August 5,
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 29 - August 4,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 184
references to the university in worldwide publications. Here is a sample.
National News Stories
The New York Times (CNET NEWS) | August
2
BusinessWeek | August 1
The New York Times | July 29
CNET News | July 29
Student Experience
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | July 30
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 4
Information Technology
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 4
The Herald-Standard | August 3
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 3
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 1
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 1
The New York Times | August 1
Physorg.com | August 1
Discovery News | July 29
Biotechnology
ThePittsburghChannel (WTAE-TV) | July 28
Regional Impact
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 4
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | July 30
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | July 29
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 4
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 1
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | July 31
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | July 31
International News Stories
Gulf Times | August 4
India West | August 1
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National News Stories
The New York Times (CNET NEWS) | August
2
[Kai Fu] Lee, the ex-Microsoft executive hired away by Google to head
its Chinese operations, has been framed in vastly different terms by
each company in their court battle over his defection. Microsoft has
cast Lee as a highly paid vice president central to its computer search
efforts, vital to its strategies in China, and unwilling to negotiate
a mutually acceptable switch to Google. For its part, Google claims
Lee is "not a search expert" and was peripheral to Microsoft's
business in China. ... All told, the Kai-Fu Lee contest is shaping up
as a proxy for a broader contest between software's reigning leader
and the challenger that threatens its kingdom. ... A review of [Lee's]
career indicates he has made his biggest splashes in the area of computer-user
interface technology and in setting up a Microsoft research center in
China. ... Lee's doctorate in computer science from Carnegie
Mellon University in the late 1980s marked a breakthrough in
speech recognition technology, said Lawrence Rabiner, a professor in
the department of electrical and computer engineering at Rutgers University.
Lee's system could recognize the speech of more than one person, allow
for natural and continuous speech, and handle a vocabulary numbering
in the tens of thousands of words, Rabiner said. "It was the best-performing
system of its time," he said.
http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_2100-1014_3-5814520.html
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BusinessWeek | August 1
B-schools are are now trying to go beyond the single elective in product
design by linking up with design schools. One of best programs in the
country is the Integrated Product Development track for MBAs at Carnegie
Mellon University's Tepper School of Business. Designers, engineers,
and marketers mix it up in the classroom to develop prototypes of useful
products that are commercially viable. MBAs more accustomed to financial
analysis and bottom-line issues are pushed to think more creatively.
"Innovation is critical in management. You have to innovate to
compete and survive," says Carnegie Mellon Dean
Kenneth B. Dunn.
http://www.businessweek.com/@@oU7EfocQyHhAERcA/
magazine/content/05_31/b3945418.htm | back to top
The New York Times | July 29
Is this the crisis that ends the shuttle and throws the nation's space
effort onto a new path? Perhaps, aerospace experts say. But they emphasize
that it is too early to judge the seriousness of what happened two minutes
after the Discovery's liftoff: a large chunk of insulating foam broke
from its external fuel tank, despite more than two years' work to prevent
such a thing from happening. ... Paul S. Fischbeck,
a professor at Carnegie Mellon University who warned
the space agency in a 1990 report about the danger of flying debris,
said the much better cameras that filmed the Discovery's ascent might
be creating a false sense of danger. Perhaps in the past, he said, large
chunks of foam fell off the orbiter at high altitude, unobserved. "We've
never had the camera work that we've had on this flight," Dr. Fischbeck
said. "So this might happen quite frequently. We just don't know.
Not every bit of debris that comes off hits the orbiter." He added,
however, that the large piece that came off Discovery could have done
real damage. "There's only one example where a piece that size
hit the orbiter, and it knocked a tile off," Dr. Fischbeck said.
