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Rate It shoots, it scores . . .

Original at irishtimes.com external link    Wed, Jun 17

 Ireland Last year, the NUManoids team from NUIM and Newcastle University in Australia walked away (or rather their robots did) with a top prize in standard soccer, beating GTCM United' 08 from GeorgiaTech and Carnegie Mellon. Next month, however, NUIM will be ...

Rate Incessant teen texting causes health concerns

Original at Scripps News external link    Wed, Jun 17

 DC Marcel Just, a psychology professor at Carnegie Mellon University, completed a study last year showing that simply listening to a cell phone while driving can cause drivers to commit errors as if they were under the influence of alcohol. ...

Rate New Java Programming Tools Employs Human-centered Design Techniques - Science Daily

Original at Science Daily external link    Wed, Jun 17

press release) Undergraduate Research Awards competition at Carnegie Mellon this spring. Jadeite and Apatite are part of the Natural Programming Project, http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~NatProg/, an initiative within Carnegie Mellon's Human-Computer Interaction Institute that ...

Rate Xiom Corp. Appoints Management Director of Operations - PR Newswire

Original at sev.prnewswire.com external link    Wed, Jun 17

PR Newswire (press release), NY Mr. DiMario has a Maters of Science from Carnegie Mellon University, Graduate School of Industrial Administration and a BS from Carnegie Mellon University in Engineering. Xiom Corp. is a technology business offering delivery of plastic powder coatings ...

Rate Pittsburgh Ranks In Top 20 Economically

Original at KDKA external link    Wed, Jun 17

 PA With UPMC being a world leader in medical services and technology, all the great startup companies we have with Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh, the other great colleges we have in the area," said Dye. "Pittsburgh has that synergy between ...

Rate Cut up credit cards and rein in spending

Original at Shanghai Daily external link    Wed, Jun 17

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 China Stuart PM Mackintosh is executive director of the Group of Thirty, and Allan H. Meltzer is a professor of political economy at Carnegie Mellon University and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. The article is adapted from a digital ...

Rate Iranians here find election tally hard to believe

Original at Pittsburgh Post Gazette external link    Tue, Jun 16

 PA I was surprised by the scale of the response," said Amir Moghimi, a Carnegie Mellon University student who moved to the United States 2 1/2 years ago. "It's very exciting, it's scary, ... but I think it's good because it's in response to the biggest, ...

Rate Burrell promotes assistant to superintendent

Original at Monessen Valley Independent external link    Tue, Jun 16

 PA Wagner earned her bachelor's degree in education from Clarion University and her master's degree from Carnegie Mellon University. As for Staudenmaier, he plans to remain in Lower Burrell and stay involved in education. After some regional travel with ...

Rate Josh Groban stars in the 80's rock opera Chess in Concert

Original at Right On Music external link    Tue, Jun 16

After only one year in the drama department at Carnegie Mellon University, his choice school, Warner Bros. Records offered him a recording contract. Foster said, “I love his natural ability in the pop and rock arena, but I love his sense of classics ...

Rate Please look at the DMV camera and smile

Original at Greenfield West Allis Now external link    Tue, Jun 16

 WI A robotics professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh told USA TODAY that differing expressions on the face of the same person can prevent the system from coming up with successful matches. The thought in Virginia is that little or no facial ...

Rate 2009 Game Education Summit

Original at GameDev.net external link    Tue, Jun 16

 TX Join us on June 16-17 at the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for a truly unique conference experience. Now in its 2nd year, the Game Education Summit will once again bring together the game ...

Rate How good are extended service contracts?

Original at blogs.livemint.com external link    Mon, Jun 15

 India Authors Tao Chen, University of Maryland, Ajay Kalra, Rice University, and Baohong Sun, Carnegie Mellon University, used purchase data from the electronics department of a retail chain to examine who buys the extended service contracts and what factors ...

Rate McCune Foundation to resume offers of funding

Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review external link    Mon, Jun 15

 PA McCune has contributed to organizations such Carnegie Mellon University and Geneva College, the YMCA of Pittsburgh and the North Side Christian Health Center, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and Quantum Theatre and the Allegheny Conference on Community ...

Rate IEEE Council on EDA to Host NSF Director at DAC Luncheon - SYS-CON Media

Original at ca.sys-con.com external link    Mon, Jun 15

SYS-CON Media (press release), NJ Dr. Wing, who is also the President's Professor of Computer Science in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, will conclude her talk with a look to future investments in IT and sustainability and in computational economics. ...

Rate Fifteen Carnegie Mellon Qatar students help remote community in ...

Original at AME Info external link    Sun, Jun 14

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This service trip was truly unforgettable,' said Rifki Bahri, a business administration major at Carnegie Mellon Qatar. Service Learning is an important component to the philosophy of Student Affairs as the University works to develop students who are ...

Rate Spice Island Tea House owner honors father

Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review external link    Sat, Jun 13

 PA We haven't changed that much since we opened," says Lee, a 1987 graduate of Central Catholic High School, who has a degree in creative writing from Carnegie Mellon University. "I like the casualness of it. It's a coffeehouse atmosphere with really ...

