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October
7 , 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 30-October 6,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 361
references to the university in worldwide publications. Here is a sample.
National News Stories
The New York Times (AP) | October 6
The New York Times (CNET News) | September
6
San Francisco Chronicle | October 6
Rocky Mountain News | October 5
The New York Times (CNET News) | October 5
CNN | October 3
The Winston-Salem Journal (AP) | October 2
The New York Times (AP) | October 1
The Wall Street Journal | September 30
San Jose Mercury News | September 29
Student Experience
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | October 6
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | October 1
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | October 5
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | October 5
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | October 2
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | October 1
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 29
Information Technology
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | October 5
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | October 4
Pittsburgh Business Times | October 3
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 30
Environment
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | October 2
Regional Impact
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | October 6
Washington Observor-Reporter | October 4
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | October 5
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | October 4
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | October 3
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | October 2
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 30
International News Stories
The Peninsula | October 5
The Hindu Business Line | October 2
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National News Stories
The New York Times (AP) | October 6
A driverless red Hummer snagged the pole position Wednesday in a government-sponsored
sequel race across the Mojave Desert that will pit 23 robots against
one another. The finalists were chosen after an intense, weeklong qualifying
run at the California Speedway, where the self-navigating vehicles had
to drive on a bumpy road, zip through a tunnel and avoid obstacles.
No human drivers or remote controls were allowed. The Hummer named H1ghlander,
built by Carnegie Mellon University, flipped during
practice a few weeks ago when it struck a rock. But it still managed
to complete all four required semifinal runs. ... This year's finalists
completed the hilly qualifying course littered with hay bales and parked
cars at least once. Five of the vehicles finished it four consecutive
times. Those included H1ghlander; a converted Humvee Sandstorm; a modified
Volkswagen Touareg by Stanford University; a six-wheel truck; and a
Jeep Grand Cherokee. ''I'm inspired by all the robots,'' said William
''Red'' Whittaker, a Carnegie Mellon robotics professor. ''Never
discount or diminish any of them.''
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/
science/AP-Robot-Race.html | back to top
The New York Times (CNET News) | September 6
It's been nearly five years since Americans received a painful education
on the perils of traditional voting machines in Florida, and almost
one year since the 2004 election revealed perplexing irregularities
in Ohio's vote-tabulation methods. Yet no uniform security standards
exist for electronic voting machines. ... Complicating the move toward
voter-verified receipts is a fierce internal debate between activists
and computer scientists about how useful the receipts will prove in
detecting election fraud. "What I'm very much against is a requirement
that all voting machines should have to have a paper trail," said
Michael Shamos, a computer science professor at Carnegie
Mellon University who has been the official examiner of electronic
voting systems for Pennsylvania. He says the products with the necessary
features aren't on the market yet. "On a superficial, intuitive
level, it sounds like a really appealing idea, and the proponents use
some very persuasive arguments usually along the nature of, 'You get
a receipt when you go to the ATM, you get a receipt when you go to the
grocery store, why can't we give you a receipt when you vote?'"
Shamos said. Shamos' counter-arguments go something like this: Mandating
paper trails will halt experimentation with better techniques, paper
records have a long history of tampering by both major parties, and
paper trails that record voters' choices on one long strip of paper
will invade privacy because they show who voted first and last.
http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/
CNET_2100-1028_3-5889705.html | back to top
San Francisco Chronicle | October 6
Can America conserve its way out of its energy crunch? ... Many developed
countries burn much less energy per person than does the United States.
The typical Dane, for example, uses half as much energy in a year as
the average American, according to U.S. government data. Lester
Lave, an economics professor at Carnegie Mellon
University, said much of the savings came from tougher building codes
in Denmark, requiring more insulation. Efficiency hasn't cramped the
Danes' lifestyle, he said. "I don't know if you've been to Denmark,"
he said, "but they're not running around barefoot." ... "There
are all kinds of things we could do that would save energy without any
change in lifestyle. That's the easy part," Lave said. "When
you talk about lifestyle changes, it gets harder. We live in a country
that has had cheap energy forever."
