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September
30, 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 September 23-29,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 409
references to the university in worldwide publications. Here is a sample.
National News Stories
New York Times | September 29
The New York Times | September 29
Detroit Free Press | September 26
The New York Times (AP) | September 25
USA Weekend Magazine | September 25
Government Executive Magazine | September 23
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 28
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 26
Information Technology
MSNBC | September 29
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | September 29
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 26
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | September 26
Scientific American | September 26
Environment
KDKA News | September 22
Regional Impact
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 25
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 25
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | September 23
Pittsburgh Business Times | September 19
International News Stories
Gulf Times | September 25
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National News Stories
New York Times | September 29
Sister Jacques-Marie, the plainspoken Dominican nun whose unlikely friendship
with Henri Matisse resulted in the Chapel of the Rosary that he regarded
as his masterpiece, died on Monday at a convent in Bidart, a village
on the Basque coast of France. ... Barbara Freed, a
professor of French studies at Carnegie Mellon University
who directed a 2003 documentary about the friendship, "A Model
for Matisse: The Story of the Vence Chapel," said she was 84. ...
Accounts of the chapel's genesis vary, but according to Ms. Freed, the
filmmaker, Sister Jacques-Marie sketched an Assumption for Matisse and
he urged her to turn it into a stained-glass window. It happened that
the rest home, Foyer Lacordaire, was hoping to convert a ramshackle
garage used for prayer into a full-fledged chapel, and Matisse wondered
if displaying the window could help raise money. ... In the end, Matisse
described the chapel as "their shared project."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/29/arts/
design/29jacques.html | back to top
The New York Times | September 29
In barely a decade, online booksellers have grown to account for two-thirds
of the market for general-interest used books, a trend that calls into
question the future of brick-and-mortar stores devoted to used books,
according to a study financed by the publishing industry and released
yesterday. ... A research paper released a year ago, however, found
that online used-book markets like Amazon cannibalized potential sales
of new books only about 15 percent of the time. The researchers - Anindya
Ghose of New York University and Michael D. Smith and
Rahul Telang of Carnegie Mellon University
- also hypothesized that because the lower prices of used books leave
more money in consumers' pockets, the gains from additional readership
might result in more purchases of new books and in the increased exposure
of authors to new audiences.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/
09/29/books/29book.html | back to top
Detroit Free Press | September 26
From 1999 to 2003, Detroit has logged more justifiable homicides than
New York, Chicago, Los Angeles or the seven other biggest cities. And
the rate at which Detroiters have legally killed is nearly double that
of the next highest cities, according to the most recent FBI records.
Meanwhile, a bill introduced to expand and codify citizens' rights to
use deadly force in self-defense or to stop a felony has been introduced
in the state House. ... The number of justifiable killings may stun
the layperson, but leading criminologists James Alan Fox of Northeastern
University and Alfred Blumstein of Carnegie
Mellon University said recently the numbers are in line given
the number of Detroit's homicides. They said justifiable homicides usually
equal about 5% of a city's slayings -- and Detroit's average of 11 justifiable
killings a year versus 395 homicides a year falls within that range.
http://www.freep.com/news/mich/
justify26e_20050926.htm
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The New York Times (AP) | September 25
Wanted by the Pentagon: A muscular, outdoorsy specimen. Must be intelligent
and, above all, self-driven. When 20 hulking robotic vehicles face off
next month in a rugged race across the Nevada desert, the winning machine
(if any crosses the finish line) will blend the latest technological
bling and the most smarts. The military sponsors the race to speed the
development of unmanned vehicles for combat. The project had an inauspicious
start: Last year's inaugural contest ended soon after it began when
the robots careened off course or abruptly stalled. One even got tangled
in barbed wire. ... One of the favorites again this year is the Red
Team from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh,
led by robotics professor William ''Red'' Whittaker.