Rate Project Milwaukee: Early History of Race Relations - 89.7 WUWM

Original at wuwm.com external link    Wed, Jun 10

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Trotter now heads the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He divides early race relations in Milwaukee into three phases – and in each one, Trotter says, there was both extreme prejudice against blacks, and examples of ...

Rate Carnegie Science Center adds Roboworld to permanent exhibits

Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review external link    Wed, Jun 10

 PA Many of the exhibits showcase products from Pittsburgh's thriving, cutting-edge robotics industry, like Aethon's medical helper-bot "Tug." Contributions from Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh and California University of ...

Year 2009

 

Rate SBA names new director for Office of Native American Affairs

Original at indiancountrytoday.com external link    Wed, Jun 3

 NY She received a Master's Degree from Carnegie Mellon University at the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management. Her Bachelor's Degree is from the University of Arizona's Eller School of Business. She is a former Udall Foundation ...

Rate Review: '8-Track' brings back loads of memories

Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review external link    Fri, May 29

 PA As chance would have it, when seen at Thursday's press night, the quartet of performers were all past or present drama students at Carnegie Mellon University -- Bradley Beahen, a veteran of four earlier productions of "8-Track"; Tess Soltau, ...

Rate State to start 'thumping' roads this summer

Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review external link    Thu, May 28

 PA Scientists from the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University and the US Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory in South Park will be among several committee members who will weigh in on the state's findings.

Rate When can you hire someone with a criminal record?

Original at blogs.livemint.com external link    Thu, May 28

 India Carnegie Mellon University researchers have created a model for providing "empirical evidence on when an ex-convict has been 'clean' long enough to be considered 'redeemed' for employment purposes." Well, the research makes sense in the US at a time ...

Rate Professors inject science into the spectacular art of GigaPan

Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review external link    Wed, May 20

 PA Scientists from around the world are gathering in Pittsburgh today to discuss how GigaPan, a camera system invented at Carnegie Mellon University, makes research easier, more in-depth and a lot more artistic. "These scientists are so smart, ...

Rate Certification changes, student performance eyed

Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review external link    Tue, May 19

 PA By Debra Erdley and Brad Bumsted A Carnegie Mellon University professor will be permitted to present a long-awaited study on teacher quality today as lawmakers battle Gov. Ed Rendell over a $201 million no-bid contract for high school exit exams. ...

Rate Opinion: LACMA curator to head Carnegie Museum of Art

Original at latimesblogs.latimes.com external link    Fri, May 1

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Zelevansky is a native of New York who was educated at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and Pratt Institute and New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, both in Manhattan. She started her career as a university professor of art in New York ...

Rate Carnegie Mellon morphs 'pop-up buttons' onto multi-touch display

Original at Engadget external link    Tue, Apr 28

 CA For that you can travel to Pittsburgh to count the rivers or just hit the read link below for the video. Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry. Email addresses are never displayed, but they are required to confirm your comments. ...

Rate How To: 'Logic bricks' proposed as simpler IC design elements

Original at EETimes.com external link    Wed, Apr 8

s (SRC) Focus Center Research Program and Carnegie Mellon University have developed simple design elements called "logic bricks" for use in IC design libraries. Logic bricks exploit chip design methodologies and how IC patterns are best printed using ...

Rate Research, Relevance Reaffirmed at DSSC Spring Review

Original at ece.cmu.edu external link    Fri, Apr 3

Nearly 100 members of academia and industry gathered in Roberts Engineering Hall at Carnegie Mellon University on March 24 for the Data Storage Systems Center's (DSSC) Spring Technical Review. Held twice each year, the center's technical reviews provide an opportunity for the DSSC to...

Rate DSSC Featured in Carnegie Mellon Engineering Magazine

Original at ece.cmu.edu external link    Fri, Mar 27

The Data Storage Systems Center was one of several College of Engineering research centers featured in the spring 2009 issue of Carnegie Mellon Engineering magazine. In the article "Returns on Investment," author Sherry Stokes outlines the college's long, prosperous relationship w...

Rate Opinion: Pitt freezes salaries of most workers

Original at Pittsburgh Post Gazette external link    Wed, Mar 4

 PA Carnegie Mellon University has also frozen salaries for next year, and leaders of Penn State University have told employees they too may go without raises. Mr. Nordenberg said the federal stimulus aid for the upcoming state budget would merely bring ...

Rate Opinion: Science center new home for Cafe Scientifique

Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review external link    Tue, Feb 24

 PA Carnegie Mellon University statistician Steven Feinberg will speak at the next meeting, on March 2, about use of polygraph machines and whether they can accurately determine if someone is telling the truth. "We have always tried to present a variety of ...

Rate Opinion: Carnegie Mellon's Children's School Celebrates 40 Years of Child ... - PR Newswire

Original at sev.prnewswire.com external link    Fri, Dec 19

Carnegie Mellon's Children's School Celebrates 40 Years of Child ... About Carnegie Mellon: Carnegie Mellon is a private research university with a distinctive mix of programs in engineering, computer science, robotics, ... Lebanon Daily News - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Rate How To: Thomson Reuters Forecasts Nobel Winners

Original at Physics and Physicists external link    Wed, Oct 1

By ZapperZ Chemistry - Charles Lieber of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who figured out how to build and use tiny, molecular-scale nanowires. - Krzysztof Matyjaszewski of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh who used electric ...