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to top
Rocky Mountain News | October 5
Laser researcher John L. Hall won a share of the Nobel Prize in physics
on Tuesday, 44 years after he sought his first science job by scrawling
three words on an application letter: "Physics is fun." Hall,
71, landed that job and went on to spend more than four decades working
for a federal lab in Boulder, where he became one of the world's preeminent
laser experimentalists. ... Hall helped usher the laser from a laboratory
curiosity to a fundamental tool of modern science and a ubiquitous part
of modern communications equipment - from DVD players to fiber-optic
cables. Throughout his career, Hall concentrated on improving the precision,
accuracy and stability of the colors that lasers produce. That work,
recognized by the Nobel committee Tuesday, helped transform the laser
into a precision measurement tool. And through it all, Hall never forgot
that physics is fun. ... He earned a doctorate in physics in 1961 from
Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/
0,1299,DRMN_15_4133313,00.html
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The New York Times (CNET News) | October 5
The robots are among us, but they're not exactly the stuff of science
fiction. At least, not yet. ... Where will Robot Valley sprout? The
Rust Belt has big bets on robots. Carnegie Mellon University
in Pittsburgh is one of the leaders in the field and has helped foster
several start-ups, including a company that makes robots that can troll
dangerous mine shafts. ... How smart are they? Not everyone thinks robots
have to be smart to be successful. Carnegie Mellon professor Hans
Moravec has written that human-scale brainpower isn't necessary:
"Mental power like that of a small guppy, about 1,000 MIPS, will
suffice to guide mobile utility robots reliably through unfamiliar surroundings,
suiting them for jobs in hundreds of thousands of industrial locations
and eventually hundreds of millions of homes."
http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/
CNET_2100-7337_3-5889478.html | back to top
CNN | October 3
In a study conducted by Carnegie Mellon economics professor
Linda Babcock, male and female subjects were asked
to evaluate videotapes of job interviews with a man and a woman who
had completed a company's 1-year management training program and needed
to be placed in a division.
The subjects looking at the tapes were asked: How willing would you
be to hire these people for your department? ... The women evaluating
the tapes said they were less likely to hire both the male and female
candidates in the scenarios where they asked for more money. The men
in the study, however, said they'd only be less inclined to hire the
female candidate who tried to negotiate. They didn't penalize the male
candidate for doing the same.
http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/03/
commentary/everyday/sahadi/ | back to top
The Winston-Salem Journal (AP) | October 2
After years of decline, homicides in the Charlotte area have already
surpassed last year's total with 67, and police have no explanation
why. ... Crime has decreased steadily around the country since the peaks
of the late 1980s and early 1990s, a time when crack cocaine was prevalent
and a key ingredient behind many of the killings. ... But a 49 percent
rise approaches an area of concern, experts said. "I think if the
change were in the area of 10 percent, that's a reasonable fluctuation
from year to year," said Alfred Blumenstein, a
crime expert at Carnegie Mellon's Heinz School of Public
Policy and Management. "If you're going 66 to 90, it could very
well be a start of an upward trend."
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The New York Times (AP) | October 1
Have we seen America's future through the eyes of hurricanes Katrina
and Rita? Monster storms drowning cities and obliterating coastlines.
Jobs vanishing and prices rising as ports and pipelines close. Millions
fleeing, but many are trapped and die. Chaos reigns, paralyzing government
and leaving the world's wealthiest society humbled and frightened. Natural
disaster in the United States has morphed to a dangerous new level.
Some experts say the nation can expect to be pummeled by more of these
mega-catastrophes over the next 20 or 30 years in a nasty conspiracy
of unfavorable weather patterns, changing demographics and political
denial. A month after Katrina and one week after Rita, it's not clear
how the United States will play the new hand that nature has apparently
dealt. ''Are we prepared to lose a major city every year?'' asks Carnegie
Mellon University risk strategist Baruch Fischhoff.
''It's cowardice not to ask the question, and cowardice on the public's
part not to get engaged in the answer.''
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/
science/AP-Cycle-of-Disaster.html | back to top
The Wall Street Journal | September 30
It's during a divorce that many Asian women find themselves in charge
of their financial fortunes for the first time, retirement specialists
say. ... Adding to the pressure, women generally live longer than men.
