Carnegie Mellon News Bloghttp://www.cmu.edu/news/blogStudents Invited To Join the Showhttp://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2009/Fall/students-invited-to-join-the-show.shtmlCNBC's Maria Bartiromo is hosting an hour-long special at Carnegie Mellon called "Meeting of the Minds: The Future of Manufacturing" on Monday, Nov. 30, and students are invited to be a part of the studio audience. Along with some of the most influential leaders in manufacturing, CNBC welcomes students into this discussion.

If you are interested in tickets for this show on Nov. 30 in Wiegand Gym, please go to CMUTICKETS.CNBC.COM right away for more information and your chance to register.  Tickets are limited to ONE per student so please sign up now!

]]>bg02@andrew.cmu.edu (Bruce Gerson)Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:27:27 -0400http://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2009/Fall/students-invited-to-join-the-show.shtmlSoap Opera Shoots Scenes in Pittsburghhttp://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2009/Fall/as-the-world-turns.shtmlAs the World Turns"As The World Turns" Executive Producer and Director Christopher Goutman (CFA'76) watches Maura West and Michael Park rehearse a scene for the long-running soap opera in front of the College of Fine Arts on Nov. 2. The show was on a three-city tour, and Pittsburgh stops included Carnegie Mellon, Charles Spiegel for Men in Squirrel Hill, New Hope United Methodist Church on the North Side and the Clark Bar & Grill on the North Shore. The scenes filmed in Pittsburgh are scheduled to air Nov. 20.

]]>ecs@andrew.cmu.edu (Eric Sloss)Wed, 4 Nov 2009 08:27:41 -0400http://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2009/Fall/as-the-world-turns.shtmlRejudging of ACM-ICPC Regional Sends Dragons to World Finalshttp://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2009/Fall/two-for-two.shtmlA Carnegie Mellon team will be competing at the World Finals of the Association for Computing Machinery's International Collegiate Programming Contest in China next year, but it won't be the Tartans.

Judges of the East Central North American Regional Programming Contest say they misjudged one of the problems, mistakenly disallowing a solution to Problem B. Once the correction was made and points re-tallied, they proclaimed a team from the University of Waterloo as the champions and awarded second place to the Carnegie Mellon Dragons, a team consisting of sophomore Si Young Oh, junior Yun Dong "Stanley" Yeo, and senior Dan Schafer, all computer science majors.

The original winners, the Tartan team of computer science juniors Tom Conerly and Alan Pierce and electrical and computer engineering senior Celestine Lau, ended up third.

Greg Kesden, associate teaching professor and one of the Carnegie Mellon coaches, said the rejudging resulted in a three-way tie between the Dragons, Tartans and Waterloo's Black team; a tiebreaker formula produced the final ranking. The University of Michigan's Victor team, originally second, ended up in fourth place. Carnegie Mellon's third team, the Cardinals — freshmen Chiranjith "Jitu" Das and James Koppel and junior Ida Mayer, all computer science majors — remains in 10th place

The top two teams from the regional — Waterloo Black and the Dragons — will be among 100 teams that will compete at the World Finals, Feb. 1-6, 2010, in Harbin, China.

]]>bspice@cs.cmu.edu (Byron Spice)Tue, 3 Nov 2009 13:39:07 -0400http://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2009/Fall/two-for-two.shtmlSesame Street Executives To Give Talk Nov. 4http://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2009/Fall/sunny-days.shtmlSeven executives of Sesame Workshop, the non-profit group behind public television’s "Sesame Street," will discuss the trailblazing show for pre-schoolers and about their re-launch of "The Electric Company" during a talk at 9:30 a.m., Wednesday, Nov. 4 in the Rashid Auditorium on the fourth floor of the Hillman Center for Future-Generation Technologies.

The group, hosted by Matthew Kam, assistant professor of human-computer interaction, is visiting campus to discuss possible research collaborations. Sesame Street was launched 40 years ago as an experiment to help children prepare for school. Today, co-productions of the show exist in 140 countries. Sesame Workshop also has reincarnated "The Electric Company," a show for early elementary students. The show, which will be presented as a case study of the Sesame Workshop model in action, takes a 360-degree approach to media, including online content and new forms of digital media.

