April 7,
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 31 to April 6,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 224 references to the university in worldwide
publications. Here is a sample.
National News Stories
New York Times | April 4
U.S. News & World Report | April 3
Combined Jewish Philanthropies (AP) | April 2
Netscape News with CNN (ABC) | April 2006
Student Experience
InformationWeek | April 5
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | April 6
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | April 5
Seed Magazine | April 3
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | April 2
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | April 2
Information Technology
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | April 6
SearchOpenSource | April 5
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | April 5
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | April 2
Beaver Country Times | April 2
Philadelphia Inquirer | March 31
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | March 31
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | March 31
San Jose Mercury News (AP) | March 31
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Business Times | April 4
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | April 2
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | April 1
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | April 1
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | March 31
International News Stories
The Adelaide Advertiser | April 6
The Times of India | April 2
The Malaysia Star | April 2
The Adelaide Advertiser | April 1
Taiwan News (The Christian Science Monitor) | March 31
Noticias.info | March 31
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National News Stories
The New York Times | April 4
I.B.M. plans to announce an alliance on Tuesday with a small Silicon Valley company that has designed a flexible microprocessor chip intended to perform tasks like video processing using less than a tenth the power of today's chips. The microprocessor was designed by a group led by a pioneer in the personal computer software industry, Andrew Singer. His company, Rapport, is one of a handful of Silicon Valley start-ups that have pursued reconfigurable computer hardware designs, a technology long thought by some computer designers to have great promise, but so far slow to find uses in more than niche applications in the computer industry. ... Mr. Singer said Rapport, which raised $7 million last year and is based in Redwood City, Calif., licensed a computing design from researchers at Carnegie Mellon. ***This article also appeared in the Wall Street Journal
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/04
/technology/04blue.html | back to top
U.S. News & World Report | April 3
Top Engineering Schools: Carnegie Mellon ranked 8th overall; Engineering Specialty Programs: Computer Engineering ranked 3rd; Electrical/Electronic/Communications ranked 7th; Environmental/Environmental Health ranked 7th; Mechanical ranked 10th; Civil ranked 10th. Top Business Schools: Tepper School ranked 16th overall; Business Specialty Programs: Information Systems ranked 2nd; Production/Operations ranked 3rd; Supply Chain/Logistics ranked 5th.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad
/rankings/rankindex_brief.php | back to top
Seeking reelection and redemption, Pa. legislators are
considering yet another property-tax relief plan. ... In the 1960s,
Gov. Raymond P. Shafer tried his hand at overhauling the system by appointing
a special commission. Gov. Richard Thornburgh did the same in the 1980s.
Nothing came of either effort.Thornburgh's successor, Robert Casey,
went further than any other governor - and failed more spectacularly. Casey
wanted to eliminate local "nuisance" taxes and raise the state
income tax by 2.25 percent. He promised to cut property taxes 25 percent. But
as his proposal took shape, its language thickened. It had to be tweaked
to accommodate renters and commuters paying out-of-state taxes. After
months of negotiation, both chambers agreed on all the details - "a
miracle," recalled Robert Strauss, a Carnegie
Mellon professor who helped write the Casey plan. A short-lived
one. Because of a technicality, the bill required a constitutional amendment,
thus a referendum. In 1989, voters killed it by a 3-1 ratio.
http://www.philly.com/mld/
inquirer/news/local/14248824.htm | back to top
Combined Jewish Philanthropies (AP) | April 2
The complex choices facing leaders in the Middle East have long confounded
observers. But two graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University
are hoping their video game based on the conflict will help players
find solutions - and raise capital for their new company. Asi Burak
and Eric Brown, along with a team of fellow students, have spent more
than a year building PeaceMaker, a computer game that attempts to simulate
the violence and political turbulence of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle.
http://www.cjp.org/
content_display.html?ArticleID=179939 | back to top
Netscape News with CNN (ABC) | April 2006
It sounds like something out of the Jetson's, but the technology is closer than you think. See the robotic car that programs itself and takes you where you want to go. ***Go to the link below to view ABC's video featuring Carnegie Mellon's Red Team.
