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May
19, 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.
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The media coverage archive is available at www.cmu.edu/clips
From May 12 to May 18,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 219 references to the university in worldwide
publications. Here is a sample.
National News Stories
Forbes | May 17
Baltimore Sun | May 17
The Wall Street Journal | May 15
The Chronicle of Higher Education | May 15
The New York Times | May 14
MSNBC (Pittsburgh Business Times) | May 14
The Washington Post | May 13
Student Experience
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | May 12
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | May 14
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | May 13
Information Technology
Technology Review | May 17
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | May 17
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | May 14
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | May 13
Environment
The Columbus Dispatch | May 14
Regional Impact
The Philadelphia Inquirer | May 15
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | May 12
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | May 18
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | May 16
Centre Daily (AP) | May 11
International News Stories
The Peninsula | May 18
BBC News | May 17
The China Post (Bloomberg) | May 16
Speigel Online | May 16
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National News Stories
Forbes | May 17
From the soccer mom to the CEO, women (and often men) need to know how to use the skills gained in their traditional roles to carve out a successful career and a happy life. The "Diva" proclaims, as Madonna does, "I always thought I should be treated like a star." The majority of women miss the point when it comes to negotiating salaries. In one study at Carnegie Mellon, graduates with master's degrees were polled about their first jobs. The study found that men were eight times more likely than women to have negotiated their salaries. By not negotiating her first salary, a woman stands to lose more than $500,000 by age 60. Women, on the other hand, who do consistently negotiate their salaries make $1 million more than their more timid counterparts over a career lifetime.
http://www.forbes.com/columnists
/2006/05/16/climbing-corporate-ladder-
highheels-cx_ka_0517heels.html | back to top
Baltimore Sun | May 17
Workplace experts say the most successful managers use a variety of factors to help encourage star workers. That includes recognizing and rewarding excellent performance, providing clear opportunities to move up and tuning in to what employees need. Keeping them challenged, providing avenues to let them have strong input on the company's direction and making the work fun and flexible are other key ways to keep high performers happy and productive. "Stars go about their jobs in fundamentally different ways," said Robert Kelley, adjunct professor of business at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business and author of How To Be a Star at Work, Nine Breakthrough Strategies You Need to Succeed. "We can teach people the range of things stars do."
http://www.baltimoresun.com
/business/careers/bal-wk.stars17may
17,0,432557.story?coll=bal-careers-headlines | back to top
The Wall Street Journal | May 15
In light of increasing odds that federal or state governments will place limits on emissions of carbon dioxide in the next several years, some electric utilities seem to be leaning toward coal technologies that may offer the cheapest way to limit greenhouse gases. Electric generators are the largest single source of CO2 emissions, surpassing motor vehicles. ... A coal technology called integrated gasification combined cycle, or IGCC, may be the most practical and cost-effective option for limiting CO2 output, as well as for sharply curtailing other pollutants, said Jay Apt, executive director of Carnegie Mellon University's Electricity Industry Center.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB114764569
798452442.html?mod=googlenews_wsj | back to top
The Chronicle of Higher Education | May 15
The U.S. Commerce Department will announce this week that it plans to create a committee to study ways to control foreign students' and scholars' access to sensitive technologies, postponing for at least a year the release of a new rule on what are called "deemed exports." The 12-member advisory committee, which will consist of volunteers from academe and industry, as well as experts on intelligence and national security, will recommend ways to bolster national security, while ensuring that the United States remains a welcoming place for foreign students and scholars, a department official explained in an interview with The Chronicle on Friday. ... University leaders who have lobbied against the proposed regulation welcomed the undersecretary's decision to create a committee. "It is important that we consider carefully any restrictions on fundamental research conducted in our universities by foreign nationals as their contributions continue to promote our national economic welfare," said Jared L. Cohon, president of Carnegie Mellon University and co-chairman of the Association of American Universities' task force on export controls.
http://chronicle.com/cgi-bin/printable.cgi?
