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November
11, 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 November 4-10,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 148
references to the university in worldwide publications. Here is a sample.
National News Stories
BusinessWeek | November 8
The Arizona Republic | November 7
Boston Herald | November 7
The New York Times | November 6
MSNBC (AP) | November 4
The New York Times | November 4
Student Experience
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | November 6
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | November 10
The Toledo Blade | November 7
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | November 7
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | November 7
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | November 6
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | November 4
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | November 4
Information Technology
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | November 7
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | November 7
San Francisco Chronicle | November 6
Environment
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | November 5
Regional Impact
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | November 4
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | November 10
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | November 8
Pittsburgh Business Times | November 7
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | November 6
International News Stories
EE Times UK | November 8
United Press International | November 3
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National News Stories
BusinessWeek | November 8
Four Carnegie Mellon grad students turned a video-game
design experiment into a creative approach for pros and amateurs alike.
Sounds like the setup for a geeky joke: What do you get when four computer-programming
grad students ponder gravity for seven days straight? The answer: four
bouncy video games. In reality, though, the foursome produced more than
50 highly original games in the course of one academic semester -- roughly
10 weeks. It's the true story of the Experimental Gameplay Project,
the brainchild of four 2005 graduates of Carnegie Mellon University's
Entertainment Technology Center master's program. Three are now employed
by leading game developer Electronic Arts (ERTS), and the fourth is
developing a game at Carnegie Mellon to teach kids about Internet security. The
lessons they learned in game-design innovation are worth passing on.
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/
content/nov2005/id20051107_181961.htm | back to top
The Arizona Republic | November 7
National energy problems have driven prices painfully high at the gasoline
pump, and huge bills for winter heating are predicted. The next energy
pinch may grow out of this area's blazing summer heat. Phoenix added
more people - and more air-conditioners - than any other city in the
country last year. As a result, on a typical 100-degree-plus day, Phoenix
and surrounding communities use more electricity than Manhattan. "I
would say in the West over the next few years you've got some substantial
problems with having enough electricity available to satisfy the demand,"
said Lester Lave, a Carnegie Mellon
University economist and co-director of the Pittsburgh university's
Electricity Industry Center. "Potentially, there's a substantial
mess out there."
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/
business/articles/1107energydemand07.html | back
to top
Boston Herald | November 7
If your Roomba seems more interested in destroying your new shoes than
sweeping your floor, then you’d best run out to the local bookstore
and buy a copy of “How to Survive a Robot Uprising” - and
fast. Oh, and you might want to take your bike - your car and public
transportation probably aren’t safe. “How to Survive a Robot
Uprising” is Daniel H. Wilson’s spectacular debut novel,
a tongue-in-cheek survival guide for humans who find themselves fighting
an army of robots that have gained consciousness. While the premise
is based on the stuff of sci-fi novels and films (at least for now),
the science behind it - from types of robots to surveillance systems
to facial recognition programs to military weaponry - is real. You see,
Wilson’s career goal ultimately isn’t to be a writer. But
just before completing his doctorate at Carnegie Mellon University’s
Robotics Institute, he achieved what many writers dream about: His debut
effort got published, and he sold the movie rights to Paramount before
the book even hit the shelves. And he’s already working on a second
book. Not bad for a roboticist.
http://theedge.bostonherald.com/
bookNews/view.bg?articleid=110724 | back to top
The New York Times | November 6
Many business schools are adding "tracks" to their curriculum
that play to their particular strengths and, they hope, to a marketplace
that wants M.B.A.'s prepared to hit the ground running. If you already
know that you want to work in a specific field, this could be a good
fit. The specialized curriculum that the Tepper School of Business at
Carnegie Mellon rolled out last year, for example, includes
tracks in biotechnology, computational marketing, technology leadership,
operations strategy and management, management of innovation and product
development, and wealth and asset management. The idea is to build not
scientists and engineers but the people who can manage them. "You
can't manage a group of people who think you don't know anything about
their field," says Kenneth B. Dunn, Tepper's dean.