http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/us.jsp?flo
c=cp-tos-feat-i-01&feature=newz_0406future_car | back to top
Student Experience
InformationWeek | April 5
Computing students will gather next week at the 30th annual World Finals of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) to compete for $10,000 scholarships, ThinkPad computers, flat-screen monitors and other prizes. Sponsored by IBM Corp., the three-day final competition will draw 249 talented students from around the world to San Antonio, Texas, said Douglas Heintzman, director of strategy for IBM’s Lotus division, who calls the event "the battle of the brains." The ICPC has been headquartered at Baylor University's main campus in Waco, Texas, since 1989. ... Although students from around the world are participating in the event, U.S. schools include Binghamton University, California Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University, University of Maryland - College Park, Washington University and others.
http://www.informationweek.com/hardware/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=184429155 | back to top
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | April 6
A university concert comes to the rescue again this weekend when Stephen Schultz leads the Carnegie Mellon Baroque Ensemble in a program featuring the Concerti Grossi of George Frideric Handel. The music is rarely performed, but has variety, virtuosity and fantasy that surpass the standard models of the baroque era. Schultz is a top early-music flutist who founded the American Baroque ensemble that performed for the Renaissance and Baroque Society last season. He says the crack undergraduate and graduate string students are turned on by Handel's concerti, preferring them to the music of Arcangelo Corelli they played earlier in the academic year. The concert starts at 5 p.m. in Alumni Concert Hall in the College of Fine Arts building at Carnegie Mellon, Oakland.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review
/entertainment/events/s_440549.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | April 5
Often lost in the hoopla about fancy robots and self-driving cars is
Carnegie Mellon University's accomplished School of Music.
Its student musicians will get an opportunity to show off their abilities
when the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic performs at Heinz Hall, Downtown.
The conductor is Pittsburgh Symphony music adviser Sir Andrew Davis.
http://www.post-gazette.com
/pg/06095/679347-42.stm | back to top
Seed Magazine | April 3
While research has shown that the entertainment people consume can affect
them, sometimes in measurable physiological ways, two new studies suggest
that the media may indeed manipulate people and their emotions, but
people also consciously use it to affect their own state of mind. Research recently published in the journal Political Psychology demonstrates
how the different emotional angles of a story can affect people's long-term
understanding of world events. A Carnegie Mellon team
surveyed over 1,700 Americans about their responses to the happenings
on September 11, 2001, specifically asking subjects to evaluate their
reactions of sadness and anger.
http://www.seedmagazine.com/news
/2006/04/using_the_news_as_anger_manage.php | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | April 2
For centuries, featured in painted scrolls and woodblock prints, on kimonos and especially as an art form itself known as "ikebana," flowers have always played an important role in Japanese culture. So it makes sense that many of the 43 works by 33 Japanese artists currently on view at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University are of flowers. "Flowers have always been popular in Japan," says James White, curator of art at the Hunt Institute. "They've been applied as decoration to everything from fabrics and household utensils to scroll paintings and revered as objects in tea ceremonies."
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review
/entertainment/arts/s_438869.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | April 2
Terrance Hayes was a graduate student in the University of Pittsburgh's Master of Fine Arts writing program when he decided to live in Greenfield about a decade ago. A South Carolinian by birth, Hayes, who is black, says he was warned there were some elements in that section of Pittsburgh who might not welcome an African-American man. For two years, he lived there without incident, until late one night when he got off a bus and was followed by a "rough-looking white kid" on a bicycle for a couple of blocks. A number of things ran through Hayes' mind. Was he being stalked? Should he confront this person? Should he take the offensive and strike first? Finally, the young man pulled even with Hayes, who feared the worst."You're the poet, right?" the bicyclist said. When Hayes affirmed he was, the young man nodded and said, "That's some good (stuff)," before riding away."The point of the story is that everybody shows up," says Hayes, who teaches at Carnegie Mellon University and is the author of three poetry collections, including the forthcoming "Wind in a Box."
