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January
20, 2006
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 January 13-19,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 145
references to the university in worldwide publications. Here is a sample.
National News Stories
Reuters | January 18
The New York Times | January 15
InformationWeek | January 11
Popular Science | January 2006
Student Experience
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | January 18
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 15
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 19
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 15
The Orange County Register | January 15
The Baltimore Sun | January 13
Billings Gazette | January 13
CBS4 Boston | January 12
Entrepreneur Magazine | January 2006
Information Technology
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 18
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 14
Portland Business Journal | January 9
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 17
Pittsburgh Business Times | January 17
Pittsburgh Business Times | January 16
International News Stories
Gulf Times | January 18
Rediff.com | January 18
New Kerala (IANS) | January 14
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National News Stories
Reuters | January 18
Years would pass before the next Fed's big move: the December 1998 decision
to immediately announce shifts in its policy "bias" -- an
indication of which direction it thought interest rates might next head.
The explicit bias only lasted a year, after which the Fed decided to
offer an economic balance of risks. It brought its thinking even farther
into the public view in August 2003 with guidance on its likely policy
path. ... The Fed has used forward-looking language in each of its subsequent
policy statements, although now rates have risen to more-normal levels,
policy-makers have warned such guidance may soon need to be dropped.
Carnegie Mellon University professor Allan
Meltzer said while Greenspan did not lead the transparency
push, he deserves credit for following through. "He had to agree
to it and accept it and believe in it," Meltzer said.
http://today.reuters.com/business/newsarticle.
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The New York Times | January 15
It's sick, the way Americans think about illness. A disease like diabetes
gallops practically out of control, with estimates that 21 million Americans
have it and 45 million more could develop it. Yet relatively few people
worry about it or alter their behavior to postpone or possibly prevent
its onset. On the other hand, just the mention of flesh-eating disease,
a staph infection that affects maybe 1,500 Americans each year, is enough
to make many people anxious. And a news report on avian flu, which has
yet to affect anyone in the United States, generates calls to personal
physicians from patients eager to stock up on anti-flu drugs. Americans,
it seems, are always worrying about the wrong illnesses. ... In this
state, people approach health risks with the heart and with the head.
"We respond at an emotional level and at a more cerebral or cognitive
level," said George Loewenstein, a professor in
the department of social and decision sciences at Carnegie Mellon
University. "It often requires willpower to overcome the emotional
response." ... "You're never going to train people's emotional
systems to respond in a rational fashion," Dr. Loewenstein said.
You can only hope, he added, that their "cognitive capacity"
will moderate their emotional reactions.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/
weekinreview/15fount.html | back
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InformationWeek | January 11
The Sago Mine disaster in West Virginia is shining new light on the
use of search and rescue robots underground and in other disaster areas.
Carnegie Mellon University robotics professor William
"Red" Whittaker is one of several robotics experts
featured in a handful of U.S. news accounts highlighting the potential
for using technology for mine rescues. Whittaker, one of the top team
leaders at Defense Advanced Research Projects Ageny'sGrand Challenge
last fall, said there are no technology barriers to prevent the use
of subterranean robots for mine rescues. ... He pointed to the use of
robotics on bomb squads as an example of how similar technologies have
been deployed. Even more recently, Whittaker's team and others demonstrated
major advances in robots' ability to navigate an unknown course through
rugged terrain and avoid obstacles with the use of sensors and software.
Before that, robotics experts built a prototype called the Groundhog
that proved its ability to enter and map mines. Since then, they have
developed Cave Crawler, a newer and faster version and Ferret, which
can be lowered into narrow openings. Two more, Helix, and Minefish are
under development.
http://www.informationweek.com/hardware/
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Popular Science | January 2006
A fully-autonomous weaponized unmanned ground vehicle—one that
can distinguish enemy combatants or vehicles on its own and attack them
without direct human command—remains decades away, but analysts
are convinced that it will arrive. Such a vehicle will need to be able
to differentiate among friendly forces, enemy combatants, and civilians
with unquestionable reliability. It will also require the ability to
act from mission objectives, combat tactics, and all military protocols
and rules of engagement. A group at Carnegie Mellon
University is developing a platform for an unmanned vehicle, Spinner,
that could evolve into a weaponized tool. Now in testing, Spinner uses
long-travel suspension to negotiate brutal terrain. Other visions of
the Spinner can recover quickly if tossed upside-down—it will
simply push its wheels to what was the top of the vehicle, rotate its
gun to the bottom, and then drive off as if nothing had happened.