For instance, the average life expectancy in Singapore for women is
83 years, while for men, it's 75 years. The bad news for women is that
with rising health-care costs and less cash earned during their working
life, they have an increased risk of living their twilight years sliding
into poverty. ... "Even for middle and upper income women, the
situation and need for financial planning is more extreme because we
make less," adds Sarah Mavrinac, a professor at Insead Graduate
School of Business in Singapore. She and others say these are the greatest
issues facing women deciding how to best have an independent financial
future. Improve your negotiation skills: "The reason why women
don't make as much as men is simple -- we don't ask," says Ms.
Mavrinac. She points to the results of a 2002 study by Carnegie
Mellon University in the U.S. of recent graduates with masters
degrees. Only 7% of women negotiated the salary first offered them,
compared with 57% of men.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB112804222349056360-search.html?KEYWORDS=%22Carnegie+Mellon%22&
COLLECTION=wsjie/archive | back to top
San Jose Mercury News | September 29
The Internet giant, [Google], based in Mountain View, announced it intends
to build up to a 1 million-square-foot complex on the federal research
park at Moffett Field, which Ames officials have dreamt about transforming
into the intellectual hub of Silicon Valley. ... Google will join the
more than 30 companies and university extensions at the research park,
a slice of the 20,000-acre Ames Research Center. Stanford University,
San Jose State and Carnegie Mellon West, along with
small tech firms, routinely work on Ames projects. "We are very
excited. Google is only down the road now, but it's so much better they
will be here,'' said Deniz Lanyi, associate director
of educational programs at Carnegie Mellon West, a branch of Carnegie
Mellon University. The school already has a strong bond with the Internet
institution, as Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt founded
Carnegie Mellon West. Lanyi predicts that the infusion of cash could
energize Ames, which plans to sever ties with 400 contractors by the
end of the year in anticipation of President Bush's plan to cut agency
funding. "This could be the shot in the arm that NASA needs and
also reinvigorate the area,'' she said.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/
business/technology/12772386.htm | back to top
Student Experience
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | October 6
Carnegie Mellon sophomore tennis player Amy Staloch
received an at-large bid to compete at the 2005 Intercollegiate Tennis
Association (ITA) National Small College Championships at Florida Gulf
Coast University in Fort Myers on Oct. 13-16. Staloch is one of only
eight players in the country to compete in the singles competition.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
sports/s_381317.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | October 1
A brainstorm by a Carnegie Mellon University graduate
student is flowering into the first study that will compare the costs
and benefits of living Downtown with those of other city neighborhoods.
The study, which is being conducted by a group of 15 students as their
senior thesis, will provide what may be the most comprehensive picture
yet of how Downtown rates not as a business district, but as a neighborhood.
Mike Sripasert, a student at Carnegie Mellon's Heinz School of Public
Policy and Management, got the idea from reading news reports about
Downtown. "As long as I've been in Pittsburgh, I've read about
how there's nothing happening Downtown," he said.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05274/580799.stm | back to top
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | October 5
A Hollywood insider is coming to Carnegie Mellon University
to tour its Entertainment Technology Center and discuss the movie business.
Jeffrey Katzenberg, who co-founded DreamWorks SKG with Steven Spielberg
and David Geffen in 1994, will talk about the studio and the future
of animation at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow at McConomy Auditorium, University
Center, Forbes Avenue. He will take questions from the audience in an
event open to the public. DreamWorks produced the Oscar-winning "Shrek"
and its sequel, along with the summer hit "Madagascar," and
on Friday, will release "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the
Were-Rabbit." Katzenberg, a native New Yorker, previously was chairman
of Walt Disney Studios.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05278/582485.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | October 5
The show's title, " Hidden in Plain Sight / The Forest in the City,"
alludes to the Hays Woods site -- a large and uneven plateau above Hays
and the south bank of the Mon across from Hazelwood. ... The show, at
the Three Rivers Arts Festival Gallery, is the initiative of Thomas
and Connie Merriman, teachers at Carnegie Mellon.
