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The Carnegie Institution of Washington (www.carnegieinstitution.org) has been a pioneering force in basic scientific research since 1902. It is a private, nonprofit organization with six research departments throughout the U.S. Carnegie scientists are leaders in plant biology, developmental biology, astronomy, materials science, global ecology, and Earth and planetary science. Since its founding in 1900 by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, Carnegie Mellon University has been a pragmatic institution, adapting rapidly to change. In fewer than 100 years it has changed its name three times--each transition marking a milestone in the institution's 20th century evolution. Whether it was Carnegie Technical Schools, as it was in its first 12 years, Carnegie Institute of Technology, its name from 1912 to 1967, or Carnegie Mellon University, three primary purposes formed its foundation. Throughout this century, Carnegie Mellon has focused on delivering distinctive and first-quality education, fostering research, creativity and discovery, and using the new knowledge created on campus to serve our larger society. When Arthur A. Hamerschlag served as the school's first president, Carnegie Technical Schools' 12 professors and six administrators sought to educate the sons and daughters of Pittsburgh workers for employment in the region's growing industries. These educators served the vision of Carnegie by organizing into four faculties: the School of Science and Technology, the School of Fine and Applied Arts, the School of Apprentices and Journeymen, and the Margaret Morrison Carnegie School for Women. In its earliest years, the institution served primarily part-time and undergraduate students. The faculty, many of whom did not have doctor's degrees, focused on teaching and curriculum development. But research efforts began as early as 1916 when the Division of Applied Psychology of the Carnegie Institute of Technology developed rating scales for job placement. This rating system was used to classify two million men for placement in the armed forces during World War I. Research bureaus were organized in coal mining, nuclear physics, applied chemistry and metallurgy. And by granting the nation's first undergraduate degree in drama in 1917, the institution began a tradition of leadership in the arts that spanned the century. Through research and the education of its students during the administration of President Thomas S. Baker in the 1920s and '30s, the institution began its strong tradition of transferring knowledge and skills to industry and government. Building on this firm foundation, the administration of President Robert E. Doherty introduced a new approach to education that would be used as a model by similar institutions around the nation. The Carnegie Plan for Professional Education, initiated in 1939-40, required engineering and science students to take a quarter of their courses in a new Humanistic and Social Relations sequence. In addition, its curriculum focused on teaching students problem-solving techniques, a hallmark of the Carnegie Mellon educational experience today. While the Doherty administration has been credited with this educational innovation, it also oversaw growth in the institution's research capability. Between 1936 and 1950, the number of graduate students grew from 36 to more than 260. The research budget ballooned from $156,000 to $1 million. In the 1950s, the newly formed Graduate School of Industrial Administration, endowed by William Larimer Mellon, emerged as one of the three or four best business schools in the nation. (In 2004 the school was renamed the David A. Tepper School of Business after benefactor and alumnus David Tepper (MBA '82).) Today, the school is recognized as a pioneer in the field of management science and one of the top business schools in the world. The Warner administration oversaw the institution's burgeoning research enterprise. This period of research growth was aided by the work of the institution's Computation Center, founded in 1956 to provide computing services to the campus. A major grant from benefactor Richard K. Mellon in 1965 aided the establishment of a Computer Science Department, a department which would be the genesis of Carnegie Mellon's worldwide reputation in computer science. By the end of the Warner administration and the start of the administration of President H. Guyford Stever in 1966, Carnegie Tech had most elements of a university. Its merger in 1967 with the Mellon Institute created Carnegie Mellon University and brought a $60 million endowment, extensive research facilities and renowned research personnel to the institution. Five years later, President Richard M. Cyert (1972-90) began a tenure that was characterized by unparalleled growth and development. The university's research budget soared from about $12 million annually in the early 1970s to more than $110 million in the late 1980s. The work of researchers in new fields such as robotics and software engineering helped the university build on its reputation for innovative ideas and pragmatic solutions to the problems of industry and society. Carnegie Mellon began to be recognized as a truly national research university able to attract students from across the nation and around the world. The Cyert administration stressed strategic planning and comparative advantage, pursuing opportunities in areas in which Carnegie Mellon could outdistance its competitors. An archetypal example of this approach was the introduction of the university's "Andrew" computing network in the mid-1980s. This pioneering network, which linked all computers and workstations on campus, set the standard for educational computing and firmly established the university as a leader