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January
27, 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 20-26,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 293
references to the university in worldwide publications. Here is a sample.
Special Coverage: Team Develops Bio-medical
Tool
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | January 24
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 24
The New York Times (AP) | January 23
Special Coverage: Rankings
Forbes Magazine | January 20
National News Stories
U.S. News & World Report | January 30
The Chronicle of Higher Education | January
26
The Christian Science Monitor | January 25
The Philadelphia Inquirer | January 23
BusinessWeek | January 22
CBS News | January 21
CNN Money | January 20
Fast Company Magazine | January 2006
Student Experience
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | January 26
Daily Vanguard | January 24
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 23
Arts and Humanities
Indianapolis Star | January 26
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 25
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 24
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 23
Information Technology
San Jose Mercury News | January 25
Federal Computer Week | January 24
Inside Bay Area | January 23
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 21
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | January 24
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 24
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 22
International News Stories
CNET News | January 23
The Peninsula | January 23
SciDev.Net | January 20
The Financial Express | January 20
Bernama.com (Malaysian National News Agency)
| January 19
Channel News Asia | January 19
CNET News | January 18
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Special Coverage: Team Develops Bio-medical
Tool
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | January 24
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed
a new imaging technique that could give transplant surgeons a safer,
easier way to detect early stages of organ rejection. The method uses
magnetic resonance imaging to track immune cells in real time as they
begin to infiltrate transplanted organs -- one of the first signs of
rejection. "With this technique, we can detect the very, very early
stages of organ rejection in a non-invasive way," said Carnegie
Mellon biology professor Chien Ho, who directs the
Pittsburgh NMR Center for Biomedical Research in Oakland.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/pittsburgh/s_416539.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 24
During the first year after heart transplantation, patients endure about
20 biopsies -- procedures in which a catheter is threaded through a
groin or neck vein into the heart so that tiny pieces can be snipped
out and scrutinized for signs of rejection. But soon, new tests that
are far less intrusive and possibly more informative could reduce or
perhaps eliminate the need for invasive biopsies. Carnegie Mellon
University's Chien Ho and his colleagues at the Pittsburgh
NMR Center for Biomedical Research, which he directs, are reporting
this week on a method for using MRI scans to track rejection. The report
will be published in the online edition of Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/06024/643165.stm | back to top
The New York Times (AP) | January 23
Magnetic tracking of immune cells could one day offer a better way to
monitor organ transplants for rejection, researchers report. A research
team led by Chien Ho at Carnegie Mellon University found that they could
tag immune cells with iron oxide and then track the cells using magnetic
resonance imaging. Accumulation of immune cells in a transplanted organ
can indicate rejection. Ho and colleagues studied mice that had been
given heart transplants. Their findings are reported in Tuesday's issue
of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ***
This Associated Press article was picked up by more than 100 publications,
including The Washington Post, The Globe & Mail, Los Angeles Times,
San Jose Mercury News, New York Newsday, CBS News and ABC News, to name
a few.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/health/
AP-Organ-Rejection.html?_r= | back to top
Special Coverage: Rankings
Forbes Magazine | January 20
It wasn't so long ago when a highly connected campus was one where each
dorm room had its own phone line. But in order to remain competitive
in the 21st century, a college has to support wireless networking, provide
ultra high-speed connections to classrooms and even allow students to
take classes online. Today's students depend on technology to live,
work and play. And today's colleges have to provide high-tech tools
in order to attract the best applicants. This third annual edition of
The Princeton Review's Most Connected Campuses examines the technological
capabilities of the country's best schools and tells you which 25 campuses
are the closest to the cutting edge. *** Carnegie Mellon
ranked among The Princeton Review's Most Connected Campuses.
http://www.forbes.com/connected
| back to top
National News Stories
U.S. News & World Report | January 30
Get ready for higher rates on student loans. As part of the budget bill
now working its way through Congress, lawmakers plan to shave the deficit
by raising rates on federal student and parent loans. That gives anyone
with federal education debt until June 30 to consolidate loans and lock
in today's low rates. The move accelerates an inflationary spiral that
is already pushing the cost of a college degree up faster than wages
and prices. The typical four-year public university is charging $12,127
this year, up $751 from last year and more than $3,600 from 2000. ...
Still, says Bill Elliott, vice president for enrollment
at Carnegie Mellon University, students and parents
will simply have to bear the cost. "The cost of a degree is up,
but look at the returns," he says, such as higher salaries and
better jobs. "How can you afford not to get one?"
