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March 17,
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 March 10 to March 16,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 202
references to the university in worldwide publications. Here is a sample.
Special Coverage: Carnegie Mellon teams up with
Electronic Arts
MSNBC | March 13
USA Today (AP) | March 12
NBC4 | March 10
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | March 10
National News Stories
The New York Times | March 14
The Wall Street Journal | March 14
MSNBC | March 14
Scientific American | March 13
Chemical & Engineering News | March 13
The New York Times | March 10
Foreign Policy | March 2006
Student Experience
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | March 11
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | March 10
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | March 16
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | March 14
DM News | March 13
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | March 10
HGTV pro.com | March 2006
Show Business Weekly | March 2006
Information Technology
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | March 14
The Toledo Blade | March 14
MIT Technology Review | March/April 2006
Nashville Business Journal | March 13
Regional Impact
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | March 11
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | March 10
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | March 15
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | March 12
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | March 11
Pittsburgh Business Times | March 10
International News Stories
IT News Australia | March 15
United Press International | March 15
Supply Chain Review | March 14
The Financial Review | March 13
Gulf Times | March 11
Outsourcing World | March 9
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Special Coverage: Carnegie Mellon teams
up with Electronic Arts
MSNBC | March 13
It's ironic that even as the video-game generation is coming of age,
the ranks of U.S. computer programmers who create those games —
plus more practical software — are thinning out. But what if you
could make programming into a video game? That's the basic idea behind
Alice, a software program developed at Carnegie Mellon
University to ease students into programming painlessly. Instead of
meticulously typing in lines of commands, the users of Alice 2.0 users
move animated characters around the screen to tell a story — kind
of like playing "The Sims." Now Electronic Arts Inc., the
company that produces "The Sims," has struck a groundbreaking
deal with Carnegie Mellon to make Alice 3.0 even cooler — in an
effort to reverse the brain drain and particularly to get more girls
interested in computer science. "Getting the chance to use the
characters and animations from 'The Sims' is like teaching at an art
school and having Disney give you Mickey Mouse," Carnegie Mellon
computer science professor Randy Pausch, director of
the Alice Project, said in Friday's announcement of the collaboration.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11813689/
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USA Today (AP) | March 12
Carnegie Mellon University plans to incorporate characters
and animation from the popular video game The Sims in its free educational
software that strives to make computer programming more appealing to
students. The Sims will be part of Carnegie Mellon's free educational
software for computer programming students. The university will use
the animation to enliven the next version of Alice, a teaching program
developed over the past decade and used at more than 60 colleges and
universities and about 100 high schools, said Randy Pausch,
a computer science professor and director of the Alice Project. "This
is not some little crumb that got tossed. This is the most valuable
intellectual property owned by the largest video game maker in the world,"
Pausch said Friday. "For the intended demographic we're trying
to teach, The Sims are more valuable than the Disney library."
The Alice programming language is designed to make abstract concepts
concrete for first-time programmers, using three-dimensional images
of things such as people or animals that can be controlled by clicking
and dragging words with a computer mouse. Those words form a program.
While Alice has proven effective, its characters and animation remain
rudimentary, Pausch said. The animation is expected to transform Alice
from a crude three-dimensional programming tool into a more compelling
programming environment. ***This story was placed in more than 50 national
media outlets, including: Business Week, FOX News, The Philadelphia
Inquirer, San Jose Mercury News, New York Newsday and Forbes.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/gaming/
2006-03-12-sims-mellon_x.htm?POE=TECISVA | back
to top
NBC4 | March 10
A local high school received a gift that some believe will revolutionize
the way computer programming is taught. McKinley Technology High School
in Northwest Washington is one of 100 high schools and universities
in the United States that will incorporate a new learning tool in its
computer science class. Carnegie Mellon University
and Electronic Arts Inc. joined forces to revamp the Alice programming
software. Instead of manipulating numbers and code, the Alice programming
language lets students drag and drop 3-D characters -- people, houses
or animals -- into scenes on the computer screen, move them around and
tell stories as the student is learning the basics of programming.