in the uses of technology in education and research. Education and teaching also benefited in this period with the establishment of a University Teaching Center to improve faculty teaching and the renovation of many of the university's classrooms. Cognizant of the university's heritage, President Robert Mehrabian (1990-97) invited alumni from the era of the institution's first president, Arthur A. Hamerschlag, to attend his inauguration in 1990. President Mehrabian emphasized Carnegie Mellon's traditional strengths in education, research and service to society while focusing on initiatives for leadership in the 21st century. With the appointment of the university's first Vice Provost for Education, President Mehrabian placed renewed emphasis early in his administration on the quality of undergraduate education. He also moved aggressively to complete the most ambitious campus building plan since the Warner era. The University Center, which opened in August 1996, and the Purnell Center for the Arts, to be completed by the fall of 1999, are keys to enhancing the quality of life on campus, another priority of the Mehrabian administration. Confronted by shrinking governmental support of university research, President Mehrabian diversified the university's research agenda. He stressed the need to build strong relationships with the business world, matching industry's needs with the university's areas of research strength. He also put new emphasis on productivity, improvement of administrative services and strategic management of university resources. President Mehrabian established strong, new partnerships with the greater Pittsburgh community. He led a community-wide economic development initiative, spurred collaboration with primary and secondary schools, and worked closely with local community groups. On April 15, 1997, Jared L. Cohon, former dean of Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, was elected by the university's Board of Trustees to succeed President Mehrabian, who resigned to spend more time with his family in California. "Since I was chosen, since this wonderful event has occurred, it has made me reflect on why you are choosing me," President Cohon said in his first speech to the university community. "And I've said to people since this was announced that the more I think about it, the more I realize how well I think this institution and I fit together. We'll see if that's true. I think it is. "When I was at Johns Hopkins we used to always hold up Carnegie Mellon as an example," Cohon said. "So, for many years I've ... been jealous of what has been accomplished here across departmental lines. I celebrate that. I think it is so valuable in every aspect of this university and it will position Carnegie Mellon to be even better...." During Cohon's presidency, Carnegie Mellon has continued its trajectory of innovation and growth. Today, President Cohon is leading implementation of a comprehensive strategic plan that aims to leverage the university's existing strengths to benefit society in the areas of biotechnology and the life sciences, information and security technology, environmental science and practices, the fine arts and humanities. The university is also committed to broadening and enhancing undergraduate education to allow students to explore various disciplines while maintaining a core focus in their primary area of study. Realizing that today's graduates must understand international issues, Carnegie Mellon is committed to providing a global education for its students and is striving to expand its international offerings and to increase its presence on a global scale. Increasing diversity, in all aspects, and fostering the economic development of southwestern Pennsylvania, are also top priorities. Over the years Carnegie Mellon's leaders have reflected Andrew Carnegie's original dedication and commitment to this institution. In his 1900 letter to the mayor of Pittsburgh establishing Carnegie Technical Schools, Andrew Carnegie wrote, "My heart is in the work." These words have been echoed by students, faculty and administrators throughout this century and they live on the Carnegie Mellon campus today. |
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A research team led by Carnegie Mellon University Materials Science and Biomedical Engineering Professor Prashant Kumta has discovered a nanocrystalline material that is cheaper, more stable and produces a higher quality energy storage capacity for use in a variety of industrial and portable consumer electronic products. |
25 March 2007 |
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In a pair of groundbreaking studies, brain scientists at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh have discovered that the anatomical differences that characterize the brains of people with autism are related to the way those brains process information. |
24 March 2007 |
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Study conducted by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh involving an amnesia-inducing drug has shed light on how we form new memories. |
23 March 2007 |
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Educators at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Academy say robotics could become an even more powerful teaching tool with curriculum they developed for the new version of LEGO Education's popular MINDSTORMS robot-building set. |
22 March 2007 |
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Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a new type of mobile robot that balances on a ball instead of legs or wheels. 'Ballbot' is a self-contained, battery-operated, omnidirectional robot that balances dynamically on a single urethane-coated metal sphere. |
21 March 2007 |