article=http://chronicle.com/daily/2006
/05/2006051502n.htm | back to top
The New York Times | May 14
When Google announced in December 2004 that it would digitally scan the books of five major research libraries to make their contents searchable, the promise of a universal library was resurrected. Indeed, the explosive rise of the Web, going from nothing to everything in one decade, has encouraged us to believe in the impossible again. Might the long-heralded great library of all knowledge really be within our grasp? ... Raj Reddy, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, decided to move a fair-size English-language library to where the cheap subsidized scanners were. In 2004, he borrowed 30,000 volumes from the storage rooms of the Carnegie Mellon library and the Carnegie Library and packed them off to China in a single shipping container to be scanned by an assembly line of workers paid by the Chinese. His project, which he calls the Million Book Project, is churning out 100,000 pages per day at 20 scanning stations in India and China. Reddy hopes to reach a million digitized books in two years.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/
magazine/14publishing.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1 | back to top
MSNBC (Pittsburgh Business Times) | May 14
Increasingly powerful computers have given businesses, universities and government agencies more capacity than ever to manage and distribute information, but the appetite those computers have for energy has increased correspondingly. In addition, the heat they generate--especially when it comes to large servers--requires additional space and staff to monitor them and keep them from overheating. In an effort to help companies reduce their information technology-related costs, Carnegie Mellon University will launch a lab to test new technologies designed to cool computers more quickly and efficiently. "We think there is a lot of fertile ground to plow here," said Bill Courtright, executive director of Carnegie Mellon's Parallel Data Lab, which will open its new Data Center Observatory on May 16.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12793906/ | back to top
The Washington Post | May 13
Like the red maple itself, botanical illustrators and lithographers go unnoticed. A current exhibition of Prestele's work at the National Agricultural Library in Beltsville seeks to rectify that. ... Two aspects of the exhibition in particular form a poignant call and echo between father and son: Joseph Prestele created the maple lithograph for a major project on American trees by Asa Gray, the preeminent American botanist of the mid-19th century. William Henry Prestele capped his career 40 years later by chronicling the native species of grapes for a botanist and grape champion named Thomas Munson. Both monumental projects, which spawned some of the sweetest renderings of American flora, were not published. They died on the vine, so to speak, victims of that peculiarly Washington trapdoor, the budget overrun. More than a century later, the organizers of the exhibition, the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation at Carnegie Mellon University and the National Agricultural Library, have given a measure of exposure to these hidden jewels and to the Presteles themselves. ... In the exhibition catalogue, the Hunt's Gavin D.R. Bridson explains the stone engraver's method: The original image is copied, reversed, onto a smooth, well polished slab of stone that is covered in gum arabic mixed with nitric acid. The coating is pigmented to allow the engraver to see his progress with steel and diamond-tipped needles of various thicknesses.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content
/article/2006/05/12/AR2006051202065.html | back to top
Student Experience
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | May 12
In its day, the USS Requin set standards in technological advancement. Starting today, Carnegie Science Center visitors will see some 21st-century technology at work deep inside the World War II-era submarine. "Living History" is a multimedia installation designed by graduate students from Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center, or ETC. Several compartments in the Requin's interior have been outfitted with a series of interactive displays designed to explain more about the sub and its crew. ... The project cost less than $20,000, a fraction of what a commercial exhibit design company would have charged, said ETC executive producer and co-founder Don Marinelli. The ETC is an interdisciplinary master's program that combines the resources of Carnegie Mellon's College of Fine Arts and School of Computer Science. Its mission is to develop new technologies for entertainment and educational applications. Retrofitting the Requin was an opportunity too great to miss, Mr. Marinelli said. The team of Carnegie Mellon students benefited, too. Installing equipment in such a unique environment gave them plenty of problem-solving experience. "This is a real-world laboratory," Mr. Marinelli said.
http://www.post-gazette.com
/pg/06132/689461-51.stm | back to top
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | May 14
TV moms have long apron strings. To put it another way, almost nobody has a Mike Brady screen saver on his office computer. Few coffee mugs or refrigerator magnets bear the likenesses of Rob Petrie from "The Dick Van Dyke Show" or "Mr. C" from "Happy Days." ... Kathleen Newman, professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University, writes on the history of mass media. Her books include "Radio Active: Advertising and Consumer Activism, 1935-1947." Her book "Lowbrow: The Forgotten Culture of the 1950s," will be published in 2007. "I would say that the TV mother remains an icon in contrast to the reality of all mothers, whether they have a job outside of the home or not, because our society has still not solved the problem of children care," she says. "Child care is a problem that is left up to every individual family. There is no social organization or consensus on how children should be taken care of."
