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February
3, 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 27 to February 2,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 304
references to the university in worldwide publications. Here is a sample.
Special Coverage: Carnegie Mellon Federal Reserve
Experts
International Herald Tribune (New York Times)
| January 31
The Christian Science Monitor | January 31
Web India 123 (UPI) | January 31
The Standard (Hong Kong) | January 31
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Czech Republic)
| January 31
The New York Times (AP) | January 30
The Kansas City Star | January 29
St. Louis Post-Dispatch | January 28
Special Coverage: Rankings
Financial Times | January 30
National News Stories
Bloomberg News | February 2
BusinessWeek | February 2
Manhattan Living Magazine | February 2
Popular Science | February 2006
San Jose Mercury News (Knight Ridder Newspapers)
| January 30
The Salt Lake Tribune | January 30
MSNBC (Reuters) | January 29
Arts and Humanities
Austin American-Statesman | January 30
Booth Newspapers | January 30
The Seattle Times | January 29
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 28
The Seattle Times | January 27
Information Technology
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | February 1
National Geographic News | January 27
Environment
The New York Times | January 27
Regional Impact
The Philadelphia Inquirer (AP) | February 2
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | February 2
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | February 2
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 30
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | January 29
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | January 29
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 28
International News Stories
The Brisbane Courier-Mail | February 1
The Australian | February 1
Al Bawaba | January 31
United Press International | January 30
Malaysia Star | January 29
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Special Coverage: Carnegie Mellon Federal Reserve
Experts
International Herald Tribune (New York Times)
| January 31
The important presidential nominee who was scheduled for a vote in the
U.S. Senate on Tuesday is widely regarded as brilliant, has ties to
Princeton University and, if confirmed as expected, will influence the
lives of Americans and people around the world for years to come. Judge
Samuel Alito Jr. for the U.S. Supreme Court? No, this is the other important
nominee - Ben Bernanke for chairman of the Federal Reserve. ... But
in Washington, he is barely on the radar screen. ... Allan Meltzer,
a professor of political economy and public policy at Carnegie
Mellon University, who is writing a history of the Federal
Reserve, felt similarly. "Bernanke is certainly every bit as important
as Alito," he said. Meltzer contended that the banking committee
gave Bernanke "a free ride" during his confirmation hearing,
which lasted only one day. During the session, Bernanke said continuity
with the Greenspan era would be his top priority. "I think they
could have pushed Bernanke a little bit more on the questions of how
he saw the job and what objectives he was going to pursue," Meltzer
said, including "how he thought about the problems of reconciling
full employment and low inflation - did he think the Fed had other responsibilities.
It seemed to me they really didn't lay many gloves on him."
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/
01/31/business/bernanke.php | back to top
The Christian Science Monitor | January 31
Under [Alan Greenspan's] leadership, the Fed has built up a reservoir
of public confidence - effectively a vault full of credibility on which
it can draw in future battles against inflation. ... A consensus now
exists on many elements of monetary policy - the role that central banks
can play by supplying more or less money to the economy. ... "The
way to get higher growth is to have lower inflation," says Allan
Meltzer, an economist and a historian of the Fed at Carnegie
Mellon University in Pittsburgh. "The success of the Fed
and the Bank of England has done much to convince people that that's
the way to go." ... Dr. Meltzer ranks one achievement as foremost:
giving proof "that the economy can have long expansions without
inflation." The 10-year period from March 1991 to March 2001 was
the US economy's longest recorded period of growth - and far longer
than any other peacetime expansion.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/
0131/p01s04-usec.html | back to top
Web India 123 (UPI) | January 31
The departure Tuesday of the long-serving Federal Reserve Chairman Alan
Greenspan leaves a distinct legacy on money supply, economists say.