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Research by Carnegie Mellon University Associate Teaching Professor Kristen Kurland demonstrates that urban neighborhoods lack adequate space for physical activity and healthy food choices for children, contributing to the high rate of childhood obesity. Her studies recommend ways to modify cities' built environment and reduce the tremendous costs of this growing problem. |
20 March 2007 |
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Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering has created a new graduate degree program designed to help corporations turn invention and creativity into shareholder wealth. Engineering and technical professionals can earn a one-year interdisciplinary master of science degree in Engineering and Technology Innovation Management. |
19 March 2007 |
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Carnegie Mellon University's Robert L. Preger Intelligent Workplace has received the first commercially available solar absorption cooling system as a donation from BROAD Air Conditioning Co. |
18 March 2007 |
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Using environmentally safe compounds like sugars and vitamin C, scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have vastly improved a popular technology used to generate a diverse range of industrial plastics for applications ranging from targeted drug delivery systems to resilient paint coatings. |
17 March 2007 |
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Young children with autism appear to be delayed in their ability to categorize objects and, in particular, to distinguish between living and nonliving things, according to a breakthrough study by researchers at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. |
16 March 2007 |
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Using a new form of brain imaging known as diffusion tensor imaging, researchers in the Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered that the so-called white matter in the brains of people with autism has lower structural integrity than in the brains of normal individuals. This provides further evidence that the anatomical differences characterizing the brains of people with autism are related to the way those brains process information. |
15 March 2007 |
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The Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Collider Detector at Fermilab, a collaboration that includes researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, announced yesterday the discovery of two rare types of particles, exotic relatives of the more common proton and neutron. |
14 March 2007 |
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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the U.S. Department of Energy are developing 'smart' nanoparticles to clean up environmental toxins that resist conventional remediation methods. Pollutants in the ground that do not easily mix with water, such as organic solvents, are a continued source of groundwater pollution until they are removed. |
27 August 2006 |
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For the first time, a team of investigators at Carnegie Mellon University has shown that the binding of metal ions can mediate the formation of peptide nucleic acid duplexes from single strands of PNA that are only partly complementary. This result opens new opportunities to create functional, three-dimensional nanosize structures such as molecular-scale electronic circuits, which could reduce by thousands of times the size of today's common electronic devices. |
27 August 2006 |
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A collaborative research team led by Carnegie Mellon University's Cliff Davidson, David Allen of The University of Texas at Austin and Brad Allenby of Arizona State University plan to revolutionize the way engineering education is taught by creating a new Center for Sustainable Engineering. |
26 August 2006 |
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Don't be surprised if the singers who advance to the next round of 'American Idol' each week are those who perform at the end of the previous week's episode. Studies by Carnegie Mellon University researcher Wändi Bruine De Bruin have found that participants who appear toward the end of juried competitions do better than those who perform at the beginning. |
26 August 2006 |
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Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Karlsruhe's joint International Center for Advanced Communication Technologies will hold an international videoconference. |
25 August 2006 |
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New types of insidious programs are burrowing into a variety of embedded systems in cars and cell phones, wreaking all sorts of problems. Here's what Carnegie Mellon University Electrical and Computer Engineering researchers are doing to combat them. |
25 August 2006 |
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The Girls, Math & Science Partnership and Family Communications Inc will host a reception to unveil BrainCake.org at FCI in Oakland. |
24 August 2006 |
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Carnegie Mellon University's innovative Child Language Data Exchange System now includes the Hong Kong Bilingual Child Language Corpus, which is the world's largest video-linked database of children learning two first languages. |
24 August 2006 |
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A provocative new study has found that people who respond to stressful situations with angry facial expressions, rather than fearful expressions, are less likely to suffer such ill effects of stress as high blood pressure and high stress hormone secretion. |
