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April 21, 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 April 14 to April 20 ,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 259 references to the university in worldwide
publications. Here is a sample.
National News Stories
Baltimore Sun | April 19
The Chronicle of Higher Education | April 18
Bloomberg | April 18
Baltimore Sun | April 16
MarketWatch | April 14
CNN (AP) | April 13
CNN (AP) | April 12
Student Experience
BusinessWeek | April 11
Arts and Humanities
Seed Magazine | April 18
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | April 17
Yankton Daily Press | April 16
Artnet Magazine | April 13
Information Technology
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | April 20
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | April 20
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | April 16
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | April 15
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | April 15
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | April 15
Environment
The Courier-Journal | April 15
Regional Impact
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | April 16
International News Stories
The Peninsula | April 19
The Peninsula | April 19
Business Day (Bloomberg) | April 19
New Kerala | April 18
The Peninsula | April 18
Gulf Times | April 18
Gulf Times | April 15
Business Standard | April 14
The Economic Times | April 14
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National News Stories
Baltimore Sun | April 19
Re-regulating Maryland's power industry might be politically popular in the face of rising rates, experts say, but would be legally complicated, potentially costly and would not necessarily result in lower energy prices. The idea of re-regulation has gained steam during the past month as the prospect of a 72 percent rate increase this summer by Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. all but consumed the recent session of the Maryland legislature. ... The move to competition forced utilities to transfer their power plants to unregulated affiliates or sell them. Getting the plants back - assuming regulators could force such a move - would be costly at today's prices. And the alternative of building plants could also be expensive and time-consuming. "It's a little like trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube," said Jay Apt, a utility expert at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bal-te.bz.regulation
19apr19,0,3137931.story?coll=bal-nationworld
-headlines%20%00 | back to top
The Chronicle of Higher Education | April 18
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences last week awarded the 2006 Heineken Prizes to five researchers and one artist. The winners, each of whom will receive a $150,000 prize, are as follows: ... Cognitive Science: John R. Anderson, of the department of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, for "his ground-breaking theory of human cognition."
http://chronicle.com/news/article/300/
heineken-awards-on-tap-for-5-academics | back to top
Bloomberg | April 18
The World Bank, concerned about allegations of government corruption in Africa, may delay some debt relief announced with fanfare in September, officials said. The bank, owned by 184 nations and finances projects in developing nations, has agreed to cancel $37 billion in debt from 18 of 38 countries. Some of the remaining nations, including Chad and Congo, may not get aid as planned because of their handling of oil revenue. ... Adam Lerrick, an economist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, said public and political pressures may eventually force the World Bank to go forward with debt forgiveness even if the countries stop well short of genuine reform. The governments involved, he said, "don't have to be clean, they don't have to be cleaner, they just have to give the semblance of making a minimal effort."
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087
&sid=a0HFVXjNV.iU&refer=top_world_news | back to top
Baltimore Sun | April 16
But critics say the roughly eight-year-old power market - a sort of stock exchange for electricity - might be vulnerable to a legal form of market manipulation by cagey power generators, who could withhold power supplies at key times and artificially drive up prices. "Are we worse off? I think the answer to that is 'yes,'" said Lester B. Lave, an economics professor at Carnegie Mellon University and co-director of its Electricity Industry Center. "To be more careful with it, I would say deregulation the way it was done in Pennsylvania and Maryland, and so on, certainly has been a failure." ... Jay Apt, one of the Carnegie Mellon researchers, concedes that energy consumers in Maryland would be seeing significantly higher rates regardless of whether the state had deregulated. But he says the structure of the PJM market is at least partly to blame. Also, the overall record on deregulation is at best murky. "It's not obvious to me that there's anything in either the Cornell [research] or my paper that shows me that deregulated states are much worse off, but they're clearly not better off," he said.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bal-bz.auction16apr16,1,3867874.story?page=
1&ctrack=1&cset=true | back to top
MarketWatch | April 14
Name an unpopular war that Congress and the White House were reluctant to pay for with tax increases, leading to budget deficits, sweeping global economic changes and crippling inflation: A) Vietnam, B) Iraq, C) Both A and B. For a growing number of economists, the answer is C. Although the orders of magnitude differ, analysts are beginning to see disturbing parallels between Vietnam and Iraq's economic consequences, and how policy-makers should address them. ... Alan Meltzer, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University who has written a history of the Fed, said that the Iraq spending "is just a drop in the bucket" for the government. "The economy wouldn't look much different if we didn't have the war," Meltzer said, adding that the topic of the war doesn't even come up in his conversations with Fed officials.