... For example, the Volker-Greenspan stewardship of the Fed has shown
that monetary policy can defeat inflation, the newspaper said. It also
has demonstrated that popular confidence, or its lack, profoundly affects
inflation. ... The way to get higher growth is to have lower inflation,
says Allan Meltzer, an economist and a historian of
the Fed at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
The success of the Fed and the Bank of England has done much to convince
people that that's the way to go.
http://news.webindia123.com/news/
showdetails.asp?id=236208&cat=Business | back
to top
The Standard (Hong Kong) | January 31
When Ben Bernanke takes over at the Federal Reserve tomorrow, he will
be the first chairman in more than five decades who has not faced the
urgent task of lowering inflation. ... Allan Meltzer,
a Fed historian and economist who teaches at Carnegie Mellon
University in Pittsburgh, said the Fed should focus on keeping inflation
and unemployment low, and avoid the political risks of a bold macroeconomic
stabilization strategy. "There are all kinds of people who would
like the Fed to do everything," Meltzer said. "The sensible
thing to do is to remember to keep inflation low and maintain high employment."
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/
news_detail.asp?pp_cat=22&art_id=
11021&sid=6458266&con_type=1 | back to top
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Czech Republic)
| January 31
... [Alan] Greenspan's decision to cut interest rates in 1998 not only
helped protect Americans from the Asian-Russian currency crisis, but
also helped restore stability to those economies. That's according to
Allan Meltzer, a professor of economics at Carnegie
Mellon University in the eastern state of Pennsylvania. Meltzer
tells RFE/RL that the lower interest rates created a great demand for
goods in America, including imported goods, because companies and consumers
could afford to borrow money to pay for them. This, he says, rescued
a badly sagging world economy, particularly the Asian economy: "The
borrowing paid for the imports that the United States bought from countries
that were suffering from deep recessions and pulled them out of those
recessions," Meltzer said.
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/
2006/01/58A075C4-3077-4769-A854
-D9C6926BC8CB.html | back to top
The New York Times (AP) | January 30
[Ben] Bernanke was a popular choice as Fed chairman. On the day his
appointment was announced, stocks had their best close in roughly six
months; the Dow Jones industrial average rose nearly 170 points. But
the truth is that after 18 years with Alan Greenspan as Fed chair, the
Street is still fixated on the man. The American Enterprise Institute
hosted an event on Jan. 24 titled, ''What Will Greenspan's Departure
Mean?'' One topic of discussion: ''Will Federal Reserve policy change
under Bernanke, or has the Greenspan approach been hard-wired into the
Fed?'' Translation: Will it even matter that there's a new chairman?
''It's natural to be nervous about the transition,'' said Marvin
Goodfriend, professor of economics at Carnegie Mellon's
Tepper School of Business. ''It's the nature of the beast, when someone
has been terrifically successful at this job, like Alan Greenspan has
been, and has been in the job for a long time, you have to adapt to
a new style of leadership. But I don't personally believe there will
be much difference in the substance of the leadership.''
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/
business/AP-Bernanke-Wall-Street.html | back to top
The Kansas City Star | January 29
An era of economic thrills draws to a close Tuesday when Alan Greenspan
steps down as chairman of the Federal Reserve, five weeks short of his
80th birthday. ... Along the way, his handiwork touched every homeowner
who refinanced a mortgage, every pensioner sustained by a fixed income,
every worker with a steady paycheck who survived two mild recessions
and every investor confident enough to own stocks despite the market’s
1987 crash and new millennium tech meltdown. The Greenspan era will
be noted also for the 50 percent jump in the economy’s output
per person, said longtime Fed analyst Allan Meltzer,
whose first-volume history of the Fed carries an introduction by Greenspan.
"It's hard to find a period which was better," Meltzer said.