The speakers include Lewis Bernstein, executive vice president, education, research and outreach; Michael Levine, executive director, Joan Ganz Cooney Center; Miles Ludwig, vice president and executive producer, Digital Media; Erica Branch-Ridley, broadband supervising producer, The Electric Company; Glenda Revelle, research scientist, Digital Media; Dionne Nosek, vice president, creative development; and Karen Fowler, executive producer, The Electric Company.

For more information on the speakers, read the full abstract.

]]>bspice@cs.cmu.edu (Byron Spice)Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:54:32 -0400http://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2009/Fall/sunny-days.shtmlFeeding the Hungryhttp://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2009/Fall/feeding-the-hungry.shtmlFood DriveCarnegie Mellon’s 16th Annual Food Drive, sponsored by Staff Council, will take place Monday, November 2 through Friday, November 13. The drive benefits the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank, a non-profit organization located in Duquesne that collects, stores and distributes food and household products to nearly 350 charitable agencies in southwestern Pennsylvania through soup kitchens, food pantries, shelters, day care and senior centers for low-income people and special care facilities.

This year, your help is needed more than ever.  This year’s drive cannot be a success without the generosity of the entire campus community — please donate!  Drop boxes and barrels will be located throughout campus buildings. 

A few reminders/helpful tips:

  • While all non-perishables are appreciated, there is always a huge need for protein items (such as peanut butter, tuna, and soup with meat) and toilet paper.
  • One Day, One Can will be held on Wednesday, November 4. Bring a non-perishable food item to the Food Drive Table during Carnegie Mellon’s Benefits Fair in the University Center.
  • The Cans Across the Cut event, designed to encourage student participation, will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Wednesday, November 11 at the Fence. The goal is to create a line of canned goods from the Fence to Forbes Avenue. Individuals or teams can participate. Teams can register at http://www.cmu.edu/staff-council/committees/food-drive/cans-cut.html and the team that brings the most cans to the fence wins a trophy! For more information, contact Jennifer Cox at jcox@andrew.cmu.edu.
  • Tartan Spirit Days — October 31 & November 7: Show your Tartan Spirit! Bring a non-perishable food item to the Food Drive Table during the Homecoming Football Game on October 31 or the November 7 Football Game.
  • If you are interested in helping, supporting this year’s drive with a monetary donation, and/or have any questions, please contact Carole Panno at cp1g@andrew.cmu.edu or 412-268-1617.


WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE in the lives of those in need.

Pictured above are items that are always in demand — peanut butter, tuna, soup with meat and toilet paper.

]]>bg02@andrew.cmu.edu (Bruce Gerson)Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:30:26 -0400http://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2009/Fall/feeding-the-hungry.shtmlA Good Neighborhttp://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2009/Fall/a-good-neighbor.shtmlCarnegie Mellon was named a Top 25 "Best Neighbor" for its economic and social impact on Pittsburgh in a 2009 poll titled "Saviors of Our Cities: A Survey of Best College and University Civic Partnerships." The study, conducted by Evan S. Dobelle, president of Westfield State College in Westfield, Mass., ranks higher education institutions based on the positive impact they have on their hometowns. Carnegie Mellon was ranked 19th. 

The survey noted Carnegie Mellon's Leonard Gelfand Center for Service Learning and Outreach and its Strategies for Engineering Education program, which gives middle-school girls the opportunity to engage in hands-on engineering activities focused on energy. It also praised the university's Summer Academy for Mathematics and Science, an enrichment program for high school minority students; its School of Music, which "seeks to enhance music instruction in Pittsburgh Public Schools"; and its "powerful" engineering and design schools for being "instrumental in hundreds of start-up companies."

Dobelle, former president of the New England Board of Higher Education, released his first study of "town-gown" relationships in 2006. He ranks institutions based on their "demonstrated and documented long-standing cooperative efforts with community leaders to rehabilitate the cities around them, to influence community revitalization and cultural renewal, and to encourage economic expansion of the local economy, urban development and community service."