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/
biztech/articles/060130/30loans.htm | back to top
The Chronicle of Higher Education | January 26
Over the last three years, mainly in response to the two June 2003 landmark
U.S. Supreme Court rulings defining the limits of affirmative action,
colleges across the country have been concluding that they are in legal
jeopardy if they continue to offer some services or benefits solely
to minority students. As a result, the institutions have been abandoning
the use of race-exclusive eligibility criteria in determining who can
be awarded scholarships and fellowships or can participate in recruitment,
orientation, and academic-enrichment programs. ... Carnegie
Mellon had been operating a Summer Academy for Minority Scholars
to help black and Hispanic high-school students position themselves
to pursue a degree in science or engineering at top colleges. In 2004
Carnegie renamed the program the Summer Academy for Mathematics and
Science and opened it to students of any race or ethnicity, while retaining
the goal of using it to promote diversity. The program's enrollment
remained capped at 100. At last summer's camp, the first to operate
under the new criteria, about 15 percent of the students were either
white or Asian-American. William F. Elliott, the university's
vice president for enrollment, says the program remains committed to
diversifying the ranks of those entering science or engineering, but
"all kids who need a shot in order to expand this pipeline are
not necessarily a racial minority."
http://chronicle.com/daily/
2006/01/2006012601n.htm | back to top
The Christian Science Monitor | January 25
As members of Congress scramble to take cover amid a storm of corruption
scandals, professionals of all stripes have fresh reasons to question
whether the business-related gifts they give and receive are truly innocent.
... Hard and fast rules, however, tend to get blurry in international
business settings. Even Fortune 500 companies with laudably firm policies
have trouble in this area, says Peter Madsen, executive
director of the Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics and Political
Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
In Asian countries, for instance, refusing a gift is often considered
unthinkably rude. And in some less-developed nations, foreigners are
sometimes expected to "pay to play." "Relativism is rampant
... and when you're talking business, cultural relativism becomes a
really big problem," Mr. Madsen says. Multinational corporations,
he says, "engage in what we would call a bribe, although perhaps
elsewhere it's not [called that], but they do it nonetheless to get
the business. So there's all of this, what we would call, 'corruption
in government'.... But if you impose your values elsewhere, you're told
you're practicing cultural imperialism. So you can't win."
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/
0125/p13s01-lire.html | back to top
The Philadelphia Inquirer | January 23
Grant Coleman - convicted of voluntary manslaughter for fatally shooting
another man in 1999 - was released from prison Oct. 24 and sent to a
halfway house in North Philadelphia. Eighteen days later, he was shot
nine times as he sat in a white Nissan Maxima parked in his old South
Philadelphia neighborhood. Coleman was one of Philadelphia's 380 homicide
victims last year, when the rate of killing spiked. Coleman's death
also reflects another trend that is sometimes overlooked while the city
grapples with the jump in homicides: Increasing numbers of victims had
criminal pasts. More than 70 percent of those killed last year had been
arrested at least once, according to police statistics, and some were
hard-core street thugs. Two years earlier, the figure was 64 percent.
Of course, there were people with no criminal history who were killed
in robberies, through domestic abuse, as bystanders in shootings, and
in petty disputes. "When you have a real rash [of killings], it's
probably people outside the law," said Alfred Blumstein,
a professor and crime expert at Carnegie Mellon University
in Pittsburgh.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/
news/local/13689378.htm?template=
contentModules/printstory.jsp | back to top
BusinessWeek | January 22
The competition to get into the Carnegie Mellon University
Tepper School of Business in Pittsburgh got tougher last year. The average
GMAT score rose from 690 to 700. Now that applications are on the rise,
applicants are scrambling for advice on how stand out to the admissions
committee. Laurie Stewart is the executive director
of master's admissions at the Tepper School. She and second-year student
Mary Boone recently fielded questions from B-schools channel editor
Francesca Di Meglio and audience members about getting off the wait
list, why some students were rejected for unethical behavior, and how
to set the right tone in your essay.
http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/content/
jan2006/bs20060122_6435_bs037.htm | back to top
CBS News | January 21
By not negotiating that very first salary offer at the very first job,
an individual stands to lose more than $500,000 by age 60. But men are
more than four times as likely as women to negotiate a first salary,
according to research conducted by a pair of authors (Linda
Babcock, an economist at Carnegie Mellon University
and a leading scholar of negotiations, and Sara Laschever, a freelance
writer) who wrote a book entitled "Women Don't Ask." While
men compare negotiations to "winning a ballgame," women are
more likely to compare the process to "going to the dentist."