"We've had a big increase in the number of new firms coming to
recruit at Carnegie Mellon as a result of the tracks."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/06/education/
edlife/guidancecounselor-mba-revise.A.2.html | back
to top
MSNBC (AP) | November 4
A consortium led by the University of Delaware could receive up to $53
million in funding. The group's mission: to double the efficiency of
solar cells within 50 months. It is the largest award in the history
of solar energy research, Rhone Resch, president of the Washington-based
Solar Energy Industries Association, said in a statement released by
the University of Delaware. The federal Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency is expected to contribute as much as $33.6 million to the project.
The remaining $19.3 million is expected to come from the university
and corporate team members. ... The university is leading a consortium
of researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the University
of Rochester, the Georgia Institute of Technology, Purdue University,
the University of California-Santa Barbara, the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Harvard University, the University of New South Wales,
Yale University and Carnegie Mellon University.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9923620/
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The New York Times | November 4
There is a techie adage that goes like this: In China or Japan the nail
that stands up gets hammered, while in Silicon Valley the nail that
stands up drives a Ferrari and has stock options. Underlying that adage
is a certain American confidence that whatever we lack in preparing
our kids with strong fundamentals in math and science, we make up for
by encouraging our best students to be independent, creative thinkers.
There is a lot of truth to that. Even the Chinese will tell you that
they've been good at making the next new thing, and copying the next
new thing, but not imagining the next new thing. That may be about to
change. ... Check out Microsoft Research Asia, the research center Bill
Gates set up in Beijing to draw on Chinese brainpower. ... Harry Shum,
a Carnegie Mellon-trained computer engineer who runs
the lab, has a very clear view of what Chinese innovators can do, given
the right environment. ... I learned mostly about how to do research
right at Carnegie Mellon. ... Before you create anything new, you need
to understand what is already there. Once you have this foundation,
being creative can be trainable.
http://select.nytimes.com/2005/11/
04/opinion/04friedman.html | back to top
Student Experience
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | November 6
Wireless Internet has become all the rage in college classrooms, with
more schools locally and nationwide installing it each year. But schools
are starting to learn that the educational advantages of wireless Internet
are accompanied by relentless distractions. Suddenly, students have
the ability to transport themselves anywhere the Internet will take
them -- whether or not it has anything to do with class. "The problem
I have is not with the laptops, per se," said John Soluri,
a history professor at Carnegie Mellon. "The problem
is that I know that some people use laptops to e-mail, to watch movies,
to do whatever, and they're not really using them to take notes."
... Professors say they like having wireless Internet in the classroom
because it permits students to organize their notes easily and immediately
access outside resources during class discussions. But many are bothered
by the distractions behind the screen. At Carnegie Mellon, Dr. Soluri
acknowledges students could sleep, daydream or doodle long before laptops.
But he worries about more substantive distractions to students using
laptops and to anyone else who can see their screens. To cut down on
"extracurricular" Internet use, he asks his teaching assistants
to keep an eye on students' laptop use in his 200-student lecture classes.
... Some professors take the burden upon themselves. "If you're
engaging the students, they won't be text-messaging with their friends
and family members," said Michael Rectenwald,
a Carnegie Mellon English professor.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg
/05310/601626.stm | back to top
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | November 10
One's top priority when going on a long hike in the woods would be comfortable
shoes. The same can be said about going to see "Groundworks,"
an equally exhaustive exhibition of ecological art by more than 20 artists
and artist teams from around the globe, on view at Carnegie
Mellon's Regina Gouger Miller Gallery. "There's a lot
to take in," says gallery director Jenny Strayer.
"It really was a project that just kept growing and growing."
... An artist team comprised of artists-researchers -- as well as husband
and wife -- Tim Collins and Reiko Goto,
3 Rivers 2nd Nature spent the last five years focusing on the region's
three major rivers -- the Allegheny, the Monongahela and the Ohio --
as well as the streams and sub-watersheds, creating outreach programs
intended to enable creative public advocacy and change.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
entertainment/events/s_392844.html | back to top
The Toledo Blade | November 7
This is your only chance to pick up your prescription and, with minutes
to spare before your kids’ day care closes, you find yourself
at the end of a slowly moving line. Finally, after half of your hair
has turned gray during the decades-long wait, the woman in front of
you shuffles to the register. She turns her battered purse upside down
onto the counter. Coins clatter to the floor and roll everywhere. ...