The University of Pennsylvania and the University of Southern California tied for the top spot in the survey.

For more on the survey, visit http://www.wsc.ma.edu/Announcements/Top_25_Saviors.html.

]]>bg02@andrew.cmu.edu (Bruce Gerson)Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:38:24 -0400http://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2009/Fall/a-good-neighbor.shtmlDrama Alumni Return To Host Student Workshops, Seminarshttp://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2009/Fall/star-struck.shtmlbochcowagnerSchool of Drama alumni Steven Bochco (A'66), a television writer and executive producer, and Paula Wagner (A'69), a film executive and producer who is also a university trustee, returned to campus this week (Oct. 6-7) to host a series of workshops and seminars for current drama students. They taught students about the business of acting and hosted a playwrights forum, as well as workshops with designers, directors and dramaturgs. They also held a TV workshop with senior actors. The sessions provided students with the opportunity to receive candid, first-hand knowledge from leaders in the entertainment industry.

"I was blown away by these young people," Bochco said afterward. "I kept flashing back to my time here. I remember thinking to myself, 'What a clueless, silly, absolute bozo I was.' When I saw those students, who were so forward and so connected, it was wonderful to be here."

Bochco is perhaps best known for developing the TV hits "Hill Street Blues," "L.A. Law" and "NYPD Blue." Wagner is currently developing and producing films through her company, Chestnut Ridge Productions.

Read more in the story from the Tribune Review.

]]>bg02@andrew.cmu.edu (Internal Communications)Fri, 9 Oct 2009 13:00:24 -0400http://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2009/Fall/star-struck.shtmlStudent To Write for Online Magazinehttp://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2009/Summer/the-write-stuff.shtmlHerCampus.com, which will debut Wednesday, Sept. 16, is the extension of a winning business plan entry in Harvard’s i3 Innovation Challenge. The online magazine aims to "highlight the best in student journalism while providing a hub for everything college women need to know about today."

Read more about Goodman, an English major and editor-in-chief of Carnegie Mellon's music magazine "The Cut," in this recent article in The Tartan.
]]>ahouck@andrew.cmu.edu (Abby Houck)Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:39:48 -0400http://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2009/Summer/the-write-stuff.shtmlH1N1 Information Hotline Openhttp://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2009/Summer/h1n1-hotline.shtmlA new H1N1 information hotline has been established at 412-268-4161 to enhance direct communication with the campus community. The hotline will be staffed from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., Monday through Friday, and from noon to 10 p.m., Saturday and Sunday. All students, faculty, staff and parents may use this number for inquiries relating to H1N1. This telephone line is dedicated to issues regarding H1N1 and is not an emergency hotline. All campus emergencies should continue to be directed to University Police at 412-268-2323. Student Health Services may be reached directly at 412-268-2158.
 
In a recent email to campus, Director of Student Health Services Anita Barkin said that "while the numbers are stabilizing and symptoms have been mild for most students, I urge you to remain vigilant if symptoms emerge, especially if you have pre-existing conditions, such as asthma, diabetes or other underlying conditions that might compromise your immunity. Monitor your temperature and consult Student Health Services if you develop a fever. Please do not attend social events if you are not feeling well. If you develop a fever, isolation is a key strategy to contain the spread of flu in the community. Continue to wash your hands frequently and cover your cough."

For more information, read the full text of Barkin's email, or call the hotline at 412-268-H1N1.