http://www.nbc4.com/news/
7886976/detail.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | March 10
Computer programming lessons are about to become more animated. Carnegie
Mellon University is to announce a collaboration today with
Electronic Arts Inc. that will take the popular Sims video game characters
into the university's free software used to teach programming skills
to high school and college students. The idea is to make the lessons
livelier and less confusing for all students -- including making them
more interesting to girls. "EA is very seriously committed to having
a workforce that is not all white males," said Carnegie Mellon computer science
professor Randy Pausch, who directs the software project.
"Everybody says that. This is EA's way of proving it."
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
business/s_431770.html | back to top
National News Stories
The New York Times | March 14
Facing threats of litigation and pressure from Washington, colleges
and universities nationwide are opening to white students hundreds of
thousands of dollars in fellowships, scholarships and other programs
previously created for minorities. ... "The objective is still
to make good kids excellent," said William F. Elliott,
vice president for enrollment at Carnegie Mellon University,
which three years ago broadened a full-tuition scholarship for minority
students and a summer program in mathematics and science for minority
high school students. Now, the university also considers diversity to
include other factors like whether students are the first in their families
to attend college.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/14/
education/14minority.html | back to top
The Wall Street Journal | March 14
With technology and regulators moving rapidly, passengers could be making
and receiving cellphone calls aboard airline flights next year. But
a new study raises questions over whether that will be safe for airplanes.
The study arrives less than two months before crucial government decisions
about in flight wireless communications are set to be made. On May 10,
the Federal Communications Commission will auction radio spectrum that
will allow telecommunications companies to operate wireless Internet
and cellphone services for air travel. ... In the new study, researchers
at Carnegie Mellon University rode 37 passenger flights
on three airlines with a device that measured radio-frequency emissions
from personal electronic devices, like cellphones, BlackBerries and
laptop computers. The study found emissions from cellphones that could
interfere with GPS systems. It also revealed that some fliers are already
making phone calls in defiance of an industrywide ban: Indeed, one to
four cell calls were surreptitiously made on each flight studied.
http://online.wsj.com/article/
SB114229779202097205-search.html | back to top
MSNBC | March 14
***Mike Rectenwald, post-doctoral fellow in Carnegie
Mellon's English department, has been a returning guest on
MSNBC's 'Scarborough Country.' Visit the links below for transcripts
of his participation on the show.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11823974/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11654656/
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Scientific American | March 13
The Department of Defense once created its own software, but today only
the most highly classified code is written in-house, at places such
as the secretive National Security Agency. But a good deal of code for
some of the military's most sophisticated weapons--fighter aircraft
and missile defense systems, for example--is written in other countries.
... Software developed overseas can be manipulated in several ways,
says Nancy Mead, a senior member of the technical staff
at the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute.
The code itself can be tampered with and set up to do subsequent damage;
it can also be laced with surreptitious "back doors" designed
to allow access to a system at a later date. And the possibility exists
that software could be copied and sold to adversaries. "You don't
have day-to-day control over what's going on" at some overseas
facilities, Mead notes. U.S. companies that look to foreign suppliers
must keep an eye on the software-development process as much as possible,
she says, because the development phase is the point at which errors
or intentional flaws can most easily be prevented. Complex software
contains millions of lines of code, and "it becomes more difficult"
to spot such flaws later on, Mead explains: "At that point you're
just looking for a needle in a haystack."
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?
chanID=sa006&articleID=00003B8B-9E76
-13F3-9E7683414B7F0000 | back to top
Chemical & Engineering News | March 13
Covalent carbon-carbon bonds in organic molecules are considered tough
and difficult to break. It's therefore counterintuitive that the relatively
weak attractive forces at play when molecules adsorb to a surface would
be strong enough to break these bonds. But break they do, according
to new research-at least in macromolecules with highly branched architectures.