At this moment in your pretend life, does the cashier look up at you
and see a jaws-clenched, murderous, eyes-blazing stare? Or does she
see wide-eyed fear as you worry about your kids? If she sees anger,
you’re lucky. If it’s fear she sees, you’re already
paying a physical price for your emotional disturbance, said Jennifer
S. Lerner, the Carnegie Mellon University
researcher who led a study published this month in the journal Biological
Psychiatry that analyzed the health effects of emotions like anger and
fear.
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/
20051107/NEWS32/511060349/-1/NEWS | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | November 7
The Pittsburgh Alumnae Chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota named Nancy
Galbraith a national honorary member and Alan Fletcher
as a National Arts Associate in an event yesterday at Shadyside Presbyterian
Church. The professional music fraternity for women also presented a
recital featuring the music of Galbraith and Fletcher, both composers
and faculty members at Carnegie Mellon School of Music.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05311/601903.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | November 7
Sometimes the drama is mainly offstage. I don't know why the Jewish
Theatre of Pittsburgh replaced half the cast of the two-person "Cecil
and CleopaYtra" two days before its scheduled Oct. 26 opening.
But I can well imagine the crazy upheaval that ensued for the new actress,
Khaliah Adams, the other actor, Tony McKay, director
Gregory Lehane and producer Tito Braunstein as they rushed to integrate
Adams into the show so very late in the process. As luck would have
it in this holding-a-mirror-up-to-nature business, creating an actress
on the speed plan is just what the play is about. Cecil Stein is an
aging and self-described legendary acting teacher and Rosita is a young
visiting nurse who is more or less browbeaten into becoming his student
and who, from a standing start, is supposed to learn enough in a year
to be cast in a professional production of Shakespeare. Add the further
wrinkle that McKay is himself a well-established (if neither aging nor
legendary) acting teacher at Carnegie Mellon and Adams
is a Carnegie Mellon senior who has been his student, and you can imagine the backstage
drama.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05311/601900.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | November 6
Trumpeter Neal Berntsen has spent a lifetime mastering
ensemble playing. At present, however, the veteran orchestral player
is struggling to blend in with himself. ... The project began when the
label approached Berntsen about creating a disc, and he suggested trumpet
ensembles. "[It's] a genre that has a lot of good stuff [yet] there
aren't a lot of recordings," he says. It's not hard to see why:
These works can require up to nine trumpeters. So he quickly proposed
that he could play all the parts, too, and Four Winds loved the idea.
... As technology goes, Berntsen's expertise rests in brass, not silicon
-- witness the six trumpets and 50 mouthpieces he brought to the recording
session. However, he had a card up his sleeve when he suggested the
multitrack album: Carnegie Mellon University. In 2003,
the Carnegie Mellon School of Music built a high-tech recording studio in the lower
level of its College of Fine Arts building. It is a fine space, used
in classes and for recording, and it is hot-wired to Kresge Hall on
the first floor. As an instructor at the school, Berntsen sold the studio's
director, Riccardo Schulz, on the recording, asking
him to be the engineer.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05310/600303.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | November 4
It begins with a filmmaking impulse -- something that propels the screenwriter
to write and the director to think in terms of angles and compositions
and readings and pacing that might amplify each scene. ... One small,
sometimes significant part of that process is getting a screening or
two in Pittsburgh's annual Three Rivers Film Festival, like the one
being held at district venues tonight through Nov. 17. "Dumpster"
was shot entirely here in five days, mostly on the campus of Carnegie
Mellon University. Screenwriter Jim Ray Daniels is
a poet and professor of English at Carnegie Mellon who had written one previously
produced script, "No Pets," which was directed by Tony Buba.
