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February
10, 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 February 3 to 9,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 228
references to the university in worldwide publications. Here is a sample.
National News Stories
The Christian Science Monitor | February 9
The New York Times (AP) | February 6
The New York Times | February 6
Inside Higher Ed | February 6
American Enterprise Institute | February 6
ABC News | February 3
Seattle Post-Intellingencer | February 3
Student Experience
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | February 7
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | February 5
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | February 4
Information Technology
ComputerWorld | February 6
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | February 5
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | February 9
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | February 9
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | February 5
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | February 4
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | February 4
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | February 3
International News Stories
Taipei Times (NY Times News Service) | February
9
The Peninsula | February 8
The Adelaide Advertiser | February 7
The Peninsula | February 4
The Financial Times | February 3
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National News Stories
The Christian Science Monitor | February 9
The U.S. government is developing a massive computer system that can
collect huge amounts of data and, by linking far-flung information from
blogs and e-mail to government records and intelligence reports, search
for patterns of terrorist activity. ... "It isn't a bad idea, but
you have to do it in a way that demonstrates its utility - and with
provable privacy protection," says Latanya Sweeney,
founder of the Data Privacy Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon
University. But since speaking on privacy at the 2004 DHS workshop,
she now doubts the department is building privacy into ADVISE. "At
this point, ADVISE has no funding for privacy technology." She
cites a recent request for proposal by the Office of Naval Research
on behalf of DHS. Although it doesn't mention ADVISE by name, the proposal
outlines data-technology research that meshes closely with technology
cited in ADVISE documents. Neither the proposal - nor any other she
has seen - provides any funding for provable privacy technology, she
adds.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/
0209/p01s02-uspo.html | back to top
The New York Times (AP) | February 6
For a moment anyway, Pittsburgh can forget the tough times. The Steelers'
Super Bowl victory has made Pittsburgh a city of champions once again,
and the region's political and economic leaders hope to capitalize.
... 'There's just a lot of facts that people don't have about Pittsburgh,''
said Mike Langley, chief executive officer of the Allegheny Conference
on Community Development. Leaders list the city's higher education institutes,
including the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon
University, its affordable housing, low crime rate, prominence in health
care, biotechnology and robotics along with its arts and cultural offerings
as positives.
http://nytimes.com/aponline/sports/
AP-FBN-Pittsburgh-Celebrates.html | back to top
The New York Times | February 6
What if the Chinese authorities didn't simply force Google to exclude
sites like hrw.org (the Human Rights Watch Web site) and lesbian.com
from the Chinese version of its search engine results, or insist that
Yahoo hop to whenever the government fancied the identity of one of
its e-mail users, as the authorities have done? ... Clusty.com, a search
site developed by several Carnegie Mellon computer
scientists, is another. Clusty proudly states that it "never censors
search results" or excludes material "that would be objectionable
to governments or would be unlawful in unelected, nondemocratic regimes."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/
02/06/technology/06link.html | back to top
Inside Higher Ed | February 6
The meetings of the Secretary of Education’s Commission on the
Future of Higher Education tend to make one’s head hurt. That’s
not a commentary on the quality of the ideas expressed (which, as for
any committee of its type, run the gamut) but of their volume. ... Joel
M. Smith, vice provost and chief information officer at
Carnegie Mellon University, appeared with [MIT's Dan] Magnanti
and David Wiley, an assistant professor at the Center for Open and Sustainable
Learning at Utah State University, on a panel about innovative teaching
and learning strategies. He argued that electronic methods of delivering
education can improve teaching and learning, but only if current e-learning
methods are changed to make better use of teaching and learning techniques
that have been proven effective by cognitive scientists. “We make
shockingly little use of what is in fact the best information available
to improve education: scientific results from research studies in the
learning sciences,” said Smith, who offered Carnegie Mellon’s
Open Learning Initiative, sponsored by the William and Flora Hewlett
Foundation, as an example of online instruction that can and has been
proven, through scientific study, to work.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/
2006/02/06/commission
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American Enterprise Institute | February 6
In July 2005, the world applauded a promise by the Group of Eight (G-8)
nations to forgive the debt of the globe’s poorest countries.
But “debt relief” was really World Bank relief. Amidst a
groundswell of international public guilt that constrained the will
of G-8 leaders, the bank seized the moment to extort 100 cents on the
dollar for a $46 billion portfolio of worthless developing country loans
on which it has been sitting uncomfortably for more than two decades.