Associate professor of chemistry Sergei S. Sheiko at the University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Krzysztof Matyjaszewski,
professor of natural sciences at Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh; and their coworkers used atomic force microscopy (AFM) to
show the covalent bonds that make up the backbones of brush- like macromolecules
spontaneously rupture after adsorption on a substrate.
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/84/
i11/8411notw8.html | back to top
The New York Times | March 10
Within the world of aviation, airline pilots used to be one step down
from astronauts. Now they feel one step up from bus drivers. Pilots
are trying to adjust to reduced pay and pensions and tougher work rules
caused by industry problems. With half the seats in the nation's airliners
run by companies either in bankruptcy or limping out of it, even the
pilots at the top — the ones who are within a few years of mandatory
retirement at 60, flying the big planes and earning top dollar —
are facing a new world. ... But senior airline pilots, in dozens of
interviews, spoke about feeling depressed and struggling not to let
it affect their performance. Academics have noticed a change. "The
pilots are not a happy group right now," said Paul S. Fischbeck,
a professor of engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon
University in Pittsburgh. Dr. Fischbeck, who flew in the Navy and has
colleagues who went on to fly for the airlines, said that the change
in financial circumstances and job security were good reasons to be
unhappy. But Dr. Fischbeck and others pointed out that the industry
culture is such that pilots must face the hardship on their own. Other
workers with health plans might seek professional counseling. With pilots
licensed by the FAA, however, "as soon as you sign up for it, it's
on your record, and you're toast."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/
03/10/politics/10pilots.html | back to top
Foreign Policy | March 2006
U.S. President George W. Bush says he wants to cure America's "addiction"
to imported oil and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. As world trade
negotiations move forward, he faces international pressure to cut U.S.
farm subsidies and domestic pressure to keep them. How are these problems
related? Bush has an opportunity to address each of them with one deft
stroke by transforming farm subsidies into fuel subsidies. If Washington
subsidized corn and switchgrass for domestic ethanol production instead
of export, Bush would relieve his headache on trade, bolster energy
security, and improve the environment. *** This article was written
by Lester Lave and W. Michael Griffin,
director and executive director, respectively, of the Green Design Institute
at Carnegie Mellon.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/
cms.php?story_id=3411 | back to top
Student Experience
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | March 11
Hordes of students at local colleges are spending spring break in the
sun. But instead of working on their tans, they're working on the homes
of hurricane victims. More than 200 students from Slippery Rock, Duquesne,
Carnegie Mellon, Robert Morris and Carlow universities,
the University of Pittsburgh and Westminster College have been doing
community service this week. The most popular destinations are communities
ravaged by last year's hurricanes.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/regional/s_432167.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | March 10
For one Duquesne University applicant, the discovery that her SAT college
entrance exam erroneously was scored too low is making a huge difference.
It turned a letter of rejection into both an offer of admission and
a scholarship. ... Mike Steidel, director of admission
at Carnegie Mellon University, said the College Board
identified 91 erroneous score reports sent to that school. Those scores
were corrected and reviewed, with the largest change involving an individual
whose score had been underrepresented by more than 100 points. "Fortunately,
the student had already been targeted for an admit decision," said
Mr. Steidel. "The majority had 10 and 20 point increases."
Mr. Steidel said one candidate was moved to a wait list from a rejection
decision. He said the other corrections "really had little impact,
but were reviewed again to be sure."
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
06069/668231.stm | back to top
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | March 16
Several floors below the classic pillars of the Mellon Institute, opera
and musical theater are getting ready to tango. The occasion is Quantum
Theatre's American premiere of "The Voluptuous Tango," composed
by Dominic Muldowney with text by David Zane Mairowitz. It opens Friday
in the Mellon Institute's auditorium. Muldowney's work spans the worlds
of theater and opera. He spent more than 20 years as resident composer
for London's Royal National Theatre, where he composed music for more
than 80 productions. He's working on an oratorio, for British television,
about war. "It's musical theater," says director Di Trevis,
who is married to Muldowney. "Dominic has been offered commissions
for opera but he wants to write for actors and their voices." Trevis
has directed multiple productions for both the Royal Shakespeare Company
and the Royal National Theatre, and after she opens "The Voluptuous
Tango" she will direct "As You Like It" for the Carnegie
Mellon University School of Drama.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
entertainment/arts/s_433584.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | March 14
Adults turn to music for as many reasons as there are types of songs.