"Unemployment rates have been low. That's a real achievement, and
we owe that to the Greenspan Fed." ... Some credit Greenspan’s
combination of an academic mind and business world experience from two
decades as an economic consultant. "Alan probably knew more about
everything than I knew about anything," said Norman Robertson,
an adjunct professor of economics at Carnegie Mellon
University and a friend of Greenspan for more than 40 years.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/
kansascity/13737805.htm | back to top
St. Louis Post-Dispatch | January 28
In October 1987, Alan Greenspan hopped off a plane in Dallas and was
greeted with some grim news. The stock market had crashed. Not just
crashed, but posted its worst day on record, even more harsh than any
day in 1929. For the economist with the dark-rimmed glasses, it was
a defining moment. Greenspan, then just 10 weeks on the job as chairman
of the Federal Reserve, responded quickly. He aggressively slashed interest
rates. The economy kept its footing. ... Greenspan was not loved by
all. As his detractors are quick to point out, Greenspan will not step
away with a perfect record. His critics blame him for what they believe
is a housing bubble and for his role in the swelling budget deficit.
... Allan Meltzer, a Fed historian at Carnegie
Mellon University, adds that a Fed chairman doing his job will
inevitably make some enemies. "The fact that you have only these
minor criticisms is quite an achievement," he said.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/business/
stories.nsf/0/D9203276833DABF586257104
005E1A10?OpenDocument | back to top
Special Coverage: Rankings
Financial Times | January 30
As MBA applications and job opportunities are on the rise, the Financial
Times releases its 2006 Full-Time MBA Global rankings. The sighs of
relief at US business schools are almost audible these days. After four
years of disbelief, denial and despair, as recruiters turned their backs
on MBAs and the applicant pools dried up, most schools are convinced
the MBA market has stabilized. Indeed, the more optimistic believe that
good days are ahead. ***This article is part of the Financial Times'
annual Full-Time Global MBA rankings edition. Carnegie Mellon's
Tepper School's Full-Time program is ranked 41st this year.
http://news.ft.com/businesslife/mba
| back to top
National News Stories
Bloomberg News | February 2
The International Monetary Fund's loss of two of its biggest borrowers
last month has left the lender with a widening budget shortfall and
renewed questions about its role in the global economy. ... "This
should force the fund to ask what they are doing and what they should
be doing,'' said Allan Meltzer, a professor at Carnegie
Mellon University in Pittsburgh who led a 2000 U.S. congressional
commission that examined the IMF. "If it is just business as usual,
the fund will be becoming less relevant.''
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/
news?pid=10000086&sid=a9cXccq
YWDbQ&refer=news_index | back to top
BusinessWeek | February 2
Last November, Vinton G. Cerf wrote a letter of warning to Congress.
The legendary computer scientist, now a vice-president at Google, argued
that major telecom companies could take actions to jeopardize the future
of the Internet. The phone companies' networks that carry Net traffic
around the U.S. are much like the highway system. Cerf wrote that they
may begin setting up the equivalent of tollbooths and express lanes,
potentially discriminating against the traffic of other companies. Such
moves, Cerf warned, "would do great damage to the Internet as we
know it." Now, Cerf and his Net compatriots have new ammunition
to back up their fears. Documents filed with the Federal Communications
Commission show that Verizon Communications (VZ) is setting aside a
wide lane on its fiber-optic network for delivering its own television
service. According to Marvin Sirbu, an engineering
professor at Carnegie Mellon University who examined
the documents, more than 80% of Verizon's current capacity is earmarked
for carrying its service, while all other traffic jostles in the remainder.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/
content/feb2006/tc20060202_061809.htm | back to
top
Manhattan Living Magazine | February 2
No. 3—Orlando: The First “World’s Fair for Kids.”
Though Disney World naturally positions Orlando as a favorite family
destination, the first “World Fair for Kids” takes place
April 15th through the 23rd at the Orange County Convention Center.