During last year's finals, Carnegie Mellon's converted Humvee, nicknamed
Sandstorm, traveled the farthest -- all of 7 1/2 miles -- before breaking
down. This year, the school entered two robots -- an improved Sandstorm
and a converted Hummer named H1ghlander. The Carnegie Mellon team already
has subjected both vehicles to extreme off-roading and hairpin driving
in the desert outside Carson City, Nev. ''I'm so hungry for race day,''
Whittaker said.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/
science/AP-Robot-Race.html
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USA Weekend Magazine | September 25
The plot: Young robot Rodney (Ewan McGregor) heads to the big
city to follow his dreams of becoming an inventor. He meets his idol,
Bigweld (Mel Brooks), and joins forces with a ragtag band of machines
to thwart a corporate takeover by the evil Ratchet (Greg Kinnear). Insider's
credentials: Matt Mason is the director of Carnegie
Mellon University's Robotics Institute. Last year, he helped
create the first origami-folding robot. Overview: "I like
robot movies, and I enjoyed this one. There's no question movies like
this drive people toward our profession."
http://usaweekend.com/05_issues/
050925/050928dvds.html
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Government Executive Magazine | September 23
The search capabilities of the government's official Internet portal
will be upgraded next year, the General Services Administration announced
Friday. The new search engine for FirstGov.gov will be powered by Microsoft
Corp.'s MSN Search, in partnership with another search service, Clusty.com.
The search engine is expected to be launched in the spring of 2006.
The new engine will be able to search state, local, tribal and territorial
government Web sites. Later in 2006, GSA plans to launch a specific
search engine within FirstGov for government news and photo images.
... Clusty is known for clustering search results in folders, grouping
together similar items. For example, a search for the term "cell"
organizes the top 200 or so results out of a total of nearly 75 million
into the folders "cell phone," "biology," "fuel
cell" and "stem cell." The search engine was developed
by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University.
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/
0905/092305p1.htm
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Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 28
Speaking to architecture students at Carnegie Mellon
University Monday night, urban planner Leon Krier said he had long thought
that sustainable cities and buildings would be a matter of choice. But
reading James Kuntsler's new book, "The Long Emergency," convinced
him otherwise. "Most materials [that] architecture is made from,
we'll no longer be able to produce because they waste too much energy,"
Krier told a receptive audience. He is the master planner for Poundbury,
the new town commissioned by Prince Charles for his own land in Dorset,
and an outspoken proponent of traditional building forms and technologies.
Born in Luxembourg, he now lives in France and works in Europe and America.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/05271/578719.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 26
Leon Krier, the pioneering urbanist who designed Poundbury, the new
town commissioned by Prince Charles in Dorset, England, will give the
fourth annual David Lewis Lecture tonight at Carnegie Mellon
University's Kresge Recital Hall in the College of Fine Arts building.
... "Leon Krier's distinguished international reputation derives
deservedly from work that is at once metropolitan in scope yet intensely
humanistic in its sensibilities," said Laura Lee,
head of the School of Architecture. His values, she said, "parallel
with values that David Lewis has embodied throughout his career."
... The Carnegie Mellon architecture school's Cornerstones symposium,
now in its fifth year, is moving off-campus to the SouthSide Works Cinema
for "Remaking the Pittsburgh Region," a collaboration with
Oxford University, Yorkshire Forward, the National University of Singapore,
the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Pittsburgh Regional Alliance.
... The symposium will examine what other cities have accomplished and
how local communities, county and state government as well as business
and community leaders can work together to build a revitalizing environment
in the Pittsburgh region. ... The symposium will be held from 7 a.m.
to 1 p.m. Oct. 5 and is open to the public.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/05269/577782.stm | back to top
Information Technology
MSNBC | September 29
These days, there are companies that pay big bucks to computer science
geniuses who can develop the next big thing -- a Grand Theft Auto sort
of game that will generate a big following and big sales. Carnegie
Mellon University and the Georgia Institute of Technology,
for example, now offer master's degrees in game development. ... A degree
seems to be a good start -- but no one should be fooled into thinking
that a college degree in gaming is easier than trying to beat the next
level. There is plenty of classroom work behind these degrees. At Carnegie
Mellon, students will have to take classes such as Intro to Entertainment
Technology, Building Virtual Worlds and Game Design, as well as many
others.
