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December
16, 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 December 9-15,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 295
references to the university in worldwide publications. Here is a sample.
Special Coverage: Carnegie Mellon and Google
The New York Times (AP) | December 15
Pittsburgh Business Times | December 15
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | December 16
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | December 16
National News Stories
The Washington-Post | December 13
The Washington-Post | December 13
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | December
11
The Wall Street Journal | December 9
Student Experience
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | December 14
The New York Times | December 13
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | December 9
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | December 13
St. Louis Post-Dispatch | December 13
Axcess News | December 13
The McKeesport Daily News | December 10
Information Technology
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | December 15
Sarasota Herald-Tribune | December 13
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | December 12
DefenseNews | December 12
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | December 10
Biotechnology
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | December 12
Environment
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | December 15
Regional Impact
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | December 15
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | December 12
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | December 11
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | December 9
International News Stories
The Peninsula | December 15
The Peninsula | December 12
Gulf Times | December 12
Deccan Herald | December 11
Al Bawaba | December 9
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Special Coverage: Carnegie Mellon and Google
The New York Times (AP) | December 15
Google Inc., the leading online search engine company, will open a new
engineering and research office in Pittsburgh next year to be headed
by a Carnegie Mellon University professor, the company
said Thursday. The facility will be charged with creating software search
tools for Google. It is expected to create as many as 100 new high-tech
jobs in the Pittsburgh area over the next few years, said Craig Nevill-Manning,
director of Google's New York engineering office. The office will be
headed by Andrew Moore, a Carnegie Mellon professor
of computer science and robotics who currently runs a research laboratory
of 30 students, programmers and faculty members. Moore, 40, is an expert
in data mining and artificial intelligence. ''Andrew Moore has built
his career on the twin challenges of developing techniques to extract
patterns from large data sets and applying these machine learning methods
to real-life problems,'' said Randal Bryant, the dean
of Carnegie Mellon's computer science school.
*** This Associated Press article was featured in more than 100
media outlets, including The San Jose Mercury News, The Boston Globe,
Newsday, BusinessWeek, The Washington Post, ABC News and MSN Money.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/
AP-Google-Carnegie Mellon.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Business Times | December 15
Internet search provider Google Inc. said it will open a research and
development facility in Pittsburgh next year and has chosen a Carnegie
Mellon University robotics professor to run it. Mountain View,
Calif.-based Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) said the engineering office will focus
on creating a variety of search tools for Google and could act as an
engine for creating new high-tech jobs in the Pittsburgh area. Google
is expected to put the facility on Carnegie Mellon's campus in the Oakland
section of Pittsburgh, but did not specify when the office would open.
Andrew Moore, 40, teaches computer science and robotics at
Carnegie Mellon, and is said to be expert at data mining and artificial
intelligence. His research lab, which includes 30 students, programmers
and faculty, is well-known for finding ways to organize information
to make it practical to quickly find meaningful statistical patterns.
http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/
stories/2005/12/12/daily35.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | December 16
It was a good day for the local tech scene yesterday as Internet giant
Google announced plans to open a local office and a tech-focused economic
development group reported an uptick in technology jobs in the latest
fiscal year. ... Amid food and fanfare, Google representatives joined
officials from the state, Allegheny County and Carnegie Mellon
University at noon to mark the Silicon Valley firm's plan to set up
a research and development operation near Carnegie Mellon's campus.
... Google said its operation will be headed by Andrew Moore,
40, a Carnegie Mellon computer science and robotics professor who chairs
a lab that tracks data patterns. ... The search engine giant decided
to open a Pittsburgh outpost after approaching several Carnegie Mellon
researchers and graduates who were interested in working for the company
but were loathe to leave Pittsburgh, said Craig Nevill-Manning, the
director of Google's New York City-based Engineering Center. "The
response [always] was, 'I really like living in Pittsburgh,' "
he said. "If we were gonna hire these people, we'd have to open
an office here."
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/05350/623231.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | December 16
Google Inc. is coming to Pittsburgh -- planning to tap the expertise
available at Carnegie Mellon University to open a software
engineering office that could create as many as 100 high-paying jobs.
