News & Video Archives
Videos
Kit Needham and Olympus members Carlos Guestrin and Darren Olson on Our Region's Business
Lenore Blum's interview (17.5 MB mp4 format, needs quicktime on Windows)
Matt Humphrey and Betty Cheng's interview (17.1 MB mp4, needs quicktime)
Brian Wirtz and Paul Ohodniki's interview (16.5 MB mp4, needs quicktime)
All three interviews (50.5 MB wmv format, needs Flip4Mac on Machintosh)
2011 News Articles
Technology Transfer Tactics: Computer science-driven incubator uses PROBEs to churn out new enterprises
December 12, 2011 - The Financial Times
Project Olympus Director Lenore Blum talks to the Financial Times about supporting student entrepreneurship in a story about Pittsburgh's efforts to reinvent itself.
December 7, 2011 - The Wall Street Journal
The Holiday Toy Popularity Contest: My Keepon is the must-have toy of the season
December 5, 2011 - National Science Foundation
Luis Von Ahn is the first featured computer scientist in CS bits & bytes
November 16, 2011 - Pop City
The College People's digital ticket to the top universities in the country
November 15, 2011 - Pittsburgh Business Times
Project Olympus launches Spark Grant Fund
October 27, 2011
Adrien Treuille, Olympus PROBE leader, is featured in Forbes
Games That Solve Real Problems: Crowdsourcing Biochemistry
October 26, 2011 - Pop City
Taking entrepreneurs to the next level at the AlphaLab Demo Day & i6 Preview: 9 of the 12 companies highlighted came through Olympus
October 24 , 2011 - Our Region's Business: The Business Bout Crowns A Champion
See Bout leader, Luke Skurman, Olympus Advisor, and Bout Champion, Brad Barbin, Olympus PROBE "FindNotice" leader. Video
October 4 , 2011 - Carnegie Mellon News
CMU highlights 2 Olympus student PROBE winners!
October 3 , 2011 - Business Times
Olympus PROBE Find Notice wins $5K in Business Bout
September 25 , 2011 - Capital Business
Olympus student project "The College People" helps high school seniors search for college by enlisting the help of other students
Olympus' Sanna Gaspard wins first place in the University Technology Showcase.
September 21 , 2011 - Business Times: Read article
September 23 , 2011 - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Read article
September 28, 2011, Pop City: Read article
September 22 , 2011 - 8.5 x 11 News
Faculty earn NSF grants to Accelerate Innovation
September 19, 2011 - Gazette
Olympus Student PROBE "The College People" in the News
August 26 , 2011 - WTAE
OnlyInPgh.com Showcases Pittsburgh's Uniqueness. Interview by Sally Wiggin
August 25 , 2011 - Business Times
Flashgroup closes on $800K in seed funding
August 24 , 2011 - PopCity Media
*Will the CMU's Flashgroup be the next hot social media site?
August 24 , 2011 - Bizjournals
*Two sites look to be your event finding tool
August 3 , 2011
Congrats to CMU/Project Olympus' Adrien Treuille, named by PopTech as a Sci + Public Leadership Fellow. CMU News Brief
July 19, 2011 - New Venturist
*Rodrigo Carvalho, Francisco Uribe, & Lukas Bouvrie: BlackLocus
July 14, 2011 - New Venturist
*Bharani Rajakumar & Arthur Tu: LearnBop
July 1, 2011 - SCS News
Venture Capitalists Make $2.5 Million Investment In Pittsburgh Startup Aided by Project Olympus
July 1, 2011 - Pittsburgh Business Time
BlackLocus snags $2.5M funding round
June 30, 2011 - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
*Russian officials visit city (and Project Olympus) to study economic turnaround
June 30, 2011 - Post Gazette
*Dynamics grabs big funds offer, not biggest
June 29, 2011 - POP City
*Former Olympus Student PROBE Dynamics raises record-breaking $35 million for power cards; HIRING
June 29, 2011 - Pittsburgh Business Time
Smart payment card firm Dynamics closes on $35M
June 29, 2011 - Pittsburgh Tribune