http://msnbc.msn.com/
id/9521340/
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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | September 29
Xgaming Inc., a gaming hardware developer based at Carnegie
Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center, is commercializing
a 1980s-style arcade rolling ball control device that can be plugged
into personal computers or gaming consoles to provide a retro feel to
modern computer games. The device, dubbed XArcade Trackball, will be
sold starting this fall at a suggested price of $99.95, including 12
classic computer games such as PGA Tour, Golden Tee Golf and Marble
Madness. The company's previous joystick devices have won plaudits from
computer gaming and consumer electronics publications.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/newssummary/s_378929.html
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 26
Less than 48 hours after one of his team's robotic race vehicles, H1ghlander,
rolled over during a practice run last Monday in Nevada, William
"Red" Whittaker remained upbeat about the Oct. 8
Grand Challenge off-road robot race. "On its worst day," he
explained as he chomped on a lunch of Chinese food in his Carnegie
Mellon University office, "H1ghlander's performance is
very strong relative to the Grand Challenge field." ... "Two
years ago," when DARPA first issued the challenge, "a fundamental
question was whether the Grand Challenge was beyond our reach,"
Whittaker said. ... The doubts were justified during the first run of
the race last March. No vehicle went farther or faster than the Red
Team's modified military Humvee, Sandstorm. And Sandstorm covered only
a little more than seven miles of the 142-mile course before stranding
itself on a berm. But Whittaker is confident that some vehicle should
emerge victorious next month; both of the Red Team's entries, H1ghlander
and Sandstorm, have traveled 175 miles under race conditions during
testing this summer in Nevada.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/05269/577733.stm
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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | September 26
Relying on the brains and brawn of its vehicles and team, Carnegie
Mellon University begins qualifications this week for the Grand
Challenge, a 150-mile robot race in the Mojave Desert for a $2 million
prize. Forty-three teams will compete starting Wednesday, with 20 of
them advancing to an Oct. 8 race over rough terrain around Primm, Nev.
The federal Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which sponsors
the event, hopes the race will spur the development of unmanned vehicle
technology for use in combat. ... "We're champing at the bit, ready
to go," said William "Red" Whittaker,
captain of Carnegie Mellon's Red Team and Fredkin research professor
at the university's Robotics Institute. In Carnegie Mellon's favor are
its durable vehicles, an integrated system of fast computers and strong
sensors, extensive mapping of the desert by satellite and airplane,
and a well-trained staff of programmers who practice figuring out the
best route for the robots to run.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/pittsburgh/s_377807.html
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Scientific American | September 26
People love Wi-Fi access to the Internet. ... But the very popularity
of Wi-Fi also brings problems. As Wi-Fi networks become ever more heavily
used, they may be unable to handle the expanded traffic, causing clients'
devices to become bogged down with slow service and long delays. ...
[T]hese problems were evident even in 1993, when I led a team at Carnegie
Mellon University to build Wireless Andrew, the first large-scale
wireless local-area network (LAN) and a precursor to today's Wi-Fi networks.
Completed in 1999, Wireless Andrew now connects the entire campus. A
dozen years since the inception of our wireless network at Carnegie
Mellon, much has happened in the world of wireless. Some difficult problems
have arisen because of markedly increased Wi-Fi use, but substantial
progress has also been made in solving them. ... Since the introduction
of the initial Wi-Fi technology, my colleagues and I at Carnegie Mellon
and Airespace (now a part of Cisco Systems), as well as engineers at
other universities and companies, have worked to solve its shortcomings
in the areas of reliability, performance, design and security. The resulting
second-generation Wi-Fi equipment (called smart Wi-Fi technology here)
embodies various new capabilities intended to overcome existing problems.
These enhancements rely on greater intelligence in the Wi-Fi systems.