"I think the first time you try anything, you're not sure what
you're doing. I hope from 'No Pets' I learned about writing for film
in terms of overall approach. With that, I was starting with a short
story I'd written; I didn't know how to revise it in this medium. With
'Dumpster,' I was thinking about dialogue all the way." "Dumpster"
concerns a relationship that builds between a university janitor and
a wealthy frat boy when the former finds the latter hiding in a campus
Dumpster.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
entertainment/events/s_390863.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | November 4
Thomas Wesley Douglas is looking at the season-opening
performances of the Bach Choir of Pittsburgh this weekend as symbols
of the route he wants to travel. "I want to do different things
with venues, repertory and performing collaborations," says the
ensemble's new artistic director. "I want the Bach Choir to be
better known." The choir will aim at two of those goals, he says,
with its opening concerts, "Opera Obsessions." Its use of
opera material, a style of music a little unusual for the choir, will
include music from the 18th to 20th centuries. The concerts also will
be on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University, Oakland,
in an attempt to reach to a new, younger audience. "We always want
to push the envelope of who we are and what we want to be," he
says. Douglas, who is on the drama and music faculties at Carnegie Mellon,
is going into his first season as artistic director after serving as
interim director last season.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
entertainment/events/s_390803.html | back to top
Information Technology
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | November 7
Roaming the dry vastness of Chile's Atacama Desert, a biologist stops
and peers at the ground; something catches her eye. She sprays several
solutions on the spot, examines it again and . . . there, she sees it.
Life. It may be microscopic, but it shows signs of life. Which is more
than can be said for the biologist, who has never drawn a breath or
taken a sip of water. Named Zoe, she is a four-wheeled, solar-powered
robot on a search-for-life mission for NASA. During a field test last
year in the Atacama, Zoe followed directions from a science team in
Pittsburgh and became the first robot to remotely detect life. But in
a just-completed field test in the same desert, the driest place on
Earth, Zoe outdid herself, finding life on her own at a spot she selected.
... This latest field test, the third and final of the three-year project,
also demonstrated Zoe's ability to navigate by herself for long distances
without a map or human guidance, said David Wettergreen,
the Atacama project leader and a researcher at Carnegie Mellon's
Robotics Institute.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05311/601841.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | November 7
One of robot Zoe's accomplishments during this year's field test in
Chile's Atacama Desert was navigating autonomously for 200 kilometers,
or roughly 124 miles. But a month ago, five robotic vehicles, including
two built by Carnegie Mellon's Red Team, seemingly
left Zoe in the dust when they completed a 132-mile desert course near
Las Vegas, Nev., in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's
$2 million Grand Challenge race. The leading Grand Challenge racers
finished the course in about seven hours; Zoe covered roughly the same
distance in 30-35 days. The difference in speeds, however, has more
to do with the difference in tasks, rather than any difference in the
level of accomplishment, noted Carnegie Mellon's David Wettergreen.
Unlike the Grand Challenge racers, which were following a predetermined
path, Zoe was blazing its own trail, picking its way across the desert
without a specified path or even a map.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05311/601844.stm | back to top
San Francisco Chronicle | November 6
DARPA is the long-range research arm of the Department of Defense best
known for its sponsorship of research in the 1960s that led to the Internet.
October's event was DARPA's second robot race. The first, in 2004, ended
in media snickering, when the most successful of the 15 robocars went
just 7.4 miles. That car was entered by Carnegie Mellon --
arguably the world's pre-eminent robotics research center -- and the
flamboyant, 6-foot, 4-inch tall Red Whittaker, a fierce
competitor who, as a teenager, once wrestled a gorilla on a dare. Whittaker
entered in October's race not one, but two robotic Hummers -- painted
red, of course. ... But, as befits a race in Nevada, the state where
chance is an industry, Carnegie Mellon's bad luck contributed to the
victory. In a telephone interview last week, Whittaker said he'd known
three hours into the race that despite entering two robots -- one fast,
one slow -- his strategy was in trouble. The second robo-Hummer, which
had been given slow-but-steady software, worked fine. It was just too
slow. But the lead dog, the one controlled by a pedal-to-the-metal program,
had engine trouble. "It was like driving a car with some transmission
slip," Whittaker said. "So that when you gave it the pedal,
it wasn't quite giving you the speed."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/
chronicle/archive/2005/11/06/BUGP0FJ17Q1.