$35 million invested in McCandless start-up
June 21, 2011 - Pittsburgh BusinessTimes
*iOS app teaches science, math skills to kids
May 11, 2011 - POPCity
Innovation Works celebrates the region's entreprenuerial transformation; 4,684 jobs created
May 9, 2011 - TechCrunch
Olympus Probe LeanBob is one of DreamIt Ventures First Batch Of Startups
May 5, 2011 - NetworkWorld
Olympus faculty project Salon in the news
May 3, 2011 - SCS News
*CMU’s Classroom Salon Uses Social Networking To Tap Collective Intelligence of Online Study Groups
April 4, 2011 - TechCrunch
Sense.ly applet makes ratings personal
April 25, 2011 - The Tartan
*Meet Duolingo, Google’s Next Acquisition Target; Learn A Language, Help The Web
March 30, 2011 - Interactive Intelligence
U.S. Chief Technology Officer Announces Winners of the First Annual National STEM Video Game Challenge
March 28, 2011 - New York Times
Deciphering Old Texts, One Woozy, Curvy Word at a Time
March 11, 2011 - Popcity Media
*Playpower creates computer games for children in developing countries
POW Solutions reaches MIT Clean Energy Prize Semi-Finals
POW Solutions is building an enterprise software that will manage power consumption of servers in IT data centers. The software is based on cutting edge power management algorithms developed in Dr. Mor Harchol-Balter’s research group in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon.
Check out minute 16:50 to hear the announcement.
March 3, 2011 - CNN Money
Olympus PROBE SponsorChange featured on CNN Money
February 28, 2011 - Pop City Media
*Fueling Startups: Highlights of the Pop City Event
February 28, 2011 - Pop City Media
*Kauffman Foundation recognizes CMU as a leader in commercialization
February 28, 2011 - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
*Pittsburgh's universities are breeding grounds for innovation
February 25, 2011 - Pittsburgh BusinessTimes
*Pittsburgh a nurturing place for energy start-ups, spin-outs
February 23, 2011 - Pittsburgh BusinessTimes
Project Olympus raising $10M, hosts show and tell
February 18, 2011 - Pittsburgh BusinessTimes
*Accelerator: Idea for LearnBop name came from Kung Fu Panda
February2, 2011 - Gizmodo
$30,000 My Keepon Robot On Sale Soon—For $40
Press Release
January 10, 2011
Adrien Treuille, Olympus PROBE leader, is featured in the NY Times
RNA Game Lets Players Help Find a Biological Prize
January 2011
Derek Lomas, Olympus PROBE PlayPower founder, wins the $50K Grand Prize in the Marvell Tech Groups Grand Challenge, announced at the Consumers Electronics Show in Las Vegas
HCII's Lomas Wins Grand Prize in $100K Challenge Carnegie Mellon News
NumberPower: $100K Challenge Grand Prize Winner Mobilize
2010 News Articles
November 19, 2010 - Pittsburgh Business Times
Darren Olson, RhoMania's CEO, reworks portfolio en route to MBA degree
Kauffman Foundation recognizes Project Olympus as a National Leader
Read
*Carnegie Mellon News, October 27, 2010
*Marketwire, October 27, 2010
October 22, 2010 - NY Times
Dynamics, a former Olympus PROBE, on the front page of the NY Times Business Section
October 15, 2010, Pittsburgh Business Times
Accelerator: RhoMania toasts CMU
October 7, 2010 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
*Project Olympus a show-and-tell of tech talent
October 6, 2010 - Pittsburgh Business Times
*CMU highlights faculty start-up ideas
September 15, 2010 - Pop City
*Pittsburgh We Can't Wait: Fueling Start Ups
September 12, 2010 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Interview with Catherine Mott, Angel Investor and Olympus Advisor
August 18, 2010 - MarketWatch
LaunchCyte, co-founded by Olympus Embedded Entrepreneur Babs Carryer, wins big when its portfolio company, Knopp Neurosciences announces $345 million deal with Biogen Idec.