And many women are so grateful to be offered a job that they accept
what they are offered and don't negotiate their salaries. They also
fail to realize the market value of their work (women report salary
expectations between 3 and 32 percent lower than those of men for the
same jobs; men expect to earn 13 percent more than women during their
first year of full-time work and 32 percent more at their career peaks).
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/
2006/01/18/earlyshow/contributors/
raymartin/main1218766.shtml | back to top
CNN Money | January 20
Legg Mason's Bill Miller, one of Wall Street's most-watched stockpickers
and a major investor in Google, says the company's theoretical value
is far higher than current market prices. ... In May 2004, just after
Google announced plans to go public, Miller gathered about 10 people
at an SFI luncheon to discuss Google. Much of the talk was bearish,
on speculation competition would eventually undercut Google, said Joy
Covey, a former Amazon.com chief financial officer. Another topic at
the bull session was whether Google's users were "locked in"
to its model, the way customers of Microsoft's Windows operating system
are, said John Miller, an economist at Carnegie
Mellon University. "Suppose you do have the best search
engine. The big question is how sticky are the users," he said.
http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/20/
technology/miller_google.reut/ | back to top
Fast Company Magazine | January 2006
The best jobs to pursue today? Fast Company again draws on data from
the Bureau of Labor Statistics to compile a list of 25 great careers
for the years ahead. ... In the end, we arrived at the list you see
below. The outlook for each of these occupations should be bright. And
more generally, as demographic trends progress, prospects for skilled
and educated workers should only improve, notes Dr. Kevin Stolarick,
an assistant professor at the Information Systems Program at Carnegie
Mellon University and an expert on the Creative Class. As baby
boomers enter retirement starting this year, for example, employers
may be hard pressed to fill their positions; for every two people leaving
the workforce, only one new person is entering, Stolarick says. "You
can't spontaneously create a 21-year college graduate out of thin air,
South Korean cloning notwithstanding," he says.
http://www.fastcompany.com/articles/
2006/01/top-jobs-main.html | back to top
Student Experience
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | January 26
The number of international students attending colleges in Pennsylvania
and nationwide has declined for the second straight year, as the war
on terror makes it tougher for foreign students to get visas. Many students
are looking to other countries, some of which have stepped up recruitment
efforts. "The process is so cumbersome," said Chandra Lohani,
29, of New Delhi, India, a master's student at Carnegie Mellon
University, who waited more than two months for an interview at the
American consulate. "After 9/11, they increased the layers of scrutiny
so that it is a very daunting task." "If you're a student
doing this alone, it's a big hassle," said Vivek Nallur, 26, of
Bombay, also a master's student at Carnegie Mellon. "It's a maze."
... Foreign student advisers say the decrease in international students
harms national security because many of those who graduate from American
institutions become leaders in their own countries, making valuable
friends for America. "Whether we like it or not as Americans, we
are part of a world economy," said Lisa Krieg,
director of the Office of International Education at Carnegie Mellon.
"In my mind, we win by educating people in our country, by having
those people leave our country with positive and friendly relationships."
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/regional/s_417304.html | back to top
Daily Vanguard | January 24
Issues in an apartment or room can lead to a drop in grades, shelling
out the extra cash it takes to move, or even leaving school entirely.
With over 1,600 students living in campus housing, and many more sharing
apartments off campus, much of the student body is subject to potential
roommate conflict. ... Perhaps this attitude is put best by the student
life counselors at Carnegie Mellon University: "You
do not need to be friends with your roommate, but it helps to be friendly."
http://www.dailyvanguard.com/vnews/display.v/
ART/2006/01/24/43d5f7001c2c4 | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 23
Bringing back young professionals who started here is one way Pittsburgh
Musical Theatre helps create an entree into the profession for the next
generation. That includes the students PMT always casts from local colleges
and its own Rauh Conservatory. For "Saigon" it has also been
able to use Carnegie Mellon University students in
the key supporting roles of Thuy (Devin Llaw) and GiGi (Christine Lyons,
doing an especially moving job with "The Movie in My Mind").
