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July 2 -
8, 2004
This internal publication contains information about recent coverage
of Carnegie Mellon that appeared primarily in national newspapers, magazines
and online publications.
Please send comments and suggestions to thomas@cmu.edu
The media coverage archive is available at www.cmu.edu/clips
From July 2 - 8,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 143 references to the university in worldwide
publications. Here is a sample.
National News Stories
USA Today | July 7
The New York Times | July 7
Detroit News | July 4
The Register-Guard | July 4
Optimize Magazine | July 2004
Student Experience
The Chronicle of Higher Education | July 9
Post-Gazette | July 3
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh City Paper | July 8
The Wall Street Journal | July 7
Tribune-Review | July 7
Albany Times Union | July 5
Post-Gazette | July 4
Post-Gazette | July 3
Tribune-Review | July 3
Information Technology
The Chronicle of Higher Educaiton | July 9
Philadelphia Inquirer (Associated Press) |
July 6
Tribune-Review | July 6
Post-Gazette | July 5
Post-Gazette | July 4
IEEE Spectrum | July 2004
Biotechnology
Post-Gazette | July 6
Post-Gazette | July 5
Environment
American Medical News | July 12
Regional Impact
Post-Gazette | July 7
Tribune-Review | July 4
International News Stories
The Financial Express, India | July 4
Sofia Morning News, Bulgaria | July 4
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National News Stories
USA Today | July 7
Researchers are finding ways to make vehicles safer, lighter, more powerful
— and ultimately less expensive — by building materials
one atom at a time. Nanotechnology, which involves working at a scale
more than 1,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair, is about
to revolutionize the way cars are built and driven. Factories will run
more efficiently with the help of microscopic assembly machines. Injuries
caused by accidents will be reduced. And eventually the price of your
dream car might finally be a little closer to your budget... Other uses
for nanotechnology in the auto industry include: Scratch-resistant paints.
William Messner, a mechanical engineering professor
at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University, said he
was amazed by a demonstration in which a car with one door covered in
nanoengineered paint was run repeatedly through a car wash. That door
looked brand new, he said, while the rest of the vehicle lost its original
luster.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news
/techinnovations/2004-07-07-nanocars_x.htm | back
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The New York Times | July 7
With its bold and luminous cut-glass design, the Shanghai Grand Theater
can stake a claim to being the heart of this city, and the dazzling
impression it makes fits this pulsing business center's glittery self-image
to a T. Urban and cultural development experts agree that museums and
other institutions are a starting point. But they say that to emerge
as a real cultural powerhouse, a city must fulfill a variety of criteria,
including some that defy government planning here. "Cities that
are really vibrant are creative in a lot of different ways," said
Richard Florida, a professor of economic development
at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and the
author of "The Rise of the Creative Class . . . And How It's Transforming
Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life."
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/07/arts/07SHAN.html
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Detroit News | July 4
While numerous studies show that taking time off can do everything from
boosting productivity to reducing heart-attack risks, vacations have
side effects: They can turn you into you an inefficient space cadet
— at least for a couple of days. It takes the average employee
a day and half to resume normal productivity at work after a break,
according to surveys by OfficeTeam, a staffing company that does workplace
research. How can you hit the ground running? We surveyed time-management
gurus, psychologists and career coaches on the best ways to jump-start
your brain and avoid common blunders that can sabotage the first days
back: * The first mistake is simply letting the world know you’re
back, says Randy Pausch, a professor at Carnegie
Mellon University who teaches time-management workshops. “You
have to lie,” he says. He builds in a one-day cushion by setting
the return date in his e-mail “out of office” reply message
a day ahead of his actual return, and telling people he’s coming
back a day later than he actually does.
http://www.detnews.com/2004/money
/0407/05/a13-202823.htm | back to top
The Register-Guard | July 4
Hospital executives want to adorn Eugene-Springfield with two shining
new hospitals: a massive, nine-story affair on the banks of the McKenzie
River, and a smaller, but still plush facility four miles away, along
the Willamette River. Combined, these two medical centers will cost
nearly a half-billion dollars, and a growing number of community members
fear that will push up the local cost of health care - already among
the highest in the state. "That level of capital expansion has
to get paid for, so it's likely it will increase the cost of care,"
said Martin Gaynor, a health care economist and professor
at the Heinz School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie
Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa.