http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story
/Story.aspx?guid=%7BA7DB7B95-7C58-41FB-AF89-
1F65136D670E%7D&siteid=google | back to top
CNN (AP) | April 13
Carnegie Mellon University is about to unveil a new unmanned ground combat vehicle commissioned by the U.S. military. "Crusher," a 6.5-ton, six-wheeled robotic vehicle designed to negotiate harsh terrain, will be presented along with its predecessor, "Spinner," at Carnegie Mellon's National Robotics Engineering Center on April 28, spokeswoman Anne Watzman said. Crusher, funded by the Army and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is one of many robotic products being developed nationwide to cut the risk of casualties. "It's designed to help keep military personnel out of harm's way," Watzman said.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH
/04/13/crusher.robot.ap/ | back to top
CNN (AP) | April 12
For most people, snakes seem unpleasant or even threatening. But Howie Choset sees in their delicate movements a way to save lives. The 37-year-old Carnegie Mellon University professor has spent years developing snakelike robots he hopes will eventually slither through collapsed buildings in search of victims trapped after natural disasters or other emergencies. In recent weeks, Choset and some of his students made what he said was an industry breakthrough: enabling the articulated, remote-controlled devices to climb up and around pipes. Rescue workers say such robots would be useful because current equipment has limited mobility and usually has to be lowered into fallen structures, Choset said. "Right now, the way to get to these trapped survivors is to pull the rubble out one rock at a time," Choset said. "So our dream is to have the snake robot thread through this collapsed rubble and get to victims more quickly."
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH
/science/04/12/snake.robot.ap/ | back to top
Student Experience
BusinessWeek | April 11
The magic carpet ride is coming to end. For the past year and a half of school I've cried, laughed, partied, studied, and worked. I've even cried, laughed, and partied while studying and working. There have been countless problem sets, case studies, midterm and final exams, networking events, and job interviews. Along the way I have also managed to live a little. My daughter celebrated her second birthday last fall, my wife and I welcomed our first son into the world this past January, and last spring I watched proudly as my youngest brother collected his high school diploma and marched off to college. And so the circle begins – maybe in another decade my brother will embark on his own MBA journey. If and when he does, my only hope for him would be that he enjoy the experience as much as I did. My time at Tepper has been all that I hoped for and much more. ***This article was written by Malcolm Johnson, a student at Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School.
http://www.businessweek.com/bschools
/mbajournal/04johnson/6.htm?campaign_id=search | back to top
Arts and Humanities
Seed Magazine | April 18
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences announced the winners of its 2006 Heineken Prizes last week for outstanding contributions in four different fields of science: biochemistry and biophysics, medicine, environmental sciences and cognitive science. The awards, which consist of a trophy and $150,000, will be presented to the winners on September 28th, at a ceremony in Amsterdam. ... Carnegie Mellon University psychologist John Anderson is the first to win a Heineken Prize for cognitive science thanks to his "computational" theory of human cognition, known as Adaptive Control of Thought (or ACT). His theory can be used to predict cognitive activity and has been instrumental in the development of computer-assisted learning tools. "It is a sign of the growing importance of cognitive science that the Heineken Prizes in science have been expanded to include an award for our field," Anderson said in a statement to the press. "I am very honored to be the first winner and gratified that the award is for the ACT-R theory. It reflects the work of a community of scholars dedicated to trying to put together an understanding of the human mind."
http://www.seedmagazine.com/news
/2006/04/heineken_prizes_unite_american.php | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | April 17
She was the toast of Paris. Her exotic beauty, exuberant dancing and unabashed sexuality drew audiences to her like moths to a flame. ... The group will premiere its latest project, "Josephine Baker: A Life of Le Jazz Hot," at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater in East Liberty. ... There also will be a screening of Baker's film "Princesse Tam Tam" at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater followed by a discussion led by Stephanie Batiste, assistant professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University and featuring members of Imani Winds.