]]>bg02@andrew.cmu.edu (Internal Communications)Tue, 1 Sep 2009 15:20:52 -0400http://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2009/Summer/h1n1-hotline.shtml"CMU" Merchandise Available at University Storehttp://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2009/Summer/cmu-merchandise.shtmlmerchandise featuring the new graphics in official and unofficial styles. The entire campus community will soon have access to these new graphics along with the usage guidelines. Official "CMU" and "Carnegie Mellon University" graphics will not be used for anything but merchandise at this time. Refreshed graphic identity standards will be rolled out this academic year.]]>bg02@andrew.cmu.edu (Internal Communications)Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:56:59 -0400http://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2009/Summer/cmu-merchandise.shtmlH1N1 Updatehttp://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2009/Summer/h1n1-update.shtmlThe prevalence of suspected cases of the H1N1 flu and the severity of symptoms remain modest at Carnegie Mellon. Students who have contacted Student Health Services with flu-like symptoms are being isolated and cared for in accordance with guidelines established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

There is no epidemic on campus. Offices are open and classes are being held as usual. The university is merely taking precautionary measures as recommended by the CDC to stop the spread of flu on campus.

For more information on the H1N1 see the Student Health Services Web site.

To see the full text of an Aug. 24 update from Student Health Services Director Anita Barkin, see http://www.cmu.edu/alert.

]]>bg02@andrew.cmu.edu (Bruce Gerson)Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:02:02 -0400http://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2009/Summer/h1n1-update.shtmlCouncilman Announces iPhone App With Carnegie Mellon Tiehttp://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2009/Summer/introducing-iburgh.shtmlA new iPhone application, iBurgh, is expected to be announced today, according to Councilman Bill Peduto's Web site. The application will work to improve government response to constituent services, such as snow removal and fixing potholes. Councilman Peduto and YinzCam Inc., a company run by Priya Narasimhan associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and co-director Carnegie Mellon's CyLab Mobility Research Center, have worked together to make this launch possible.

This application will allow constituents to use their iPhone to take a picture of a pothole, or other concern, and instantly submit a picture and location along with the complaint to the city's 311 system.

Pittsburgh is the first major city in the county to utilize this type of government integrated iPhone application.
]]>bg02@andrew.cmu.edu (Internal Communications)Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:42:13 -0400http://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2009/Summer/introducing-iburgh.shtmlTechBridgeWorld in Tanzaniahttp://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2009/Summer/istep.shtmlThree Carnegie Mellon University students are returning to Pittsburgh on Tuesday, Aug. 4, after a 10-week internship in Tanzania, where they joined a recent alumnus of Carnegie Mellon’s Qatar campus to work on technology projects benefiting underserved communities. The four interns and an additional recent graduate from Carnegie Mellon’s Pittsburgh campus worked on three projects, including a mobile phone application for use by social workers to track information on services provided to AIDS orphans and vulnerable children; an educational literacy cell phone game for use in a school without electricity; and introduction of a low-cost Braille Writing Tutor for visually-impaired students. A student based in Pittsburgh also provided support throughout the internship.

The students were participating in a newly launched internship program called iSTEP (innovative Student Technology ExPerience) introduced by Carnegie Mellon’s TechBridgeWorld research group.

All four Pittsburgh students who participated in the internship will be available for interviews. Contact Byron Spice at 412-268-9068 or Ermine Teves at 412-268-1289 to set up times.

]]>bspcie@andrew.cmu.edu (Byron Spice)Tue, 4 Aug 2009 09:35:53 -0400http://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2009/Summer/istep.shtmlMaking Pittsburgh Tech-Savvyhttp://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2009/Summer/making-pittsburgh-tech-savvy.shtmlBill Peduto aims to make city government more high-tech and more accessible by webcasting city council meetings and developing a GPS-based iPhone application to engage and empower citizens. Carnegie Mellon is already on board to support the initiative, in addition to other city “e-projects.” For example, the city is working to automatically route 3-1-1 calls using spoken dialogue technology that was developed at the School of Computer Science. The 3-1-1 line is a non-emergency complaint line for city residents.

Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering Priya Narasimhan said that technology similar to her YinzCam, a mobile video technology that the Pittsburgh Penguins use to allow fans to view real-time video feeds inside Mellon Arena, could be used for city residents to watch and interact with council meetings live on their cell phones and send GPS-embedded complaints with video and images of a pothole or crooked stop sign, for example.

Read more from the Post Gazette and Pop City Media.