http://www.registerguard.com/news/2004
/07/04/a1.healthcosts.0704.html | back to top
Optimize Magazine | July 2004
Some of the brightest ideas for business-IT systems don't come from
CIOs or even vendors. They originate in universities. That's why we
feature two leading-edge research efforts. Hau Lee, professor of operations,
information, and technology at Stanford Graduate School of Business
describes intelligent, demand-based supply-chain management. Sridhar
Tayur, research chair and professor at Carnegie Mellon
University's Tepper School of Business, explains how operations research
tackles large inventory systems. Both are also founders of software
companies and supply-chain consultants.
http://www.optimizemag.com
/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=22101753 | back to top
Student Experience
The Chronicle of Higher Education | July 9
Few high-school students are exposed to engineering. Nearly every high
school teaches biology, chemistry, and physics, but only six states
require engineering course work in their public high schools. Massachusetts,
for example, has established an engineering curriculum that requires
all students to take a full-year course in technology and engineering.
And many of those students who are familiar with engineering "think
of it as a nerd's profession," says Pradeep K. Khosla,
head of the department of electrical and computer engineering at
Carnegie Mellon University. Many colleges are running summer
camps to pique younger students' interest in engineering. At Purdue,
female students conduct engineering camps for sixth- through eighth-grade
girls. Carnegie Mellon offers a summer camp in robotics on its West
Coast campus, near Palo Alto, Calif.
http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v50
/i44/44a01501.htm | back to top
Post-Gazette | July 3
The Summer New Play Festival, which, under different titles, formats
and scope and with occasional hiccups, has been sponsored by Carnegie
Mellon University School of Drama since 1989, will return the
next two weekends with single staged readings of six new plays. The
playwrights are alumni and students in Carnegie Mellon's dramatic writing
program, and the plays are considered works in progress. Festival producer
Rob Ripley makes the point that audience feedback is an important part
of the new play development process. Each staged reading will be followed
by a moderated response session. Admission is free. The 2004 Summer
New Play Festival is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04185/341018.stm
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Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh City Paper | July 8
In the movies, people fall in love, just as in the real world. But figuring
out what cinematic life has to do with the everyday kind is a job for
people like Carnegie Mellon University English Prof.
David R. Shumway. His recent book Modern Love: Romance, Intimacy,
and the Marriage Crisis (New York University Press) explores how films,
novels and self-help books inform the way people talk and feel about
marriage. Shumway is currently writing a book about rock stars. [Q.]
How much has popular culture influenced how people think about love?
[A.] Historians of marriage and love have long maintained that there
was a shift in the 19th century to a model where people expected to
marry for love: Instead of a discourse of selecting the [economically]
appropriate mate, marriage begins to be justified by this older [medieval]
set of discourses about falling in love, a kind of mysterious process.
Historians credit the novel with this because they don’t have
another good way to explain it. It’s my argument that romance
begins as a set of literary conventions.
http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/news
/story.cfm?type=Local%20Vocal | back to top
The Wall Street Journal | July 7
It will be almost two years before steel rises even to ground level
in construction of the iconic Freedom Tower, whose cornerstone was laid
at Ground Zero in an emotional ceremony Sunday. But a few blocks away
-- and far removed from public view -- a group of architects designing
the tower are stretching design technology in ways that will change
how buildings are created. Instead of drafting abstract instructions,
the 3-D modeling has the architect design what the building actually
looks like, and then spits out the old fashioned drawings for the contractor
to use as a result. More than that, the computer models act like actual
buildings do. Architecture is one of the last design professions to
latch onto 3-D modeling. "The economies of scale in product design,
you design it once and sell it millions of times," says Omer
Akin, a professor of architecture at Carnegie Mellon
University. "In buildings, you design it once, build it once and
use it once." He adds that the sheer number of parts in a building
-- half a million for a 100,000-square-foot structure -- has until now
overwhelmed 3-D modeling programs.
http://online.wsj.com/article
/0,,SB108915978482156861-search,00.html | back to
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Tribune-Review | July 7
Jay O'Berski calls his latest role delightfully frustrating. Joe Schulz
finds it alternately challenging and fun. O'Berski and Schulz comprise
the entire 15-character cast of Marie Jones' comedy "Stones in
His Pockets" that's the third offering of Pittsburgh Irish and
Classical Theatre's 2004 season. When he learned that Pittsburgh Irish
and Classical Theatre's artistic director Andrew Paul had put "Stones
in His Pockets" on the season schedule, O'Berski urged him to hire
Stuart Carden as director. O'Berski knew Carden from
watching him teach directing classes and workshops in the pre-college
program at Carnegie Mellon University. "I think
he's the best director in Pittsburgh, so thorough and uncontented,"
O'Berski says. Both actors admire the way Carden challenges them.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/search/s_202126.html
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Albany Times Union | July 5
We've all done it -- used retail therapy to de-stress and give our spirits
a boost after a hard day or tough exam. We turn to buying new things
as a quick and easy way to make us feel better about ourselves. In our
materialistic, instant-gratification society, we seek solace in buying
as a quick fix for slumping self-esteem...Even worse for our wallets,
our emotions -- even incidental ones -- affect economic decisions, and
we tend to fork over more money when we're sad in an attempt to change
our mood, according to a study published by Carnegie Mellon
University in Pittsburgh in March 2004.