http://www.post-gazette.com
/pg/06107/682725-42.stm | back to top
Yankton Daily Press | April 16
The University of South Dakota's annual Forum for Graduate Student Research and Creative Work will be held 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday, April 21, in the Coyote Student Center. ... The forum will also feature a keynote address by Dr. Stephen Fienberg entitled "In Search of the Magic Lasso: The Truth about the Polygraph." The keynote address will take place at the 12:30 p.m. luncheon honoring the student presenters at the forum. Dr. Fienberg is the Maurice Falk University Professor of Statistics and Social Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, as well as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Fienberg is also well known for his work on the analysis of categorical data, confidentiality and data disclosure, and the application of statistical methodology.
http://yankton.net/stories/041706
/community_20060417012.shtml | back to top
Artnet Magazine | April 13
With the arrival of spring, galleries are popping up like wildflowers along Culver City’s South La Cienega corridor. Sandwiched in between recent arrivals LAXART and LIGHTbox (which is currently showing Tami Ben-Tor’s kickass video), Walter Maciel Gallery from San Francisco opened two weeks ago with an interesting roster of Bay Area artists, including John Bankston, Rebeca Bollinger and Cynthia Ona Innis. ... A little further afield, hypothetically, is the first "Space Art Track" -- a panel discussion and exhibition of "space art" -- slated for the International Space Development Conference, which takes place May 4-7, 2006, at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel out at LAX. A project of Lowry Burgess and Frank Pietronigro of the Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, the event includes a stop of the traveling "The Artists’ Universe" exhibition of space art. These guys even plan some kind of daredevil flight later this summer, in which artists would be able to do their thing in a gravity-free environment. For details, see the Zero Gravity Arts Consortium web site at www.zgac.org.
http://www.artnet.com/magazineus
/reviews/gray/gray4-13-06.asp | back to top
Information Technology
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | April 20
When John Tague Jr. tried to vote in the last election, he struggled to pull the heavy lever that would validate his choices. But on Wednesday, the 59-year-old Greenfield man cast a vote with the push of a button -- and helped county officials show the ease of the new electronic voting machines. ... Opponents claim the machines were "just selected days ago, (are) entirely new to the voters and election officials, inaccessible to many persons with disabilities, and have failed repeatedly in other jurisdictions," according to the lawsuit. Others, such as the voting rights group VotePA, worry about reliability of the machines and integrity of votes. "The very best case is we will have an election that goes smoothly, but the voters have no assurance that their vote will be counted," said David Eckhardt, a lecturer in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and member of VotePA. "The best case is not acceptable."
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/
tribune-review/election/s_445493.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | April 20
With an eye to the future, the selection committee turned back the clock.
Don Marinelli couldn't have been happier. Marinelli, director of Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center, strongly urged that Gort, a metallic robot in the 1951 movie "The Day the Earth Stood Still," be included in the university's Robot Hall of Fame. ... The Robot Hall of Fame, a small section inside the Carnegie Science Center, recognizes real robots that have improved everyday life, such as SCARA, and fictitious robots that have served as inspiration, said Matt Mason, director of the university's Robotics Institute. SCARA devices, for instance, were introduced in the 1970s and have saved an unimaginable amount of money replacing manpower in the manufacturing sector, said Randal Bryant, dean of Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review
/business/s_445494.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | April 16
As you read this morning's paper, Greg Baltus should be in the 10th day of his anticipated four-month trek of the Appalachian Trail. The 30-year-old independent robotics consultant is planning to hike all 2,174.6 miles that stretch from Springer Mountain in northern Georgia to Mount Katahdin in central Maine. Although he is traveling by himself, he won't be alone. ... What makes Mr. Baltus' trek different is that he will be posting his entries and photographs on the Internet via a new map-based Web site, www.trailposts.com, designed and maintained by colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University's Studio for Creative Inquiry. Although this is his first attempt at a thru-hike, Mr. Baltus has had lots of experience on the trail, known by hikers as the A.T. He estimates he's hiked about 500 miles at various times. Last summer he spent a month on the A.T. with Nathan Martin, another Pittsburgher and Carnegie Mellon grad who is associated with the creative inquiry studio. It was on that hike where they hatched the idea for trailposts.com.