Quasi, an intelligent robot for kids created by Carnegie Mellon
University, is the official mascot. Guests will be invited to check
out the latest in virtual video sports games and at least nine Guinness
World Record attempts will be made.
http://www.manhattanlivingmag.com/
viewcolumn.cfm?colid=7464 | back to top
Popular Science | February 2006
When we catch up with the robot, it is poking along in a herky-jerky
and rather flummoxed fashion through the Atacama Desert, which covers
much of far northern Chile. The Atacama is reputedly the driest place
on Earth, with rainfall measured in millimeters per decade. It is a
rough place for man or robot, a tawny maze of high plateaus and shaley
foothills under constant sun and an enormous cobalt-blue sky. And so
here is where a group of engineers from Carnegie Mellon
University have come to test their creation, a six-and-a-half-foot-long,
440-pound robot built to detect life in seemingly lifeless environments.
The robot features a cutting-edge system for identifying organic molecules,
but it looks less than high-tech, more like a robotic patio table built
with spare bicycle parts. And although its knobby wheels can soak up
flat terrain at a brisk human walking clip, right now it’s in
trouble. "Ah, that’s the angle of refusal," says Carnegie
Mellon roboticist David Wettergreen. The robot—named
Zoë, the Greek word for "life"—had been making
its way up a steep ridge, but suddenly its navigation software called
for a complete stop. Zoë is stranded on an impassable slope of
rock and sandy dirt. A discreet 100 yards away, two young engineers
are sitting in the cab of their 4x4 tapping away at Dell laptops, accessing
Zoë’s sensing software over a shared wireless network. On
their screens, they see the world as the robot does, a field of black,
white and gray tones; the whiter the terrain, the steeper, the higher—the
better to avoid. There is a lot of white.
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/aviationspace/
8b6909cdd1919010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html | back
to top
San Jose Mercury News (Knight Ridder Newspapers)
| January 30
Ever chuckle when a friend orders diet - not regular - soda with his
or her greasy burger and fries? Hold the smirk a minute, researchers
say. They claim that a powerful behavior called "licensing"
is at work. It occurs when people allow themselves to indulge by doing
something positive first. So at the burger joint, having a diet soda
makes the meal's calories and cholesterol seem OK. ... Licensing isn't
limited to food, as Dhar and fellow researcher Uzma Khan,
a business school professor at Carnegie Mellon University
in Pittsburgh, demonstrated in an experiment last September. They first
asked some participants in their study to select from a list a charity
organization for which they'd willingly volunteer three hours a week.
Later, these people - and participants who hadn't been asked to volunteer
- were asked whether they'd buy designer jeans or an identically priced
vacuum cleaner, assuming that they had enough money to buy only one.
Result: Those who'd first committed themselves to volunteer were twice
as likely to go for the jeans. Having seen themselves as generous, they
allowed themselves to be selfish, according to Dhar. "The general
idea is that choices signal the kind of person you are."
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/
news/politics/13749591.htm | back to top
The Salt Lake Tribune | January 30
The state of economic policy is bright, but there are some storm clouds
on the horizon. The challenge for President Bush on Tuesday night is
to communicate two messages: First, the success story of his economic
stewardship; second, the blunt reality that without further action to
strengthen and deepen his agenda, our prosperity gains could be reversed.
... One tax provision that deserves particular attention from the president
is the death tax, which under current law will be repealed in 2010,
but only for one year before, perversely, being hiked all the way back
up to 55 percent in 2011. The death tax is fiscally irrelevant, raising
about 1 percent of federal revenue, and a recent study by Carnegie
Mellon University professors found that repeal would actually
increase federal revenues, through dynamic growth effects. The tax is
economically destructive, destroying hundreds of thousands of jobs and
forcing many family-owned businesses and farms to be broken up.
http://www.sltrib.com/
opinion/ci_3455436 | back to top
MSNBC (Reuters) | January 29
Paul Wolfowitz is sending shock waves through the World Bank as he begins
exerting his influence—starting with a crackdown on corruption—less
than a year after arriving from the Pentagon with a reputation as a
neoconservative ideologue. Wolfowitz's nomination by President Bush
to head the world’s largest development lender was controversial
from the start because of his role as an architect of the Iraq war.