Alarmed at the prospect of the loss of so rare and remarkable a resource,
they circulated a request to the art community for works that in some
way would serve to bring this matter to the public's attention and to
raise, if possible, the public's awareness of the inestimable value
of the forest. The Merrimans pose the question as to whether there is
a better use for the site than that proposed by developers. Twenty artists
or groups responded to the call, and the show, which is greater than
the sum of its parts, offers us their various causes and concerns. It
is not surprising to find artists taking a leading role in a public
issue. ... Locally we need look no further than the history of the reclamation
of Nine Mile Run, an achievement, still in progress, in which groups
such as Carnegie Mellon's STUDIO for Creative Inquiry played a crucial
role. In fact, some of the same artists who have been active in that
effort are also present among the exhibitors of the Hays Woods show.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05278/582493.stm
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | October 2
For university training programs, what the audience sees is first and
foremost an educational tool. The process of creating theater is more
important than the product that the audience purchases. ... "Our
mission is to give students -- in range and depth -- the kind of experience
that will prepare them," says Elizabeth Bradley,
head of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama.
"It's not about getting jobs but how to come to grips with the
making of art and the changes in art that will influence future audiences."
... "We have a responsibility to educate and train students, but
we also have a responsibility within the larger community," Bradley
says. In choosing a play for production, she says, the question often
becomes: "Are we doing a play because designers need to know how
a corset works, or because we have an urgent need to put ideas before
an audience?" Bradley knows that, in creating challenges that will
cause students to grow and learn, some productions might not be as polished
or successful as those created by professional theater companies. "What
you need to explore may not yield the most successful productions, but
will cause the student to grow," she says.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
entertainment/arts/s_379306.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | October 1
The Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre's decision to present live dance performances
with recorded orchestral music is the result of wrenchingly difficult
choices about the future of this great organization, whose 2005-06 season
opens Thursday. It would not do to be naive about their problems, and
they surely did not come to this step lightly. But anyone deeply concerned
about the future of the performing arts will deplore the decision personally,
professionally and artistically. ... As great as the Pittsburgh Symphony
is -- and it is very great -- it will occasionally be true that a recording
of a Toscanini, or a Kleiber, or a Berlin or even a Cleveland (!) performance
will have some superior aspects. But I would state unequivocally that
even the best recording ever made would not persuade me to stop attending
Heinz Hall for the thrill of hearing great music made live and shared
in the moment of its making. The sound is different, and it is not only
the sound itself -- it's something ineffable about being part of the
event. *** This editorial was written by Alan Fletcher,
head of the School of Music at Carnegie Mellon.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05274/580711.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 29
Since 1996, an organization called The Battle of Homestead Foundation
has worked to commemorate Pittsburgh's labor history by bringing the
public to the last remaining structure of the Homestead Steel Works,
the Pump House. ... On Saturday, the foundation brought together three
artists and academics in a photo exhibit and talk that focused on J&L
steel company from the 1880s to the 1980s. In presenting their work,
Courtney Maloney, Sandra Gould Ford and Mark Perrott demonstrated that
Pittsburgh's steel history continues to be a rich resource for artistic
and intellectual exploration. Maloney, a doctoral candidate at Carnegie
Mellon University, presented research from her dissertation
titled "Looking Back: Workers and Photography at J&L Steel."
While doing research at the Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History
Center, Maloney came across archives of J&L photography, "felt
[I had] found a treasure," and was fascinated by the way the company
represented workers in the mid-20th century.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05272/579249.stm | back to top
Information Technology
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | October 5
A worm-like robot that wriggles and writhes inside the human body where
it can perform minimally invasive biopsies is among the technologies
developed at Carnegie Mellon University that could
soon be in the marketplace. The "worm" is the brainchild of
Innovention, one of 50 start-up companies that have spun off from the
university since 1993. Of those, 70 percent have remained in the Pittsburgh
region, university officials said yesterday. The university was touting
its prowess as a regional innovator and start-up company generator at
a daylong conference designed to help local economic development officials
learn more about how university-bred technologies can go from the lab
to the marketplace. The conference was hosted by Carnegie Mellon's Center
for Technology Transfer, which is charged with bringing inventions created
at the university to market, via licenses to university-related start-ups
or to established firms looking to develop new products. But getting
technology into the hands of companies is a challenging process, said
Dr. Rob A. Lowe, a university researcher and economics
professor. In addition to making sure the research can become a commercial-ready
product, the university determines whether the technology is best suited
to a start-up or to an established company and its market potential.