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/
tribunereview/living/family/s_453642.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | May 13
Nearly everyone who buys an older house has a vision of what it could be. Kristin Hughes had an idea--give a century-old row house in Friendship a wide-open, ultra-modern interior--and the ability to make it happen. "Being a designer, I had a lot of strong ideas of what I wanted to do," said Ms. Hughes, an assistant professor of design at Carnegie Mellon University. "I wanted to design a tactile, warm, inviting environment." Working with architect Gerard Damiani of studio d'ARC, Ms. Hughes undertook a nine-month renovation, doing some of the work herself. The results will be featured on the HGTV show "Generation Renovation" at 6 p.m. Monday. HGTV found Ms. Hughes through Mr. Damiani, who also redesigned his home and studio in the South Side. Ms. Hughes, 37, a Syracuse, N.Y., native who moved here in 2001, said the show emphasizes rehabs by young people. "Pittsburgh allows young people to be homeowners. You can't say that about a lot of cities," she said. ... Fellow Carnegie Mellon teacher Tom Merriman crafted the dining table and benches from mahogany and cherry. Because Ms. Hughes bought them before the renovation, "I tell him the house was designed for his table," she joked.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/06133/689736-30.stm | back to top
Information Technology
Technology Review | May 17
In March, Silicon Valley startup Riya began offering a test version of software that can help users search through digital photo albums by using facial recognition software. Riya applies technology that can examine a photo, capture visual clues about faces and clothing, and also collect data encoded in the file, such as the time and date when it was created. The software combines all this information, giving users the ability to search photos by the people in them. ... To be sure, there's a novelty factor, says Robert Lowe, director of venture development and strategy at Carnegie Mellon University and CEO of Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition, which sells object and face recognition software for surveillance purposes.
http://www.technologyreview.com/
read_article.aspx?id=16882&ch=infotech | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | May 17
The introduction yesterday of electronic touch-screen voting machines for the primary election hit a few bumps in the road, but, overall, proceeded with fewer problems than anticipated in Allegheny and surrounding counties. ... Michael Shamos, a Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor who tests voting machines for the state, said he was amazed by how smoothly the counting went. "[It's] better than anybody could have hoped for for a first outing," said Shamos, who was invited to watch the vote counting.
http://www.post-gazette.com
/pg/06137/690798-85.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | May 14
The recent unveiling of the "Crusher" robotic combat truck by the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute makes it clear that Pittsburgh is a leader in this increasingly important area of technology. ... A main thrust behind developing the present generation of robots is to reduce human exposure to jobs that are dangerous, dirty, difficult or demeaning. Yet using robots this way is on a collision course with (controversial) claims that in the not-too distant future, robotic or artificial intelligence will be indistinguishable from, or indeed increasingly superior to, human intelligence. In other words, serious people think that the robot of science fiction is not too far away from becoming a reality. Carnegie Mellon's own Hans Moravec, a pioneer in robotics, has been in the forefront of those who foresee a blurring of the lines between man and machine. We will, he expects, use the abilities of our machine creations to enhance and redesign ourselves, even to the point of "downloading" our minds into more durable and capable robotic bodies.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/06134/689745-109.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | May 13
Trying to track terrorists using a web created by millions of phone calls is something like playing the popular trivia game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon"--on a massive scale. The National Security Agency probably would use its computing power to look for patterns and links within millions of phone records the spy agency has compiled into a controversial database. "Basically, they'll be doing data mining to find out who's calling whom," said Artur Dubrawski, director of the Auton Lab, part of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science. ... While millions of phone records might seem like a lot, it really isn't much to the NSA, said Dave Farber, a Carnegie Mellon computer science and public policy professor who has dealt with the NSA before and has friends who work there. "If you look at the type of computer systems that that organization has had in the past, it's just a type of problem they can handle," said Farber, who has been called "the grandfather of the Internet." "The NSA has traditionally had the most advanced computer systems available."