***This article was written by Carnegie Mellon's Adam
Lerrick, The Friends of Allan H. Meltzer Chair in Economics;
Director of The Gailliot Center for Public Policy, and mentions the
Meltzer Commission, the chairman of which was Allan Meltzer,
The Allan H. Meltzer University Professor of Political Economy.
http://www.aei.org/publications/
filter.all,pubID.23836/pub_detail.asp | back to
top
ABC News | February 3
During the 1970s, steel mills shut down, and people left Pittsburgh,
fanning out across the country looking for work. Meanwhile, the Steelers,
lead by quarterback Terry Bradshaw and defensive tackle "Mean Joe"
Green, won an unprecedented four Super Bowls during that decade. "The
success of the team on the field dovetailed with the times in the early
'70s into the '80s when the steel industry collapsed," said Anne
Madarasz, director of the Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum at the
Heinz History Center. "The good news in people's lives was Steelers
news." By 1990, Pittsburgh had lost half of its population. But
today, the city has turned to technology, and many people have found
work at hospitals and universities like Carnegie Mellon
and the University of Pittsburgh, Madarasz said. In 2003, the city was
dubbed "Roboburgh" by The Wall Street Journal.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/
GMA/story?id=1566444 | back to top
Seattle Post-Intellingencer | February 3
Could the smokestack- belching image that has defined Pittsburgh for
decades eventually give way to a high-tech city that more closely resembles
Seattle? ... Unlike Seattle, Pittsburgh has not one but two well-regarded
research universities: Carnegie Mellon University and
The University of Pittsburgh. Together, they have enrollments and endowments
larger than Seattle's research school, the University of Washington.
And they have spawned numerous technologies, from the Lycos Internet
search engine to a new avian flu vaccine. Carnegie Mellon, whose engineering
school is ranked in the top 10 in the nation, routinely pumps out Ph.D.s.
That's a big reason Apple Computer, Google and Intel have set up operations
on the campus.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/
venture/258150_vc03.html | back to top
Student Experience
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | February 7
Thanks to Facebook, 21-year-old Carnegie Mellon University
senior John Stuckey has 6,000 friends -- and he has only met 300 of
them. The popularity of online networking sites such as Facebook and
MySpace is growing by leaps and bounds among high school and college
students across the country. For students like Stuckey, these sites
are the best way to keep in touch with friends, and meet new people,
usually other students like themselves.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
entertainment/tv/s_421177.html | back to top
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | February 5
Arthur and George grow up in late Victorian England. One is a curious
and imaginative child who awaits the wonders of the world without ever
considering its limitations. The other is the quiet, reserved son of
a village vicar who seems bound by life's restrictions before experiencing
happiness. Arthur will become one of the world's best-known writers
while George, after modest success as a solicitor, will be convicted
of maiming farm animals in 1903. Geographically close, their personal
experiences and desires will separate them into different worlds until
George's case brings them together later in life. ***This review was
written by Sharon Dilworth, a writer and professor
of writing at Carnegie Mellon.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/06036/649056.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | February 4
It was a tale of two halves last night at Heinz Hall, and, no, this
isn't a football reference. In fact, in a perfect world, the Pittsburgh
Symphony Orchestra also would have the region fawning over it and fans
looking to eBay for hard-to-get tickets. It is that good: One-hundred-some
local residents who perform at a high level every weekend. But in that
perfect world, it wouldn't take the PSO until the second half to get
to that level, as it did under Pinchas Zukerman. ... Sometimes [a] hands-off
approach works wonders, but his lackadaisical podium approach was not
what the PSO needed in a night when its concertmaster, Andres
Cardenes, was absent, performing the Brahms Double Concerto
in the second half with PSO cellist Anne Martindale Williams.
... Enter Williams and Cardenes. Mix and match soloist luminaries all
you want, but there may not be a better fit for the Brahms Double than
this duo. Not only do they have ample experience performing together
in the Carnegie Mellon Trio and other events, evidenced by their scintillating
cohesiveness last night, but they also fit the character of the parts.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/06035/650180.stm | back to top
Information Technology
ComputerWorld | February 6
Attempts to create self-improving software date to the 1960s. But "machine
learning," as it's often called, has remained mostly the province
of academic researchers, with only a few niche applications in the commercial
world, such as speech recognition and credit card fraud detection. Now,
researchers say, better algorithms, more powerful computers and a few
clever tricks will move it further into the mainstream. ... Computer
scientist Tom Mitchell, director of the Center for
Automated Learning and Discovery at Carnegie Mellon
University, says machine learning is useful for the kinds of tasks that
humans do easily -- speech and image recognition, for example -- but
that they have trouble explaining explicitly in software rules. In machine-learning
applications, software is "trained" on test cases devised
and labeled by humans, scored so it knows what it got right and wrong,
and then sent out to solve real-world cases. Mitchell is testing the
concept of having two classes of learning algorithms in essence train
each other, so that together they can do better than either would alone.
