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August 19,
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 August 12-18,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 114
references to the university in worldwide publications. Here is a sample.
National News Stories
CNN | August 17
The Waterbury Connecticut Republican American
| August 17
The New York Times (CNET NEWS) | August 16
St. Louis Post-Dispatch | August 16
InformationWeek | August 15
The New York Times | August 13
The New York Times | August 13
Bloomberg News | August 13
Student Experience
BusinessWeek | August 17
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 11
Information Technology
The New York Times | August 17
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 15
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 15
CNET News | August 14
Environment
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 15
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 15
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 18
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 16
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 14
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 12
International News Stories
The Sydney Morning Herald | August 17
Business Standard | August 12
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National News Stories
CNN | August 17
Spending money to make yourself feel young again is okay -- if you can
be an adult about it. The warning signs are easy to spot: As soon as
you turn 45, you find yourself Googling "hang gliding" and
"Nepal hotels" late at night. You periodically dial the number
of the local Botox clinic and hang up at the last second. And you can't
get your eyes off that ad for the redesigned Ford Mustang. ... A 2004
Carnegie Mellon study titled "Heart Strings and
Purse Strings" found that sadness makes people willing not only
to pay but to overpay for goods and services they believe will make
them feel better.
http://money.cnn.com/2005/
08/16/pf/midlife_crisis_0509/ | back to top
The Waterbury Connecticut Republican American
| August 17
Lester Lave, an economist with Carnegie Mellon
University's Tepper School of Business, said the traditional laws of
economics suggest [gas] prices will remain high for the foreseeable
future. Oil-exporting nations have little incentive to lower fuel prices
by boosting production, he said, and environmental regulations in the
United States make it difficult to build much-needed oil refineries.
Perhaps most important, Americans show little interest in tempering
their love for SUVs and other inefficient vehicles. "High prices
just don't seem to do very much to erode our demand," he said.
"We want what we want, and if it costs a dollar more a gallon than
we're used to paying, that's just not very important." Drivers
may see some relief once the summer vacation period ends, Lave said.
But soon afterward demand for heating oil will kick in, and prices may
again head north.
http://www.rep-am.com/
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The New York Times (CNET NEWS) | August 16
Scientists hope to use a new mathematical technique to detect red tides,
or toxic algae in the ocean, before infected shellfish can make people
green. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University
are working with various government offices to develop a "spatiotemporal"
data mining system for finding and tracking toxic algae blighting North
American waters. The toxins not only kill marine life, but also cause
many people to get ill upon eating tainted shellfish. Doing the manual
work for researchers, the system can mine through thousands of satellite
images from NASA and oceanographic data from the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to detect where red tide is affecting
human and sea life. "Spatiotemporal data mining extracts changing
spatial patterns from continuous data flow," said Yang
Cai, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon's CyLab, a research
program for technology and policy issues.
http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/
CNET_2100-1008_3-5835317.html | back to top
St. Louis Post-Dispatch | August 16
Trees will continue to cause their fair share of outages on the nation's
increasingly strained power grid, say researchers involved with the
industry. But bigger, more-costly blackouts might be caused by terrorists
and hackers who exploit the system's old communication networks, they
say. "The security of this system is just not very high,"
said Lester Lave, an economist and co-director of the
Electricity Industry Center at Carnegie Mellon University.
"If you had a disgruntled ex-employee, he could do a lot to harm
the system."
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/business/stories.nsf/
0/87BFA4E0CC86C19886257060001B85D8?OpenDocument | back
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InformationWeek | August 15
Maybe it's time for the industry to take a closer look at retail revenue-management
software, technology to help optimize pricing for general sales, markdowns,
and promotions, to keep inventory moving and gross margins where they
should be. ... Most retailers have the raw data they need to do pricing.
Point-of-sale systems generate huge amounts of raw numbers that are
stored in data warehouses and can be turned into pricing intelligence.
"For a large retailer like Wal-Mart, where they have more than
400 stores, you're talking about terabytes of data," says Alan
Montgomery, an associate professor at the Tepper School of
Business at Carnegie Mellon University, who has studied
pricing decision-support systems for the retail industry. But it's a
huge task to get that data ready to use.
