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May 5, 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 28 to May 4 ,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 256 references to the university in worldwide
publications. Here is a sample.
Special Coverage: Crusher
The New York Times (CNET News) | May 2
gizmag | May 2
IT Week | May 2
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | April 29
The Pittsburgh Channel | April 28
National News Stories
The Chronicle of Higher Education | May 5
ABC News (AP) | May 4
MSNBC | May 1
BusinessWeek | May 2006
Discover Magazine | May 2006
Science Magazine | April 28
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | May 4
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | May 3
Pittsburgh City Paper | April 27
Information Technology
CNET News | May 3
Computer World | May 1
Popular Mechanics | May 2006
Pittsburgh Business Times | April 28
Technology Review | March/April 2006
Regional Impact
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | April 29
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | April 29
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | April 28
International News Stories
The Peninsula | May 2
The Globe and Mail | April 28
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Special Coverage: Crusher
The New York Times (CNET News) | May 2
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to hold its third contest for robotic vehicles in November 2007, with a first prize set at $2 million. This would be the agency's first attempt at getting driverless vehicles to negotiate city streets. The entrants will have to carry out a simulated military supply mission in a mock urban area. The vehicles will have to complete a 60-mile course in less than six hours, autonomously obeying traffic laws while merging into moving traffic, navigating traffic circles, negotiating busy intersections and avoiding obstacles. ... Carnegie Mellon's National Robotics Engineering Center unveils a new 6.5-ton unmanned vehicle to work on almost any terrain.
http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_2100-
11394_3-6067419.html?_r=1&oref=slogin | back to top
gizmag | May 2
Safeguarding the soldier is the key aim of the Unmanned Ground Combat Vehicle – giving soldiers enhanced stand-off capability was the reason DARPA funded the Grand Challenge and backed up again two years later with the second challenge and is now holding the challenge in an urban area – such contests dramatically accelerated research into autonomous navigation and identified the most capable people to for the military to work with. The National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC), part of the Robotics Institute in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, unveiled Crusher last week. ... Crusher demonstrates just what we can expect to see on the battlefield a decade from now. In what might well be seen as an offspring of the Grand Challenge, “Crusher” is a new breed of UGV – an NREC-designed, six-wheeled, all-wheel drive, hybrid electric, skid-steered, unmanned ground vehicle.
http://www.gizmag.com/go/5576/ | back to top
IT Week | May 2
U.S. boffins have unleashed a $35m robotic vehicle designed to go into battle and "function on its own". The scientists from Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) said that the 6.5 ton Crusher is a robust, unmanned vehicle that can function autonomously in challenging off-road terrain. The project is known by the acronym UPI, which stands for Unmanned PerceptOR Integration. Since Crusher and its Spinner predecessor do not have to accommodate human crews, their designs offer unequalled ruggedness, mobility and payload-carrying capacity compared to manned vehicles in their weight class. ... "We are developing Crusher to provide technology insights to the broader Army community and show people what can be done and pave the way for the future," said John Bares, director of NREC and UPI principal investigator. ... Randal Bryant, dean of Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science, added: "Crusher is a natural outgrowth of more than 26 years of field robotics research conducted at the Robotics Institute.
http://www.itweek.co.uk/vnunet/news
/2155125/35m-robot-goes-battle-own | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | April 29
Carnegie Mellon University rolled out its latest unmanned combat prototype vehicle yesterday in a display of speed and mobility that would make a monster truck show look tame. The National Robotics Engineering Center, part of the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute, unveiled Crusher, a six-wheeled vehicle billed as leaner and more agile than its predecessor, Spinner, but also more durable and able to handle a heavier payload. ... Features include a light, strong frame made of aluminum and titanium and a suspension system that allows the vehicle to either rest on its belly or have 30 inches of ground clearance, allowing for greater ease in clearing obstacles. Electric motors in each of the wheels allow them to run at different speeds. Still, "you hit things you don't expect," said John Bares, the center's director. So Crusher is equipped with an energy-absorbing nose and a protective plate beneath the vehicle, with blocks of rubber around the chassis to absorb shock.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg
/06119/686077-96.stm | back to top
The Pittsburgh Channel | April 28
The Crusher -- a 6 1⁄2-ton, six-wheeled unmanned combat vehicle -- was unveiled Friday. As the Crusher rolled out, the crowd went wild at Carnegie Mellon's National Robotics Engineering Center. The excitement was over the 13,000-pound metal machine designed to protect American soldiers by sneaking into areas they should not. "We believe in our hearts that these are going to good purposes someday, that these will be protecting our soldiers in the field," said Crusher director John Bares.