... "Pittsburgh is feeling lucky today," said Carnegie Mellon
President Jared L. Cohon in announcing Google's decision
to locate a research and development office in the region, at a news
conference at the university's Rangos Hall. Mountain View, Calif.-based
Google, whose Google.com search engine is one of the five most popular
sites on the Internet, is tapping Andrew W. Moore,
a 12-year veteran Carnegie Mellon professor, with expertise in computer
science and robotics, to head the local office. Plans are to select
a site, probably on or near Carnegie Mellon's Oakland campus, early
next year for the office, said Craig Neville-Manning, director of the
New York Google Engineering Center in Manhattan. ... Officials said
as many as 50 Carnegie Mellon alumni already work at Google offices
worldwide, on such projects as its Google Local product, which enables
users to find such geographic information as an address of a nearby
Starbuck's coffee shop. Carnegie Mellon researchers also have joined
forces with the company on several initiatives, including Global Connection,
a software system that can overlay images onto Google Earth, the company's
Earth imaging browser.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/
search/s_404601.html | back to top
National News Stories
The Washington-Post | December 13
The body's reaction to stress can become chronic and pernicious. This
doesn't happen because a physical threat to safety continues for a long
time, but because humans -- endowed with imagination, memory and language
-- have the ability to create psychological stress, even when no physical
or emotional threat is present. ... According to Sheldon Cohen,
a psychology professor at Carnegie Mellon University,
the medical literature demonstrates a link between chronic stress and
depression, upper respiratory infections, cardiovascular disease and
HIV progression.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2005/12/09/AR2005120901760.html | back to
top
The Washington-Post | December 13
Meet Chester the Talking Pill, Guido the interactive walker and Pearl,
a personal robot designed to carry groceries or dirty dishes to the
kitchen with a simple voice command. Researchers dreaming up such high-tech
innovations to make the lives of senior citizens easier are convening
this week at an unusual technology exhibition at the Marriott Wardman
Park Hotel in Woodley Park. The event, timed to coincide with a once-a-decade
White House Conference on Aging, is open to the public today. ... Guido
the walker, developed by Carnegie Mellon University,
uses ... wireless technology to help Grandma find her way through large
buildings -- or to help the walker find Grandma; she can summon it by
remote control.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
content/article/2005/12/12/AR2005121201459.html | back
to top
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | December 11
A first-generation college graduate, [Erroll Davis]will
be the first person from outside academia to serve as chancellor of
the University System of Georgia. ...While he lacks a formal background
in academia, Davis has always been interested in education and has served
on the boards of both his alma maters. He was chairman of the board
of Carnegie Mellon when Mark Kamlet
joined the university as provost and senior vice president six years
ago. Davis was "extraordinarily effective as chairman, pushing
the institution to diversify its mostly white male campus, Kamlet said,
"He was a pleasant but persistent source of making sure we were
aware of its importance to him. He was clear that the provost and president
... should be evaluated on their success in that." ... Carnegie
Mellon began two programs to address diversity under Davis' direction.
One, an effort to increase the number of minority students qualified
to attend elite institutions like Carnegie Mellon, focuses on high school
juniors and seniors. ... The other program sought to increase the number
of women enrolled in computer science, a field dominated by men.
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/
metro/1205/11metchancellor.html | back to top
The Wall Street Journal | December 9
Don't let the headline confuse you. We are not referring to the relationship
between U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and his enterprising son,
Kojo. Instead, we refer to the latest strategy from that famous economist
and other-people's-money philanthropist, Jeffrey Sachs, to pry more
dollars out of U.S. taxpayers for corrupt African governments. ... And
as Carnegie Mellon economist Adam Lerrick
notes in a paper to be released today by Congress's Joint Economic Committee,
the Columbia University economist devised a new rating system to measure
corruption in which "African nations are effectively compared mostly
to each other." ... Mr. Lerrick puts it this way: "How to
give wisely, cost-effectively and directly for the benefit of the poor
remains the elusive goal." The novel but slippery standard of relative
corruption won't help end African poverty.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB11340954
3784618070-search.html?KEYWORDS=%22
Carnegie+Mellon%22&COLLECTION=wsjie/6month | back
to top
Student Experience
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | December 14
The aspiring chemical engineers at Carnegie Mellon
University never expected to find themselves in the fashion business.