... The so-called surgical snake represents an improvement on the existing
rigid tools that surgeons now use, said Alon Wolf,
one of the Carnegie Mellon researchers developing the technology. "You're
operating with chopsticks," he said. Uses for the robotic technology
found in the surgical snake go beyond medicine. For example, larger
versions can be used to conduct delicate search and rescue missions
for survivors of collapsed buildings.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05278/582558.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | October 4
Yahoo announced yesterday that it plans to build a digital library through
the Open Content Alliance, which includes the non-profit digital library
Internet Archive and libraries at the University of California and the
University of Toronto. Pittsburgh's own Carnegie Mellon University's
Million Book Project works with the Internet Archive to supply literary
works worldwide to the public for free. Most of these works are in public
domain -- meaning they're not under copyright protection -- and scholarly
in nature, said Erika Linke, associate dean of Carnegie
Mellon's libraries. Those that are still under copyright are out of
print and the authors granted permission, Linke said. ... Carnegie Mellon
is working with partners in India and China, including the India Institute
of Science and China's Ministry of Education, to compile a digital library
of one million books by 2007, Linke said. Currently, they have about
500,000 works digitized, she said, and are still in the process of integrating
the collections from all the partners.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/pmupdate/s_380738.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Business Times | October 3
The latest creation from Carnegie Mellon University's
Entertainment Technology Center is Quasi, an animatronic robot that
has been chosen as the official mascot or "spokesrobot" of
the upcoming World's Fair for Kids. The fair will be April 16-23 in
Orlando, Fla., and the latest student Interbots Initiative team -- a
project group within ETC that launched five years ago -- charged with
creating Quasi are fine-tuning the robot for his big debut. The goal
is that he's believable and a character with which people can comfortably
interact. "We made a robot prototype that is engaging and entertaining,"
said Brenda Harger, faculty adviser to the Interbots
Initiative team.
http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/
stories/2005/10/03/tidbits1.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 30
Both of the self-driving Hummers developed by Carnegie Mellon
University's Red Team successfully completed their first qualifying
runs for a robotic desert race Oct. 8. The Red Team's two vehicles,
Sandstorm and H1ghlander, are among 43 vehicles competing this week
at California Speedway outside of Los Angeles for a place in the starting
lineup for the 150-mile Grand Challenge race through the Mojave Desert.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/05273/580306.stm | back to top
Environment
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | October 2
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have nothing
better to do now than watch the grass grow -- on their "green"
roof. The $172,000 rooftop garden sits on the south roof of historic
Hamerschlag Hall, an office/laboratory/classroom building topped by
a cylindrical tower that is a university icon. The garden has been four
years in the making and was showcased during an event Friday. Planted
with grasses and perennials and featuring a log filled with holes to
accommodate insects, the roof is designed to help cool the building
during summer and to use and absorb stormwater runoff that otherwise
would end up in the sewer. Green roofs could be part of the solution
for the region's stormwater problems, said Dave Dzombak,
professor of civil and environmental engineering. Many sewer lines in
the city continue to combine sanitary and stormwater flows, resulting
in overflows of sewage into local rivers after heavy rains.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/05276/581567.stm | back to top
Regional Impact
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | October 6
[State Rep. Robert] Flick, R-Chester, is chairman of the House Select
Committee on Information Security, which traveled Wednesday to
Carnegie Mellon University to learn how the state can better
protect its trove of personal data housed in its various departments,
bureaus and agencies. "You've come to the right place for advice,"
said Pradeep Khosla, co-director of Carnegie Mellon's
CyLab, a multidisciplinary research center focused on cybersecurity
that is currently recruiting corporate sponsors, at $500,000 a pop,
to support its research. ... "Data warehouses are ticking time
bombs," said statistics professor Stephen Fienberg,
who said better methods are needed for coordinating state databases
and restricting the amount of information collected and access to that
information. ... CyLab's research is disseminated, royalty free, to
sponsors and government agencies, while intellectual property developed
at the lab is also made available to license to established information
technology firms, or to start-up companies that would develop and market
the technologies.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/
tribune-review/business/s_381274.html | back to
top
Washington Observor-Reporter | October 4
State lawmakers heard testimony Monday on a bill that seeks to increase
the number of minority jurors following studies concluding that blacks
are underrepresented in the courts of Allegheny County and elsewhere
in the state. ... In Allegheny County, a 2003 survey by Carnegie
Mellon University concluded that less than 6 percent of jurors
were black, while about 11 percent of residents were black, according
to census data. A state commission in the same year found that 16 of
the state's 20 most populous areas had blacks underrepresented in jury
pools; Philadelphia was an exception.