Eight months into his tenure, critics, including veteran bank officials
who have left in an exodus of managers, say Wolfowitz has centralized
his authority through an inner circle of advisors mostly from the Pentagon
and White House. ... Allan Meltzer, a political economy
professor at Carnegie Mellon University who headed
a 1999 U.S. commission that examined reforms in the World Bank and International
Monetary Fund, said Wolfowitz invited problems because of his management
style. Wolfowitz “has appointed a lot of people at the top of
the bank to work with him and they are all Americans,” said Meltzer.
“One doesn’t have to be aware of foreign affairs to know
that Americans are not the most popular people in the world, especially
in running things.”
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11072385/
| back to top
Arts and Humanities
Austin American-Statesman | January 30
One of [M3 Design Inc.'s] advantages, [founder Terry] Branson said,
is its ability to put a whole team on a single project. ... It's an
approach backed by some leading design schools, including Carnegie
Mellon University, which offers integrated product development
courses. "We have an approach here to combine business, design
and engineering," said Bruce Hanington, chairman
of the Pittsburgh-based school's industrial design program. "That's
not to say that's the way all businesses should practice. There are
ideal situations, and then there's what actually happens."
http://www.statesman.com/business/content/
business/stories/technology/01/30M3.html | back
to top
Booth Newspapers | January 30
First of all, it's not the Steelers, it's the Stillers. And if you're
going to order an Iron City beer, you'd better pronounce it Ahrn City
or you'll get a funny look. Welcome to Pittsburgh, the nation's largest
inland port and a city with its own language. "It's Pittsburghese,"
said Gerald Costanzo, professor of English at Pittsburgh's
Carnegie Mellon University. Costanzo was born and raised
in Oregon, but moved to Pittsburgh 36 years ago when he joined the university
and soon founded the Carnegie Mellon University Press. Costanzo, 60,
doesn't speak Pittsburghese. "The only people who speak it are
the people who are born here. I can't tell you why," Costanzo said.
"You don't pick it up, you're amused by it."
http://www.mlive.com/sports/statewide/index.ssf?/
base/sports-0/113854920355000.xml&coll=1 | back
to top
The Seattle Times | January 29
It's the rivers — and the city's green hills and parks —
that hold the imagination of Pittsburghers after they've moved away.
Many long to return, and they maintain deep connections to the city
even after decades away. Barbara Johnstone recently
encountered the intense nostalgia many exiles feel. She's a linguist
at Carnegie Mellon University, studying Pittsburghese,
a collection of colloquialisms that reflect the city's European heritage
and near-Appalachian location. ... In Pittsburghese, "you"
is yinz. "Up there" sounds like up-air. The Steelers sound
like Stillers. And if confronted by obnoxious Seahawks fans in Detroit,
a Yinzer (Pittsburgher) is likely to threaten them with a good beat-down
n'at (and that). Since the playoffs started, Johnstone's e-mail has
been flooded with messages from former residents who found her Web site
and wanted to reminisce.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/
nationworld/2002769185_
pittsburgh29m.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 28
It is 1901 in the British town of Loxford, and pillars of local society
are looking for a Queen of the May. The schoolmarm, the vicar, the mayor
and the constable suggest candidates to the autocratic Lady Billows,
but the Lady's maid has researched each one and found her wanting in
virtue. In desperation they choose a King of the May: a shy mama's boy
named Albert Herring, who promptly uses his prize money to spend a boozy,
sex-filled night on the town. This is the premise of Benjamin Britten's
comic masterpiece, "Albert Herring," revived this week by
Carnegie Mellon opera students in the splendid little
Chosky Theater in the Purnell Center.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
06028/645710.stm | back to top
The Seattle Times | January 27
Don't get me wrong. I love Seattle. And I grew up with the Seahawks.