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review
/entertainment/books/s_438446.html | back to top
Information Technology
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | April 6
Inspired by the strange motion of the basilisk lizard, Carnegie Mellon University mechanical engineers have built a tiny robot that can sprint across land and water with equal aplomb. Although it is only a basic prototype, the researchers imagine their amphibious Water Runner robot could be equipped with biochemical sensors that monitor water quality; deployed with cameras for spying, search-and-rescue or exploration; or outfitted with bacteria to break down pollutants. "A legged robot that can walk across land and water literally has the entire world open to it," said assistant professor of engineering Metin Sitti, who heads Carnegie Mellon's NanoRobotics Lab.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review
/trib/regional/s_440639.html | back to top
SearchOpenSource | April 5
After nearly six months of tweaking and collecting feedback from users, the Business Readiness Rating has been refined to the point where its evaluation categories are now final. The Business Readiness Rating (BRR) is a community forum that helps developers rate open source software in a standardized way. The rating system is sponsored by Carnegie Mellon West Center for Open Source Investigation, O'Reilly CodeZoo, SpikeSource and Intel Corp., and it has been in an evaluation phase since mid-2005. At the LinuxWorld Conference and Exposition in Boston, Anthony Wasserman, professor of software engineering practice at Carnegie Mellon West, explained why such a system is necessary. ... "If someone with little or no open source software experience went to a site like SourceForge and did a search, they are going to get more results than they know how to deal with," Wasserman said. "A search for open source content management software, for example, would get you 400 results."
http://searchopensource.techtarget.com
/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci11
78811,00.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | April 5
Six weeks before the May primary, Allegheny County officials are developing a backup plan in case their preferred electronic voting machine fails a second certification test Tuesday in Harrisburg. The county has received about 50 of 2,800 AVC Advantages, push-button machines built by Sequoia Voting Systems of California. ... Sequoia has experienced a rash of recent troubles. Last week, a state examiner found problems with the company's tabulation software. On March 21, hundreds of voting precincts in Chicago and suburban Cook County, Ill., all using Sequoia machines, failed to transmit results when the primary election there came to a close."The thing that went wrong in Chicago is that they rushed," Dr. David A. Eckhardt, a lecturer in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, told Allegheny County Council yesterday. "The Chicago example has moved me from beyond concern to fear."
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg
/06095/679445-85.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | April 2
The possible dangers of moblogging have been a hot button issue with Hollywood publicists this month. Gawker.com, a celebrity sighting Web site, has launched a "Stalker" map feature that allows celebrity sightings to be uploaded to the site in real time. Critics say it could put celebrities in harm's way, if actual stalking was facilitated by the sightings fed to the site. But most people don't moblog celebrity sightings. They log their observations and opinions for a small group of friends or to online moblogging communities. "Basically, I just go to the e-mail program on my cell phone, type what I'm thinking, and it goes up on the Web. It's really easy," said Matt Hornyak, an undergraduate student at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science. Mr. Hornyak has been keeping his own moblog for months. "I also collect random pictures. If I see something randomly amusing -- then it goes up on my site."
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg
/06092/678218-96.stm | back to top
Beaver Country Times | April 2
Wireless Internet service is becoming more popular as people with laptop computers search for those "hotspots" where they can connect online. Some businesses locally offer wireless Internet to their customers either free or for a small fee, while many individuals pay for the service in their homes. But there's a third group of people who don't pay for the wireless connection but instead "piggyback" or tap in to someone else's connection. Ed Schlesinger, a professor and head of electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, said some coffeeshops are offering free WiFi because they hope customers will have an extra latte while they use the Internet.
http://www.timesonline.com/site/news.cfm?newsid
=16418391&BRD=2305&PAG=461&dept_id=478569&rfi=6 | back to top
The Philadelphia Inquirer | March 31
Elections officials in Montgomery County are working on contingency plans for the May 16 primary after a state expert said an updated voting system is vulnerable to hackers. Michael Shamos, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, said in an interview he was able to hack in and change totals during a state test. The machines are also being purchased by Allegheny County. "I found that by altering one file I could change vote totals from 10 to over 8,000," he said. "It easily let me do that, so the security mechanisms associated with county central are deficient." In another test involving a referendum question, the system would not allow a "no" vote. "I told them to do a comprehensive fix and a comprehensive test and come back in two weeks," he said. "If they fix it, we can distribute one copy to Allegheny County and one copy to Montgomery County and we're good to go."