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com
/news/9075773/detail.html | back to top
National News Stories
The Chronicle of Higher Education | May 5
Carnegie Mellon, an American university with a reputation for excellence in science and technology, is soon to be the first foreign institution to offer degree programs on Australian soil. University and local government leaders believe that the new campus, which opens this month and will offer graduate level programs in information technology, public policy, and entertainment technology, will enhance their respective reputations as important players in the region's higher education market. ... Certain similarities between Adelaide and Pittsburgh also seemed to strike a chord among those on both sides of the historic deal. "In both instances, we're not the largest cities in our respective countries but second cities," explains Donald Marinelli, a professor of drama and arts management who will be a director of Carnegie Mellon's new Entertainment Technology Center. "And as such, you know, it's like the old Avis slogan: We try harder," he says. "We both know the value of going out and doing things, rather than resting on size and reputation." Carnegie Mellon officials consider the entertainment technology, information technology, and public policy programs as just the beginning of their work in Australia. "It's fully our hope that other units on campus will come here as well," says Brenda Peyser, executive director of the Heinz School in Australia.
http://chronicle.com/weekly/
v52/i35/35a04901.htm | back to top
ABC News (AP) | May 4
One thing that separates humans from robots is our capacity to feel — and our ability to throw away absurd sums of money on dud investments. We mean well — most of us think we're making smart decisions when we invest in a stock, mutual fund or even a house, but our reasoning is often clouded by personal or emotional experiences that can delude us into believing the most preposterous of notions. Worse yet, we aren't even aware of the influence emotions have on our decisions. "I think the best investment strategy is to pick some stocks or mutual funds you like, and stick your head in the sand and protect yourself from emotions that are going to cause you to do stupid things," said George Loewenstein, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. ***This AP story appeared in more than 30 media outlets.
http://abcnews.go.com/Business
/story?id=1918084&page=1 | back to top
MSNBC | May 1
Just months after awarding $2 million for a sport utility vehicle that drove itself over more than 100 miles of open road, the Pentagon on Monday unveiled a bigger, richer challenge for self-driving vehicles that can negotiate city traffic. ... Stanford's [Sebastion] Thrun and his closest competitor in that race, Carnegie Mellon University robotics professor Red Whittaker, both told MSNBC.com they would take part in the newly announced DARPA Urban Challenge competition, which is due to reach its climax on Nov. 3, 2007. "We're about the future of robotics," Whittaker said. "Anytime there is anything going on in robotics anywhere, we're in."
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12583619/ | back to top
BusinessWeek | May 2006
To identify the best undergraduate business programs, BusinessWeek used five unique measures, including a survey of more than 100,000 business majors at top schools and a poll of undergraduate recruiters. To better understand career outcomes, we also looked at starting salaries for graduates and how many each school sent to top MBA programs. Finally, an academic-quality score--a combination of five measures including SAT scores and faculty-student ratios--identified schools with the smartest, hardest-working, and best-served students. The ranking is based on the "index number," which represents the sum of all five measures. We also calculated letter grades on teaching quality, facilities and services, and job placement based on the student survey. The top 20% in each category among all 61 top programs that we ranked earned A+s. The next 25% got As, the next 35% got Bs, and the bottom 20% got Cs. ... ***Carnegie Mellon's undergraduate business program ranked 16th.
http://bwnt.businessweek.com/bschools
/undergraduate/06rankings/ | back to top
Discover Magazine | May 2006
The dream of interspecies dialogue lives on at the Wild Dolphin Project in Florida. Recordings made there are sent to language experts at Carnegie Mellon University, who use computer programs to synthesize dolphin sounds and to try to interpret the meaning of the whistles and clicks. The researchers find great complexity in dolphin sounds. "Their capacity for communication could range from the level of a dog barking all the way to possible talking," says Robert Frederking of Carnegie Mellon.
http://www.discover.com/issues
/may-06/rd/whatever-happened-to/ | back to top
Science Magazine | April 28
American scientists working in France have experiences that are almost always positive. Almost all of those we talked to come to appreciate some aspect of France's rich culture, both inside and outside the lab. The only negative comments--usually expressed with an air of amused astonishment--were about France's overwhelming bureaucracy. Most American scientists, it seems, go to France for the scientific opportunities it offers, but they come away with vivid memories of a rich cultural experience that extends well beyond the laboratory. ... For Ernest Schimmerling, a mathematician at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who spent part of a sabbatical in Paris, work and recreation blend together, which gives France particular appeal. "Mathematicians working together just talk through ideas or stare into space hoping to have one. Sometimes they go for a walk. This is particularly pleasant if the walk happens to be through Paris streets or along cliffs overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Fresh air is essential, especially if one of them smokes."