Yet for the past two years, these students have made it their mission
to transform corn into clothing. "This is a crazy project,"
said Carnegie Mellon chemical engineering professor Gary Powers,
who launched the endeavor as part of a required design course for majors
in his department. "But I want to build generation after generation
of engineers who are not afraid to innovate and take risks." The
idea of using corn kernels as raw material to make clothing, furniture
upholstery and other textiles is gaining traction, industry experts
say. Because of the volatility of the petroleum market and the finite
supply of oil, chemical manufacturers are searching for more reliable
and renewable ways to make plastics for consumer goods such as polyester
pants and garbage bags.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/regional/s_403832.html | back to top
The New York Times | December 13
I drove into New Haven on a recent morning with a burning question on
my mind. How did my daughter do against the chimpanzees? A month before,
I had found a letter in the cubby of my daughter Charlotte at her preschool.
It was from a graduate student at Yale asking for volunteers for a psychological
study. The student, Derek Lyons, wanted to observe how 3- and 4-year-olds
learn. ... His study would build on a paper published in the July issue
of the journal Animal Cognition by Victoria Horner and Andrew Whiten,
two psychologists at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Dr.
Horner and Dr. Whiten described the way they showed young chimps how
to retrieve food from a box. ... The researchers turned to humans. They
showed the transparent box to 16 children from a Scottish nursery school.
After putting a sticker in the box, they showed the children how to
retrieve it. They included the unnecessary bolt pulling and box tapping.
The scientists placed the sticker back in the box and left the room,
telling the children that they could do whatever they thought necessary
to retrieve it. The children could see just as easily as the chimps
that it was pointless to slide open the bolt or tap on top of the box.
Yet 80 percent did so anyway. "It seemed so spectacular to me,"
Mr. Lyons said. "It suggested something remarkable was going on."
It was possible, however, that the results might come from a simple
desire in the children just to play along. To see how deep this urge
to overimitate went, Mr. Lyons came up with new experiments with the
transparent box. He worked with a summer intern, Andrew Young, a senior
at Carnegie Mellon, to build other puzzles using Tupperware,
wire baskets and bits of wood. And Mr. Lyons planned out a much larger
study, with 100 children.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/13/
science/13essa.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=
1134740966-Qq6xmS+7P2j0dmqc7l+cIA | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | December 9
The Carnegie Mellon men's basketball team is 7-0 for
the best start in school history and is inching closer to the NCAA Division
III Top 25. On the strength of a 72-71 victory against then-No. 12 Rochester,
the Tartans moved up to 29th in the D3hoops.com poll. Nate Maurer, a
6-foot-6 senior forward, scored 41 points, including Carnegie Mellon's
final 16 of the game, against Rochester. He was two points shy of Bill
Soffa's school record set in 1957-58 season. Maurer set a school record
with seven 3-pointers on eight attempts and scored 31 of his points
in the second half as the Tartans ended Rochester's 23-game home winning
streak in the University Athletic Association. Maurer, a transfer from
Grove City as a junior, was the player of the year in the Presidents'
Athletic Conference as a sophomore. He grew up in Mt. Lebanon and attended
Linsly Academy (W.Va.). Maurer was named ECAC Southern Men's Basketball
athlete of the week for his performance against Rochester. Maurer (19.6
ppg) leads the Tartans in scoring, followed by 6-4 senior Clayton Barlow-Wilcox
(17 ppg, 9.3 rpg). The Tartans are on the road tonight at Skidmore and
tomorrow at Union. They take a break over the holidays and return for
a game Dec. 28 at Division I Princeton.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05343/619635.stm | back to top
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | December 13
Art exhibitions have become more varied in their content in the past
several decades. Following on the broadening of the contexts in which
art can be examined and understood, organizers of shows have found subjects
that lend themselves to a discursive treatment. A case in point is the
current show at Carnegie Mellon's Hunt Institute for
Botanical Documentation, "Inspiration and Translation: Botanical
and Horticultural Lithographs of Joseph Prestele and Sons."Organized
in collaboration with the National Agricultural Library, the exhibition
is noteworthy for the variety of materials included. The wall texts
and catalog take us further afield into a number of historical byways
that are important elements in our cultural growth in the 19th century.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05347/621270.stm | back to top
St. Louis Post-Dispatch | December 13
Mayors bristle and crime experts roll their eyes when the ranking of
"most dangerous" big cities are publicized each fall. St.