... They are adults who have found creativity, emotional release and
mental challenge in the study and performance of music. Music teachers
say adults don't always get that satisfaction. Denis Colwell,
music director of the River City Brass Band, teaches music at Carnegie
Mellon University, Pittsburgh, and at one time taught trumpet
privately. He knows there is quite a difference between adult students
and young students. "For every 10 or 12 who start to study, one
or two stick with it," he says. "It is a great disruption
in a life." But it is a task welcomed by those who go into it willingly.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
entertainment/music/s_433027.html | back to top
DM News | March 13
Measuring and improving marketing return on investment is a process,
not a one-shot deal. There is no magic formula for tracking results.
Instead, a combination of measures is usually best and most accurate.
Most measurements are based on one or more of three types of data: accounting
(financial performance, amount of money, etc.), addition (items that
can be counted such as response rates, timing, speed, capacity, number
of new customers, etc.) and attitude (perceptions and opinions usually
collected through marketing research).***This article was written by
Lloyd Corder, adjunct professor of marketing in
Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business.
http://www.dmnews.com/cgi-bin/
artprevbot.cgi?article_id=36012 | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | March 10
On Saturday area theatergoers and audience members in Qatar can share
a performance and discussion of "Nathan the Wise" without
travel or jet-lag. Beginning at 1 p.m. Saturday, digital video technology
will transmit the live performance of the Carnegie Mellon
University School of Drama's production of "Nathan the Wise"
to members of Carnegie Mellon's Doha-based branch campus and guest students
and faculty from the University of Qatar as it's being watched by a
live audience in the Philip Chosky Theater in the Purnell Center on
the campus of Carnegie Mellon University, Oakland. ... "The impulse
of the play is to alert us, in the face of increasing religious and
political polarization both foreign and domestic, that we are more than
our cultural and ethnic labels," says Elizabeth Bradley,
head of the School of Drama and a strong advocate of pluralistic exchange
in the arts. Following the performance, members of the audience in Qatar
and Pittsburgh can join in a moderated talkback that may be an historical
first.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
entertainment/arts/s_431631.html | back to top
HGTV pro.com | March 2006
IBACOS (Integrated Building and Construction Solutions) is pleased to
announce it has funded a fellowship dedicated to supporting Residential
Development Research at the Center for Building Performance (CBPD) in
the School of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University
(Pittsburgh). IBACOS has created this fellowship to generate greater
student interest in residential buildings research. ... The fellowship
is designed to advance residential research at Carnegie Mellon, something
both parties are very excited about. "The Center shares a common
interest in building performance research and development of high quality
energy efficient homes with IBACOS," said Khee Poh Lam,
professor of architecture and director of the Graduate Program in Carnegie
Mellon School of Architecture. "This fellowship will enable focused
research activities to be undertaken by graduate students to advance
the knowledge base in this field. We are confident that this impetus
will open up new avenues for R&D collaboration between the CBPD
and IBACOS in the future."