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=263146
&category=LIFE&newsdate=7/5/2004 | back to
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Post-Gazette | July 4
Jeff Goldblum was determined to do it right. He'd brought along a copy
of Edgar Lee Masters' "Spoon River Anthology," to let its
poems help shape his feelings as he retraced his childhood through Pittsburgh
and West Homestead. This trip down memory lane came a month ago. Goldblum,
51, was in Pittsburgh with his fiancee, Catherine Wreford, 24, to meet
with Pittsburgh CLO for preliminary rehearsals of "The Music Man,"
in which they star starting Tuesday as Harold Hill and Marian the Librarian.
Following behind was another car with a two-man film crew. The crew
was starting work on a documentary about Goldblum, but that lay in the
future...Next stop was the Kresge Theater at Carnegie Mellon,
where Goldblum spent 1967 and 1968 in the summer precollege program.
"We had classes with Edith Skinner," Goldblum recalled, giving
the name of the legendary speech teacher its proper awe. He still does
the voice exercises she taught.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04186/340311.stm
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Post-Gazette | July 3
When artist Jane Haskell was developing a course on women in art for
Duquesne University, she asked her friend Jan Cohn if she could help
with a title. "Right off the top of her head she said 'Mayas, Madonnas
and Myths,' " Haskell said yesterday. Haskell used it. Mrs.
Cohn's quick wit and sense of humor were two of the traits that made
her popular with her students of English literature at Carnegie
Mellon University, where she taught in the 1970s. But what
won more admiration was the way she involved herself with the students,
trying to help each individual reach their full potential. She stayed
in touch with many of them throughout their lives after graduation.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04185/341159.stm
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Tribune-Review | July 3
There are movie stars. There are silver-screen icons who capture the
public's imagination and can come to define a generation. And then,
rarest of all, there are true actors who become masters of their craft.
Marlon Brando, who died Thursday evening at age 80, became all of these
things at once. With Brando, "people got a three-dimensional view
of what was meant by Method acting -- getting inside the character and
losing the showiness that American theatre and film was known for,"
says Don Wadsworth, associate head of acting at the
Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama. "When
he appeared, it was a kind of seamless performance -- you couldn't tell
where the actor and where the character was. They became the same thing.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/search/s_201734.html
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Information Technology
The Chronicle of Higher Educaiton | July 9
A group of colleges has banded together to create a national, fiber-optic
computer network for academe, called National LambdaRail, which is relying
on financial support from colleges, higher-education groups, and state
governments. Proponents say the network will provide opportunities for
new breakthroughs in research while helping colleges control their networking
costs. But the project faces some hurdles because colleges have little
experience in operating long-distance computer networks. And some institutions
are deciding, at least for now, that the new network is more powerful
than they need or can afford...Supporters evince confidence that National
LambdaRail will work as advertised. "Technologically, it's not
risky," says David J. Farber, a professor of computer
science and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University
who is National LambdaRail's chief scientist.
http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v50/i44/44a02901.htm
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Associated Press) | July
6
AT&T says it expects to have 1 million customers for its voice-over-Internet
phone service by the end of next year, while cable-TV giant Comcast
has said it anticipates offering the service to all its customers by
the end of 2006. A flurry of recent announcements by telecom companies
paint the hot technology as the industry's future. So should consumers
ditch their traditional land lines now and opt for the cheaper new service?
Maybe not yet...But some obstacles may delay VoIP's status as a popular
consumer phone service. ``VoIP probably wouldn't have done real well
when the Ken Starr report came out,'' and data networks were swamped,
said Farooq Hussain, a principal at Network Conceptions, a telecommunications
consulting firm. Such reliability issues have led Carnegie Mellon
University to wait to introduce VoIP on campus until it upgrades its
network over the next three years, said Joel Smith,
the university's chief information officer.