DTL&type=business | back to top
Environment
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | November 5
Air sampling in the Monongahela Valley by local environmentalists has
revealed high levels of some toxic chemicals and prompted the Allegheny
County Health Department to add a new air monitoring site in Elizabeth.
... The groups used a simple technique called "bucket sampling,"
in which a vacuum cleaner is used to draw air into a plastic bag inside
a sealed bucket. Though this type of sampling has limitations, similar
work near Neville Island two years ago prompted the county to launch
a $1.6 million study of toxic air pollutants around the industrial island.
That study, funded by the county Clean Air Fund and the EPA, is just
about to get under way. ... The Neville Island study, which is being
done in conjunction with Carnegie Mellon University,
will use mobile and stationary monitors to sample toxic air pollutants
in and around the island. They also will monitor air Downtown to gauge
the contributions of motor vehicle exhaust and sample the air in South
Fayette to determine what chemicals come from upwind of the county.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05309/601223.stm | back to top
Regional Impact
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | November 4
It's been 17 years and eight months since the prince unofficially stepped
off a plane at Greater Pittsburgh Airport, as it was known in early
March 1988, and into a late winter snowstorm. ... It was the prince's
first and only visit to Pittsburgh. The next day, he gave the keynote
address at the Remaking Cities conference, an international event that
brought together 350 architects, urban designers, economists, historians
and ordinary citizens to brainstorm ideas for the revival of declining
industrial towns from the Mon Valley to Germany's Ruhr Valley. ... But
what, in the long run, did the conference accomplish? And what is its
legacy today? "There's volumes of legacy. Some of it's in Pittsburgh
but mostly it's not," said [David] Lewis, the
conference organizer, who will retire in December after teaching urban
design at Carnegie Mellon University for more than
40 years. ... In 1990, Mr. Lewis began Carnegie Mellon's Urban Lab, which continues
the work of the conference by creating teams of architecture, public
policy and business students to work on urban design projects with citizens
and elected officials. They have been involved in about 30 communities
in Western Pennsylvania, from Vandergrift to Neville Island to Hazelwood
to Mt. Lebanon.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05308/600488.stm | back to top
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | November 10
Workers who operate the broiling furnaces that convert iron ore or scrap
to steel may think Donald R. Sadoway has rocks in his head -- lunar
rocks at that. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and
holder of 13 patents, Mr. Sadoway, 55, has researched how NASA might
extract oxygen from moon rocks for the space program. He believes that
the same process, similar to the way aluminum has been made for more
than 100 years, can be used to make iron. ... One of Pittsburgh's top
materials scientists says that while Mr. Sadoway's twist on electrolysis
can work, the global warming angle leaves him a bit cold. Even if the
MIT professor can produce iron and oxygen simultaneously, what about
all the greenhouse gasses created by burning coal to generate the electricity
needed to run the process, asks Richard J. Fruehan,
the U.S. Steel professor of materials science at Carnegie Mellon
University. "His theory is absolutely correct if you don't think
about the supply of electricity," Mr. Fruehan says. "It's
not reducing the carbon dioxide once you consider the power plant. In
fact, it's increasing carbon dioxide."
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05314/603569.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | November 8
Robert Kelley, adjunct professor of organizational
behavior at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School
of Business, said early efforts to offer flex schedules "created
havoc" in some companies because there wasn't sufficient analysis
ahead of time about how the work would get done while some employees
weren't there. ... In most cases, though, flexibility "is giving
people more control over their total lives and letting them fit work
into life in a way that makes sense to them," Dr. Kelley said,
noting that it's not just an issue of importance to women. "It's
become increasingly important as there are more pressures on people's
lives: both partners are working, child care and parent care."
... Because so much work is now project based, he said, flexible schedules
"allow us to say to people, 'You're not working these hours, you're
working these projects so if you want to work at 2 a.m., go ahead and
do it.' " In that way, flexibility can benefit the employer. "It's
a better bargain for them because on a project basis, people may actually
put in more hours ... and they often do."