http://www.hgtvpro.com/hpro/nw_industry_news/
article/0,2624,HPRO_20188_4463587,00.html | back
to top
Show Business Weekly | March 2006
Next week, Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama
in Pittsburgh, Pa. is giving its graduating class a technology-fueled
jumpstart to their careers before diplomas are handed out this spring
by organizing a student showcase in New York for casting directors,
talent agents, and movie producers. In addition to the opportunity for
exposure to the competitive theater industry in the city, Carnegie Mellon
is pushing a multimedia approach and interactive web site to help its
students understand the business and get work after graduation. | back
to top
Information Technology
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | March 14
For home users of Wi-Fi, there may be plenty of uninvited guests logging
on. The practice of "piggybacking," or picking up a Wi-Fi
signal from another computer's router, is as easy as buying a $35 Wi-Fi
card and pointing the laptop in the right direction. And there's no
way to know how many people might be piggybacking on a given Wi-Fi signal,
until the number of users slows it down -- and we're talking in the
hundreds, here. Ed Schlesinger, a professor in Carnegie
Mellon University's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
likened a Wi-Fi signal to a water hose. "If I'm trying to fill
my bucket, and someone else is also using my hose, my bucket won't fill
up as quickly," Schlesinger said. However, most Wi-Fi signals have
the strength of a fire hose, so taking a couple "drops" won't
affect the flow in any real way, he said. Schlesinger said all Wi-Fi
routers offer signal encryption as part of the package, but most people
don't bother to install it. Often it's as easy as adding a password
to log on.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
tribpm/s_433150.html | back to top
The Toledo Blade | March 14
It happens at least once on just about every commercial airline flight
in America: Someone quietly flips open his cell phone and makes a call
at 20,000 feet. It's against regulations, but more and more fliers are
finding their urge to chat outweighs vague federal rules. In May, the
FCC will auction radio spectrums meant to enable web-surfers and telephone
talkers more freedom in the sky. European and Japanese regulators are
eyeing similar rule changes. Not so fast, warns a Carnegie Mellon
University School of Engineering and Public Policy study released in
"IEEE Spectrum" magazine. Radio waves emitted by the phones
are more dangerous than first believed, it says. "Our data and
[previous] NASA studies suggest a clear and present danger: Cell phones
can render GPS instruments useless for landings," the authors warn.
"Interference from games and wi-fi-equipped laptops can interfere
with key cockpit avionics."
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/
20060314/OPINION02/603140305 | back to top
MIT Technology Review | March/April 2006
The college students glued to video game consoles today are as likely
to be scholars as slackers. More than 100 colleges and universities
in North America -- up from less than a dozen five years ago -- now
offer some form of "video game studies," ranging from hard-core
computer science to prepare students for game-making careers to critiques
of games as cultural artifacts. ... Randy Pausch, codirector
of the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon
University -- which offers a master's degree in entertainment technology
-- adds that gaming studies have a sneaky side: they attract students
to computer science. Meanwhile, on the lit-crit front, some scholars
have come up with a fancy name for their discipline: ludology, from
the Latin ludus (game). Topics range from game philology to the study
of virtual economies in EverQuest.
http://www.technologyreview.com/
InfoTech/wtr_16449,294,p1.html | back to top
Nashville Business Journal | March 13
A group of Vanderbilt University researchers has snagged a grant from
the U.S. Department of Defense to lead the development of more reliable
control systems for unmanned military vehicles and other material. The
funding, through the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, could
total $5 million over the next five years.At the rate of $1 million
per year for three years, two engineering professors and a group of
graduate students at Vandy will lead research teams at the University
of California at Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University
in Pittsburgh, and Stanford University in California in a project titled
"Frameworks and Tools for High-Confidence Design of Adaptive, Distributed,
Embedded Control Systems." The groups will develop computer software
and technology that will be used in the design of high-confidence systems
for space vehicles, airplanes and unmanned air vehicles. In layman's
terms, the goal is to create software that will produce evidence during
the design process that the systems are safe, making testing for certification
and use quicker and cheaper. If, after three years, the Department of
Defense finds that the researchers are making progress and funding is
available, the project will be extended by two years and $2 million.
http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/
stories/2006/03/13/daily13.html | back to top
Regional Impact
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | March 11
A perennial look at the region's technology economy offered a mixed
picture for 2004, with the number of tech companies and jobs falling
that year but wages rising for those who were working in the sector.