http://www.post-gazette.com
/pg/06106/681999-37.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | April 15
More than 500 corporate and academic leaders and prominent alumni will attend a symposium Wednesday through April 22 to celebrate 50 years of computing at Carnegie Mellon University. Called "CS50: Fifty Years of Computer Science," the symposium features speakers including Gov. Ed Rendell; Charles M. Geschke, co-founder of Adobe Systems, and Edward Feigenbaum, an artificial intelligence pioneer at Stanford University in California. On Wednesday evening, Carnegie Mellon will announce this year's inductees into its Robot Hall of Fame.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com
/x/search/s_444056.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | April 15
On Thursday, a one-day symposium honoring Carnegie Mellon's Human-Computer Interaction Institute's founding in 1994 will address how people are using telephones, appliances and other "increasingly complex technologies." Speakers include Carnegie Mellon alumnus Stuart Card, senior research fellow at Xerox Corp's Research Center in Palo Alto, Calif., and Dan R. Olsen Jr., founding director of the Human Computer Interaction Institute who is now in residence at Brigham Young University in Salt Lake City.
http://www.post-gazette.com
/pg/06105/682354-96.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | April 15
Hurrah for tech workers who finally may get to partake of the pleasures and perks that befell them during the dot.com heydays of the 1990s, according to a study by Chicago-based consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The days of bidding wars and signing bonuses could make a comeback, as employers report IT labor was getting harder to find and keep. Jerry Paytas, who directs Carnegie Mellon's Center for Economic Development, said the effects could resonate locally. "The tech sector was severely pruned following the IT bubble and the recession-driven reduction in business infrastructure." In other words, it's time for raises. Remind your boss of this fact as you pop out for a two-hour, two-martini lunch next week.
http://www.post-gazette.com
/pg/06105/682354-96.stm | back to top
Environment
The Courier-Journal | April 15
Cell phones have become common in the United States, with an industry-estimated 212 million wireless telephone service subscribers, said H. Scott Matthews, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Not much is known about how many cell phones are recycled in the U.S., he said, but he noted that people use their phones on average for just a year or two, and 70 million to 100 million new phones are sold in the country each year.
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=
/20060415/NEWS01/604150391/1008 | back to top
Regional Impact
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | April 16
Pennsylvania is taking part in a fierce competition to position itself to be the epicenter of nanotech -- a science that by manipulating atoms and molecules promises to radically alter the way products are made and the world does business. ... For Pennsylvania, the path to success is collaboration. Pennsylvania economic development officials have joined forces with big-name companies, such as PPG Industries, that are better equipped to bring research to the marketplace. "It's an opportunity the state hasn't had in decades," said Tim McNulty, special assistant to the Provost for Strategic Technology Initiatives at Carnegie Mellon University. He also worked as deputy chief of staff for Technology Initiatives for Gov. Tom Ridge and helped craft the state's nanotech strategy. "I'm not sure you can spend your way to success."
http://www.post-gazette.com
/pg/06106/682340-96.stm | back to top
International News Stories
The Peninsula | April 19
As part of the quarterly joint advisory board meeting between Carnegie Mellon University and Qatar Foundation, taking place now at Education City, university representatives hosted a lunch for students in the spirit of a town hall meeting. The session gave students, staff and faculty the opportunity to give feedback to joint advisory board members visiting from the Pittsburgh campus. They are Mark Kamlet, Ph.D., provost and senior vice president; Mary Jo Dively, vice president for legal affairs and chief counsel; William Elliott, vice president for enrollment; and Ilker Baybars, Ph.D., deputy dean of the Tepper School of Business. When asked how the Qatar campus plans to continue to foster the spirit of the main campus, Kamlet said he saw the main difference as one of critical mass. "As we move more toward a global marketplace, the difference between universities that will continue to shine and those that will lose their luster will be the willingness to take their programmers abroad", Kamlet said. "Improving this experience is up to you," Elliott added. "We're here to create opportunities, but it's up to you to take advantage of them. None of us has been a Carnegie Mellon student in Doha, you're the only people who can really talk about what you're doing here, and why other people would want to join you. You're going to remember more about what you learn from each other than from any of us."
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=
Local_News&subsection=Qatar+News&month=April2006
&file=Local_News2006041921851.xml | back to top
The Peninsula | April 19
The Preparatory Committee of the Founding Conference for Expatriate Arab Scientists, headed by H H Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned, is busy preparing for the forthcoming conference stated to open next Monday at Doha Sheraton Hotel. ... The exhibitors includes Qatar Scientific Club, The Supreme Council for the Environment and Natural Reserves, The National Health Authority, Qatar Supreme Council for Communication and Information Technology, Qatar University, Center for Scientific and Applied Research, College of the North Atlantic, Kahrama, Qatar Tourism Authority, Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development. Some of the institutions within Qatar Foundation are also participating: Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar Diabetes Society, Qatar Academy, The Academic Bridge Program, Qatar Leadership Academy, the Science and Technology Park, Texas A&M University-Qatar, Virginia Commonwealth University, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, George Town University.