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/technology/
generaltechnology/f59ca60b2e948010vgnvc
m1000004eecbccdrcrd.html | back to top
Student Experience
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | January 18
PNC Bank notched a five-year agreement with Carnegie Mellon
University on Tuesday to provide a variety of banking services geared
to college students, their parents and faculty. Such services include
a customized Web site to open and manage accounts online and the ability
to set up student accounts into which parents can make deposits electronically.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 15
College freshman Kate Frankola has bid farewell to friends she made
at Carnegie Mellon University to return to a campus
where she spent four hours before fleeing Hurricane Katrina, Tulane
University. "I only had enough time to drop off my belongings and
then immediately evacuate," she said. Ms. Frankola, of Wilkins,
is one of thousands of college students from New Orleans who were forced
to scatter across the country, spending their fall semester at different
colleges and universities which opened their doors to take them in.
Many students are headed back to the Big Easy now that the schools they
fled are set to reopen. ... Carnegie Mellon admitted 26 students from
Tulane, the University of New Orleans and Loyola. ... [Associate Vice
President of Carnegie Mellon, Dr. Michael] Murphy said
one displaced student was likely to continue at Carnegie Mellon only
because his engineering program at Tulane had been eliminated.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
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Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 19
The College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon, which
has produced a successful artist or two or three, celebrates its 100th
anniversary with "100% Centennial," three floors of exhibitions
featuring the likes of Andy Warhol, Mel Bochner, Philip Pearlstein,
John Currin, Deborah Kass and Harvey Breverman. One floor will showcase
prominent alumni from various local collections; one will feature more
than 200 alumni from the schools of architecture, art, design, drama
and music; and a third will focus on "time-based and digitally
documented alumni works exhibited through projection and a searchable
database." The opening reception is 5 to 8 p.m. at the Regina Gouger
Miller Gallery, on the campus. It runs through March 5.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 15
A 1989 best seller, Amy Tan's breakthrough novel, "The Joy Luck
Club," was also a harbinger of the literature that would emerge
from a "third wave" of postwar immigration to America. While
the earlier protagonists created by Philip Roth or Saul Bellow honed
their ambitions toward assimilation and its material rewards, Tan's
characters -- mostly female and frequently the victims of the revolutionary
fervor that altered China -- responded to new realities by negotiating
between the past and the present in a complicated game of chance. Old
rituals and patterns such as ancestral fealty, codes of honor, or political
allegiances assumed new significance and meaning with each roll of the
dice. Tan's fifth novel is an ambitious one. Moving away from the dynamic
of mother-daughter relationships, she uses a group kidnapping to highlight
the political quagmire that characterizes contemporary Myanmar, formerly
Burma. ***This review was written by Sharon Dilworth,
a writer and professor of English at Carnegie Mellon.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
06015/637038.stm | back to top
The Orange County Register | January 15
Two years ago, Pennsylvania State University's liver-transplant program
was struggling. The number of surgeries was too low for Medicare certification.
Worse, patients were dying. Nationally, 89 percent of liver-transplant
patients are alive a year after surgery. At Hershey Medical Center,
from 2002 to early 2004, 55 percent survived one year. ... There is
still disagreement about whether regulators should certify small programs
such as those at UCI and Penn State. "The data pretty clearly shows
that larger centers did better than smaller centers," said Frederick
Rueter, an economist and Carnegie Mellon University
professor who has studied organ allocation policies. "There are
some exceptions, of course, (but) it's pretty clear that the larger
transplant programs have surgeons who have more opportunity to perform
transplants and have more proficiency (in) difficult surgeries."
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/
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The Baltimore Sun | January 13
On a single day this week, [Samuel A.] Alito [Jr.] was asked 49 questions
about his association with Concerned Alumni of Princeton, a now-defunct
conservative group that opposed efforts to admit more women and minorities
to the university. Alito had listed membership in the group on a 1985
job application. But this week he would only say, "I have no specific
recollection of joining the organization." The master of verbal
fogginess, though, was former President Bill Clinton, who said both
"It depends on what the meaning of the word is is," and "It
depends on how you define alone" during a single round of grand
jury testimony. Alito's elusive style is the product of an America that
is focused on generating media-friendly quotes, leaving little room
for going "off-message" for even a moment, says David
Kaufer, a professor of rhetoric at Carnegie Mellon
University. "Candor, and talking like a human being, doesn't seem
to have a lot of legs these days," he said. "No one wants
to look like they're fumbling. No one wants to wrestle with things in
public." Those who do, after all, can get in trouble. Sen. John
Kerry, in trying to explain his position on the war in Iraq, famously
said, "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against
it." That came back to haunt his campaign for president and was
used to depict him as flip-flopper.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bal-te.