Louis typically finishes near - or at - the top, along with the likes
of Detroit and Atlanta. This year it finished third in the annual report
by Morgan Quitno Press, a private research firm in Lawrence, Kan. But
a new study of murder rates by a team of academics takes a swipe at
the Morgan Quitno rankings and gives St. Louis and its beleaguered peers
something to cheer about. Well, kind of. ... In a choice that might
surprise some, the team listed San Francisco No. 1 in murder among the
67 biggest U.S. cities in 2004, despite a murder rate that was one-third
of what St. Louis had. St. Louis, which had the nation's fifth-highest
murder rate, ranked No. 19 in the study. Detroit was 37th and Atlanta
46th. ....Why the poor finish in the Bay City? Because its 88 murders
last year were more than researchers expected, given the city's relative
wealth and low unemployment, said Richard Rosenfeld, a criminologist
at the University of Missouri at St. Louis. He co-authored the Improving
Crime Data study with Robert Friedmann at Georgia State University,
and Alfred Blumstein at Carnegie Mellon University.
The work was funded by the National Institute of Justice.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/
news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/
story/48B07914D2A09515862570
D700168E73?OpenDocument | back to top
Axcess News | December 13
Phillip Leslie, assistant professor of strategic management, has studied
more than 1,300 movie deals made by a major studios between 1987 and
2000 and has found that co-financed movies - those whose costs and,
consequently, ownership rights and profits are shared by more than one
firm - are just as risky as studios' solo-owned movies. "The evidence
flies in the face of what we'd been reading in the trade press and had
heard from executives - that co-financing lowers risk when no one is
sure that the movie will be a hit," says Leslie, who recently published
his paper, co-authored with Ronald Goettler of Carnegie
Mellon University's Tepper School of Business, in the Journal
of Economics and Management Strategy.
http://www.axcessnews.com/modules/
wfsection/article.php?articleid=7136 | back to top
The McKeesport Daily News | December 10
An art display focusing on the Monongahela Valley and its possible future
will close soon at a gallery on Carnegie Mellon University's
campus. "Sunday is the final day of the Groundworks exhibition
at the (Regina Gouger) Miller Gallery," artist Ann Rosenthal
said. A closing ceremony at 11:30 a.m. will kick off a tour for exhibits
evolving from The Monongahela Conference on Post Industrial Community
Development, as conducted last year in Homestead, Braddock and McKeesport.
One possible stop next summer will be McKeesport.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?
newsid=15730823&BRD=1282&PAG=461
&dept_id=182121&rfi=6 | back to top
Information Technology
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | December 15
The online holiday shopping season is at its peak, with analysts predicting
the busiest Internet sales day could have come this past Monday, or
maybe Tuesday -- or may not come until next Monday. Truth is, no one
knows for sure. A lot depends on how many retailers can make promises
of prompt shipping to make sure that special package arrives before
Dec. 25. ... When the final tally showing which day most online shoppers
hit the keyboard comes, Carnegie Mellon University
associate professor of marketing Ajay Kalra expects
it will turn out to have been on a Monday, most likely the one just
passed. He believes many people want to check out a product in person,
likely over a weekend, before they return to look for the best deals
online. In the future, he said, the busiest online shopping days may
come later in the season as more retailers allow customers to order
online and then pick up the items in stores, something both Circuit
City and Best Buy are pushing.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05349/622458.stm | back to top
Sarasota Herald-Tribune | December 13
By the time baby boomers get old -- not that they would ever admit they
were -- devices like walkers, canes and wheelchairs may be smarter than
they are today. Researchers at universities and private technology companies
are embedding an array of devices, including those longtime symbols
of aging, with computer chips, software, sensors, lasers and other equipment.