... The breakthrough, he says, is software that learns from training
cases labeled not by humans, but by other software.
http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/
hardware/story/0,10801,108320,00.html | back to
top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | February 5
The future of our voting is up for grabs. Allegheny County is about
to upgrade our voting machine infrastructure to dramatically increase
accessibility to the blind and the disabled -- without causing a local
budget crunch. At the same time, we're risking the integrity and fairness
of every vote we'll cast for the next decade. Concerned voters -- and
we hope that means you -- should speak up right now to protect your
voting rights. ***This article was written by Daniel Sleator,
professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon
and David Eckhardt, a lecturer in computer science
at Carnegie Mellon who has served as a judge of elections in Mt. Lebanon
since 1997.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/06036/649848.stm | back to top
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | February 9
When some city of Pittsburgh employees tried to check the Internet Tuesday,
they got an unusual message. Up popped a note saying the site where
they were headed was "filtered." If they wanted to proceed,
they had to click on a button that said "Use Quota Time."
They'd then get 10 minutes to browse -- one of three such sessions they'd
get that day. It was the same for any Web site they checked. Turns out
the message reflects a new city policy restricting many employees' Internet
access, for any purpose, to 30 minutes a day. ... Pradeep Khosla,
dean of Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering,
said it was the first time he had heard of an employer imposing time
limits on Internet access. A city employee, he noted, might want to
use the Internet to "look at what other cities are doing or what
the federal government is doing, and that takes time." Even saving
money by booking city-related air travel online could burn 30 minutes,
he said.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
06040/652505.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | February 9
The Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force is sponsoring a bumper sticker contest
to raise awareness about HIV prevention among high school students,
who are at high risk of contracting the deadly virus. ... Most adolescents
are aware of HIV/AIDS, but they tend to underestimate their own risk
of infection, said Julie Downs, a research faculty
member of the Department of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie
Mellon University. "They tend to think it's a risk for
other people, but not themselves and their own sexual partners,"
Downs said.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/pittsburgh/s_421599.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | February 5
During the height of the steel mill era in the early 1900s, thousands
of workers from Slovakia settled in the mid-Mon Valley. To honor their
contributions to the region's ethnic diversity, the Mon Valley Slovak
Cultural Society has organized an exhibit, lectures and demonstrations.
... On March 15, a discussion group will meet to exchange thoughts on
"Out of This Furnace," a book by Thomas Bell that focuses
on three generations of a Slovak family that worked the steel mills
in the Mon Valley. Dr. David Demarest, a professor
from Carnegie Mellon University, will present a related
lecture and slide show March 19. An open discussion of his ideas will
follow.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
06036/648952.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | February 4
U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez wasn't surprised by the
sight of people waving Terrible Towels when he visited Pittsburgh on
Friday. His curiosity was tweaked, however, by a technological marvel
revealed to him at Carnegie Mellon University. "I
had never seen a robot that walks on water," he said. Gutierrez
spoke at the Oakland campus to highlight aspects of President Bush's
State of the Union address Tuesday night. The tiny robot he referenced
floated in a tub of water, looking much like one of those insects known
as water skimmers or pond skaters -- complete with eight 2-inch wire
legs. The experimental device could eventually be used to test water
quality on rivers and lakes. ... Gutierrez was impressed. "It's
just impossible to spend time here and not walk out feeling optimistic
about the future of our country," he said during a 20-minute talk
before about 50 students and faculty at the university's Collaborative
Innovation Center.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/pittsburgh/s_420522.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | February 4
It was a night of firsts for Tony Wingen and his Carnegie
Mellon Tartans, who defeated Washington, Mo., 79-72, much to
the delight of the fans who packed Skibo Gymnasium and spent much of
the time chanting, "Deee-fense." The hard-earned victory made
Wingen the all-time winningest men's basketball coach in school history
with a 174-215 record in his 16th season. He surpassed Mel Cratsley,
who coached from 1949-66. "It means I've been here a while,"
Wingen said with a smile. "I've been fortunate to have bosses who
were patient with the ups and downs over the years. This is far and