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Billings Gazette | January 13
Electric utility deregulation, or "restructuring," has not
reduced rates for industrial consumers - the group it was most expected
to help - and in some cases created costs that raised prices, three
experts have concluded. "There is no evidence that the price or
rate of change of the price (for industrial consumers) has been any
different whether in restructured states or not," said Jay
Apt, professor of engineering and public policy at Carnegie
Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Apt and two other colleagues
at the Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center filed comments in
November with the federal government task force examining utility deregulation.
Apt, Lester Lave and Seth Blumsack
also wrote that any future restructuring efforts should halt for now.
Lave is an economics, engineering and public policy professor, and Blumsack
is an economist and researcher at the center. “No state that has
not undertaken (restructuring) should proceed at this point,”
Apt said Friday in an interview with the Gazette State Bureau. Among
other things, the 23-page report reviewed prices for industrial consumers
in the District of Columbia and the 19 states that passed deregulation
laws, including Montana.
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?tl=1&
display=rednews/2006/01/13/build/state/
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CBS4 Boston | January 12
We all get mad at times and most research shows it takes a toll on our
lives. But a new study shows it's OK to lose your cool every once in
awhile. One person describes one of those frustrating moments as, "situations
where I am required to wait unnecessarily or in traffic." "When
I answer my phone and it's a computer," adds another person. Telemarketers,
traffic, canceled flights ... the kids. They all can cause a surge of
adrenalin, and put our bodies into overdrive. "When you get really
mad, you also have really large cardiovascular responses," said
Dr. Jennifer Lerner, of Carnegie Mellon
University. So, can anger ever be a good thing? A new study found that
certain types of anger can be healthy in particular situations. "Anger
triggers a sense of certainty as well as a sense of control," says
Lerner, who just released new research on anger.
http://cbs4boston.com/specialreports/
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Entrepreneur Magazine | January 2006
It's not a new idea for corporations and universities to work together
on ideas. What's changing is how the country's design and engineering
schools are creating integrated product design programs that bring together
engineering, business and design students to facilitate the innovation
process. Student teams research markets, build prototypes and work out
design flaws--effectively creating one-stop R&D capacity for small
companies. ... Companies see potential in integrated product design
programs. Ford Motor Co. teamed with students at Carnegie Mellon
University, which now offers a master's degree in product development,
to design interior features for the Ford Escape SUV.
http://www.entrepreneur.com/Magazines/Copy_
of_MA_SegArticle/0,4453,325115,00.html | back to
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Information Technology
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 18
Like a closet stuffed with things you can't bear to part with -- the
disk drive, someday, was bound to run out of space. The "superparamagnetic
limit" is what industry insiders call it -- the digital brick wall
where a disk drive can fit no more tiny bits of data onto its surface.
Seagate Technology, the disk drive maker with a research operation in
the Strip District, this week offered a solution to the quagmire --
saving data vertically, rather than horizontally on a disk drive. ...
The technology, which analysts are labeling the future of data storage,
was on its way to being brushed aside when local operation chief Mark
Kryder suggested that his team of about 35 researchers tackle it in
1999. ... Mr. Kryder, a former Carnegie Mellon University
professor who had been recruited by Seagate a year before to head up
its local research and development facility, was convinced that perpendicular
recording had a future, buttressed by work that he and Carnegie Mellon colleague
Stan Charap had been doing. So he forged ahead to solve
the storage puzzle.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06018/639578.stm
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 14
Imagine a nifty little product that promises to better your golf swing
simply by analyzing your gait. The technology exists -- its working
title is the "portable wireless wearable posture tracking system"
and it was developed by Carnegie Mellon University's
very own assistant professor of robotics, Yoky Matsuoko.
But for now, it sits, waiting to be seized by some hungry tech company
or launched into its own start-up firm. Why? Because investors and companies
don't easily part with money for a technology that doesn't come with
a surefire guarantee that it actually works. But turning a promise such
as Dr. Matsuoko's technology into a prototype that can prove its worth
also costs money that is hard to come by. This week, the state helped,
pitching in $500,000 in matching grant money to the University of Pittsburgh
and Carnegie Mellon tech transfer offices that are charged with bringing
promising concepts to the marketplace.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
06014/637843.stm | back to top
Portland Business Journal | January 9
A media storm surrounding the White House's use of WebTrends Inc.'s
software has led some to fear that people visiting government Web sites
are being identified and tracked. That is not the case, said WebTrends
Vice President Jason Palmer. Government clients studiously avoid the
use of "cookies," computer files that can be used to track
the behavior of Web site users. Therefore, people who visit government
Web sites that use WebTrends technology cannot be tracked around the
Web, said Palmer. The controversy first arose last week, when news reports
revealed that the National Security Agency's Web site was placing cookies
on computers used to visit the site. Placing cookies is a violation
of federal policies on privacy and Web site use. Further news reports
stated that the White House was using Portland-based WebTrends' Web
analytics software to track the number of visits to www.whitehouse.gov.