The innovations are designed to help blunt the effects of aging, increase
independence and mobility, and help family caregivers look after their
loved ones. Take Guido, a "smart" walker developed by Carnegie
Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, that alerts
people to obstacles and can even help steer them away from potential
collisions. A private firm working with Carnegie Mellon and Pitt also
has designed a robotic wheelchair that can help people get in and out
of a vehicle by themselves, while saving thousands of dollars over the
cost of retrofitting vans with costly lift systems.
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/
article?AID=/20051213/NEWS/512130474 | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | December 12
Phishing scams have infected the Internet for more than a decade. Back
then, it was called "Web page spoofing." But they've reached
a critical mass over the past few months, reaching more people than
ever, using more fake Web pages than ever, and becoming so sophisticated
that even the good guys have a tough time telling fake Web pages from
authentic ones. ... The [National Cyber Forensics and Training Alliance]
is one of the few computer crime research outfits in the United States,
a collaboration of law enforcement officials, computer experts, private
enterprise and volunteer graduate school students from the University
of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University and Robert
Morris University. ... The good news is that the people chasing the
crooks are becoming more sophisticated, too. Many of them are based
in Pittsburgh.The cyber training alliance was assembled in 2002. It
shares office space with Digital PhishNet, a year-old team of national
cyber-experts culled from tech companies, Internet service providers,
the Secret Service, the FBI and the banking industry.The U.S. Defense
Department's Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center, or
CERT, makes its home at Carnegie Mellon.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05346/620954.stm | back to top
DefenseNews | December 12
It’s just an old, battered Humvee, a military surplus vehicle
bought from a farmer in Pennsylvania. But the truck sitting in the Pentagon
courtyard Dec. 6 might just represent the leading edge of futuristic
life-saving technology in which troops take a back seat to robotics.
The U.S. Defense Department has been taking baby steps in developing
robotic vehicles that could one day drive from places like Basra to
Tikrit in Iraq, and take the soldier, sailor, airman or Marine all but
out of the driver’s seat — and out of harm’s way.
The emerging concept was demonstrated in October in a race across the
Mojave Desert by unmanned ground vehicles using autonomous technology.
It was the second such event sponsored by the the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA), the Arlington, Va.-based research and development
arm of the Defense Department. The red Humvee that went on display at
the Pentagon was one of 23 vehicles that participated in the 132-mile
race in October. ... The Stanford University-engineered car was followed
by the red Humvee, Sandstorm, engineered by Carnegie Mellon
University.
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php/
?F=1403554&c=america&p=true | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | December 10
Carnegie Mellon University Professor Tsuhan
Chen spent the early part of the week in Taipei, Taiwan, showcasing
his ready-to-commercialize security technologies. Dr. Chen has developed
a software "toolbox" that, used with off-the-shelf security
or surveillance cameras, can provide a do-it-yourself blueprint to track
anything from cars in parking lots to home intruders. The second technology,
also developed in conjunction with his Taipei-based research partner,
Shiaw-Shian Yu, is a motion sensor, which by using an algorithm can
be trained to monitor and track the location of objects -- such as computers
or suitcases -- and notify the owner when they are misplaced or stolen.
Both technologies were developed last year at the Industrial Technology
Research Institute, a Taiwanese government-affiliated research center.