23 August 2006 |
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Adults may feel silly when they talk to babies, but those babies will learn to speak sooner if adults talk to them like infants instead of like other adults, according to a study by Carnegie Mellon University Psychology Professor Erik Thiessen published in the March issue of the journal Infancy. |
23 August 2006 |
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In a first, Carnegie Mellon University scientists have 'programmed' cells to make their own contrast agents, enabling unprecedented high-resolution, deep-tissue imaging of gene expression. The results, appearing in the April issue of Nature Medicine, hold considerable promise for conducting preclinical studies in the emerging field of molecular therapeutics and for monitoring the delivery of therapeutic genes in patients. |
22 August 2006 |
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Carnegie Mellon University scientists have developed an attractive way to make discrete carbon nanoparticles for electrical components used in industry and research. This method, which employs polyacrylonitrile as a nanoparticle precursor, was presented by Chuanbing Tang, a Carnegie Mellon graduate student at the 227th annual meeting of the American Chemical Society in Anaheim, Calif. The research findings have been accepted for publication in Angewandte Chemie, International Edition. |
22 August 2006 |
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Carnegie Mellon University's Institute for Complex Engineered Systems will host an open house to display ongoing collaborative research projects, including nanotechnology projects and other cutting-edge research funded by the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance. |
22 August 2006 |
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An international team of scientists for the first time has detected a memory trace in a living animal after it has encountered a single, new stimulus. The research, done with honeybees sensing new odors, allows neuroscientists to peer within the living brain and explore short-term memory as never before, according to scientist Roberto Fernández Galán, a leading author on the report who is currently a postdoctoral research associate at Carnegie Mellon University. |
21 August 2006 |
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A collaborative research team led by Carnegie Mellon University's Jose M.F. Moura has developed a new set of software tools that may revolutionize the way computer code is written. The team involves Moura and Markus Pueschel, professors with Carnegie Mellon's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Maria Manuela Veloso, a professor with the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon, as well as David Padua, a professor of computer science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Jeremy Johnson, a professor of computer science at Drexel University. |
21 August 2006 |
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Carnegie Mellon University scientists have employed biological molecules to create a microgel that could recover costly enzymes for repeated use in catalyzing commercially important reactions. The microgel could potentially recover any enzyme and theoretically save manufacturers considerable money. |
21 August 2006 |
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Recognizing faces is effortless for most people, and it's an ability that provides great evolutionary and social advantages. But this ability is impaired in people who have suffered brain damage or in those with a rare congenital condition, and research by Carnegie Mellon University psychologists reveals startling insights into how the brains of those individuals operate. |
20 August 2006 |
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A standard Internet protocol that checks errors made during email transmissions has now inspired a revolutionary method to transform DNA microarray analysis, a common technology used to understand gene activation. The new method, which blends experiment and computation, strengthens DNA microarray analysis, according to its Carnegie Mellon University inventor, who is publishing his findings in the December issue of Nature Biotechnology with collaborators at The Hebrew University in Israel. |
20 August 2006 |
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There is growing evidence that positive emotions such as happiness are linked to good health and increased longevity, but too many questions remain unanswered to draw definitive conclusions, according to a review of research conducted over the past 10 years. |
19 August 2006 |
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A group of Carnegie Mellon University researchers are part of an eight-institution team that will work on cybersecurity and trustworthy computing issues within a new National Science Foundation-funded Science and Technology Center led by the University of California at Berkeley. |
19 August 2006 |
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Devin Balkcom, a student in Carnegie Mellon University's doctoral program in robotics, was looking for a challenge when he decided to develop the world's first origami-folding robot as the subject of his thesis. Origami, the ancient Japanese art of paper sculpture, looks deceptively simple at first glance. |
19 August 2006 |
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Carnegie Mellon University's mechanical engineering and design students will unveil a newly designed race car, at the Singleton Room in Roberts Hall. The team, led by Chris D'Eramo and Dan Fry, will compete next week in Pontiac, Mich., in the 26th annual Society of Automotive Engineers Race, which tests both design and engineering prowess of the cars and team members entered. |