]]>abbyross@andrew.cmu.edu (Abby Ross)Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:07:43 -0400http://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2009/Summer/making-pittsburgh-tech-savvy.shtmlRobotics Institute Spin-off Unveils Its First Line of Toy Robotshttp://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2009/Summer/tech-toys.shtmlBossa Nova Robotics, a 2005 spin-off from the Robotics Institute, came to the Pittsburgh campus July 9 to unveil to the news media its first commercial products — a pair of toy robots called Prime-8 and Penbo. Both robots evolved from RHex, a fast-moving, agile hexapod robot developed from 1999 to 2004 that provided a model for the toy robots' animalistic locomotion. Prime-8 — "Part ape, part 'bot," according to the company’s promotional video — is a fast-moving biped with an aggressive personality, intended for boys ages 8-12. Penbo, which stands for "penguin robot," waddles like a penguin, lays an egg with an interactive baby 'bot inside and emphasizes nurturing; it's intended for girls ages 4-6.

prime"The technology behind Prime-8 and Penbo has only previously been seen in multi-million dollar research projects," said Sarjoun Skaff, who holds a master's and Ph.D. in robotics from Carnegie Mellon and is co-founder and chief technology officer for Pittsburgh-based Bossa Nova. "To make this kind of technology available to children is unprecedented and what we've seen in all of our focus groups is that both kids and adults are impressed by Penbo and Prime-8’s technology and lifelike movements.

"Children's robotics is just the start," he added. "In the future, we envisage creating Bossa Nova robots that will change the way we work, play, learn and stay safe."

Prime-8 will go on sale for the first time on the QVC cable shopping channel on July 25; Penbo will make her consumer debut on QVC in mid-August. Both will be available online on Aug. 1. For more information on Bossa Nova Robotics, visit www.bnconcepts.com.

Pictured above is Penbo (right) and Prime 8 (left).

]]>bspice@cs.cmu.edu (Byron Spice)Thu, 9 Jul 2009 14:03:49 -0400http://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2009/Summer/tech-toys.shtmlNOVA Shines Light on ReCaptcha Starhttp://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2009/Summer/pbs-asks-von-ahn-answers.shtmlvonahnLuis von Ahn, assistant professor of computer science and a MacArthur Foundation “genius award” winner, will be featured in a segment of PBS’s NOVA, which airs at 9 p.m. tonight (June 30) on WQED. For a preview video of the episode and for additional video and audio of von Ahn, visit http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/0401/04.html.

]]>bspice@cs.cmu.edu (Byron Spice)Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:10:54 -0400http://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2009/Summer/pbs-asks-von-ahn-answers.shtmlMultidisciplinary Black Designers Launch Professional Hubhttp://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2009/Spring/designers-launch-network.shtml"Designers for the Twenty First Century" (D421), a network for black designers, will launch its virtual hub and network on June 17 at NeoCon in Chicago's Merchandise Mart. Co-founder Eric Anderson, president of the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) and associate professor in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon will be the featured speaker. This event and the following reception are free to the public.

Within the United States, black Americans are significantly underrepresented in the design field; consequently, those in the field are often isolated and lack social support. D421 is a virtual design hub that uses current and emerging models of social networking and media tools to initiate, facilitate and celebrate the past and current work of black designers and support the development of future design practitioners and leaders. D421 is intended to help close gaps in design education and practice, increase the diversity of the global talent pipeline, and serve as an asset to design and business communities. In the future, members of D421 hope to establish and connect to parallel professional networks in order to continue providing increased knowledge, services and opportunities to underrepresented design communities. Visit http://www.designers421.org for more information.

]]>ecs@andrew.cmu.edu (Eric Sloss)Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:13:30 -0400http://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2009/Spring/designers-launch-network.shtmlBagpipes Blare the Sounds of Carnegie Mellon Traditionhttp://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2009/Spring/alumni-on-today-show.shtmlNick HudsonTo honor Andrew Carnegie’s Scottish heritage, Carnegie Mellon created a bagpipe performance degree program. Only six students have graduated from this prestigious program that has the rigor of a conservatory music training and the world class one-on-one teaching that is characteristic of Carnegie Mellon’s School of Music. Nick Hudson, the most recent graduate of the bagpipe performance program had the opportunity to share his expertise teaching Hoda and Kathie Lee on the NBC’s Today Show how to play the bagpipes. Watch the lesson.