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/05312/602358.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Business Times | November 7
Close to 300 total business owners graduated from Carnegie Mellon
University's Entrepreneurial Management Program during its decade long
run. Game to polish their management skills, do some networking and
learn new techniques to help their companies grow while still maintaining
an entrepreneurial culture, the students weren't solely from the expected
tech sector. Advertising agency chiefs, retailers and sausage-makers
also signed up. Two years ago, the Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship,
which ran the program at Carnegie Mellon, pulled it for retooling. The
center, which operates within the Tepper School of Business, has offered
entrepreneurial education programs since its inception in 1990, although
Carnegie Mellon has been teaching entrepreneurship since 1972. ... [The
program] relaunched Nov. 4 as the Entrepreneurial Leadership Forum.
The target audience -- chief executives dealing with issues related
to growing their companies -- hasn't changed. But instead of a lecture
and discussion format, the updated version provides a workshop-like
environment with an emphasis on interaction instead of disseminating
information from an instructor.
http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/
stories/2005/11/07/focus3.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | November 6
All this talk about the avian flu -- which, breathless news reports
and grim predictions aside, has still shown no hard evidence that it
will mutate, nor any indication that it will ever readily spread from
human to human -- makes me long for those heady days as 1999 came to
a close. We all worried not about birdies, but about bits and bytes
and binaries. It seems somehow better suited to the turn of the 21st
century to have worried that our computers, not our cockatoos, might
kill us. Of course, avian flu does come with a handy, bureaucratic/technological
designation -- H5N1, which sounds like either a virus or Sony's latest
digital music player -- but it doesn't quite roll off the tongue the
way Y2K did. More compelling as a global brand than as a global crisis,
Y2K also benefited from the ruthless economy of its nomenclature. This
season's apocalypse du jour has people babbling about avian flu, bird
flu, H5N1, epidemics, and possible pandemics, producing as many synonyms
as symptoms. ***This article was written by Chad Hermann,
a lecturer in management communication at the Tepper School of Business
at Carnegie Mellon.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/05310/601017.stm | back to top
International News Stories
EE Times UK | November 8
Major changes to design philosophy are need at sub-90-nanometer nodes
to accommodate the shrinking number of atoms on each transistor, according
to a Monday evening (Nov. 7) panel discussion at the International Conference
on Computer Aided Design here. ... Dan Siewiorek, a
professor at Carnegie Mellon, said it is time for the
industry to revisit the idea of AI-based CAD tools in response to decreasing
time-to-design and increasing complexity. ... Siewiorek suggested two
possible directions for AI in CAD tools, machine learning tools that
could recognize similar contexts and apply previous solutions, and data
mining tools that could search for design fragments previously used.
"We have lots and lots of design fragments out there," Siewiorek
said. "Why can't we mine them, find the thing that is closest to
what we need, and start stitching it together?"... Panelists, as
well as the moderator, Seth Copen Goldstein of
Carnegie Mellon, agreed that faulty components would be unavoidable
and that a successful design will need to account for this.
http://www.eetuk.com/tech/news/
showArticle.jhtml?articleID=173600871 | back to
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United Press International | November 3
The second annual Serious Games Summit, held this week in Arlington,
Va., brought together groups interested in expanding the role of video
games beyond entertainment. ... Other highlights of the show included
PeaceMaker, a game in development by groups from Carnegie Mellon
University and the University of Pittsburgh in which players must confront
the Israeli-Palestine conflict from the role of either the Israeli prime
minister or the Palestinian president. Geared toward a high school audience
and designed to be as close to the actual situation as possible, players
use political functions similar to what might be used to attempt to
resolve the issues while having to please eight major groups, each vying
for influence. ... "PeaceMaker" is due to be published for
the Windows operating system this spring, with its developer group hoping
to receive feedback, add multiplayer functionality, move the game out
of the university environment and develop the title to be able to address
other conflicts currently taking place. "Hazmat: Hotzone,"
a firefighter training simulator by Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment
Training Center, demonstrated how video-game software could be applied
as a department-wide training tool. Designed with the help of the New
York Fire Department, the game works to continually train firefighters
on how to deal with conventional, environmental, biological and terror-based
incidents while functioning as a team.
http://www.upi.com/Hi-Tech/view.php?
StoryID=20051103-112951-1829r | back to top
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