August 5, 2010 - KeystoneEdge
Q&A: Adrien Treuille, Carnegie Mellon University
August 2010 - Pittsburgh Magazine
*Food via Fooala
July 24, 2010 - Post Gazette
*Letters to the business editor
July 15, 2010 - Pop City
*How to Fuel Start-ups and Keep Talent in Pittsburgh
June 17, 2010 -SCS News
Treuille Discusses How US Can Tap Potential of Golden Triangle Technologies
Spring 2010 - Link Magazine
*In the Loop: Lenore Blum
May 27, 2010
Congratulations to Luis von Ahn on being named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business 2010! Fast Company's list of 100 spans entertainment to medicine to technology to social enterprise to government.
Check out the full list.
May 12, 2010 - SCS News
SBIR awards to Olympus PROBEs press release
May 5, 2010 - Keystone Edge
Say it with Safaba: Pittsburgh start-up gets SBIR funding for translation software
April 29, 2010 - Pittsburgh City Paper
Office Romance
April 28, 2010 - CMU Heinz College News
*April 29, 2010 - Pittsburgh City Paper Office Romance
April 27, 2010 - ACM@CMU
*Project Olympus - A LOOK INSIDE
April 22, 2010 - SCS News
Mouth-less Keepon Robot Gets a Smile As Winner of Carnegie Mellon’s Smiley Award
March 19, 2010 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
*CMU's Project Olympus retains and trains future local entrepreneurs
March 19, 2010 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
*What's next in business + computers?
March, 2010 - Carnegie Mellon News
Carnegie Mellon's Sanna Gaspard Chosen as New Face of Engineering by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
March 3, 2010 - POP City Media
*Carnegie Mellon's Smart.Mirrors is your own personal shopper
January 5, 2010 - RFID Journal
Carnegie Mellon Students Devise RFID-enabled Mirror
February, 2010 - Carnegie Mellon News
From Lab to Marketplace
Lenore Blum and Project Olympus featured in TEQ 2010 cover story
(NB. To see article, click on the 2010 on the cover)
February 1, 2010 - Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley News
*Bay Area Alumni Association Hosts Olympus at Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley
January 3, 2010 - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
*CMU senior puts focus on food with 4th start-up
2009 News Articles
December 14, 2009 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Smart.Mirror matches fashion rather than reflect
December 11, 2009 - Carnegie Mellon Press Release
*David Chen of the Olympus PROBE Foala shares entrepreneurial experiences on panel
See the video
October 28, 2009 - CMU’s Heinz College News
*Heinz College Entrepreneurs Develop a Smart Mirror
October 15, 2009 - Carnegie Mellon Press Release
Dynamics’s Success Highlights Business Incubation Process at Carnegie Mellon
September 25, 2009 - Pittsburgh Business Times
*Credit card fraud prevention start-up Dynamics lands $5.7M in funding
September 24, 2009 - Olympus Press Release
Project Olympus PROBE raises $5.7 Million in Series A Funding from Adams Capital
September 21, 2009 - Olympus Press Release
Project Olympus PROBE has been acquired by Google Inc.
September 16, 2009 - Reuters
Google Inc. Acquires Carnegie Mellon Spin-off ReCAPTCHA Inc.
August 18, 2009 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Priya Narasimhan's YinzCam released the first e-government iPhone app in Pittsburgh
June 29, 2009 - Nova Science Now - WQED
Luis von Ahn Featured on Nova Science Now
May 23, 2009 - New York Times
New Puzzles That Tell Humans From Machines
May 5, 2009 - Carnegie Mellon
*Lenore Blum Honored. Professor Lenore Blum will recieve the Carnegie Science Center's 2009 Catalyst Award on May 8th at the Carnegie Music Hall
April 28, 2009 - Flow Ventures
Project Olympus: A University Incubator That Works
March 27, 2009 - Pittsburgh Ventures
Calling All Startup CEOs! | Pittsburgh Ventures
April 20, 2009 - Houston Business Journal
Carnegie Mellon wins Rice business plan competition. Dynamics Probe Featured
April 14, 2009 - NBC Today Show
Keepon on NBC’s Today Show
April 10, 2009 - Popular Science
Robots to Fight Autism
April 4, 2009 - Pittsburgh Tribune Review
Student entrepreneurs absorb sage advice at CMU event
April 1, 2009 - Pop City
Catch a BrainBuzz as Carnegie Mellon hosts the Young Inventors UnConference
April 1, 2009 - Pop City
Finally! Fooala puts restaurants and menus and ordering online
March 26, 2009 - Wall Street Journal
Angels Urge Congress To Fix Broken Wings
Catherine Mott, Olypmus advisory cabinet member, speaks to congress on angel investing.