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib
/news/cityregion/s_453738.html | back to top
Environment
The Columbus Dispatch | May 14
Since 2000, General Motors has built 1.5 million flexiblefuel vehicles, which can run on gas, E85 or other alternative fuels. ... Alternatives will have to battle competition from traditional gasoline and diesel engines, which will be made more efficient as the price of gasoline increases. "We don’t really need hybrid electrics," said John Maples, an analyst for the federal Energy Information Administration. Automakers already know how to produce more fuel efficient engines, but consumers don't notice it because the technology is used to boost horsepower rather than fuel efficiency, he said. "Someday, maybe zero to 60 won't be quite so important," he said. All of this, however, will depend on oil prices, which could drop as production expands from tar sands, coal and other nontraditional sources, said Mike Griffin, executive director of the Green Design Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. A complete switch to biofuels would require not only a lot of land, but also a doubling of average fuel efficiency, he said.
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/
science/science.php?story=dispatch/
2006/05/14/20060514-A1-03.html | back to top
Regional Impact
The Philadelphia Inquirer | May 15
The combination of new machines, voters who don't know how to use them, and rushed training of poll workers has many observers predicting that a rash of problems will unfold tomorrow. ... The new system scheduled for use in Allegheny County was blamed for problems in reporting results in Cook County, Ill., last month, a situation that persuaded Allegheny County to switch its choice of a vendor at the last minute. Recently, in Utah, a major security hole was uncovered in a system, the Diebold TSX, that will be used in 16 Pennsylvania counties. None are in Southeastern Pennsylvania. "I compared it to a bank manager coming home to dinner and realizing he left the vault open," said Michael Shamos, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. "The fix is to go back and close the door." Shamos, who worked on the fix, is also one of the security experts hired by Pennsylvania to certify the voting systems that will be used in the state.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/
news/local/states/pennsylvania/counties
/chester_county/14580498.htm | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | May 12
A Harvard University academic once poked fun at Pittsburgh's compulsion to study itself. Stop doing reports and act, he told an earnest crowd, noting that in just a few years, various Pittsburgh groups had commissioned at least 26 reports identifying the region's strengths and offering advice on how to solve its economic woes. ... Take the latest endeavor, for example--a 200-page analysis by the Battelle, a Columbus, Ohio-based think tank and consultant. It's in the midst of its fourth study of Pittsburgh's economic development efforts since 2001. ... This time is different, said Don Smith Jr., director of the University Partnership, a joint economic development venture between the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, and chairman of the Oakland KIZ. He promises that the final version of the latest Battelle report, due in June, will "change the way we do things to promote tech growth in this region." Pittsburgh isn't over-studied, Dr. Smith said. "I think we are under implemented." ... The Battelle/Milken report will capture the region's attention and mobilize it to act, Dr. Smith said. "If we don't, we will have failed." Others aren't so sure. Pittsburgh groups have spent too much money with too little to show for it, said Carnegie Mellon economist Rob A. Lowe, who himself delivered a 2004 report benchmarking the Pittsburgh's ability to bring technology to the marketplace against similar cities. "We've spent too many resources on studies to tell us a lot of things we already know," Dr. Lowe said.
http://www.post-gazette.com
/pg/06132/689583-28.stm | back to top
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | May 18
Age: 47. Residence: Fox Chapel. Family: Wife, Jai Vartikar, a professional biologist; sons, Dylan, 10, and Jason, 16. Occupation: Co-founder, chief scientist, Plextronics Inc., of Harmar; dean of Carnegie Mellon University's Mellon College of Science. Education: Bachelor's degree in chemistry, University of Texas at Dallas, 1982; doctorate in organic chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, 1988; post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University. Background: Well-known for his initial discovery of plastics that conduct electricity; helped form Plextronics, a leader in developing technology that enables broad market commercialization of printed electronic devices, which include plastic circuitry, polymer solar cells and organic lights and displays. Noteworthy: Won the 2006 Carnegie Science Center Award of Excellence as Start-up Entrepreneur of the Year. Quote: "I am deeply honored to be named the Carnegie Science Center's Awards for Excellence: Start-up Entrepreneur of the Year. I am thrilled that the value of our scientific invention, the potential of our Plexcore technology and the power of the commercialization of printed electronics devices has been recognized by the committee."