Their franchise started in 1976 when I was 10 years old. Naturally,
the peak year of my devotion to the Seahawks was 1983 — the season
during which the Seahawks made it to the AFC Championship. That fall
I watched every game from a chair next to my father's hospital bed.
My father, Bill Newman, died of leukemia that December at the age of
40. A few weeks later, the Seahawks lost the AFC Championship to the
Oakland Raiders. I abandoned the Seahawks for grief, for college, for
graduate school, and, eventually, for the Pittsburgh Steelers. *** This
article was written by Kathy M. Newman, an English
professor at Carnegie Mellon and author of "Radio
Active: Advertising and Consumer Activism."
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/
opinion/2002764400_pittsburgh27.html | back to top
Information Technology
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | February 1
For the second time in less than a week, Allegheny County's Board of
Elections has delayed a final decision on buying thousands of touch-screen
voting machines. Board members had a deadline of yesterday to approve
a contract with Diebold Inc. of North Canton, Ohio, for 5,600 touch-screen
machines at a discounted price of $11.9 million. But the company has
granted an extension until Tuesday. ... David A. Eckhardt,
a lecturer in the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon,
said there still are many questions about the reliability of software
used by touch-screen computer machines. "Voters should not place
confidence in unknown software," he said.
He told board members that, in California, Diebold installed new software
on some machines that was never certified by state officials.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
06032/647602.stm | back to top
National Geographic News | January 27
Robots and virtual reality are being touted as 21st-century coal-mine
canaries in the wake of this month's U.S. mining deaths. In the 19th
century, underground coal miners carried canaries down into the shafts
as their first line of defense against poisonous gases. If the birds
keeled over, the miners evacuated. But the practice wasn't failsafe.
Thousands of miners died each year. ... Can cutting edge technologies,
from robotics to virtual reality training equipment, save more lives?
Several experts believe the answer is yes. ... William "Red"
Whittaker, a robotics professor at the Carnegie Mellon
University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, said he hopes the current outcry
will lead to further use of robots. "I know of no other single
technology that holds as much promise to transform the capacity for
mine response and rescue," Whittaker said.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/
2006/01/0127_0601227_mines.html | back to top
Environment
The New York Times | January 27
Last week, Maine became the first state to require manufacturers of
computer monitors and televisions to pay for their recycling and disposal.
Washington, with a pending bill, may be next. That's progress, right?
Computer recycling sounds like an unmitigated good: it keeps hazardous
components out of incinerators and landfills, which researchers at Carnegie
Mellon University estimate already hold more than 60 million
computers. And by reusing glass, plastic, aluminum and heavy metals
(like lead, copper and mercury), recycling averts the energy use and
pollution linked with mining and drilling for new materials. But because
recycling in the United States is expensive, hazardous and encumbered
with environmental and safety regulations, many companies that collect
e-waste simply ship it to underdeveloped nations. According to the Silicon
Valley Toxics Coalition and the Basel Action Network, up to 80 percent
of the material dropped off by well-meaning Americans at community recycling
events ends up bundled for export.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/27/
opinion/27royte.html?_r=1&oref=slogin | back
to top
Regional Impact
The Philadelphia Inquirer (AP) | February 2
The Super Bowl gives Pittsburgh more than just a chance for its Steelers
to bring home a fifth championship ring. It also gives the city the
opportunity to try to change its image. "You're telling the rest
of the world this is not the smoky steel town of 30 years ago,"
Mayor Bob O'Connor said. ... "When you think of Seattle, you think
of Starbucks or Microsoft. But when people think of Pittsburgh, would
they say, 'Carnegie Mellon University,' the center
of the universe for robotics right now?," said Mike Langley, chief
executive officer of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development.
"It's amazing what you find here and it's a story that needs to
be told."