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp
?section=local_news&month=april2006&file=local_news
2006041921815.xml | back to top
Business Day (Bloomberg) | April 19
The World Bank has warned African states such as Chad and Congo Republic that it may delay debt relief, part of a multibillion-dollar program announced with much fanfare last year, following reports on the misuse of state funds. ... Adam Lerrick, an economist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, said public and political pressure might eventually force the World Bank to go forward with debt forgiveness, even if the countries stopped short of genuine reform.
http://www.businessday.co.za/
articles/world.aspx?ID=BD4A187133 | back to top
New Kerala | April 18
Pittsburgh scientists have developed chemical dyes to see the voltage charges of cardiac cells, including those triggering heartbeats. The researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Carnegie Mellon University say being able to witness the precise events that form the heart's orchestral rhythm of irregular heartbeats could lead to better understand the underlying causes of arrhythmia and sudden cardiac death. ***This article was placed in 10 media outlets.
http://www.newkerala.com/
news2.php?action=fullnews&id=43784 | back to top
The Peninsula | April 18
The second Innovations in Education symposium being hosted by the Qatar Foundation from April 30 to May 2, will discuss issues related with the Education for All (EFA) movement initiated by Unesco in 1999. ... The opening session on April 30 will be followed by interactive workshops on May 1 and May 2 with two key note speeches. Dr. Raj Reddy, the Mozah bint Nasser University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh will speak on the first day on "empowerment of masses through education and capacity building." On the second day, Dr Benjamin Barber, professor of civil society and a director of the Democratic Collaborative at the New York office will speak on "how democratic the internet is."
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp
?section=Local_News&subsection=Qatar+News&month=
April2006&file=Local_News2006041831030.xml | back to top
Gulf Times | April 18
Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar will host its second international Botball challenge on May 27 at the City Center. Qatar is the first country outside the U.S. to host a Botball challenge. In preparation for the event, student teams from six high schools have completed an intensive two-day workshop at Carnegie Mellon in Qatar. ... "We’re delighted to have so many teams competing at the Botball challenge, including some new teams this year," Carnegie Mellon in Qatar Dean Charles E. Thorpe has said.
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics
/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=82584&
version=1&template_id=36&parent_id=16 | back to top
Gulf Times | April 15
Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar has established Connections, a program that facilitates the internship process by ensuring that the right students are matched with the right companies. Connections offers Carnegie Mellon in Qatar's 91 students coming from Qatar, India, Syria, Egypt and Jordan with temporary work placements and the opportunity to combine theory with work experience in a professional environment.
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp
?cu_no=2&item_no=82023&version=1&
template_id=36&parent_id=16 | back to top
Business Standard | April 14
Next Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of India will announce what the rate of interest will be for the next three months. A few weeks ago, the finance minister announced what the Budget deficit would be for this year. For the past 25 years so, both variables have been the subject of intense debate amongst economists who ask: which is more important, the rate of interest or the budget deficit, in determining the course of economic events? One lot has said this, another lot that, and the twain have never managed to meet. But now a couple of them have gathered the courage to say what has, perhaps, always been true: neither matters, at least not as much as we have been led to believe. In a recent paper Bennett T. McCallum of the Carnegie Mellon University and Edward Nelson of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis argue that "fiscal and monetary co-ordination is not necessary for macroeconomic stability."
http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage
.php?autono=87498&leftnm=4&subLeft=0&chkFlg= | back to top
The Economic Times | April 14
Inspired by an MBA class that revolted when their final exam was scheduled at the same time as a World Cup match, the authors—Mr. Vosgerau from Carnegie Mellon, Wertenbroch and Carmon from INSEAD—conducted a series of experiments to help explain why people prefer to watch certain television shows live. They found that the "indeterminacy" of the outcome of certain types of program, such as sports events, raises the viewer's excitement in a way that a taped broadcast (even one where the viewer does not know the outcome) does not. The MBA students were not even satisfied by a set-up which replayed the match immediately after their exam had finished. (The match had ended at the same time as their exam and the students were prevented from hearing the result or any of the details before they viewed it.)
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com
/articleshow/1489907.cms | back to top
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