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It shoots, it scores . . .
Original at irishtimes.com
• 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 ...
Incessant teen texting causes health concerns
Original at Scripps News
• 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. ...
New Java Programming Tools Employs Human-centered Design Techniques - Science Daily
Original at Science Daily
• 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 ...
Xiom Corp. Appoints Management Director of Operations - PR Newswire
Original at sev.prnewswire.com
• 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 ...
Pittsburgh Ranks In Top 20 Economically
Original at KDKA
• 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 ...
Cut up credit cards and rein in spending
Original at Shanghai Daily
• Wed, Jun 17
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 ...
Iranians here find election tally hard to believe
Original at Pittsburgh Post Gazette
• 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, ...
Burrell promotes assistant to superintendent
Original at Monessen Valley Independent
• 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 ...
Josh Groban stars in the 80's rock opera Chess in Concert
Original at Right On Music
• 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 ...
Please look at the DMV camera and smile
Original at Greenfield West Allis Now
• 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 ...
2009 Game Education Summit
Original at GameDev.net
• 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 ...
How good are extended service contracts?
Original at blogs.livemint.com
• 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 ...
McCune Foundation to resume offers of funding
Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
• 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 ...
IEEE Council on EDA to Host NSF Director at DAC Luncheon - SYS-CON Media
Original at ca.sys-con.com
• 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. ...
Fifteen Carnegie Mellon Qatar students help remote community in ...
Original at AME Info
• Sun, Jun 14
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 ...
Spice Island Tea House owner honors father
Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
• 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 ...
Project Milwaukee: Early History of Race Relations - 89.7 WUWM
Original at wuwm.com
• Wed, Jun 10
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 ...
Carnegie Science Center adds Roboworld to permanent exhibits
Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
• 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 ...
SBA names new director for Office of Native American Affairs
Original at indiancountrytoday.com
• 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 ...
Review: '8-Track' brings back loads of memories
Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
• 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, ...
State to start 'thumping' roads this summer
Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
• 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.
When can you hire someone with a criminal record?
Original at blogs.livemint.com
• 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 ...
Professors inject science into the spectacular art of GigaPan
Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
• 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, ...
Certification changes, student performance eyed
Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
• 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. ...
Opinion: LACMA curator to head Carnegie Museum of Art
Original at latimesblogs.latimes.com
• Fri, May 1
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 ...
Carnegie Mellon morphs 'pop-up buttons' onto multi-touch display
Original at Engadget
• 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. ...
How To: 'Logic bricks' proposed as simpler IC design elements
Original at EETimes.com
• 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 ...
Research, Relevance Reaffirmed at DSSC Spring Review
Original at ece.cmu.edu
• 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...
DSSC Featured in Carnegie Mellon Engineering Magazine
Original at ece.cmu.edu
• 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...
Opinion: Pitt freezes salaries of most workers
Original at Pittsburgh Post Gazette
• 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 ...
Opinion: Science center new home for Cafe Scientifique
Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
• 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 ...
Opinion: Carnegie Mellon's Children's School Celebrates 40 Years of Child ... - PR Newswire
Original at sev.prnewswire.com
• 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
How To: Thomson Reuters Forecasts Nobel Winners
Original at Physics and Physicists
• 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 ...
Opinion: Building, growing images express artist's hope
Original at cmuptm (Blogspot)
• 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 ...
Opinion: Carnegie Mellon has hand in 'Big Bang' colliderOriginal at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
• Tue, Sep 9
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
Opinion: Students studying abroad budget with the weak dollar
Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
• Sun, Jul 20
PA - choose to study abroad has increased, according to administrators from Pitt, Duquesne University, Carnegie Mellon University and Penn State University. ...
Newsmaker: Duen Horng 'Polo' Chau
Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
• Thu, Jun 12
PA - By Tim Puko Education: Master's degree in human-computer interaction, Carnegie Mellon University; bachelor's degree in information engineering, ...
How To: Monkeys learn to feed themselves with robot arm
Original at smart-machines (Blogspot)
• 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 ...
CMU appoints College of Science dean - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
• 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
Magnetic Levitation Haptic Interface
Original at Medgadget.com
• Mon, Mar 10
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...
Opinion: Annual cost of attending CMU soars past $50000 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Original at post-gazette.com
• 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
CMU stuns nation's No. 1 team, 86-55 - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
• 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, ...
Theater: New take on an old musical - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
• 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 ...
CMU professor stumps his doctors - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
• 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. ...
India's ex-president lauded by CMU - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
• 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. ...
Pittsburgh colleges have disaster plans - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
• 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 ...
CMU team computes to compete in Tokyo - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
• 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 ...
The Future is now - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
• Fri, Feb 23
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 ...
Pitt, CMU students sued over copyrighted music - Pittsburgh Tribune
Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
• 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 ...
Smackdown! Carnegie Mellon Prof v. RIAA
Original at essays & effluvia
• 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 ...