... Jerry Paytas, director of the Carnegie
Mellon University Center for Economic Development, which compiled
the statistics, blamed the dip in jobs and firms to the bottoming out
of the regional economy in 2004. He doubts that the 2005 statistics,
which won't be collected by the state until this month, will be much
different. "The economy has been tough for a while, I don't think
it'll be worse, but I don't know if it'll be good," Dr. Paytas
said. Both the tech council and Dr. Paytas said the figures show that
there aren't enough new businesses being created in the region. Allegheny
County, Dr. Paytas said, generates less than 20 new corporations per
10,000 residents, while the state average is 22.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
06070/668655.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | March 10
The [Allegheny Conference on Community Development] began in 1944 as
an answer to some of Pittsburgh's most severe problems -- its smoky
skies, floods and a rag-tag Downtown business district. The problems
were large, but the conference got it done, with help from Pittsburgh
Mayor David Lawrence and banker Richard King Mellon. But the conference
has been under increased scrutiny lately from funders who fear it may
be too scattered and involved in too many things. In trying to tighten
the conference's focus again, [conference Chairman James] Rohr outlined
two major areas of concentration over the next three years: To make
the region more competitive as a place to do business and live and play;
and to improve Pittsburgh's image through marketing. ... Yesterday,
Mr. Rohr emphasized: ... Figure out how to hook up Oakland, Hazelwood
and Downtown via new transportation. It could be rail, Mr. Rohr said,
citing a line that runs through Junction Hollow in Oakland. All options
will be studied and a report will be issued in six months. Carnegie
Mellon University President Jared Cohon is
leading that effort.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
06069/668001.stm | back to top
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | March 15
As the best public art should be, [Jonathan] Borofsky's work is provocative.
One of his sculptures, inspired by his father's stories about the giant
and called "Walking to the Sky," has been stirring the pot
at Borofsky's alma mater, Carnegie Mellon University,
for several months, and it hasn't even arrived. Where and even if it
should be installed has been widely debated on campus, ever since the
university announced its intention to plant it at the intersection of
the Hornbostel Mall and the Cut, the campus's two rectangular green
spaces, by building a concrete pad there. ... And then along came Hilary
Robinson, who, a century later, holds the same position Hornbostel
did -- dean of the College of Fine Arts. She's new to the job, having
arrived in September from Ireland, where she was head of the School
of Art and Design at the University of Ulster. She must have packed
among her luggage a great big bag of diplomacy, because it didn't take
her long to find a solution agreeable to groups that were even divided
among themselves. ... Robinson's solution, welcomed by the President's
Council, was to develop a public art policy, create a public art committee
that includes students and community members, and propose a series of
campus forums to guide the selection and placement of public art. At
the first one last week, the approximately 175 people attending agreed
with the committee's selection of a new site for "Walking to the
Sky," on the Cut in front of Warner Hall and near Forbes Avenue,
from which the sculpture also will be visible to passers-by. When it's
installed in May, Carnegie Mellon will gain an important work by one of its most
successful sons and the Hornbostel Mall will suffer only its usual intrusions.
Relocating the 100-foot-tall sculpture from the 100-percent corner was
the right move.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
06074/670237.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | March 12
The death of Rachel Mellon Walton marks the end of the closest link
to Pittsburgh's Gilded Age. Walton, a grand dame of great wealth, leaves
a legacy of philanthropy that will continue through her family and through
the good works of those she inspired, observers say. Walton, 107, died
March 2 at her Oakland residence. She was the daughter of Gulf Oil Corp.