Rate Opinion: Building, growing images express artist's hope

Original at cmuptm (Blogspot) external link    Mon, Sep 22

By David Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: "Carnegie Mellon University art professor Susanne Slavick is one such artist, and her work is now the subject of the '2008 Artist of the Year' exhibition currently on display at the Pittsburgh Center for the ...

Rate Opinion: Carnegie Mellon has hand in 'Big Bang' colliderVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review external link    Tue, Sep 9

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 PA - Sep 9, 2008 By Allison M. Heinrichs Carnegie Mellon University physicist Tom Ferguson has devoted nearly 15 years to the construction of a vast underground Swiss ... First Big Bang tests good, and we're all still here Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Rate Opinion: Students studying abroad budget with the weak dollar

Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review external link    Sun, Jul 20

 PA - choose to study abroad has increased, according to administrators from Pitt, Duquesne University, Carnegie Mellon University and Penn State University. ...

Rate Newsmaker: Duen Horng 'Polo' Chau

Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review external link    Thu, Jun 12

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 PA - By Tim Puko Education: Master's degree in human-computer interaction, Carnegie Mellon University; bachelor's degree in information engineering, ...

Rate How To: Monkeys learn to feed themselves with robot arm

Original at smart-machines (Blogspot) external link    Wed, May 28

By Joe In a report published in “Nature” that describes the experiment, scientists working at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University taught the pair of simians how to use a prosthetic arm using a joystick to feed ...

Rate CMU appoints College of Science dean - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review external link    Sun, Apr 6

CMU appoints College of Science dean  PA - By The Tribune-Review Carnegie Mellon University appointed Fred Gilman as dean of its Mellon College of Science, effective April 1. ... MCS appoints new dean CMU The Tartan Online all 2 news articles

Rate Magnetic Levitation Haptic Interface

Original at Medgadget.com external link    Mon, Mar 10

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Unlike most other haptic interfaces that rely on motors and mechanical linkages to provide some sense of touch or force feedback, the device developed by Ralph Hollis, research professor in Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute, uses magnetic levitation and a single moving part to gi...

Rate Opinion: Annual cost of attending CMU soars past $50000 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette

Original at post-gazette.com external link    Fri, Feb 22

Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - Feb 22, 2008 By Eleanor Chute and Bill Schackner, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette For the first time, the total cost of attending Carnegie Mellon University will top $50000 a ... CMU hikes tuition according to class Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Rate CMU stuns nation's No. 1 team, 86-55 - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review external link    Sun, Feb 3

CMU stuns nation's No. 1 team, 86-55  PA - By The Tribune-Review The Carnegie Mellon University men's basketball team scored one of the biggest victories in school history today on its home court, ...

Year 2007

 

Rate Theater: New take on an old musical - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review external link    Wed, Nov 28

Theater: New take on an old musical  PA - But the guys and dolls of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama will be infusing it with their youthful spirits and fresh performing skills in a ...

Rate CMU professor stumps his doctors - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review external link    Tue, Oct 23

CMU professor stumps his doctors  PA - Oct 23, 2007 By Allison M. Heinrichs Celebrated Carnegie Mellon University professor Randy Pausch still expects to die, but maybe not as soon as doctors predicted. ...

Rate India's ex-president lauded by CMU - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review external link    Wed, Oct 17

India's ex-president lauded by CMU  PA - Kalam tapped into that resource yesterday when he addressed more than 600 students, faculty and Indian-American families at Carnegie Mellon University. ...

Rate Pittsburgh colleges have disaster plans - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review external link    Mon, Apr 16

Pittsburgh colleges have disaster plans  PA - Pitt and neighboring Carnegie Mellon University -- along with Chatham College, Carlow University, Duquesne University, Point Park University and the ...

Rate CMU team computes to compete in Tokyo - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review external link    Fri, Mar 9

CMU team computes to compete in Tokyo  PA - In a classroom full of computers, three Carnegie Mellon University students huddled around just one. Nathan Bauernfeind, Lawrence Tan and Young Sub Bae were ...

Rate The Future is now - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review external link    Fri, Feb 23

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The Future is now  PA - A co-op between Carnegie Mellon University and the Cultural Trust, which donates the space, Future Tenant offers art students an opportunity to manage a ...

Year 2005

 

Rate Pitt, CMU students sued over copyrighted music - Pittsburgh Tribune

Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review external link    Wed, Nov 30

Pitt, CMU students sued over copyrighted music  PA - Six people at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University accused of illegally distributing copyrighted music over the Internet have been sued ...

Rate Smackdown! Carnegie Mellon Prof v. RIAA

Original at essays & effluvia external link    Tue, May 10

By ritholtz It pleased us immensely to see Carnegie Mellon Professor Roger Dannenberg calling out RIAA President Cary Sherman on the hypocrisy of their position: Cary Sherman's opinion piece on Sunday, "Mellifluous Discord: Universities' High-Speed ...

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