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/business
/technology/9089156.htm | back to top
Tribune-Review | July 6
Blog. The word sounds like a synonym for a dank swamp. At 100 mph, the
car smashed through the guardrail and crashed into a blog. Instead,
blogs are one of the fastest-growing areas of the Internet, capable
of spreading information and opinion at the stroke of a key. A derivative
of the phrase "Web logs," they are accessible to anyone with
a computer and access to the Internet. Politics, sports, celebrity and
lifestyle issues are all fodder for blogs, which www.blogger.com defines
as "personal diaries, daily pulpits, collaborative spaces, political
soapboxes, breaking-news outlets, a collection of links, private thoughts
or memos to the world."..."My first reaction to them was it's
a very interesting way for people to express their opinions," says
Peter Madsen, executive director of the Center for
Applied Ethics at Carnegie Mellon University. Madsen
agrees that bloggers should not be held to the same standards as journalists,
but also thinks there have to be some rules or ethics that can be applied
to the form.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/search/s_201977.html
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Post-Gazette | July 5
Despite their outward sameness, most computers are so personalized with
desktop preferences and software that borrowing someone's computer can
seem as creepy as borrowing their underwear. Researchers at the Intel
Research Pittsburgh laboratory in Oakland think they may have an answer
in a project they call Internet Suspend/Resume. By taking advantage
of the Internet, distributed file systems and a concept called virtual
machines, Internet Suspend/Resume allows a user to stop, or suspend,
work on one computer and then move to another computer, perhaps at home,
or even across the country, and instantly resume that work. The computer
desktop at the second machine would appear identical to what appeared
on the first machine's monitor when work was suspended ---- the same
programs and files open, even the cursor at the same spot. It sounds
simple, maybe even trivial to some. "People don't realize how hard
we have to work to do this," said Mahadev Satyanarayanan,
a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist who
just ended a two-year stint as the Intel lab's founding director.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04187/341822.stm
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Post-Gazette | July 4
By Jim Morris. The tech meltdown affecting computer
jobs as well as stock prices, and the stories about off-shoring of programming
jobs, have caused a decline in computer science enrollments at colleges
and universities across the country. This wouldn't happen if people
understood the real goals of computer science. It's not just about money.
Portraying computer science as a path to getting rich is wrong and contributes
to the boom-bust pattern. There was also a boom and bust in the 1980s
following the introduction of the IBM PC. At first people thought PCs
would give everyone a job; then they found out hard work was involved.
***Jim Morris is a professor of computer science and dean of Carnegie
Mellon University's West Coast campus.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04186/341012.stm
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IEEE Spectrum | July 2004
Over the last several years, new tracking and monitoring technologies
coupled with new data-mining initiatives and a more permissive attitude
toward surveillance have made it possible to deploy many creative, and
intrusive, uses of our personal information. But as new technologies
and uses of data are being added seemingly every day, the potential
for greater abuse is growing...Even as the new sensor-laden world strives
to make our lives more transparent, a small cadre of researchers is
striking back, creating technologies that enhance and protect privacy.
Some of this work strives to construct databases that don't compromise
people's identities...Latanya Sweeney, an assistant
professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University
in Pittsburgh, takes a somewhat different tack. Her privacy-enhancing
software alters the results of database queries so they don't identify
individuals. For example, it might reveal only the first three digits
of a person's ZIP code, or give only a birth year instead of the exact
date.
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY
/publicfeature/jul04/0704sens.html | back to top
Biotechnology
Post-Gazette | July 6
By Todd Przybycien. Biomedical engineering will usher
in new economic growth for the region and the nation, but we have to
be ready to jump into the driver's seat. Already, the world is racing
headlong into the biotech century. And not even the researchers leading
the way know where it all might lead. But at Carnegie Mellon's 107th
commencement in May, 35 freshly minted biomedical engineers marched
confidently into the marketplace ready to weave their own skillful threads
into the great tapestry of human history. These new graduates will embrace
projects that examine a broad range of challenges, including generating
new tissues and organs from cultured cells, developing new sensors for
early detection of cancer, ensuring the safety of hospital water systems,
diagnosing disease from cellular and medical images, designing new failure-resistant
vascular grafts and developing new artificial hearts for children. ***Todd
Przybycien is a professor and head of biomedical engineering at Carnegie
Mellon University.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04188/342185.stm
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Post-Gazette | July 5
A new technology is letting researchers see big differences between
the tiny brains of male and female mice. Researchers from Carnegie
Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh and Nashville's
Vanderbilt University used three-dimensional magnetic resonance microscopy,
or MRM, to see how the puberty hormones influenced mouse brain development.