founder William Larimer Mellon and the granddaughter of coal magnate
James Ross Mellon. During her lifetime, she endowed the arts, music,
medicine, education, conservation and programs for women. To just one
of her favorite institutions, Carnegie Mellon University,
she and her family gave 217 gifts totaling $694.3 million in today's
dollars. In 1967, one of those gifts transformed Carnegie Institute
of Technology into Carnegie Mellon University. Walton was a hands-on
philanthropist. She took part in the dedication of Posner Hall, contributed
to a reception room in the business school that bears her name, and
an auditorium named for her family. She and her sister, Margaret Mellon
Hitchcock, gave scholarships to about 15 female graduate students in
the business school every year, and Walton met with them yearly until
she turned 100.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/pittsburgh/s_432411.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | March 11
Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business
kicks off its 2006 McGinnis Venture Competition next Friday, with 23
teams of ambitious entrepreneurs from the United States and Canada pitching
their business plans. Their goal is to land the $30,000 cash prize and
the option to join the portfolio of companies assisted by Pittsburgh
tech-focused economic development engines Innovation Works and the Pittsburgh
Life Sciences Greenhouse. Both organizations are offering $100,000 investment
packages to the winner -- if they choose to build the company in Pittsburgh.
Two Carnegie Mellon teams will compete this year, including Micky Inc., a software
firm born out of Carnegie Mellon's West Coast campus in Silicon Valley, and the
Oakland-based biotech upstart NeuroLife.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
06070/668650.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Business Times | March 10
The reputation of Carnegie Mellon University as a world-class
graduate business school attracted Sunil Wadhwani from
India and the curriculum fueled his interest in entrepreneurship. "You
get exposed to different points of view by attending a research university
like Carnegie Mellon and it expands your own view of the world,'' said
Wadhwani, who co-founded iGATE Corp. in 1987. "My education in
India and at Carnegie Mellon taught me that when there are complex issues
to be approached, you must be as objective and intellectually rigorous
as possible. Don't just go with the conventional view. Carnegie Mellon's
approach to addressing management issues is very analytical. ''Wadhwani
has used his education and business skills to make iGATE one of the
fastest- growing companies in the United States. He has relied upon
his knowledge in the areas of finance, marketing and organizational
skills to make the business a success. Today, iGATE is a global technology
services company, publicly listed in the United States and India, with
5,000 employees on four continents. "The sense of accomplishment
you get from attending a school like Carnegie Mellon gives you the confidence
that's essential to starting a business,'' he said. ... He has maintained
contact with his friends and colleagues in India and currently serves
on the advisory board of the Indian Institute of Technology. He serves
on the board of trustees for Carnegie Mellon.
http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/
stories/2006/03/13/focus2.html | back to top
International News Stories
IT News Australia | March 15
A recent study by Carnegie Mellon University on the
potential dangers of cell phone use on commercial aircraft flights has
prompted two suppliers of communications services to aircraft passengers
to state that their services are safe. Both parties, Connexion by Boeing
and OnAir, noted that the Carnegie Mellon study, which examined the
use of mobile phones, covered a time period some three years ago; since
then additional steps have been taken to ensure that passengers can't
interfere with aircraft navigation systems. ... Both Connexion and OnAir
said they do not challenge the Carnegie Mellon study, which, they said,
was carried out by qualified researchers who did serious work. In fact,
they agreed with the study that take-off and landing are the critical
times during which mobile phone usage should remain banned to preserve
the integrity of aircraft navigation GPS systems.
http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.
aspx?CIaNID=30850&src=site-marq | back to top
United Press International | March 15
Perhaps no one in Qatar is aware of the fact that the country's energy
wealth will run out sooner or later than its leader, Sheikh Hamad bin
Khalifa al-Thani. Described by some as a benevolent dictator, the emir
has taken the initiative to cultivate Qatar's best and brightest to
be able to compete globally since he toppled his father from power a
decade ago. Located in the dusty outskirts of Doha, Education City is
currently more a community in the making than a traditional academic
campus, as bulldozers and construction workers seem by far to outnumber
the students. Nevertheless, this brainchild of the emir and his wife,
Sheikha Moza Bint Nasser Al-Misnad, is one initiative in which the royal
couple is heavily investing in hopes of ensuring Qatar's future when
its petroleum revenue starts to dwindle. ... Hence the tie-up with five
U.S. universities, namely the Virginia Commonwealth School of the Arts,
Weill Cornell Medical College, Texas A&M University, Carnegie
Mellon University, and Georgetown University School of Foreign
Service. One of the most popular bachelor's degrees in this oil-centric
country is in petroleum engineering offered by Texas A&M, while
Carnegie Mellon's computer science and business administration is also
hot in the eyes of many Qatari college students-to-be. ... Indeed, the
presence of Carnegie Mellon in the capital has increased the country's
awareness of the dangers in cyberspace, ultimately leading to an improvement
of its capability to provide Internet security. "This is one of
the richest regions in the world, so it's a prime target" for cyber
criminals, Q-CERT Director Archie Andrews told UPI.