March 18, 2009 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Big ideas meld into businesses
March 15, 2009 - Pittsburgh Tribune Review
Startups pitch for funding at CMU
Jeff Mullen of the Dynamics Probe wins McGinnis Venture Competition
March 11, 2009 - Pop City
ShipTogether.com cuts the cost of online shipping, greener too
March 2, 2009 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Robotics developer's Keepon helps autistic children
January 30, 2009 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
*Carnegie Science Awards announced.
Congratulations Professors Lenore Blum and Priya Narasimhan!
"Lenore Blum of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University received the Catalyst Award as a founding director of Project Olympus, which targets high-tech talent to help with economic growth in the region. She's also worked at CMU to achieve one of the highest percentages of women in a computer-science program worldwide".... "Emerging Female Science Award went to Priya Narasimhan of CMU"
2008 News Articles
December 24, 2008 - New York Times
He Put Movie Listings in an App
"Dr. von Ahn says there is no shortage of entrepreneurial students at Carnegie Mellon, which two years ago started a program called Project Olympus to help campus-based companies"
December 17, 2008 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Professor Priya Narasimhan and her students design equipment that senses football moves.See the video
December 14, 2008 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
OlympusShow and Tell speaker, Harold D. Miller, makes the case that Pittsburgh remains a good place to be in the recession
Olympus Advisory member D. Raja talks about TiE Pittsburgh and entrepreneurship in the region. See YouTube video
November 23, 2008 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Olympus Advisory Cabinet Member Carl Kurlander featured
'Two Cities' delivers a tale of comebacks
November 3, 2008 - BusinessWeek.com
Luis von Ahn: The Pioneer of "Human Computation"
August 18, 2008 - WTAE-TV
Pittsburgh startup AskBright.com could be the next eBay.
But instead of buying goods, you're buying expert advice
July 16, 2008 - CNET news.com
ReCaptcha: Reusing your 'wasted' time online
July 2008 - Carnegie Mellon Today
Bright Idea: AskBright.com and project Olympus are featured in the Fence
June 27, 2008 - Chronicle of Higher Education
Sight for the Blind and Speech for the Deaf
Carnegie Mellon professor and BeaconSys PROBE team leader, Priya Narasimhan, turns cellphones into aids for the disabled. See also Being Independent for a Reasonable Price a short sidebar about Dan Rossi
June 24, 2008 - TechWeb TV
Ed Engler, General Partner with Pittsburgh Equity Partners, talks about the exciting opportunities associated with bringing promising startup companies the exposure they need to attract the attention of national Venture Capitalists
See YouTube video
June 18, 2008 - POP City
In search of elusive information? Turn to Pittsburgh startup AskBright.com
June 16, 2008 - Time Magazine
"Computer Literacy Tests: Are You Human?" discusses CAPTCHAs (Completely Automatic PublicTuring tests to tell Computers and Humans Apart) and the Carnegie Mellon team that invented them.
May 28, 2008 - POP City
Dynamic Credit Card hopes to transform the plastic you carry, hiring
Dynamics LLC, a startup emerging from *Project Olympus*, is positioning itself to be the next-generation payment solution for a $4 trillion domestic industry
May 23, 2008 - Pittsburgh Business Times
Penguins seek cutting-edge arena ideas
See the KDKA Video (Search for Yinz Cam)
May 14, 2008
Luis von Ahn launches Games with a Purpose
To see articles :
• in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette click here
• in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review click here
• in the BBC News click here
• in the in MSNBC news click here
May 9, 2008 - KDKA
CMU Students Develop 'Talking' Glove
May 8, 2008 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Priya Narasimhan's students develop assistive technologies for the hard of hearing! Glove converts sign language into sound
March 2, 2008 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Olympus Advisory member Carl Kurlander 's film, "My Tale of Two Cities," has been invited to screen at the Sonoma Valley Film Festival in April!