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_development
/previous_issues/articles/2006_04_28/vin_pain_et_science | back to top
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | May 4
John Carson, a multimedia artist and lecturer at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, has been appointed Regina Gouger Miller Department Head of the School of Art, Carnegie Mellon University. He succeeds Susanne Slavick, who served as department head for six years. Slavick is beginning a year-long sabbatical after which she will return to the school's faculty. Hilary Robinson, the Stanley and Marcia Gumberg Dean of the College of Fine Arts, describes Carson as a "wonderful communicator about the role of art in broader communities and a believer in artists as agents for change."
http://www.post-gazette.com
/pg/06124/687244-42.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | May 3
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is holding an on-line poetry contest and offering a Mother's Day brunch in connection with the May 12 to 14 world premiere performances of Reza Vali's "The Being of Love." The Carnegie Mellon music professor's composition is a five movement song cycle to texts by the 13th century Persian poet Jalaluddin Rumi.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/
goingout/news/print_449835.html | back to top
Pittsburgh City Paper | April 27
On multiple-choice tests, the poet and Carnegie Mellon professor answers "yes". Terrance Hayes enters the box-like Duquesne University classroom as unobtrusively as can a 6’5” man with a mohawk. Instructor Benji Jones has her back to the door; when she turns she’s startled to see her guest, standing by the lectern and smiling broadly above his soul patch. He’s wearing a long navy woolen overcoat, a cream mock turtleneck sweater and brown cords, a gleaming stud in each earlobe. In one hand he clutches a grubby canvas “Associated Writers and Poets 2003 Conference” tote bag containing copies of his three volumes of poetry.
http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/archive.cfm?
type=Main%20Feature&action=getComplete&ref=6067 | back to top
Information Technology
CNET News | May 3
Eric Brown and Asi Burak think a strategy game, of all things, could help forge a new level of understanding between Israelis and Palestinians. Their game, known as "Peacemaker," is all about tearing down decades-old walls of mistrust between the two peoples, all the while turning one of the best-understood video game dynamics on its head. In the game, players assume leadership responsibilities on both sides of the conflict as they face real-life issues, such as diplomatic negotiations and military attacks, that divide the camps. "It's a strategy game that's typical in form," said Eric Brown, a graduate student in interactive educational design at Carnegie Mellon University, "except we inverted the model, so it's not a war game."
http://news.com.com/Real+diplomacy+from
+the+virtual+world/2100-1043_3-6067673.html | back to top
Computer World | May 1
Two of the world's premier facilities for research and education in computer science are celebrating big birthdays this spring. Stanford University's CS department observed its 40th birthday in March, and Carnegie Mellon University's school of CS passed the half-century mark last month. ***Randal E. Bryant, dean of the school of computer science and Jaime Carbonell, director of the Language Technologies Institute are both featured in this article.
http://www.computerworld.com/careertopics
/careers/story/0,10801,110959,00.html | back to top
Popular Mechanics | May 2006
Researchers such as Metin Sitti at the Carnegie Mellon NanoRobotics Lab envision nanobots powered and controlled by magnetic fields generated outside the body in machines akin to today's MRI equipment. Propulsion might be generated by a mechanical flagellum. Other concepts call for screw propellers or flapping fins.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/
science/medicine/2713146.html?page=4&c=y | back to top
Pittsburgh Business Times | April 28
Master's degree programs in information technology are giving graduates a valuable return on their investment in the form of better job opportunities and healthier salaries. Information provided by Carnegie Mellon University shows 80 percent of the students who completed the school's master's of information systems management program last year received job offers before they graduated. Annual salaries, which have remained about the same in recent years, range from $105,000 on the high end to a median of $70,000 with $57,000 being the lowest. "The salaries are usually contingent upon the person's background before they entered our program," said Andy Wasser, associate dean at Carnegie Mellon. "Some graduates have seen a 25 percent to 30 percent spike in their salary after they graduate from our program."
http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/
pittsburgh/stories/2006/05/01/focus5.html | back to top
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, co-director 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.