While in school, Hudson also has been featured in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Wall Street Journal and CBS News' "Assignment America." Check Hudson out on YouTube as he explains the basics of bagpipes.

Notably, during the same Today Show show on which Hudson appeared, Kathie Lee and Hoda interviewed Carnegie Mellon School of Drama alumna Tamara Tunie. Tunie talked about her role as Dr. Melinda Warner in the season finale of “Law & Order.”

]]>ecs@andrew.cmu.edu (Eric Sloss)Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:50:58 -0400http://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2009/Spring/alumni-on-today-show.shtmlGolfers Named To All-Region Team, All-American Scholarshttp://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2009/Spring/golfers-win-honors.shtmlLeeThe Carnegie Mellon golf team had two members named to the 2009 PING Mid-Atlantic Region team by the Golf Coaches Association of America. Senior Alex Timmons (Chagrin Falls, Ohio/Chagrin Falls) was honored for the third straight year, while junior Christopher Lee (Los Angeles, Calif./Windward) was honored for the first time.Timmons

Timmons finished the season with an average round of 77.5, the second lowest on the team. The senior led the Tartans with eight top ten finishes and ends his career with a school record 27. Timmons shot his lowest round of the season at the Guy Kuhn Invitational carding a three-under-par 69 during the second round. He also holds the school record for most individual career victories with five.

Lee was crowned the University Athletic Association (UAA) Individual Champion while leading the Tartans to the team title with a scoring average of 76.8. He fired his lowest round of the year at the ECAC Championships carding a one-under 71. 

Timmons and Lee, along with Joshua Chen (Woodridge, Conn./Amity) also were recently named Cleveland Golf All-America Scholars for Division III by the Golf Coaches Association of America. Read more about the Mid-Atlantic Region team and All-American Scholars honors.

Listen as Head Golf Coach Rich Erdelyi discusses team's success in 2008-09.

]]>mwfisher@andrew.cmu.edu (Mark Fisher)Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:44:48 -0400http://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2009/Spring/golfers-win-honors.shtmlAlice Wins Duke's Choice Awardhttp://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2009/Spring/alice-wins-dukes-choice-award.shtmlAliceSun Microsystems presented its Duke’s Choice Award for Java Technology in Education to Carnegie Mellon’s innovative Alice software system during the JavaOne conference at San Francisco’s Moscone Center.

Randy Bryant, dean of the School of Computer Science, accepted the award during the conference’s opening session June 2. The Duke’s Choice Awards program recognizes the year’s most influential Java technology-based applications submitted by developers and companies around the world. The winners are chosen by Sun Fellow and Vice President James Gosling, a 1983 graduate of Carnegie Mellon, along with a panel of Java technology experts at Sun.

Alice is a teaching tool that engages novice programmers in the creation of 3D animations using a drag-and-drop interface. The key research project of the late Randy Pausch, Alice is used in about 15 percent of U.S. colleges and universities, as well as a growing number of secondary schools. The project team now is headed by Associate Teaching Professor Wanda P. Dann and by lead developer and Project Scientist Dennis Cosgrove.

The latest version, Alice 3, will include a standard Java language interface so students can create programs either by using the drag-and-drop editor or by typing on a keyboard. Alice 3 will be released later this summer.

Last year, Sun announced it was teaming with Carnegie Mellon to support Alice’s continued development. Over the next three years, Sun will work with the university to globalize Alice, providing tools to translate it into different languages and develop drag-and-drop artifacts unique to a variety of cultures. Sun will work with the Alice development team to bring the system to a worldwide audience of educators and students.

]]>bspice@cs.cmu.edu (Byron Spice)Wed, 3 Jun 2009 10:16:50 -0400http://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2009/Spring/alice-wins-dukes-choice-award.shtml