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.
jhtml?articleID=168601052&tid=5979%2C5989 | back
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The New York Times | August 13
Two years and one energy bill (the Energy Policy Act of 2005) after
the power outage that crippled much of the Northeast, the same blackout
could happen today. That's because there is still no national oversight
of our complex and interlocking electrical grid. Fortunately, a model
exists for creating one: the air traffic control system. The situation
facing managers of the electrical grid is not unlike the anarchy that
existed in the skies before the air traffic control system was set up.
Just as improvements in air traffic control have reduced the potential
for human error, a similar model for electricity generation can create
better tools for human operators and mitigate the impossible demands
they now face. ... *** This op-ed was written by Jay Apt
and Lester Lave, executive director and co-director
respectively of the Electricity Industry Center at Carnegie
Mellon University.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/
08/13/opinion/13apt.html | back to top
The New York Times | August 13
For millions of Americans, filling up the tank has become an eye-popping
experience this summer. ... But at least one economist - though there
may be others out there hiding under their desks - said he thought that
gasoline prices were still not high enough and that Americans in a time
of war should be making greater sacrifices for their country through
higher gasoline taxes. "I think it would be a good thing if gasoline
prices were twice as high as they are now, though I know that won't
make me popular," said George Loewenstein, a professor
of economics and psychology at Carnegie Mellon University.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/
08/13/national/13gas.html | back to top
Bloomberg News | August 13
More than 7,000 computer gamers are gathering near Dallas this weekend
for a party that's become such a fixture in the industry that companies
such as Activision, the second-biggest U.S. video-game maker, have begun
to sponsor it. ... This year, QuakeCon will include 3,200 computers
set up in the "BYOC," or "bring your own computer"
area, more than $300,000 in networking gear and more than 12 miles of
network cables, organizers said. It will occupy 200,000 square feet
of floor space at the Gaylord Resort Hotel & Convention Center.
"Everyone there has been a participant in the game," said
Don Marinelli, co-director of the Carnegie
Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center in Pittsburgh.
"These are more than fans, they're veterans of the experience.
It would be like a bunch of people getting together who played a certain
sport."
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=
10000103&sid=aT5VC32m8Xis&refer=us | back
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Student Experience
BusinessWeek | August 17
While C.K. Prahalad's book, "The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid:
Eradicating Poverty Through Profits" (Wharton School Publishing,
2004), has put [that] theory on the table, advocates say B-schools are
behind the times in teaching this new approach. ... Students are seeking
out many of the opportunities on their own. Ting Shen, a second-year
student at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon
University, had worked as a volunteer for the U.N. in the Ivory Coast
before heading to graduate school for an MBA and a master's in public
policy and management. When she was offered the chance to intern at
UNICEF in New York as a social and economic development intern -–
a position that was created solely for her -– she was thrilled.
... But the position offered to Shen was unpaid, and that's often not
viable for MBA students. She went to Dean Kenneth B. Dunn,
who agreed to give her a scholarship, so she wouldn't be financially
penalized for taking the job. In fact, Dunn and his colleagues are now
trying to find a way to offer a similar scholarship annually to students
interested in doing nonprofit work of this nature.
http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/
content/aug2005/bs20050817_1763_bs001.htm | back
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 11
[A proposed residential community for mentally and physically disabled
individuals], proposed for a parcel of at least 50 acres somewhere in
southwestern Pennsylvania, would provide life-long housing, work and
play for the residents under the supervision of health professionals.
The premises would house four businesses: a greenhouse, animal kennel,
wood workshop and fishery. On-site therapists and teachers would offer
art, music and drama therapy. Residents could learn cooking and play
sports. ... "This type of thing would open up different positions
where people would have exposure to more life-celebrating roles,"
said Tina Rusiski, project visionary. ... Rusiski created the plan for
the residential campus during a course at Carnegie Mellon
University, where she's pursuing her master's degree in public management.