"No one has ever done a detailed study of the difference between
the male and the female [mouse] brain," said investigator Eric
Ahrens, of Carnegie Mellon and the Pittsburgh NMR Center for
Biomedical Research. Nationwide, he added, "there's only a handful
of instruments capable of doing this measurement." The findings
were recently published in the early online edition of the journal NeuroImage.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04187/341816.stm
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Environment
American Medical News | July 12
Tom Drennen knows a good value when he sees one. After all, the economist
thinks about what value means in the world. So it might have been a
surprise that even though he looked into the value of hybrid cars --
which use gas and electric power -- and determined that they are not
a cost-efficient alternative to traditional cars, he decided to buy
one anyway. Gabriel Shenhar, senior auto test engineer and special publications
program manager for Consumer Reports, said some hybrids are more cost-efficient
than others. But Shenhar said most people aren't buying hybrid cars
because of their potential savings. Lester Lave, professor
of economics and of engineering and public policy at Carnegie
Mellon University in Pittsburgh, said he examined an older
model of the Prius and compared it with the Toyota Corolla. Lave looked
at how many gallons of gas would be used driving 150,000 miles -- the
approximate life of vehicle. He then calculated that gas would have
to cost roughly $3.50 per gallon to make up for the $3,500 price difference.
http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews
/2004/07/12/bica0712.htm | back to top
Regional Impact
Post-Gazette | July 7
Pittsburgh has been ranked the nation's worst city for singles for two
years running. Other studies say we're too old and too few; not only
are we aging but also disappearing. Another ranking puts us near the
bottom in full-time pay for women. Even the sports teams are neck and
neck with those from Cleveland for the title of Worst Three-Sport Towns
in America. But good news has arrived. A new study released yesterday
ranks Pittsburgh's public charities as the country's best. Based upon
how a charity fared in each area, it was a assigned a zero- to four-star
rating. Twelve of the Pittsburgh charities -- Animal Friends, Brother's
Brother Foundation, Carnegie Mellon University, Coalition
for Christian Outreach, Extra Mile Education Foundation, Grant Foundation,
the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, the Pittsburgh Foundation, Pittsburgh
Leadership Foundation, United Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh,
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy and the Western Pennsylvania Humane
Society -- earned four stars.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04189/342805.stm
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Tribune-Review | July 4
Pennsylvania's ranking in various key economic categories is something
that rankles Dennis Yablonsky, the state's secretary of the Department
of Community and Economic Development. His elixir is the $2.3 billion
economic stimulus package put forward by his boss, Gov. Ed Rendell...In
the recent speech to the Technology Council, for example, one of his
areas of focus was the new Keystone Innovation Zone program, which will
offer financial incentives to help retain talented students after graduation,
to create new companies and promote the transfer of promising technologies
from the university campus to the commercial marketplace. While Pitt
and Carnegie Mellon are collaborating to create a Pittsburgh-specific
zone, it is the hope that academic institutions in the region would
work to develop KIZs in their areas as well, said Don Smith,
director of economic development for both schools.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/search/s_201809.html
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International News Stories
The Financial Express, India | July 4
Professor Pradeep Khosla made headlines around the
world last week when he was appointed Dean of [the School of Computer
Science at] Carnegie Mellon University. The professor,
who lives and works in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the US, is an IIT
Kharagpur alumnus of 1980. Professor Khosla’s appointment has
conveyed the news that his work centres around robotics and his research
revolves around internet-enabled distributed and collaborated design,
agent-based architectures for embedded control and distributed information
systems. His other passion is cyber security. “I am interested
in developing technology and making society a safer place from cyber
attacks. I am working closely with the IT ministry and several universities
in India to help develop the infrastructure, education, and societal
awareness,” adds Professor Khosla.
http://www.financialexpress.com
/fe_full_story.php?content_id=62746 | back to top
Sofia Morning News, Bulgaria | July 4
Bulgarian IT students and specialists can apply for scholarships secured
by the Athens Information Technology center. The program will be launched
October 4 and will continue for eleven months. Excellent command of
the English language is a prerequisite, given that all lectures and
exams will be in English. All Bulgarian students willing to participate
in the program must submit their application papers until September
27. Successful graduates will be awarded a Master of Science in Information
Networking degree. AIT in collaboration with the Information Networking
Institute of Carnegie Mellon offers a sixteen-month
Master's Program in Information Networking (MSIN).
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=36615
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