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local
/states/pennsylvania/counties/bucks_county/14229311.htm | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | March 31
Sequoia Voting Systems today will begin shipping its electronic voting machinery to Allegheny County, even though a series of examinations by the state this week found that the system has critical software problems. Over two days of testing in Harrisburg, a Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor found a way to manipulate vote totals on Sequoia's machine, the AVC Advantage. He told company officials they would have to address the problem and come back for further tests. ... Michael Shamos, the Carnegie Mellon professor who examines voting systems for Pennsylvania, said the issues were related to recently updated technology that makes the Advantage accessible for handicapped voters, a requirement of the federal Help America Vote Act. "They need some time to diagnose the problems, develop comprehensive fixes, and test the system thoroughly before seeking re-examination," he said in an e-mail message.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg
/06090/678299-85.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | March 31
Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science has created what's believed to be the nation's first Machine Learning Department, formerly the Center for Automated Learning and Discovery. The new designation reflects what the university said is the importance of machine learning in such areas as data mining and sensor networks. Tom M. Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon's Fredkin Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Learning, heads the department.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review
/business/briefs/s_438652.html | back to top
San Jose Mercury News (AP) | March 31
An ongoing lawsuit between a company and a popular archive of Web pages raises questions about whether the archive unavoidably violates copyright laws while providing a valuable service, according to attorneys and an independent law expert. ... Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor Michael Shamos, an expert in Internet law, said archiving like that done by the Internet Archive is "the biggest copyright infringement in the world," but said it is done in a way "that almost nobody cares about." Shamos said Web site publishers typically don't mind that their sites wind up on the Internet Archive, because the whole point of posting Web sites is to get as many people as possible to see them. The rub is that a Webmaster loses control over the site, because the Internet Archive keeps that information on the Web even after the page is dismantled, Shamos said. Copyrights are only effective if the holder is vigilant about maintaining control of the material, Shamos said. ***This AP article was placed in 18 publications.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/
local/states/california/northern_california/14234638.htm | back to top
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Business Times | April 4
Jennifer Church, who has served as interim dean of student affairs for Carnegie Mellon University since June 2005, has had the temporary title removed. "After an extensive search, we've come to find what most of us assumed, that Jennifer Church was the best candidate for the job," vice president for enrollment William Elliott said. "Jennifer has been a strong advocate, advisor and counselor for our students during the past 10 years and she's become a vital member of our university community."
http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh
/stories/2006/04/03/daily20.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | April 2
A Post-Gazette study of the college-going behavior of more than 13,800 members of last year's graduating classes at 95 high schools in Allegheny and surrounding counties found that 69 percent of them chose schools within just 100 miles of Downtown. ... Among students who chose a nationally top-ranked school, Carnegie Mellon was the most common choice, attracting more students from the region than the next four most popular top schools -- University of Notre Dame, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania and Oberlin College -- combined.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg
/06092/678836-298.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | April 1
The University Partnership of Pittsburgh -- a "formalized coordination and communication vehicle" between the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University to better spur budding tech entrepreneurs -- was unveiled Thursday morning by Don Smith Jr. The vice president of economic development for both institutions told members of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties that the initiative isn't really new but just a more formal recognition of the two universities' joint efforts to make all their resources available to promising researchers and business people. "We want to increase awareness ... to stimulate economic development," he said. The partnership has developed a Web site, www.university-partnership.com, as a place "to go to find out what's available," Dr. Smith said. "It's not necessarily a one-stop shop. It's a first-stop shop."
http://www.post-gazette.com
/pg/06091/678590-96.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | April 1
Carnegie Mellon University retained its ranking as the nation's best graduate program for computer science and the eighth best in engineering, according to the latest 2007 rankings of U.S. News & World Report. Carnegie Mellon's graduate program in computer science tied with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of California at Berkeley and Stanford University for first place. The university's Tepper School of Business moved up from 17th to 16th place with Cornell. "Our engineering excellence is also reflected in five of our programs being ranked in the top 10," said Pradeep K. Khosla, dean of Carnegie Mellon's College of Engineering. The five fields that cracked the top 10 are computer, electrical, environmental, civil and mechanical engineering.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review
/trib/regional/s_438992.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | March 31
Two city campuses, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, are among those with programs highly touted in the new U.S. News graduate school rankings released today. Carnegie Mellon's college of engineering is ranked eighth best in the nation, up one notch from last year. Among MBA programs, Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School moved up one spot to 16, tying with Cornell University's Johnson School.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/06090/678435-298.stm | back to top
International News Stories
The Adelaide Advertiser | April 6
South Australia has significantly stepped up its bid to bring two British university campuses to Adelaide. A leading figure behind the move to Adelaide of U.S.-based university Carnegie Mellon has been posted to London to spearhead the drive. David Travers, who was project director in the Premier's Department establishing the Carnegie Mellon campus, will work in the office of the SA Agent-General Maurice de Rohan. The Advertiser has been told one of his priorities will be detailed discussions with at least two British universities for campuses here. Premier Mike Rann has embarked on a move to market Adelaide as "an international education city". ... Mr Rann will hold further talks with Carnegie Mellon when he visits Pittsburgh next week and also will have talks with another unidentified U.S. university. "We see Carnegie Mellon's footprint growing in Adelaide over time," he said. The Travers appointment came as Carnegie Mellon began moving into its refurbished campus site in the Torrens Building in Victoria Square yesterday. The first Carnegie Mellon students - mainly in post-graduate courses in business administration and public policy - will start classes on May 22. Adelaide has three universities - Adelaide with 17,700 students enrolled, University of SA with 28,252 and Flinders with 13,550.