"It's also been a technologically naïve population with money
... prone to phishing, (cyber) attacks and spasm."
http://www.upi.com/Hi-Tech/view.php?
StoryID=20060315-075334-2567r | back to top
Supply Chain Review | March 14
The latest trends in software research and industry experience will
be revealed at Australia's premier software engineering conference,
taking place in Sydney in April. organizers say the Australian Software
Engineering Conference (ASWEC 2006), now in its 20th year, taking place
at the Australian Technology Park in Sydney from April 18 to 21, continues
to challenge traditional thinking and reveal new ways to deliver software-based
solutions in complex environments. ... The keynote addresses will be
delivered by three world-renowned experts. Dr. Linda Northrup
of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon
University, will outline how software development organizations can
reduce development costs by orders-of-magnitude using software product
lines.
http://www.supplychainreview.com.au/
index.cfm?li=displaystory&StoryID=26344 | back
to top
The Financial Review | March 13
Geoff Maslen's interesting "Private universities' star rises",
with its reference to the emerging Carnegie Mellon
project at Adelaide, recalls our earlier association with that illustrious
academy. In 1970, Richard M. Cyert, later Carnegie Mellon University's
president, arrived in Australia at the invitation of the Gorton government
to advise it on our needs of adequately funded management education.
Having reviewed what was already here, Cyert chose the University of
NSW to be the base for a new graduate business school, advice which
was finally acted upon by the Whitlam government in 1974. So we were
already in debt to Carnegie Mellon well before the advent of the Adelaide
project, which we are fortunate to have. In Cyert's time, Carnegie Mellon
staff had already collected several Nobel prizes, including three in
economics. So en avant Carnegie Mellon Adelaide.
http://afr.com/articles/2006/03/
13/1142098370065.html | back to top
Gulf Times | March 11
The Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama will
broadcast a live performance of one of its productions to an audience
thousands of miles away in Qatar at 11am Pittsburgh time (8pm Qatar
time) today. A moderated live talkback discussion between audience members
in Pittsburgh and Qatar will take place immediately following the performance
of Nathan the Wise. The performance marks a number of firsts for the
campus and for the arts in Pittsburgh, says an announcement by the Carnegie
Mellon University School of Drama.
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?
cu_no=2&item_no=76387&version=1&template_id=
36&parent_id=16 | back to top
Outsourcing World | March 9
IBM's Business transformation Outsourcing (BTO) practice has been awarded
the eSCM-SP certification (eSourcing Capability Model for Service Providers),
by the Carnegie Mellon University, a company release
said. The certification gives prospective clients a guide to evaluate,
select and monitor service providers based on BTO capabilities such
as knowledge, performance, relationship and technology management, as
well as contracting, service design and deployment, service delivery
and service transfer, the release said. ... Jane Siegel,
director of ITSqc, Carnegie Mellon University, says, "eSCM- SP
is a quality model specifically applicable to the entire life cycle
of a process outsourcing relationship." It has been developed by
the IT Services Qualification Center (ITSqc) at Carnegie Mellon. "Being
awarded Level 4 of eSCM-SP capability means IBM BTO proactively enhances
client value," Siegel says. IBM's BTO centers offered validation
of their quality management system across BTO and provided the largest
assessment to Carnegie Mellon University for this certification globally.
http://www.oswmag.com/news/
viewArticle/ARTICLEID=956 | back to top
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