos, a professor of computer science at Carnegie
Mellon University who runs testing for the state.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05205/542893.stm | back to top
Tech News World | July 25
Low-cost computers have always been a subject of intense debate, speculation
and competition the world over. Several low-cost devices were introduced
in American markets in late 1990s, but they disappeared too soon from
shelves, for a variety of reasons. Now, we are witnessing a fresh race
for affordable, low-cost computers. ... Another low-cost computing device
on the horizon is being developed by an Indo-American research group
led by Raj Reddy, a pioneering researcher in artificial
intelligence Latest News about artificial intelligence and a professor
at Carnegie Mellon University. Reddy plans to unveil
at the end of 2005 a $250 wirelessly networked personal computer named
PCtvt. It is an information appliance that combines a PC, television,
personal video recorder (PVR), video phone and audio phone all in one,
says Praveen Garimella, project coordinator at the International Institute
of Information Technology, in Hyderabad, India.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/44865.html
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Biotechnology
Charlotte Observer | July 25
Long an eerie theme in popular science fiction, the integration of humans
with machines has often been presented as a harbinger of a soulless
future, populated with flesh-and-metal cyborgs, RoboCops and Terminators.
But major universities like Carnegie Mellon and the
University of California at Berkeley, as well as companies and the U.S.
military, are exploring ways in which people can be enhanced by strapping
themselves into wearable robotics, or exoskeletons.
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/living/health/12215219.htm
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Environment
Post-Gazette | July 23
The Center for Disease Control study looked at 148 chemicals suspected
of causing health problems. The aim was to inspire scientific researchers
around the country to study the levels at which these chemicals might
cause harm to people, [CDC's Chief Medial Officer John] Osterloh said.
Environmental advocacy groups say testing for the presence of harmful
chemicals after they have been absorbed by the human body is backwards
thinking. ... Devra Lee Davis, a professor at the Heinz
School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon
University and director of the Center for Environmental Oncology at
the University of Pittsburgh, criticized the perils of testing chemicals
after they have been released into the environment. "We're conducting
a global experiment on ourselves and nobody can really tell us what
this will mean," she said.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/05204/542716.stm | back to top
Regional Impact
Philadelphia Enquirer | July 27
A Carnegie Mellon University researcher has started
a company that manufactures a sensor that can detect and regulate temperature
problems in computer hard drives, the school announced. Michael
Bigrigg used the research cultivated at the university to create
Pittsburgh-based Pervasive Sensors Inc. The company produces Critter,
a temperature sensor. "Essentially, what we are doing is saving
the life of the computer hard drive and preventing costly down time,"
Bigrigg said. "Hard drives get hot, and the sensor is designed
to pick up temperature variations." The company got financial help
from the state Department of Community and Economic Development and
the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Alliance program, the university said.
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/
news/12237746.htm | back to top
Tribune-Review | July 26
Computer technology giants Intel Corp. and Apple Computer Inc. are setting
up housekeeping together -- as neighbors -- on Carnegie Mellon
University's campus in Oakland. Apple, which joined with Intel in June
to announce a precedent-setting deal for Intel's microprocessors to
power Apple's Macintosh computers, plans to open a research facility
at Carnegie Mellon's Collaborative Innovation Center, Gov. Ed Rendell
announced Monday. ... The 128,000-square-foot building, constructed
with the help of $8 million in state funds, opened in March in the Junction
Hollow section of Oakland, but it already is nearly full with several
hundred working there, said Mark Kamlet, Carnegie Mellon's
provost, following a news conference.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
business/s_357018.html | back to top
Post-Gazette | July 26
The governor started out yesterday at Carnegie Mellon,
where he announced that Apple Computer will soon be a tenant at the
university's new Collaborative Innovation Center. The Apple facility
will create about 200 jobs and will share the center's top floor with
Intel Corp., which moved its Pittsburgh research laboratory there in
April. ... "It's the only facility that we know of in the world
where Apple and Intel are working side by side," said Mark
Kamlet, the university's provost. "It's certainly a nice
partnership." The innovation center, a $27-million facility that
opened this year, enables technology companies to work closely with
the university's faculty and students. It is also part of the governor's
Keystone Innovation Zone program, an initiative geared toward commercializing
university technology and creating new companies.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05207/543803.stm | back to top
Local News Stories
Tribune-Review | July 28
Western Pennsylvania has had little experience with a long-term power
failure. But an interruption lasting, for example, 2 1/2 days is not
impossible. It's probable once every six years, according to recent
Carnegie Mellon University studies. ... "The biggest
problem with an outage is that we don't know how long it will last,"
said Jay Apt, a former U.S. astronaut and now executive
director of Carnegie Mellon's Electricity Industry Center and an associate
research professor and distinguished service professor in the university's
Tepper School of Business. Apt and fellow Carnegie Mellon professor
Granger Morgan headed studies for the city of Pittsburgh
and the state detailing potential problems during power failures of
varying lengths of time.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/regional/s_357905.html | back to top
Post-Gazette | July 27
Pittsburgh is no longer the worst place to live with a lonely heart.