February 22, 2008 - Pittsburgh Business Times
*Galvanizing entrepreneurs is goal for Innovation Works
February 21, 2008 - The Earth Times
Innovation Works Launches AlphaLab to Rapidly Grow Software-Related Companies by Providing Investment, Office Space, Expertise
2007 News Articles
December 25, 2007 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Matt Harbaugh (Innovation Works CIO and Olympus Advisory member) points to region's technology startup strength
December 14, 2007 - Pittsburgh Tribune Review
*Student innovation could be boon to economy
December 14, 2007 - CSDiary as told by Peter Lee
Project Olympus Show-and-Tell
CSD professors, Lenore Blum and Manuel Blum, are keynote speakers at this year's Computing in the 21st Century conference in China and Korea!
October 28, 2007 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Talking with Audrey Russo (President/CEO, PTC and Olympus Advisory Cabinet member)
October 23, 2007 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Luis von Ahn named one of the nation's top young innovators by Smithsonian magazine.
Hanging with a genius: Honored CMU professor loves 'CSI,' misses Guatemalan food.
October 2, 2007 - BBC News
Spam weapon helps preserve books
September 10, 2007 - Pop City
Lenore Blum, featured in the first *Pop City Live! See the Video
A panel of experts discuss how Pittsburgh can build on its unique assets to become a hot city.
August 31, 2007 - Pittsburgh Business Times
UPMC, CMU seeing benefits on Cooperation on Eye Research
August 15, 2007 - Technology Review
Luis von Ahn named one of this year’s top 35 innovators under the age of 35
See also the cmu News Release
August 8, 2007 - Pittsburgh Tribune Review
Luis von Ahn featured:
CMU whiz kid on front lines against hackers and spammers
July 30, 2007 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Advisory Cabinet member Jim Morris and others are hard at work on a
"Manifesto for a New Pittsburgh"
July 20, 2007 -
Lenore Blum featured:
*Initiative to Keep Talent in Region
July 18, 2007 - Pop City
*Project Olympus: Keeping CMU Grads in Pittsburgh
July 18, 2007 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Luis von Ahn featured:
Latest weapon against spam also enlists computer users to assist the Internet Archive
July 8, 2007 - The Boston Globe
Matt Humphrey featured:
In today's workplace, younger job seekers hold the advantage
June 27, 2007 - The Wall Street Journal Online
Luis von Ahn featured:
Computer Scientists Pull a Tom Sawyer To Finish Grunt Work
June 25, 2007 - Tech Crunch
Matt Humphrey featured:
Slapvid: Peer to Peer Video in Your Browser
June 24, 2007 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Olympus Advisory Cabinet member Carl Kurlander says:
"Pittsburgh -- we can make it here"
WIRED Magazine, Issue 15.07
Luis von Ahn featured:
For Certain Tasks, the Cortex Still Beats the CPU
June 24, 2007 - KDKA TV: The Sunday Business Page
Interview with Lenore Blum and Matt Humphrey:
*CMU's Project Olympus aims to keep young people in the region. See the video
June 18, 2007 - Pittsburgh's Future
*What Young Entrepreneurs Need from Pittsburgh
May 30, 2007 - Pop City
*CMU's Project Olympus aims to keep talent in Pittsburgh, increase investment here
May 28, 2007 - Business Times
*Retaining tech talent main goal for new Carnegie Mellon initiative
May 25, 2007 - USA Today
Interview with Professor Luis von Ahn:
Researchers turn Web blather to books
April 7, 2007 - NY Times
Lenore Blum Featured:
Computer Science Takes Steps to Bring Women to the Fold
January 7, 2007 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Interview with Olympus Advisory Cabinet member, Jacqueline Morby:
Talking with: Jacqueline Morby / She's betting on tech's rise in the region
2006 News Articles
November 29, 2006 - Pop City
*CMU's Project Olympus awarded $400,000 Heinz Endowment Grant
November 6, 2006 - *News Release
Carnegie Mellon’s Project Olympus Receives Grant From Heinz Endowments
Incubator Lab Will Boost Economic Development in Western Pennsylvania