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
06023/642585.stm | back to top
Arts and Humanities
Indianapolis Star | January 26
Guidant Corp. chose more money over less certainty of a quick sale by
finally grabbing the $27 billion takeover offer dangled by Boston Scientific
Corp. The Indianapolis maker of medical devices announced its decision
Wednesday, ending a fierce and dramatic bidding war between Boston Scientific
and Johnson & Johnson. ... Johnson & Johnson conceded defeat
Wednesday morning in its 13-month effort to buy the Indianapolis medical
device maker. Facing a midnight Tuesday deadline of responding to Boston
Scientific's $80 bid, Johnson & Johnson said it decided not to budge
from its final offer of $71 a share because "to do so would not
have been in the best interest of its shareholders." ... Robert
Dammon, a professor of finance at Carnegie Mellon
University's Tepper School of Business in Pittsburgh, said that in the
end, it appeared Johnson & Johnson "just wanted to avoid overpaying"
for Guidant. "I really have to give them credit for walking away,"
he said, citing studies of takeovers that show many don't pay off for
the winning bidder with higher returns on shares.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/
article?AID=/20060126/BUSINESS/
601260382/1003 | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 25
Daily we are bombarded with information -- aural, textual and visual
-- and the way it's received is as significant as the way it's presented.
In light of this, the development of a critical eye and ear is essential.
Such issues were addressed Saturday at Carnegie Museum of Art in "Whose
Truth Is It? An Examination of Photography and Creative Nonfiction,"
a program inspired by the current exhibition "Luke Swank: Modernist
Photographer." Lectures were presented by Howard Bossen, curator
of the exhibition and author of its accompanying book, who is professor
of journalism and adjunct curator of the Kresge Art Museum, Michigan
State University, and Lee Gutkind, founder and editor of the journal
Creative Nonfiction and professor of English, University of Pittsburgh.
The audience of about 50 then participated in a discussion moderated
by Judith Schachter, director of Carnegie Mellon
University's Center for the Arts in Society.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/06025/643589.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 24
Marilyn Taft Thomas will serve as the interim head
of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Music following
the departure of Alan Fletcher in March to the Aspen Music Festival.
Thomas ran the school from 1988 to 1996. She also will chair the search
committee to find a permanent replacement.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
06024/643075.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 23
The Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture is offering
programs for students in kindergarten through high school. The Saturday
Sequence, for students in grades 3 through 12, comprises 10 two-hour
classes on Saturday mornings beginning Feb. 4. This design-oriented
program teaches architecture in a studio environment and strives to
broaden students' views of what architecture is and what architects
do. Architecture Building Communities, which begins March 2, is a free
afterschool program for high school students, who will design a project
for a vacant lot in one of Pittsburgh's urban neighborhoods. Architecture
Building Communities provides awareness and development in architecture
and related professions, fosters design-based community engagement and
service, and encourages the academic pursuit of higher education.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
06023/642599.stm | back to top
Information Technology
San Jose Mercury News | January 25
The Defense Department is turning young Americans' fascination with
computer games into a serious training tool for soldiers, sailors, airmen
and Marines. ... Civilian agencies, such as the Secret Service and the
Department of Homeland Security, also are using video-game training
technology. Police and fire departments are interested. Shanna
Tellerman, a video game expert at Carnegie Mellon
University in Pittsburgh, is developing a program called "HAZMAT:
Hotzone" to teach New York firefighters how to handle hazardous
materials in the city's subways.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/
news/politics/13709754.htm | back to top
Federal Computer Week | January 24
So what's the big deal about Web cookies? It's just a data file locked
on to your computer, right? Privacy advocates and the Office of Management
and Budget don't think they are so innocent, and some people say cookies
are the gateway to greater privacy concerns. ... Privacy advocates often
do not oppose cookies, and they acknowledge their usefulness. However,
other privacy concerns remain. "Following the events of Sept. 11,
[2001], there is a common false belief that in order for America to
be safe, the public must give up its privacy," said Latanya
Sweeney in June 2005 before the Homeland Security Department's
Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee. "Our work suggests that
ubiquitous technologies...can be deployed while maintaining privacy,"
said Sweeney, an associate professor and the director of the Data Privacy
Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University.
http://www.fcw.com/article92045
-01-23-06-Print | back to top
Inside Bay Area | January 23
For more than two years, Diebold Election Systems Inc. has hit one political
or technical snag after another trying to reap more than $40 million
in voting-machine sales in California. Now only a collection of tiny
software files on Diebold's latest voting machines stand in the way
of those revenues and more. Last summer, a Finnish computer expert using
an agricultural device found he could rig the votes stored on Diebold's
memory cards and rewrite one of those files to cover his tracks. The
revelation posed a double problem for Diebold: Not only could its optical-scanning
voting machines be hacked, but state and federal rules for more than
a year have forbidden those files in voting machines. At issue in California
is a kind of software called interpreted code — bits of programming
akin to Java and HTML that are loaded and translated into computer instructions
on, or immediately before, Election Day. "If there is some way
to slip in interpreted code," said Carnegie Mellon
University computer scientist and voter-systems certifier Michael
Shamos, "then we have no way to control what the machine
is executing."