But the idea was so good that she couldn't accept her A+ and move on.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/05223/551907.stm | back to top
Information Technology
The New York Times | August 17
A handful of digital worms that exploit vulnerabilities in some Microsoft
Windows computers spread on Tuesday, hindering Internet access at some
major companies. The worms, called Zotob and Rbot, and variants of them,
started emerging Saturday, computer security specialists said, and continued
to propagate as corporate networks came to life at the beginning of
the week. ... Zotob, Rbot and their variants fall under the classification
of worm, a kind of infection that automatically probes for weaknesses
inside individual computers, then installs itself where there is such
a weakness. The worms in this case exploit a vulnerability inside computers,
particularly those running Windows 2000. Once in place, the worm can
make an individual computer susceptible to being operated remotely by
an intruder, said Art Manion, an Internet security
analyst with the CERT Coordination Center, a computer security information
clearinghouse at Carnegie Mellon University.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/
08/17/technology/17virus.html
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 15
NASA's latest robotic mission to detect life will get under way this
week as Carnegie Mellon University researchers pack
up the robot known as Zoe and ship it to Chile's Atacama Desert. Zoe
will spend a week exploring each of three "landing sites"
within this driest of deserts, searching for signs of life that can
be so minute that they are undetectable to the human eye. The two-month-long
field trial, this project's third visit to the Atacama, will test instruments
and techniques that might someday be used to search for life on Mars.
Finding evidence of microscopic life in extreme environments can be
tricky and no one yet knows quite how to do it with remote sensing.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05227/553993.stm
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 15
Experts say it's hard to regulate search engine advertising,
which in just five years has mushroomed into a multibillion-dollar industry.
Marketers bid for the right to use various key words or terms enabling
their ads to appear on screens along with regular results. In Google's
case, they generally appear on the right side of the screen or elsewhere
shaded in blue. ... Robert Cavelier, an ethicist at
Carnegie Mellon University, said many people nowadays
had enough Internet savvy to know the difference between an official
site and advertising. Still, he said the ads do create misleading impressions
and suggest an emerging problem. "You know about buyer beware,"
he said. "This is browser beware."
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05227/554200.stm
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CNET News | August 14
The search problems of today are different from those of five years
ago. With books, scholarly papers and television programs being digitized
and put online, the technology necessary to search through the material
needs to be that much better. People need a way to trust the information
they find and to ask more-complex questions with search tools so they
can extract knowledge or ideas. Jaime Carbonell, director
of Carnegie Mellon's Language Technologies Institute,
said his research team is perfecting a technology for personalized search
that would solve some of the privacy concerns surrounding the wide-scale
collection of sensitive data, such as names and query histories. Carnegie
Mellon's project takes an auxiliary approach to software already being
tested by commercial players like Yahoo and Google, which are collecting
and storing search histories on their own networks.
http://news.com.com/Academias+quest+for+the+
ultimate+search+tool/2100-1038-5831050.html | back
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Environment
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 15
Lead exposure has declined in the United States since the toxic metal
was virtually eliminated from gasoline, paints and food canning, but
the Environmental Protection Agency is examining whether its standards
for airborne lead have kept pace with scientific studies. Cliff
Davidson, an environmental engineer at Carnegie Mellon
University, and a student, Allison Harris, will participate on an EPA
expert panel that will convene tomorrow in Research Triangle, N.C.,
to discuss the air standards.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05227/553995.stm
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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 15
Long-term gain is how one might describe the new solar array on the
roof of 407 S. Craig St. on the campus of Carnegie Mellon
University in Oakland. "This is not about economics. This is about
education," says Brad Hochberg, energy manager
for the university. "It's about demonstrating to students, staff
and faculty that there are alternatives to fossil fuel energy. But,
over time, with improved technology and application, it will become
economical." The rooftop has cost more than $100,000, although
the project got an $88,000 grant from the Pennsylvania Department of
Environmental Protection. When finished at the end of the month, the
system will save about $1,500 to $2,000 per year and provide about 10
percent of the building's electricity. ... "We need to walk the
talk," adds Stephen Lee, a professor of architecture
and a faculty member of the Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics,
a research and development group at the university that is advising
the project.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/pittsburgh/s_363660.html | back to top
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 18
Regardless of whether cities such as Pittsburgh opt to repair water
lines by using new trenchless technologies or by standard methods, the
problem must be addressed, engineers and water infrastructure experts
say. Otherwise, massive water main breaks will become a normal occurrence,
said David Dzombak, a professor of civil and environmental
engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. "We
can expect more breaks," Dzombak said. "The system is aging
and the resources aren't there to upgrade it." But the necessary
federal dollars aren't being put toward these repairs, Dzombak said.