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/
news/breaking_news/13772819.htm | back to top
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | February 2
A group of 16 individuals and companies are winners of 2006 Carnegie
Science Center Awards for Excellence. The annual awards, which recognize
achievements and technology, will be presented May 3 at Carnegie Music
Hall in Oakland. Winner of the Chairman's Award is the McGowan Institute
for Regenerative Medicine, based on the South Side. Among other winners
from business and health-care industries are: Advanced Manufacturing
& Materials, John J. Craig and F. Gary Kovac, Supply Systems, Inc.;
Catalyst: Red Whittaker, Robotics Institute, Carnegie
Mellon University; Corporate Innovation, Vocollect; Entrepreneur,
Lawrence Rhoades, The Ex One Co.; Information Technology, Raul
Valdes-Perez, Vivisimo, Inc.; Life Sciences, Savio L-Y. Woo,
Musculoskeletal Research Center, Department of Bioengineering, University
of Pittsburgh; Media, Bayer Corp.; and Start-up Entrepreneur, Richard
D. McCullough, Carnegie Mellon University and Plextronics Inc.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/newssummary/s_419662.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | February 2
Biomedical researchers in Pennsylvania soon could have better labs and
new equipment, but at the expense of decreased funding for clinical
trials, travel and other non-capital expenses. It's worth the trade-off
because quality labs would draw higher-level scientists and more research
grants to the state, Gov. Ed Rendell said yesterday at a press conference
to introduce his proposal to shift state funding for bioscience. ...
Supporters of Mr. Rendell's plan say it would will help Pennsylvania
researchers advance nanotechnology, medical devices, robotic surgery,
regenerative medicine, cancer treatment, autism therapies and more.
"This kind of accelerated funding ... is a creative new way to
advance technologies that can make such a difference in the lives of
Pennsylvanians," said Tim McNulty, special assistant
to the provost at Carnegie Mellon University.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
06033/648236.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 30
Everyone knows that violence in America rises on a surge of testosterone
when boys become teenagers, peaks in their early 20s and then declines.
But everyone is wrong, says Daniel Nagin, a criminologist
and professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Violence
actually peaks much earlier. "If you shift your attention away
from criminal violence and instead think about physical aggression --
using force or the threat of force to get what you want -- who do you
think are the most physically aggressive people in the world? "It's
2-to-3-year-olds, and there's a lot of evidence to support this."
Most people don't know this because toddlers can't cause much harm and
because the vast majority of children soon learn to control their physical
aggression, which declines steadily for the rest of their lives, Dr.
Nagin said.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
06030/646562.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | January 29
Pittsburgh and Seattle have had little to do with each other since Meriwether
Lewis shoved off into the Ohio River in 1803 to pick up William Clark
and Sacagawea near St. Louis and find a route to the Pacific Northwest.
OK, bad example. They didn't go to Seattle. There was no Seattle. Truth
is, it's difficult to compare the hometowns of the Steelers and the
Seahawks - other than a mutual unfamiliarity with sunshine. ... Seattle
has Microsoft, the global software behemoth and source of some of the
millions co-founder Paul Allen used to buy the Seahawks. But Pittsburgh
has Scott Fahlman, a research professor at
Carnegie Mellon University. Fahlman's field is artificial intelligence,
and his current project, called Scone, involves teaching computer networks
to have common sense.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | January 29
If lawmakers overhaul Pennsylvania's property tax system this year -
as they say they want to - your age, income and shopping habits could
determine whether you pay less or more. ... Supporters of a sales tax
hike say that unlike other types of taxes, everyone pays sales taxes.
Elderly people, for example, get breaks on their property and income
taxes, but they have to pay sales taxes. "If you increase the sales
tax ... everybody would be taxed," said Robert Strauss,
an economist at Carnegie Mellon University.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 28
Tech monster Google Inc., which is becoming more ubiquitous as each
day passes, is said to be close to inking a deal to set up its local
shop in Oakland's Co-Lab, the plush office and lab space at the edge
of Carnegie Mellon University's campus that also houses Apple and Intel.