http://www.technologyreview.com
/read_article.aspx?id=16449&ch=infotech | back to top
Regional Impact
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | April 29
Heinz helped commission a 2003 study by the University of Pittsburgh that examined where graduates of Pitt, Carnegie Mellon and Duquesne universities go. The study found that more than half of the respondents with jobs were working in the Pittsburgh area after graduating in 1999, compared to only 40 percent among 1994 graduates. ... As Carnegie Mellon transformed itself from a regional to a national university, fewer of its graduates came from the region, and they were better able to command higher salaries outside Pittsburgh. After the dot-com bust, however, more of its graduates have been willing to work in the Pittsburgh area, said Paul Fowler, associate dean of student affairs and director of Carnegie Mellon's career center. In 2001, for example, only 19 percent of the university's engineering grads stayed in the area, compared to 33 percent last year. "It's been easier for us to promote Pittsburgh opportunities when there's less name-brand, national opportunities," Fowler said. Another reason more Carnegie Mellon graduates are staying is the greater emphasis President Jared L. Cohon places on keeping them here. Under his direction, the university has encouraged more local companies to recruit here. It gives students free Port Authority bus stickers, free or reduced-price tickets to museums and other cultural sites, and special events at Kennywood, Pirates games, The Waterfront and Ohiopyle. "The better our students know Pittsburgh, the more they'll want to stay here," Cohon said. "Pittsburgh sells itself."
http://www.pittsburghlive.com
/x/pittsburghtrib/s_448668.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | April 29
A coterie of people have been gathering quietly to discuss a draft of a study charged with developing a regional (not just Oakland-centric) strategy for creating a vibrant technology industry. The study, commissioned by the Greater Oakland Keystone Innovation Zone, was conducted over several months since last fall by consulting group Battelle and think tank the Institute. It was paid for by grants from local foundations, according to KIZ chief Don Smith Jr., who also heads the joint economic development venture between Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh.
http://www.post-gazette.com
/pg/06119/686043-96.stm | back to top
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | April 28
As he does two or three times a week, Marc Cruse, 12, stopped off Thursday at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh's Downtown branch after school. With no computer at home, the West End boy comes to the library "every time I get a chance," he said, while standing in front of a flat-panel computer screen to play an Internet game. That's just the kind of scene the Carnegie Library system touted yesterday as it unveiled an economic study to prove its value. The library said it supports more than 700 jobs and gives back a value of $75 a year for each Allegheny County resident. ... "The library touches all of them," said Jerry Paytas, director of Carnegie Mellon University's Center for Economic Development, who conducted the study. "There's no other resource we have in this community that has such an extensive reach into that demographic."
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib
/news/cityregion/s_448295.html | back to top
International News Stories
Gulf Times | May 2
Eminent computer science and robotics expert Dr. Raj Reddy has called for developing capacity building programs to make 100 percent of the world population e-literate. "Developing programs to overcome language barriers and building of domain-specific capacity, content, and partnership for education should also be on the research agenda," he stated. Dr. Reddy, the Mozah Bint Nasser University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, U.S., was delivering one of the keynote addresses of the second symposium in the Innovations in Education series yesterday.
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&
item_no=84521&version=1&template_id=36&parent_id=16 | back to top
The Peninsula | May 2
Raj Reddy, founding director, the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University was honored at a function held in the presence of H. H. Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned, yesterday. The function was held in parallel with the ongoing "Innovations in Education" symposium at the Four Seasons Hotel. Raj Reddy, the recipient of "2006 Vannevar Bush Award", was honored for his contributions in the field of computer science. Reddy is considered a leader in transforming computer science from a disparate group of academic disciplines into an integrated field. His work has helped the U.S. lead in a range of compute science developments.
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section
=Local_News&subsection=Qatar+News&month=May2006&
file=Local_News2006050224449.xml | back to top
The Globe and Mail | April 28
Today, Qatar is a frenzy of construction cranes, five-star hotels, lavish homes and high-end shops. Hotel rooms are expensive and difficult to find as business people from around the world descend on the capital city of Doha, trying to get in on the explosive growth. Young men drive brand-new Mercedes, Porsches and Toyota Land Cruisers slowly through downtown streets. So many of Doha's roads are being simultaneously renovated that the city is often caught in crippling traffic jams. Natural gas, whose prices until recently had been soaring, has been good to this country. Qatar has one of the largest gas reserves in the world, and recent technological advances have made cooling and shipping it easier to do. ... "Natural gas will underpin growth here for the foreseeable future," says Charles Thorpe, dean of Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, "but they're trying to diversify from that." But, "when you've got so few stocks to look at, it's difficult to make accurate predictions."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/
LAC.20060428.RMIDEAST28/TPStory/Business | back to top
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