"It's a national problem," he said. "There are unmet
funding needs for capital infrastructure upgrades across the country,
including here in Pittsburgh. It's a matter of priorities. "Water
infrastructure is buried out of sight -- you turn on the tap and drinking
water comes out and you take it for granted. But it's just as critical
a public service and public health service as our roads, and we need
to invest in it as regularly and substantially as we do our highways."
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/regional/s_364895.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 16
... Annoying co-workers are a serious workplace problem, draining productivity
to the tune of millions of dollars a year, according to numerous surveys.
One study for the Gallup Organization claims that negativity among co-workers
costs the economy $300 billion a year. Annoying co-worker behavior "is
one of the main tensions organizations struggle with today," said
Robert Kelley, adjunct professor of organizational
behavior at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon
University. "How comfortable should our work environments be? Is
your job about the rat race, or is your office a humanitarian place,
a little cocoon where you feel protected?"
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/05228/554425.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 14
Colleges throughout the region are preparing for an even tougher battle
to recruit new students because the population in Western Pennsylvania
is dwindling and area high schools are graduating fewer students. ...
"It's inevitable that some of our schools will go out of business,"
said James Stalder, former dean of the A.J. Palumbo
School of Business at Duquesne University and the finance chairman of
Carnegie Mellon University's board of trustees. "I
don't think the marketplace will support them." ... "Any university
in Western Pennsylvania that doesn't pursue alternative markets is destined
to fail like US Airways," said Stalder, who has spent the past
two years analyzing these demographic trends.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/regional/s_363531.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 12
The list of electronic voting machines approved by the state for next
year's elections has grown to one with a deadline looming for counties
to order the new systems. ... Counties that use paper ballots may stick
with their current systems, but if they opt to change after the Dec.
31 deadline, they would miss out on federal money. "If you have
a huge county like Allegheny (with 2,800 machines) that isn't presented
with a slate of choices, what are they going to do? Make a quick decision
just to get the money?" Michael Shamos, a Carnegie
Mellon University computer-science professor who tests voting
machines for the state, asked yesterday. "As it is now, they only
have one choice." That choice is a machine made by AccuPoll Inc.,
of Tustin, Calif. The machine was approved by the state last week.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/regional/s_362938.html | back to top
International News Stories
The Sydney Morning Herald | August 17
Conflicts of interest mean the consumer is likely to receive lower-quality
advice and lower-quality products. You end up paying more than you should.
It means the decisions made for you may not be in your interests. ...
George Lowenstein, from Carnegie Mellon University
in Pittsburgh, has demonstrated that "conflicts of interest can
unconsciously and unintentionally influence the opinions of experts
who are doing their best to be honest and impartial." Structural
conflicts of interest can lead even good advisers to believe they are
being neutral, when in fact they are giving advice that is biased and
self-serving.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/money/
sins-of-commission/2005/08/15/
1123957999313.html?oneclick=true | back to top
Business Standard | August 12
The Andhra Pradesh government is considering the proposal of the International
Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) to establish Distance Education
campuses in different parts of the state. The campuses are proposed
to be opened in Vijayawada, Warangal, Visakhapatnam, and Tirupati among
others. The proposal to this effect was placed before chief minister
Y S Rajasekhara Reddy by Raj Reddy, professor of Carnegie
Mellon University USA, who is associated with the IIIT at Hyderabad.
http://www.business-standard.com/iceworld/
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lselect=2&leftnm=lmnu9&leftindx=9
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