http://www.insidebayarea.com/
localnews/ci_3429140 | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 21
Google's decision to resist a Justice Department subpoena for data on
what people search for on the Web once again puts the company in a contrary
position to its biggest competitors. ... Why is Google willing to resist
the government while the other three companies are not? Perhaps because
it has the most to lose -- or at least probably perceives that it has
the most to lose, said Randy Pausch, a Carnegie
Mellon University professor. He suggests that the government
is not looking for specific evidence of a crime but is simply data mining,
in which it takes the data they get from the search engines and runs
it against other data obtained from other sources. ... "Evidence
is always more powerful when you have numbers to back [it]," says
Raul Valdes-Perez, chief executive officer and co-founder
of Squirrel Hill search engine company Vivismo. Without Google's results
in their data, the government's case is not comprehensive, he said.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/06021/641831.stm | back to top
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | January 24
Richard Green: Education: Bachelor's degree
in English from Pomona College, Claremont, Calif.; master's degree in
and doctorate in business from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Occupation: Professor at Carnegie Mellon University's
Tepper School of Business. Background: At the university since
1982 and head of Tepper School of Business' Ph.D. program since 2003;
president of the American Finance Association; editor of the Journal
of Finance from 2000 to 2003. Noteworthy: Won the 2005 TIAA-CREF
Paul A. Samuelson Award for outstanding scholarly writing on lifelong
financial security for an article he co-authored about money in the
mutual fund market. Quote: "I was very pleased. This has
been quite a visible paper. It's a very nice thing for our school."
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/
search/s_416472.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 24
Baby boomer culture is American culture, and it isn't going anywhere.
Unless it's in a Cadillac SUV blasting Led Zeppelin. Movies and television
are still dominated by boomers. ... "You're already seeing the
influence of aging baby boomers on TV," says David Shumway,
professor of literary and cultural studies at Carnegie Mellon
University. "CBS is the ratings leader, and through 'CSI' and other
shows it's really geared toward an older audience." In coming years
police shows will reach a saturation point, Mr. Shumway went on, but
networks will go after boomers with "similar kinds of familiar,
high-quality shows, with decent acting. Shows that are adult oriented,
with adult characters will continue to be very popular."
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
06024/643103.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 22
It's been a decade since Carnegie Mellon University
scored a $4.5 million windfall in royalties when the wildly popular
Lycos search engine was sold to a Massachusetts-based firm. But in the
years since Lycos, both Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh
continue to struggle to turn innovations in the laboratories into money-making
ideas for the private sector. They are improving, to be sure, but both
schools say they want to ramp up the pace even more. ... It's no easy
task, university officials say, to turn market-altering discoveries
into companies and jobs. Spinning top-notch research into the commercial
marketplace takes time, patience and a slow, steady change in the mind-set
of university researchers. But the numbers show there has been progress
in the 10 years since both universities made tech transfer a priority.
In the fiscal year that ended June 2004, Pitt spawned a record-breaking
10 start-ups and Carnegie Mellon delivered four, according to a report
released last fall by the Association of University Technology Managers
(AUTM). Later figures from Carnegie Mellon show it spawned eight start-ups
in its latest fiscal year, the most since the tech boom in the 1990s.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
06022/641812.stm | back to top
International News Stories
CNET News | January 23
Because less than a quarter of the country's 900,000 residents are native
Qataris, profits from the national oil company and its subsidies have
allowed the government to provide subsidised housing, medical care,
foreign education and other social amenities. ... Professional white-collar
jobs, meanwhile, are held mostly by English or American expatriates.
Locals who do get corporate jobs are often hired for political reasons,
some sources say. "A tribe of foreigners is educating the kids,
building the buildings, running the businesses," said Ben
Reilly, who teaches history courses at Carnegie Mellon
University in Qatar, including a US-Arab relations course with students
on both campuses attending lectures simultaneously over a video link.
http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/
0,39020415,39248521,00.htm | back to top
The Peninsula | January 23
he Jharkhand government is in talks to set up a branch of the US-based
Carnegie Mellon University in the state for intensifying
the technology thrust. State Chief Minister Arjun Munda on Saturday
met Carnegie University Information Technology dean Pradeep
Khosla in New Delhi to discuss plans for opening a branch in
Jharkhand. The first round of talks began in November last year when
Munda was in the US. The final round of talks is likely in May when
Munda visits the US. If the branch is set up, it will be the first of
its kind in India and will have a research center in various fields
including information technology, nano technology and bio-technology.