*** This article was written by Alex Hills, distinguished
service professor, engineering and public policy and electrical and
computer engineering.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&articleID
=00036961-D024-1332-902483414B7F0000
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Environment
KDKA News | September 22
The hurricane season is on pace to break records. The record for major
storms in a season is 21. So far this season, 17 storms have hit with
plenty of time to go. KDKA's David Highfield reports that warmer water
temperatures are responsible the storms being so powerful. Former astronaut
and current Carnegie Mellon professor Jay Apt
attributes the busy season to the North Atlantic Oscillation, which
is basically an ocean current. "Change in the pattern, a lot like
the jet stream pattern that's causing the formation of causing more
hurricanes," said Apt.
http://kdka.com/local/
local_story_265232952.html
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Regional Impact
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 25
While others are talking about Pittsburgh being an untapped gold mine
of technology, venture capitalist Qingsheng "Ching" Zhu and
his partner Paul Schmitt are busy harvesting it. ... In a region that
openly laments the lack of dollars for just-getting-started tech companies,
Zhu and Schmitt insist their prolific investing pattern doesn't mean
they aren't seeing something that other people aren't. ... "We
felt Pittsburgh would be a great opportunity," he said. And it
has been -- nearly half of the 10 venture capital investments secured
by Pittsburgh tech firms this year have had the PA Early Stage fingerprint
on them, according to statistics compiled by Thomson Venture Economics
and Innovation Works, the Hazelwood-based tech company engine. Of course,
it doesn't hurt that $15 million of the venture capital firm's $86.5
million in its investment coffers represent dollars earmarked for biotech
ventures from the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse. In late 2003,
PA Early Stage was tapped by the Greenhouse -- namely its co-chairmen,
Carnegie Mellon University President Jared Cohon
and University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Mark Nordenberg -- to add $5
million of its own to create a $20 million pool exclusively targeted
at biotech ventures in the region.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05268/576980.stm
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Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 25
With research spending at Pittsburgh universities approaching $1 billion
a year, the demand for space is growing. The problem is where to get
it. There's little room in Oakland. The former LTV Coke Works in Hazelwood
sits undeveloped, and the industrial parks blossoming near Pittsburgh
International Airport are too far away. ... "The quickest, lowest-cost
path to having that kind of technology-oriented development is to expand
the Pittsburgh Technology Center," said Don Smith,
board chairman of the Greater Oakland Keystone Innovation Zone and director
of economic development at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie
Mellon University.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/05268/577412.stm
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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | September 23
Carnegie Mellon University's physics department has
received a bequest of nearly $400,000 from the family of Raymond A.
Sorensen, former head of the department, university officials said.
The bequest was split between undergraduate scholarship funds and an
unrestricted gift. Sorensen died in March at the age of 74. A native
of Wilkinsburg, Sorensen earned a bachelor's degree and a doctorate
in physics from the Carnegie Institute of Technology. He was the head
of the university's physics department from 1980 to 1989 and retired
in 1997. "Ray Sorensen was an outstanding physicist and valued
colleague. His bequest ... will make possible support of both the educational
and research goals of the department," said Fred Gilman,
head of Carnegie Mellon's Department of Physics and Buhl Professor of
Theoretical Physics.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/regional/s_377035.html
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Pittsburgh Business Times | September 19
Carnegie Mellon University president Jared
Cohon has been named to the National Security Higher Education
Advisory Board, which was created by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The board, which will be comprised of presidents and chancellors of
U.S. universities, is designed to foster outreach and to promote understanding
between higher education and the FBI. The board also will assist in
the development of research, degree programs, course work, internships,
opportunities for graduates and consulting opportunities for faculty
related to national security.
http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/
stories/2005/09/19/daily4.html
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International News Stories
Gulf Times | September 25
HH Sheikha Mozah Nasser al-Misnad, wife of HH the Emir and chairperson
of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development
(QF), attended an educational symposium hosted by Carnegie Mellon
University in Qatar at the Four Seasons Hotel yesterday. Faculty from
all the Qatar Foundation universities – Carnegie Mellon, Weill
Cornell Medical College, Texas A&M, Georgetown, and Virginia Commonwealth
– gathered to celebrate the realisation of Sheikha Mozah’s
vision for Education City and begin a dialogue to enhance collaboration
among the institutions.
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2
&item_no=54080&version=1&template_id=57&parent_id=56
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