Dr. Chen said the technology is ready to be sold on the market, but
wouldn't say whether he'll launch his own company or license the technology
to another firm. "At this point, I'm leaving all options open,"
he said.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05344/620265.stm | back to top
Biotechnology
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | December 12
Sending an e-mail is a simple enough task for most computer users, but
it's not nearly so simple for the computer itself. E-mail software,
for instance, checks each message to see if errors have crept in during
transmission. Any human would find this standard Internet protocol to
be mind-numbingly repetitive and time-consuming, but the computer handles
it with such aplomb that users don't even notice. Now a researcher at
Carnegie Mellon University has borrowed this common protocol
and adapted it for use by biologists for analyzing the activity of thousands
of genes. Just as the original Internet protocol can tell a computer
that an e-mail contains a mistake so that it can be re-transmitted,
the method devised by Ziv Bar-Joseph can help biomedical
researchers sift through information on thousands of genes gathered
with a technology known as DNA microarrays. The method can help identify
where data might be missing or red-flag data that should be discarded.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05346/620856.stm | back to top
Environment
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | December 15
Pittsburgh's rivers aren't clean, officials acknowledge, but exactly
how dirty they are is anybody's guess. And not knowing how big a problem
that is can make it difficult to clean them up. For that reason, heath
and environmental experts are applauding Carnegie Mellon
University's new $1 million center designed to analyze the region's
water from an engineering standpoint and determine the most effective
way to use limited cleanup resources. ... It makes the perfect microcosm
to study urban water quality, said Dave Dzombak, a
civil and environmental engineering professor and co-head of the center.
"We're working on problems of national interest, but our findings
will be relevant to local regulatory issues," Dzombak said.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/regional/s_404186.html | back to top
Regional Impact
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | December 15
Getting a robot to move was a snap for Alan Fregoso. Getting it to make
a hamburger was trickier. "What was hard was getting it to do just
the right series of movements -- it took a lot of programming,"
said Fregoso, 16, a Fox Chapel Area High School junior and a member
of the school's Technology Student Association. ... The availability
of a robotics curriculum at Fox Chapel is no accident. Nor is it unusual,
either in the Pittsburgh area or across the country. "There is
a big push to grow the number of technologically literate kids,"
said Robin Schoop, director of the Robotics Institute
at Carnegie Mellon University and a technology education
teacher at Schenley High School in Squirrel Hill. In the past five years,
Schoop has helped about 50 Western Pennsylvania school districts develop
a robotics program. The Carnegie Mellon curriculum that he helped develop
is used in about 3,000 schools nationwide.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/tribeast/s_403771.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | December 12
Beelen Street dead-ends in an illegal dump, but for the sake of the
visionaries, don't look down. Turn around and look out. Wow. Downtown
is straight ahead. Just to the left is the Monongahela River. And just
beyond is the South Side and the Slopes. All that from a backwoods lane
that, on the map, hangs like a loose thread over the Boulevard of the
Allies. ... The Hill District never has been touted for its views, but
Find the Rivers! -- a collaboration of Hill District advocates, the
Riverlife Task Force and Carnegie Mellon University's
Urban Lab -- is out to change that.The vistas are just one piece of
the broader goal of patching the neighborhood back into the city quilt
and contributing to its economic rebirth.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/05346/621047.stm | back to top
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | December 11
Although Barbara Burstin grew up in a small New York
community unaware of and insulated from anti-Semitism, she has become
a respected Holocaust scholar and one of the foremost proponents of
the advancement of Jewish causes. Her award-winning 1989 book, "After
the Holocaust: The Migration of Polish Jews and Christians to Pittsburgh,"
was also the result of the dissertation for her doctorate in history
from the University of Pittsburgh. Burstin, who teaches history at both
the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University,
was recently elected chairwoman of the board of the United Jewish Federation
of Greater Pittsburgh. One of Western Pennsylvania's leading philanthropies,
the organization is dedicated to improving the quality of Jewish life,
nurturing Jewish learning, caring for those in need, rescuing Jews in
danger and insuring the continuity of Jewish people.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
entertainment/books/s_400298.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | December 9
Pittsburgh Brewing may be bankrupt, but it still has a brand name that
could put it back on its feet, beer industry and marketing experts said
yesterday. ...Many regional brewers have been muscled out of the market
in recent years, squeezed between large national and international brewers
and fast-growing microbreweries. A few of the victims have found a way
to compete and Pittsburgh Brewing, which filed for bankruptcy protection
Wednesday, may be able to do the same... Unlike City Brewing, Pittsburgh
Brewing has branded products that some brewer may want to add to its
portfolio, said Peter Boatwright, a Carnegie
Mellon University marketing professor. "Branding in the
beer industry is extremely important," Mr. Boatwright said. "When
people are buying beer, it's not simply the taste of the liquid they're
buying. They're getting emotion and image in addition to the content
of the bottle."Aluminum bottles introduced by Pittsburgh Brewing
in 2004 have added to the value of the brand.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05343/619655.stm | back to top
International News Stories
The Peninsula | December 15
Qatar will have its own cyber security response team to tackle threats
posed to Internet users and businesses in the country by hackers and
other criminals. A partnership to form the Qatar Computer Emergency
Response Team (Q-Cert) was signed recently between the Supreme Council
for Information and Communications Technology (ictQatar) and the Carnegie
Mellon Software Engineering Institute. ... "Carnegie Mellon,
and Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) specifically, has worked
with countries and organisations worldwide to increase their research
and development activities, as well as increase their knowledge and
experience in the protection of critical infrastructures," said
Richard D. Pethia, Director of the SEI's CERT Program
and interim team leader of Q-CERT. "We are pleased to partner with
Qatar and the Supreme Council to effectively manage ICT development
in Qatar."