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/
pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_454361.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | May 16
Carnegie Mellon University Professor Daniel Nagin has received the American Society of Criminology's top research award. Dr. Nagin was given the society's Edward H. Sutherland Award for his research into what makes children physically violent as they mature. His studies have shown that children are most violent as toddlers, but a smaller group then remains violent throughout childhood. ... John R. Anderson, a longtime Carnegie Mellon University psychology and computer science professor, has received a major award from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. The academy has named Dr. Anderson the first recipient of its Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science. The $150,000 prize is one of six awarded to outstanding scientists and artists every two years by the academy.
http://www.post-gazette.com
/pg/06136/690437-298.stm | back to top
Centre Daily (AP) | May 11
A blast jolts the submarine as a torpedo is loaded and fired at an unsuspecting destroyer, which explodes in a shower of water and debris. Virtually, that is. Thanks to 21st century speakers and subwoofers planted under the WWII-era submarine's deck, visitors to Pittsburgh's Carnegie Science Center can learn not only about the science behind the watercraft but also how it sounded and felt. They can even fire a virtual torpedo or two. "A chance like this to inject drama is just something that we ate up," said Don Marinelli, a Carnegie Mellon University drama professor and the executive producer of the university's Entertainment Technology Center. The university center collaborated with the science center to create the "Living History" exhibit that opens Friday. ... The "How It Works" section queues interactive graphics that explain in detail the science behind the diesel engines, torpedoes and other parts of the submarine. It has been a hit with the analytically minded, said Bei Yang, a Carnegie Mellon student who worked on the project.
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/
centredaily/news/politics/14556222.htm | back to top
International News Stories
The Peninsula | May 18
Students, staff and faculty of Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar capped of the spring 2006 semester with a celebration marking the ground-breaking of the university's new building. More than 100 people attended the ceremonial ground breaking where Carnegie Mellon in Qatar Dean Chuck Thorpe spoke about the future of the university in the Educational City. "The building will be a visually spectacular addition to Qatar Foundation. But what is much more important, it will be a spectacular space for our educational and research mission. We will of course have classrooms and offices and laboratories; but beyond that we will follow the Carnegie Mellon tradition of having open spaces for people to meet, talk, drink coffee and build the future. We look forward to the welcoming not just Carnegie Mellon, but all of Education City to drop by and collaborate with us," he said.
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display
_news.asp?section=Local_News&subsection
=Qatar+News&month=May2006&file=Local_
News2006051834046.xml | back to top
BBC News | May 17
The Game Innovation Database, as the web site is known, has been developed by a team at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University. The online encyclopedia is similar to Wikipedia and allows users to browse and edit the site's content. ... "We have created the Game Innovation Database in order to create a historical record of which innovations appeared when, and why they are important," said Professor Jesse Schell of Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center, and one of the team behind the site.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/
technology/4986688.stm | back to top
The China Post (Bloomberg) | May 16
A funny thing is happening to China on its way to ruling the global economy: It's realizing the power of a man named Ben Bernanke. Federal Reserve chairman since Alan Greenspan stepped down in January, Bernanke has continued the central bank's efforts to cool U.S. growth. As the Fed's rate increases--and the risk of more--filter through the world's biggest economy, China's seemingly unstoppable boom may be in for a shock. China's gross domestic product could surpass that of the U.S. in 30 or 40 years. The irony is that getting there will require help from U.S. consumers. If U.S. households continue stocking up on Chinese-made electronics, garments and household goods, and overseas companies continue to invest in new factories, China may enjoy the growth it needs to maintain social stability. ... China faces a classic it's-best-to-fix-a-leaky-roof-when-the-sun-is-out challenge. The benefit of acting before the rains set in is demonstrated in a new paper from economists Marvin Goodfriend of Carnegie Mellon University and Eswar Prasad of the International Monetary Fund. In it, they argue that China needs to act now to create a functioning monetary policy. ... "While full modernization of the financial sector is a long way off even in the best of circumstances, we feel it would be a mistake to wait for that to happen before a new monetary framework," Goodfriend and Prasad wrote.
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/editorial
/detail.asp?ID=82349&GRP=i | back to top
Speigel Online | May 16
The United States armed forces have been using robots in Afghanistan and Iraq for some time now. Now the German military, the Bundeswehr, is testing similar robots on a training ground near the southern city of Würzburg. ... In many cases, says Hagen Schempf of Carnegie Mellon University, the perils of technology can pose a greater threat to military robots than the enemy. Schempf, who has been studying the issue for years, says that even a misplaced couch can make a hallway impassible for small reconnaissance robots. "Many European developers are theoretically coming up with state-of-the-art devices," he says, "but they often lack experience using the equipment under real conditions and in crisis zones."
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international
/spiegel/0,1518,416339,00.html | back to top
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