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_
news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=
India&month=January2006&file=World
_News20060123201.xml | back to top
SciDev.Net | January 20
Bernadine Dias, a Sri Lankan-born scientist based at
Carnegie Mellon University (Carnegie Mellon), United States,
admits she "wears many hats". Her main focus is robotics,
but she also devotes a lot of time promoting innovative ways of using
technology in poor communities. In 2004, Dias founded an initiative
called TechBridgeWorld to forge collaborations between Carnegie Mellon
and developing communities around the world, including poor neighborhoods
in the United States. Dias believes this kind of relationship benefits
both partners: university staff and students learn about the real needs
of the world's poor, while communities gain skills and access to technology.
Ongoing TechBridgeWorld projects are using technology to improve healthcare
in Haiti and to teach English in Ghana. And when Dias moved to Qatar
last year to teach in the robotics department of Carnegie Mellon in
Qatar, her university's recently launched local branch, she took TechBridgeWorld
with her.
http://www.scidev.net/gateways/index.cfm?
fuseaction=readitem&rgwid=2&item=Features&
itemid=495&language=1 | back to top
The Financial Express | January 20
The enormous computational power now available has led to a situation
where computers are routinely used to solve fundamental problems across
physical, chemical, biological, engineering, medical and social sciences.
There are any numbers of examples to drive home the point. As the following
examples show, many of these will be impossible without computers. ...
Against this background, it was interesting to hear eminent computer
scientists at the 'Tech Vista,' organised recently by Microsoft Research
(MSR), India. ... Professor Raj Reddy, founder-director
of the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University,
spoke about his 'Million Book Digital Library Project.' He outlined
the challenges of automated classification, machine translation, particularly
in Indian languages, natural language processing, speech, summarization
and 'mining' of large volumes of text to discover 'hidden patterns.'
http://fecolumnists.expressindia.com/
full_column.php?content_id=115045 | back to top
Bernama.com (Malaysian National News Agency)
| January 19
Malaysian students will be able to enrol for a master's degree program
in information technology management at the University of Malaya (UM)
following a new collaboration between the university and Carnegie
Mellon University's H. Heinz John III School of Public and
Management (USA). The signing of a memorandum of agreement (MoA) between
UM and Carnegie Mellon and a memorandum of understanding (MoU) and MoA
between UM and COMAT Academy were held at the UM Thursday.
http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/
v3/news.php?id=176487 | back to top
Channel News Asia | January 19
Qatar is preparing its future generations through education, and Minister
Mentor Lee Kuan Yew got a first hand glimpse into the institution that
is helping shape the country's leaders of tomorrow. Mr. Lee, accompanied
by Mrs. Lee, visited the Education City which is an eight-million square
metre cluster of learning and education facilities located in the outskirts
of Doha. It caters to all levels - kindergarten, primary and secondary
school education, tertiary education and a centre for special needs.
Post graduate courses will also be offered soon. The Qatar Foundation,
which was set up in 1995, runs the Education City which houses branch
campuses from some of the world's top universities. These include American
universities like Texas A&M, Carnegie Mellon and
Georgetown which offer a range of degrees.
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DOHA, Qatar--Hot winds from the Arabian Gulf whip recently planted palm
trees. A cab driver from Nigeria gets directions from a Pakistani security
guard. A forest of construction cranes groans to life. Nearby, sand
dunes stretch for miles. Welcome to the campus of Carnegie Mellon
University. A small country on the Arabian peninsula rich in natural
gas deposits, Qatar is pouring billions into colleges, business parks
and recruiting world experts who will, ideally, help it evolve from
a petrodollar nation governed through patronage and clan ties to an
energetic, self-sufficient member of the tech economy. ... One of the
most difficult challenges has been finding ways for students to learn
from other students, both academically and socially. "To put in
place the whole support system that works in tandem with the academic
program is a real tricky thing to do," said Bob Kail,
senior associate dean at Carnegie Mellon. To help rectify this, the
campuses are creating bilateral exchange programs and are bringing over
juniors and seniors as mentors. Furthermore, students at one Education
City university can take courses at others, which rounds out the curricula.
In all, Carnegie Mellon has 19 full-time faculty members based in Doha,
with eight more expected to join next year. Faculty members, of course,
get reassurances that the transfer won't affect their ability to conduct
research or obtain tenure.
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