... A slew of electronics firms have joined forces with about 60 faculty
members at Carnegie Mellon University's Data Storage
Systems Center this week to collaborate on a variety of projects designed
to help the data storage industry create nanometer-scale technology
that ultimately will lead to fast, low-cost and compact information
storage devices. The participating companies include Tokyo-based Fujitsu
and Alps Electric Co. Ltd., and Lake Forest, Calif.-based Western Digital
and San Jose, Calif-based Quantum Corp. And speaking of Carnegie Mellon, technology
cultivated there is expected to generate a record 16 start-ups this
year, university sources said yesterday. Carnegie Mellon already has spun off eight
companies this year.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
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International News Stories
The Brisbane Courier-Mail | February 1
The start of the new academic year will be marked by some significant
private players entering Australia's tertiary education market. Two
of the institutions have been founded by Brisbane entrepreneurs. Sarina
Russo, working in partnership with north Queensland's James Cook University,
is opening JCU Brisbane while James Power is realising a 20-year ambition
as the founder of Australia's first dedicated liberal arts college,
Campion College in Sydney. Other new institutions about to open include
the Sydney Campus of Notre Dame University and the Adelaide campus of
the US-based university, Carnegie Mellon. If the new
players live up to what they promise, their institutions will bring
diversity and competition to the tertiary sector. Many universities,
for example, have all but abandoned intense study of the classics, and
a vibrant liberal arts sector offering such opportunities should succeed.
http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/
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The Australian | February 1
A British university is seeking accreditation to offer its degrees in
Australia, the second foreign university to take advantage of the federal
Government's moves to open up competition in the higher education market.
"The precedent of Carnegie Mellon will have come
to the attention of overseas higher education providers," according
to education consultant David Phillips. "I would expect to see
more private higher education providers in Australia and more international
providers entering the Australian marketplace."
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/
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Al Bawaba | January 31
Qatar is championing industry-based R&D in its drive to establish
a knowledge economy in the Middle East. Speaking at the “Enriching
the Middle East’s Economic Future” conference in Doha yesterday,
Qatar Science & Technology Park laid out its strategy of attracting
companies to Qatar to develop their technology, and helping entrepreneurs
to launch new technology businesses. ... Companies are being attracted
to the science park by free-trade zone incentives such as tax breaks
and full ownership rights, as well as links with universities. As part
of the renowned Qatar Foundation, its neighbours include campuses of
Carnegie Mellon, Weill Cornell, Georgetown and Texas
A&M universities, plus a planned billion-dollar teaching and research
hospital. Qatar Science & Technology Park is designed to link the
research efforts of these institutes with industry, and to provide jobs
for their growing pipeline of students.
http://www.albawaba.com/en/
countries/Qatar/194137 | back to top
United Press International | January 30
Pennsylvania researchers say they've determined why people enjoy live
television: They like the sense of indeterminacy, especially in sporting
events. The appeal of indeterminacy is so strong, sports play is usually
suspended during commercial breaks so viewers may watch the action as
it unfolds. "Indeterminate consumption experiences (such as watching
sports competitions live on television) unfold in ways that are not
decided before the event occurs," explains Joachim Vosgerau
of Carnegie Mellon University and colleagues. Indeterminacy
is the unplanned part of the show -- it's the "Live" part
of "Saturday Night Live," said Vosgerau.
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php
?StoryID=20060130-045654-6495r | back to top
Malaysia Star | January 29
Through a joint effort between Carnegie Mellon University’s
H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management in the United
States, and University Malaya, students in Malaysia will be able to
enroll in a Carnegie Mellon master's degree program in information technology
management. The Master of Science in Information Technology, Managing
Systems Development (MSIT-MSD) degree is designed to meet the demand
of employers and employees for modern technical management skills. The
degree offered in Kuala Lumpur is the same one received by Carnegie
Mellon students at the Pittsburgh campus. Students in the program will
be registered as Carnegie Mellon students.
http://thestar.com.my/education/
story.asp?file=/2006/1/29/education/
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