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The Peninsula | December 12
DOHA: A group of eLearning experts, including Carnegie Mellon's
Chief Information Officer and a leader of its Open Learning Initiative
(OLI), Dr. Joel Smith, conducted a series of workshops
in collaboration with the University of Qatar this week. The workshops
were hosted by Dr. Ali Mohamed Abdoul Moneim Ali, director of the Office
of Faculty and Instructional Development at the University. Smith, along
with Candace Thille, Director of the OLI, Dr. Kenneth Koedinger,
head of the Pittsburgh Sciences of Learning Center, Dr. Richard
Scheines, Chair of Carnegie Mellon's Philosophy Department,
Dr. Steve Ritter, Vice President and Chief Research
Scientist of Carnegie Learning, and David Yaron, from the Chemistry
faculty at Carnegie Mellon, introduced to the group
the concepts and principles of using various forms of instructional
technology effectively in the classroom. “Using OLI in the classroom
is something like having a highly interactive, electronic textbook.
Some of the faculty we're working with here may be interested in a chapter
or two, while others may use the whole book," a press release quoted
Smith as saying.
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Gulf Times | December 12
Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (Carnegie MellonQ)
and Georgetown School of Foreign Service in Qatar (SFS-Q) yesterday
hosted a talk on investment banking by Bharanidharan Rajakumar of Lehman
Brothers in New York. Rajakumar offered Carnegie MellonQ and SFS-Q students
a look inside the world of investment banking and offered tips on how
to negotiate the job market after graduation. During his current visit
to Doha he will also conduct leadership training workshops for Qatar
Academy’s student council and sixth and seventh grade students.
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Deccan Herald | December 11
Students from three top educational institutions in Karnataka will benefit
from the Indo-US partnership in higher education and research. Indian
Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, Visvesvaraya Technological University
(VTU), Belgaum and Karnataka Regional Engineering College (REC), Surathkal,
are among several universities and institutions in India that are going
to avail guidance from faculties of top US universities. Twenty leading
US universities, including University of California (campuses at Berkeley
and San Diego), Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell
University, State University of New York at Buffalo, Harvard, Yale and
Princeton, have joined Amrita University, the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) and the Department of Science and Technology, Government
of India under the partnership to improve higher education and research
in India.
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Al Bawaba | December 9
Today Qatar Foundation and the universities at its Education City in
Doha are staging an exhibit in Abu Dhabi which is designed to attract
students to one of the Middle East’s premier educational locations.
Discover Education City highlights the programs of the five universities
in Education City. The exhibit has developed out of local and regional
student recruitment fairs attended over the past two years, and is now
embarking on a tour of major cities in the region. ... The new format
aims to promote the academic programs on offer and to recruit high-
caliber candidates from a targeted student applicant pool. Over the
next few months, the exhibit travels to a number of other destinations
in the region. Admissions officers from Virginia Commonwealth University
School of Arts in Qatar, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, Texas
A&M University at Qatar, Carnegie Mellon University
in Qatar and Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar
will be hosting the events. Each university offers programs that are
regarded as world leaders in their discipline, and the qualification
students will earn in Qatar is identical to that available from the
home campus.
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