"I would be very concerned."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/29/
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CNET News | July 29
Used bookstores have been around for centuries, but the Internet has
allowed such markets to become larger and more efficient. And that has
upset a number of publishers and authors. ... Consider a recent paper,
"Internet Exchanges for Used Books," by Anindya Ghose of New
York University and Michael D. Smith and Rahul
Telang of Carnegie Mellon. The starting point
for their analysis is the double-edged impact of a used book market
on the market for new books. When used books are substituted for new
ones, the seller faces competition from the secondhand market, reducing
the price it can set for new books. But there's another effect: The
presence of a market for used books makes consumers more willing to
buy new books, because they can easily dispose of them later.
http://news.com.com/New+value+for+used+books+flows+from+Amazon/
2100-1026_3-5810146.html | back to top
Student Experience
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | July 30
Piano students at Carnegie Mellon University's Music
Preparatory School won two grand prizes and eight medals at the 2005
World Piano Competition. The competition, held in early July in Cincinnati,
awards cash prizes and the opportunity to perform at Carnegie Hall,
the United Nations and Moscow this fall. The students from Carnegie
Mellon competed in the Young Artist Division. Its winners were: Joy
Hou, Venetia, and Tara Lee, Murrysville (gold medal and grand prize);
Angela Zhang, Mars (gold); Meiqin Zhou, Pittsburgh, Michelle Lee, Wexford
and Jessica Lin, Pittsburgh (silver); Stephanie Guo, Pittsburgh, and
Jingnan Hou, Venetia (bronze).
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05211/545890.stm
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Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 4
For Robert Page, "My Favorite Things" covers
a lot of ground. The Mendelssohn Choir's music director emeritus is
renowned for his presentations of the classics, but he's also into American
popular music. Friday night at South Park Amphitheater he'll lead the
choir in "the things I really like the most" -- a program
of ballads, blues and Bernstein. ... Although Page officially retired
from the Mendelssohn in June, he'll continue to work with it through
December in its transition to a new artistic leader who is expected
to be named by the start of the fall season. Page, who will continue
teaching at Carnegie Mellon University next season,
also will conduct Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra performances of "Messiah"
on Dec. 22 and 23 at Heinz Hall.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
entertainment/s_359619.html | back to top
Information Technology
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 4
About the size of a four-wheeler, the Gladiator is the first tactical
unmanned ground vehicle being developed for the U.S. Marine Corps. The
Gladiator will be built by BAE Systems, formerly United Defense, in
North Union Township. Developed by Carnegie Mellon
University, the Gladiator is a "tele-operated, semi-autonomous
vehicle equipped with remote, unmanned scout, reconnaissance and surveillance
capabilities specially designed to increase human survival by neutralizing
threats and reducing risks for the Marines' Air-Ground Task Force,"
wrote Carnegie Mellon spokeswoman Anne Watzman in a
news release. "Carnegie Mellon started researching this type of
unmanned vehicle in 2002," Watzman said.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/newssummary/s_360009.html | back to top
The Herald-Standard | August 3
U.S. Rep. John Murtha will visit two local companies on Thursday
as one holds its grand opening and the other demonstrates some of the
latest in unmanned military technology. ... Carnegie Mellon
University and BAE Systems, which recently completed its acquisition
of United Defense, will hold a public demonstration of Gladiator for
Murtha, along with representatives from the U.S. Marines, the university,
BAE Systems and other industrial partners. ... Carnegie Mellon is providing
the robotics technology and overall design for the Gladiator project,
while BAE Systems and its subcontractors will support the design effort,
and manufacture and support the vehicle.
http://www.heraldstandard.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=
14967180&BRD=2280&PAG=461&dept_id=480247&rfi=6 |
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 3
Just as commuters are catching up to the idea of satellite radio for
their cars, former graduate students at Carnegie Mellon
University have developed a next-generation radio concept that allows
users to tune into music from iPods and other digital music players
in nearby cars. ... [Five] graduate students at Carnegie Mellon's Human-Computer
Interaction Institute were commissioned to develop the system last year
for the research and development arm of an automaker, with the hopes
of introducing it to cars by 2010. ... The students, who since have
graduated, finished the project last summer, but it has been getting
attention lately in technology publications like Wired and MIT's Technology
Review.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05215/547674.stm
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 1
The Honda Foundation has selected Carnegie Mellon University's
Raj Reddy, former dean of the School of Computer Science
and founding head of the Robotics Institute, as winner of the 2005 Honda
Prize. The prize, which includes a medal and a cash award of approximately
$89,000, recognizes Reddy's contributions to "Eco-Technology,"
the concept that technology should be in harmony with human activities
and environments. It also honors him for achievements in computer science
and his role as an educator. In recent years, Reddy has worked to improve
the lives of some of the world's poorest people through the Million
Book Project, which has the goal of making one million books available
online, and the PCtvt, a personal computer/television/telephone designed
for use in the Third World.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05214/547466.stm
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 1
The ESP Game is no ordinary online game, but a clever way of using the
Web to painlessly harness the brainpower of computer users. [Luis] von
Ahn, who will soon complete his doctorate in computer science at
Carnegie Mellon University, is ready with yet another game,
this one called Peekaboom. While the ESP Game was designed to generate
descriptive labels for photographs and other images, Peekaboom is intended
to help teach computers to see. ... "There aren't many humans who
are willing to sit down and teach a computer to see," said Manuel
Blum, a theoretical computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University.