A professor of ethics and privacy at Carnegie Mellon
University's CIO Institute, Larry Ponemon, was quoted
saying that the presence of commercial Internet tracking technology
on government agency sites was "worrisome," indicating that
"external parties may have too much latitude or control over key
technologies deployed within our government."
http://portland.bizjournals.com/portland/
stories/2006/01/09/story5.html | back to top
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 17
*** Click the link below to view pictures of Carnegie Mellon's
Celebrate the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. event. The story includes
pictures of sophomore voice major Chrystal E. Williams' performance
and the annual candlelight procession.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
06017/639177.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Business Times | January 17
The MacArthur Foundation has given Carnegie Mellon
University's department of engineering and public policy a five-year,
$2 million grant for a number of security-related research projects.
... Granger Morgan, head of the engineering and public
policy department said goals include improved communication among emergency
responders and how to involve the public in key decision making. Carnegie
Mellon was one of four research universities to receive funding from
the MacArthur Foundation, which granted nearly $8 million to Cornell,
Princeton and the Georgia Institute of Technology.
http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/
stories/2006/01/16/daily14.html | back
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Pittsburgh Business Times | January 16
In everything she does, Oditza Carrasco expects herself to give 110
percent. So, when she started Downtown-based 1st Vanguard Mortgage Co.
in 1999, she was surprised to find that this didn't hold true for her
employees as well."When I was an employee, I did above and beyond
my employer's expectations," she said. "Today, that's not
the case. People do only what is asked of them."And after losing
about 10 employees during each of the first few years that 1st Vanguard
was in business, Carrasco said she realized that she needed to do something
to better retain and motivate employees. ... "It helps to meet
business objectives, and it lowers turnover," said Chris
Allison, owner of Cheswick-based Upsight Management Consultants
and a teacher at the Entrepreneurial Leadership Forum at Carnegie
Mellon University's business school. "If people feel good
at what they are doing ... they will be high functioning."
http://www.bizjournals.com/bizwomen/pittsburgh/
content/story.html?story_id=1215453 | back to top
International News Stories
Gulf Times | January 18
A group of Internet experts, regulators and government representatives
from across the Middle East have come together to discuss developments
that affect the Internet community at a two-day RIPE NCC regional meeting
which began yesterday. The meeting is hosted by Qatar’s Supreme
Council of Information and Communication Technology, and sponsored by
Qtel with Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar and Qatar
Foundation acting as co-hosts. ... Carnegie Mellon in Qatar’s
strategic and technology development executive director John
Leong, who also spoke at the opening session, elaborated on
Carnegie Mellon’s contributions to the world of ICT.
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/
article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=69100&
version=1&template_id=36&parent_id=16
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Rediff.com | January 18
It is noon at the Hilton Towers, Mumbai. Seated in the hotel's cavernous
Lotus Room are a lot of men in suits. Middle and top level managers,
CEOs, students of business management and a number of journalists. They
wait, patiently, for the arrival of a man named Professor Vijay Govindarajan.
It is the launch of his latest book Ten Rules For Strategic Innovators
- From Idea To Execution, and they know he'll say something they can
take back and use. ... Within half an hour, he successfully runs through
the key ideas presented in his book, throws in a few case studies that
are terribly interesting, and comes up with little nuggets of wisdom
that make sense even to those who aren't currently at the helm of a
conglomerate. ... He rounds off by mentioning Dr. Raj Reddy,
Professor of Computer Science and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon
University, who intends to create something called PCtvt -- an 'Information
Appliance' for rural areas that illiterate people can use. "Imagine
its future," says Govindarajan. "That appliance may change
and make redundant everything from the electronics industry to America's
cable industry." It is a sobering thought. And the emphasis, again,
is on innovation.
http://inhome.rediff.com/money/2006/
jan/18guru.htm | back to top
New Kerala (IANS) | January 14
With the fourth largest reservoir of scientific manpower in the world
and numerous institutions engaged in frontier areas of research and
development (R&D), India is emerging as the preferred hub for knowledge-based
industries. Its skills in the knowledge economy are not restricted to
information and communication technology alone but spans agriculture,
defense, novel drug discovery, biotech, nano-technology, missile technology
and space. ... Even in the field of collaborative research, some new
trends are emerging. India's largest software company, Tata Consultancy
Services, for example, has collaboration with the Carnegie Mellon
University to investigate emerging trends in economics, management and
technology for the software industry.
http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?
action=fullnews&id=86407 | back to top
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