away the best team I've coached." Carnegie Mellon, 16-3 and ranked
18th in NCAA Division III, are 6-2 and in first place in the University
Athletic Association.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
06035/650072.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | February 3
Carnegie Mellon University said it hopes as early as
mid-March to begin demolishing the first of four campus buildings to
make room for the Gates Center for Computer Science. Removal of the
planetary robotics building, the west campus garages, the old student
center and the campus printing building will help clear 5.6 acres for
the $88 million project that includes a 150-space subsurface garage,
spokeswoman Teresa Thomas said. Funded in part by a
$20 million donation from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the
new center and west campus quadrangle are part of a plan to develop
the west campus. The center, being designed by Atlanta-based Mack Scogin
Merrill Elam architects, is tentatively slated to open in 2009.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06034/649628.stm
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International News Stories
Taipei Times (NY Times News Service) | February
9
What if the Chinese authorities didn't simply force Google to exclude
sites like hrw.org (the Human Rights Watch Web site) and lesbian.com
from the Chinese version of its search engine results, or insist that
Yahoo hop to whenever the government fancied the identity of one of
its e-mail users, as the authorities have done? ... Clusty.com, a search
site developed by several Carnegie Mellon computer
scientists, is another. Clusty proudly states that it "never censors
search results" or excludes material "that would be objectionable
to governments or would be unlawful in unelected, nondemocratic regimes."
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/
archives/2006/02/09/2003292221 | back to top
The Peninsula | February 8
The Gulf Organization for Industrial Consulting (GOIC) and Carnegie
Mellon University signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) recently
covering collaboration and joint activities in fields of mutual interest.
Dr Ahmed Khalil Al Mutawa, Secretary General of GOIC and S.
Thomas Emerson, Director of Donald H Jones Center for Entrepreneurship
at Carnegie Mellon University signed the agreement.
The first initiative in the partnership is devoted to executive education
program focusing on industrial entrepreneurship. Carnegie Mellon will
design a Gulf-oriented training program; the first of its kind in the
region, to transfer its expertise in technology-based entrepreneurship
and innovation to entrepreneurs and people concerned with developing
small-scale ventures in both the private and public sectors within GCC
member states.
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?
section=Business_News&subsection=Local+Business&month=
February2006&file=Business_News2006020821332.xml | back
to top
The Adelaide Advertiser | February 7
It may have been one of the biggest sporting events of 2006 but only
a handful of South Australians even knew the NFL Super Bowl was on.
At Loco though, a bunch of devoted fans turned up to cheer on their
favorite team in the much-hyped match, played this year in Detroit.
Carnegie Mellon, the U.S. university that is about
to open up in Adelaide, hosted the party at the casino. Clearly, Adelaideans
were not that excited by the whole thing with only a couple of Aussie
accents heard during the day - one being that of Premier Mike Rann who
popped in. The uni had a special interest this year, with its local
team the Pittsburgh Steelers taking on the Seattle Seahawks and they
certainly showed their colors. Decked out in hats and waving yellow
towels, the Steelers fans were getting right into the spirit of things
early with a couple of beers poured before 10am. For the record, the
Steelers won 21 to 10.
http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/
common/story_page/0,5936,18061191
%255E31624,00.html | back to top
The Peninsula | February 4
Twenty three students of the Carnegie Mellon University
in Qatar excelled in the classroom during the 2005 fall term earning
the academic distinction of being placed on the Dean's List. "The
students here are performing just like their peers on the main campus
in Pittsburgh and we're delighted to recognize their achievements,"
said dean Charles Thorpe.
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_
news.asp?section=Local_News&subsection=Qatar
+News&month=February2006&file=Local_News
200602047113.xml | back to top
The Financial Times | February 3
Detroit stands as the most poignant symbol of the demise of the rust
belt but Pittsburgh, another industrial hub, has also suffered, if not
quite so harshly. What cars were to Detroit, steel was to Pittsburgh,
and the decline of the US steel industry took a brutal toll on the city.
In recent years, Pittsburgh has reinvented itself as a technology hub
(thanks largely to the presence of Carnegie Mellon
University), but tens of thousands of working-class residents have left,
the city is in dire fiscal shape, and there is a sense that the community’s
character has changed and not for the better.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/eee5087e-
94e3-11da-9f39-0000779e2340.html | back to top
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