Online magazine Forbes.com posted its annual roundup of the best cities
for singles yesterday, and for the first time in four years, Pittsburgh
did not finish last. ... The last three years, Pittsburgh's showing
at the very bottom of the Forbes.com list struck a raw nerve among the
many local organizations dedicated to changing Pittsburgh's image nationally.
... Forbes.com, though, is candid about its methodology. As in years
past, the online publication gathered six measurements for the 40 cities
it surveyed: projected job growth, number of bars and clubs, cost of
living, number of singles as a percentage of the metro area population,
amount of "culture" and "coolness" as measured by
Carnegie Mellon University's Kevin Stolarick
and Richard Florida, formerly of Carnegie Mellon and now with George
Mason University.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/05208/544108.stm | back to top
Tribune-Review | July 26
If you're looking for Belle Vernon's Dave Pastorkovich
next week, you'll have to go to Italy. Pastorkovich, who's been the
Carnegie Mellon University men's basketball assistant
and recruiting coordinator for 12 years, will be guiding the Global
Sports All Stars along with Duquesne University aide John Mahoney. Making
up the team, which will be touring Italy in early August, are West Virginia
University's Mike Gansey, Patrick Beilein and Darris Nichols, Akron's
Romeo Travis and Rob Prestin, Penn's Ibrahim Jaaber and Mark Zoller,
Richmond's Kevin Steenberge, Sacred Heart's Drew Shubik and Carnegie
Mellon's Nate Maurer. Maurer has the distinction of being the lone non-Division
I player on the Global Sports roster.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/newssummary/s_357213.html | back to top
Tribune-Review | July 23
Pittsburgh's state oversight board could be ready to withdraw a lawsuit
it filed in April to stop a five-year contract negotiated between the
city and its firefighters union. ... While the board remains, a lot
has changed since March 29, when it voted 3-1 with one abstention to
sue the city, the union and the city's other financial overseer, the
Act 47 recovery team. ... Now, the political strategy has changed, observers
say. Instead of eliminating the board, its teeth have been pulled. "These
changes occur typically for political reasons because the ICA is a political
animal," Carnegie Mellon University Economics
Professor Bob Strauss said. "And, if it's going
to lose its teeth and become sweeter, there's got to be reasons for
that coming to pass. Does it matter? Of course. What it could mean is
that getting the city back on its feet through tough love is going to
take a lot longer."
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/pittsburgh/s_356280.html| back to top
Post-Gazette | July 23
[A] group, which included [the head of the National Science Foundation],
the government relations teams from both the University of Pittsburgh
and Carnegie Mellon University, and representatives
from Monroeville-based RJ Lee Group Inc., Robinson-based Bayer Corp.
and Strip District-based Seagate Technologies... [talked] about using
money and manpower to get more girls and boys interested in science,
math and engineering while they are in their formative secondary school
years. ... Check out RedZone Robotics on the History Channel's "Modern
Marvels Series," which will discuss the history of sewers and how
they've evolved from ancient Rome to today. The program will showcase
RedZone's robotic technology that scours sewer pipes in search of leaks
and decay. This isn't Lawrenceville-based RedZone's first turn in the
spotlight. Carnegie Mellon University professor Jon Cagan
used the rehabbed company as a case study in his new book, "The
Design of Things To Come."
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05204/542457.stm | back to top
Tribune-Review | July 22
Demolition began last month on the East Mall and Liberty Park apartment
buildings, public housing high-rises notorious for crime activity and
symbolic of the failed urban renewal effort in the 1960s. The massive
makeover bulldozed 1 million square feet and ultimately drained the
life out of a neighborhood that was once known as Pittsburgh's second
downtown area. ... Bob Gradeck, policy analyst for
the Center for Economic Development at Carnegie Mellon University,
said the retail success of neighboring communities benefits East Liberty."There's
really no more room in Shadyside, and Shadyside's so expensive,"
Gradeck said. "Home Depot and Whole Foods have been successful
in East Liberty, and it might send a signal to folks that it's not as
risky as they once thought it was."
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/
search/s_355929.html | back to top
International News Stories
Malaysia Star | July 26
Daniel H. Wilson's "How to Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending
Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion" has found a home at Paramount
Pictures. Variety reports that the studio made the deal based on a pitch
from the writing team of Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant (The Pacifier,
Herbie: Fully Loaded), who will pen the script. The book, which will
likely hit stores at the end of the year, was written by Wilson as a
doctoral candidate at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon
University.
http://www.star-ecentral.com/movies/buzz/
buzz.asp?file=archives/buzz/2005/7/
26IRobotUpri&date=7/26/2005 | back to top
The Economic Times | July 23
Funding for the US participation in the [India-U.S. e-learning] program
is coming from Qualcomm, Microsoft and Cadence Design. ... Under the
agreement, UC Berkeley and UC San Diego, as well as Carnegie
Mellon University, Cornell University, the State University
of New York at Buffalo, and the Case Western Reserve University will
encourage engineering faculty to spend a semester of their sabbatical
at Amrita University in Tamil Nadu. ... Three US research centers are
partners to the agreement: UC’s Center for Information Technology
Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), the California Institute
for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) and Carnegie
Mellon’s CyLab.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/
articleshow/msid-1180461,curpg-2.cms | back to top
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