http://www.observer-reporter.com/
285292872355216.bsp | back to top
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | October 5
An optics expert who earned his degrees at the forerunner of Carnegie
Mellon University is one of the winners of the 2005 Nobel Prize
for physics. Dr. John L. Hall, 71, of the University of Colorado, received
his undergraduate degree in 1956 and his doctoral degree in 1961 from
Carnegie Technical Institute. The professor who supervised Dr. Hall's
graduate studies said that his student typically ignored his advice.
"He used his own judgment, which always turned out to be right,
so I learned pretty much to let him do his thing," remembered
Dr. Robert Schumacher, a Carnegie Mellon professor
emeritus. "His subsequent career has been spectacular."
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/05278/582673.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | October 4
A few wavering Democrats could control the outcome tonight when Allegheny
County Council returns to a refurbished Gold Room at the county courthouse
for a vote on Chief Executive Dan Onorato's second assessment plan of
the year. ... A Carnegie Mellon University professor
performed a statistical accuracy test of the new assessment values,
posted on the county Web site last month, and found that they do not
meet internationally accepted standards when compared to recent sales.
... Mr. Onorato's new numbers do not meet statistical standards set
by the International Association of Assessing Officers when compared
to recent sales, said Robert Strauss, a professor of
economics and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University who has sparred
with the chief executive over assessments in the past.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/05277/582195.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | October 3
Carnegie Mellon University's Materials Research Science and Engineering
Center is getting $6.5 million over the next six years from the National
Science Foundation to continue creating super-efficient materials for
many industry sectors.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/05276/581908.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | October 2
The state General Assembly has under consideration three bills to raise
the minimum wage, two of which would increase the minimum to $7 per
hour or $7.15 per hour by January 2007. ... For those workers already
being paid slightly more than the minimum wage by companies seeking
to attract more skilled workers, a higher wage rate could reduce the
number of employees those companies hire, said David Frame,
a visiting professor of economics at Carnegie Mellon's
Tepper School of Business in Pittsburgh. Raising the minimum wage would
help those paid that rate, but companies may hire fewer workers or lay
off employees, Frame said.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
business/s_379296.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 30
Scholars of the black experience gather at Carnegie Mellon
University beginning today for the three-day conference, "African
Americans and the Post-Industrial Age: New Challenges of Urban History
and Policy-Making." The free conference celebrates the 10th anniversary
of Carnegie Mellon's Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the
Economy, which is part of the school's History Department. ... The center
aims to link the historian's interest in race, work and economic change
over time with contemporary analyses of politics, the urban labor force
and employment policies. It develops programs of graduate and postdoctoral
training, scholarly research, data collection, publications and education.
Joe Trotter, head of the History Department and the
Mellon Professor of History, is the director of the center. During the
conference, the center will announce a new multi-year oral history project
to collect and preserve the memories of the first and second post-World
War II generations of black Americans in Pittsburgh.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
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International News Stories
The Peninsula | October 5
The Steering Committee of the Strategic Qatarisation Plan in the energy
and industry sector held its 14th meeting yesterday at the Four Seasons
Hotel. ... In her presentation, Khadra Dualeh, Director
of Professional Development and International Education at Carnegie
Mellon University in Qatar spoke of the opportunity offered
by the university in supporting Qatarization by providing high caliber
graduates and partnering to meet business needs and internships. Dualeh
encouraged member companies to create internship opportunities for Qatari
students attending Carnegie Mellon in their IT program.
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The Hindu Business Line | October 2
Consider this. You hire a professional money manager, who asks you to
buy ITC. She also tells you that she personally holds some shares in
the company. There is a conflict of interest. What if she is trying
to create more demand for the stock? After all, an increase in demand
will push up the stock price, thereby improving her investment value.
Will the disclosure help you in taking an informed decision? A research
paper authored by professors at the Carnegie Mellon
University concludes that we may not always benefit from such disclosure.
Why?... Research shows that we find it difficult to understand how conflict
of interest translates into biased advice. So, how useful is a disclosure?
It can be useful if we can judge whether the person making the disclosure
is one with professional integrity.
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