But as von Ahn has demonstrated with the ESP Game, there are plenty
of people who will do so if they think it's fun.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05213/546899.stm
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The New York Times | August 1
Free software, despite the price, can be confusing and costly for corporations
to use. A few freely distributed programs, like the Linux operating
system and the Apache Web server, have become well known, but most are
still unproved. ... To address the problem, Carnegie Mellon
University, Intel and SpikeSource, a company that supports and tests
corporate open-source projects, have devised a rating system intended
to reduce confusion and guesswork in evaluating such software.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/01/technology/01open.html
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Physorg.com | August 1
"There is simply no limit to what we can achieve as the technology
improves," said Ed Schlesinger, founding director
of the General Motors collaborative laboratory at the Carnegie
Mellon University in Pittsburgh. "Cars will become nodes
in a worldwide network delivering information to that network and getting
information from it." Scientists and engineers at Carnegie Mellon
and other leading research universities, as well as at the automakers
in Detroit, are working on networking technologies that will enable
vehicles to communicate and share data. These technologies will provide
drivers with information about traffic flow, road conditions and even
the optimal place to park. The networking also will help drivers alter
their travel routes if conditions warrant, and even slow down to avoid
a serious incident.
http://www.physorg.com/news5561.html
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Discovery News | July 29
New technology from Sharp allows two images to run simultaneously on
one screen. The double-duty liquid crystal displays could change the
way players interact with video games, reduce drivers from being distracted
by in-vehicle digital movies, and completely put to rest all fights
over the television remote control. ... "There is no breakthrough
in terms of the fundamental science, but this is an engineering tour
de force," said Ed Schlesinger, head of the electrical
and computer engineering department at Carnegie Mellon
University, referring to the dual-view LCDs. According to Schlesinger,
engineering a liquid crystal display that contains millions of pixels
perfectly aligned in alternating columns is tricky. Just like laying
bricks, one slightly misaligned piece can throw the entire wall out
of alignment.
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/
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Biotechnology
ThePittsburghChannel (WTAE-TV) | July 28
Heart transplantation saves lives, but when it comes to infants and
children, donor organs are especially hard to come by. Most die waiting
for a new heart. The development of a new device will change that. The
pedia flow -- about 1 inch long and a half-inch across -- is a ventricular
assist device that will eventually be used in children and newborns
who are in end-stage heart failure. ... It's designed by Pitt, Carnegie
Mellon and industry to sustain circulation for six months,
but it's not yet ready. ... Doctors hope the pedia flow will be ready
for clinical trials in three or four years.
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/
health/4783304/detail.html
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Regional Impact
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 4
[Mike] Dischner is one of 15 teachers from 14 local schools who are
attending a five-week program at Carnegie Mellon University's
National Robotics Engineering Consortium in Lawrenceville. Funded by
the National Science Foundation, the program encourages teachers to
research robotics so they can incorporate it into their teaching.