http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common
/story_page/0,5936,18724958%255E2682,00.html | back to top
The Times of India | April 2
Palestinian suicide bomber blows up a bus, leaving the newly elected Israeli prime minister to puzzle over a response. A missile strike could ease security fears, or prompt more violence. A diplomatic approach might anger Israelis, leading to an assassination plot. The complex choices facing leaders in the Middle East have long confounded observers. But two graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University are hoping their video game based on the conflict will help players find solutions - and raise capital for their new company. Asi Burak and Eric Brown, along with a team of fellow students, have spent more than a year building PeaceMaker, a computer game that attempts to simulate the violence and political turbulence of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com
/articleshow/1473869.cms | back to top
The Malaysia Star | April 2
Another top university on the island is the Singapore Management University (SMU), which was recently given a new 4.5 hectare, state-of-the-art city campus in the Bras Basah area. “Our aim is to produce all-rounded graduates,” says SMU undergraduate admissions administrative executive Ong Si Ying. The university, which specializes in business, adopts an American approach to undergraduate study. Its curriculum is aligned with that of the Wharton Business School (University of Pennsylvania), along with Carnegie Mellon University.
http://thestar.com.my/education/
story.asp?file=/2006/4/2/education/13787126 | back to top
The Adelaide Advertiser | April 1
Defense contracts, new law and order policies and education will dominate talks in the U.S. when Premier Mike Rann visits next week. Mr Rann, who leaves on Friday and returns on April 15, will also visit Canada. Mr Rann said yesterday he could not give out full details of the confidential discussions on the meetings he would be holding. However, he said his talks in Washington would be dominated by defense issues, especially the $6 billion Air Warfare Destroyer contract. From Washington, he will fly to Pittsburgh for further talks with Carnegie Mellon University aimed at attracting other divisions of the university to Adelaide.
http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common
/story_page/0,5936,18671245%255E2682,00.html | back to top
Taiwan News (The Christian Science Monitor) | March 31
Come May, the Federal Communications Commission plans to auction off some of the last remaining spectrum to companies that want to provide cellphone service at 35,000 feet. While polls show the vast majority of Americans are opposed to in-air phone chatter - almost 70 percent in some surveys - technological innovations and market forces appear to be moving the nation's regulatory framework toward approving it. The FCC has said it could allow the service as early as next year. The Federal Aviation Administration has signaled that as long as airlines are confident it poses no safety threat, it would be in favor of lifting the ban as well. 'Yet those who cherish cellphone-free flying sanctuaries still have hope. A study published this month found that - counter to what many Americans believe - cellphone radio signals do "present a clear and present danger" by interfering with sensitive navigational equipment. "We're not trying to be alarmist, but we are saying, 'Let's just go slow to be sure there is no danger,' " says Granger Morgan, a coauthor of the study and head of the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
http://www.etaiwannews.com/showPage.php?setupFile=
showcontent.xml&menu_item_id=11&did=d_1143772549_8151
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Noticias.info | March 31
The Boeing Company last week brought together leading Vietnamese and U.S. universities for an intensive "working together" conference. The conference was aimed at developing cooperative plans that will enable the Vietnamese universities to achieve international standards and recognition in information technology and aviation while providing opportunities for the U.S. schools to fulfill their mission for international engagement. ... Vietnamese participants included Hanoi University of Technology, University of Da Nang, Ho Chi Minh University of Technology, Can Tho University, Civil Aviation Training Center of Vietnam and Saigon Hi Tech Park. The U.S. academic system was represented by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Bellevue Community College, Washington State University, Carnegie Mellon University, Edmonds Community College, Seattle University and the University of Washington.
http://www.noticias.info/asp/
aspComunicados.asp?nid=161568&src=0 | back to top
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