Robin Shoop, director of educational outreach for the consortium,
said the program is part of an effort to introduce robotics concepts
in the classroom so students face less of a hurdle in learning modern
job skills. While manufacturers have been cutting traditional blue-collar
jobs, they're actively seeking robotics engineers and technicians, he
said.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/pittsburgh/s_360168.html
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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | July 30
Hey listen, there's no static. A group of engineering students and staff
at Carnegie Mellon University has fixed the daily commuter
annoyance of losing radio reception while passing through the Fort Pitt
and Squirrel Hill tunnels. Radios long have gone silent in the tunnels
for the nearly quarter-million motorists who drive them daily because
the hillsides block radio waves. ... The solution to keeping people
tuned in came from a band of Carnegie Mellon volunteers, led by electrical
and computer engineering professor Dan Stancil. The
group developed a way to bring radio waves into vehicles traveling through
the tunnels.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/pittsburgh/s_358609.html
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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | July 29
Water crosses political boundaries and so should those trying to prevent
contamination and flooding, a Carnegie Mellon University
research team said Thursday. One municipality can waste time and money
in cleaning a waterway if another upstream isn't working toward the
same goal, said Brian Hoffman, one of 10 graduate students who did a
water management study for the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/regional/s_358270.html
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Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 4
Kim Kelly wasn't looking for a new job, but the possibility
of coming home was something she couldn't pass up. "I saw the
Carnegie Mellon position posted in the NCAA News," said
Kelly, who had just completed her ninth season as head women's volleyball
coach at Gettysburg College. ... "I decided to apply, but didn't
think I would get it. They interviewed me and offered me the job on
April 1."
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05216/547961.stm
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 1
Frequent reports of water main breaks and media coverage of a spectacular
water spout in Green Tree notwithstanding, local water authorities believe
they're maintaining the viability of their aging infrastructures. ...
The authority gets good marks from professor Dave Dzombak,
an environmental engineer focusing on water within Carnegie
Mellon University's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
"I think Pittsburgh is like many other cities with old infrastructure
that has been and will continue to see failures in parts of it,"
he said. "I think Pittsburgh took a big step forward when it formed
the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority [in 1984] to get much better
organized both financially and institutionally to approach maintenance
and long-term and short-term replacement in a more systematic way."
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/05213/547019.stm
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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | July 31
Gov. Ed Rendell doled out more than $500,000 an hour in public money
when he blew through Western Pennsylvania last week on an economic development
tour. ... That it all came at the public's expense, with tax dollars
and bond revenues, is hardly new, said Robert Strauss,
public policy professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
The practice dates back, at least, he said, to "Egyptian times.
That's old-style politics," Strauss said about Rendell's whirlwind
tour. "The sort of implicit deal he makes is that he's going to
trade projects for votes. That's the way it's done."
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/regional/s_358838.html
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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | July 31
While Carnegie Mellon University's reputation for academics
far overshadows its athletic prowess, Belle Vernon native David
Pastorkovich is part of a basketball coaching staff whose status
has been enhanced by the team's strong play. An assistant coach under
21-year veteran head coach Tony Wingen, Pastorkovich
and the Carnegie Mellon coaching staff were recognized as the All-University
Athletic Association's Coaching Staff of the Year for the 2004-05 season.
The Tartans finished last season with a school-best 19-7 overall record
and 10-4 conference mark.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
sports/college/s_358248.html
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International News Stories
Gulf Times | August 4
Raj Reddy, Professor of Computer Science and Robotics
at the Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, has been
awarded the 2005 Honda Prize by the Honda Foundation. The prize includes
an honorary certificate, a medal and 10mn yen (about $89,000) for his
contributions to ‘eco-technology’, a concept that technology
does not pursue efficiency and profits alone but is geared towards harmony
with the environment. According to the Honda Foundation, Dr Reddy was
honoured for his outstanding achievements in computer science and robotics,
particularly as a world leader in the study of human-computer
interaction, artificial intelligence and speech and visual recognition
by machine. “This honour truly reflects Raj’s contribution
to our university and society,” Carnegie Mellon provost Mark
Kamlet said.
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/
article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=47107&version=
1&template_id=36&parent_id=16
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India West | August 1
Six top universities in the United States signed a memorandum of understanding
with the Indian government in Washington, D.C. July 20, for a program
to enhance science and engineering education in India over a new satellite
e-learning network. Under the three-year partnership, two University
of California schools - at Berkeley and San Diego - Carnegie
Mellon University, Cornell University, State University of
New York at Buffalo and Case Western Reserve University are encouraging
their engineering faculty to spend a quarter or semester of their sabbaticals
at one of AMRITA University's four schools in India.
http://www.indiawest.com/view.php?subaction=showfull&id=
1122572166&archive=&start_from=&ucat=1
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