18 August 2006 |
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A simple, elegant method could enable scientists to predict how groups of neurons respond to one another and synchronize their activity, report a group of investigators at Carnegie Mellon University. Their work, in press with 'Physical Review Letters,' ultimately could help scientists understand how neurons network with one another in learning and disease. |
18 August 2006 |
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Most sexually active teenage girls know relatively little about sexually transmitted diseases until it is too late, according to a paper by Carnegie Mellon University researchers that will be published in the January edition of the Journal of Adolescent Health. |
18 August 2006 |
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Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama will add a production dramaturgy option to its bachelor of fine arts offerings in acting, music theatre, design and production this spring. |
17 August 2006 |
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With Hollywood-style hoopla, Carnegie Mellon CyLab and the Information Networking Institute will launch a new education initiative called MySecureCyberspace, which includes a game for children and a Web-based portal for home users. |
17 August 2006 |
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Carnegie Mellon University robotics researchers, in conjunction with the U.S. Marine Corps' Warfighting Laboratory, have developed a small, throwable, remote-controlled prototype robot designed for surveillance in urban settings. Several of the robots are being sent to Iraq for testing. |
17 August 2006 |
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Using advanced imaging technology, Carnegie Mellon University scientist Eric Ahrens and co-investigators have conducted the first systematic examination of developmental and sex-associated changes in adolescent and adult mouse brains to reveal fundamental differences in key brain structures, such as those important for emotions, learning, and memory. The results, in press with NeuroImage, show that sex hormones alter the development of certain brain structures during puberty and that these effects persist into adulthood. |
16 August 2006 |
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Carnegie Mellon University has appointed William G. Rosenberg as Professor of the Practice to head a new university research initiative designed to help develop the strategies to implement new coal technologies that could result in lower natural gas prices. His appointment is effective today. |
16 August 2006 |
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Carnegie Mellon University scientist Chien Ho and his colleagues have developed a promising tool that uses magnetic resonance imaging to track immune cells as they infiltrate a transplanted heart in the early stages of organ rejection. This pre-clinical advance, described in an upcoming issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ultimately could provide a noninvasive way to detect transplant rejection in patients. |
16 August 2006 |
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The National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center have collaborated to release a new version of GSI-OpenSSH that provides a substantial speedup in performance. |
15 August 2006 |
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Carnegie Mellon University students in engineering, the sciences and public policy will unveil today several studies about the benefits of owning hybrid and diesel cars. |
15 August 2006 |
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A team of brain scientists at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh have made a groundbreaking discovery into the biological basis for autism, a mysterious brain disorder that impairs verbal and non-verbal communications and social interactions. |
15 August 2006 |
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Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientist Alison Barth has developed the first tool to identify and study individual neurons activated in a living animal. This advance, described in The Journal of Neuroscience, ultimately could lead to the development of targeted drugs that directly affect specific neurons involved in neurological diseases that alter behavior, learning and perception. |
14 August 2006 |
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A team of eight students from Carnegie Mellon University will present 'Centre Food: Bringing a Non-Profit Food Store to Pittsburgh's Hill District Neighborhood' to a panel of blue-ribbon judge. |
14 August 2006 |
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Carnegie Mellon University Professor Granger Morgan will lead the Conference on Crisis Readiness to discuss ways to improve how the nation can better protect essential systems against natural disasters and terrorist attacks. The conference is sponsored by Carnegie Mellon. |
14 August 2006 |
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Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered that our ears use the most efficient way to process the sounds we hear, from babbling brooks to wailing babies. These results represent a significant advance in understanding how sound is encoded for transmission to the brain, according to the authors, whose work is published with an accompanying 'News and Views' editorial in the Feb. 23 issue of Nature. |
13 August 2006 |
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Carnegie Mellon University scientists have harnessed an experimental technology to produce polymer films with long-range-ordered nanostructure and easily convert them into highly ordered 'nanocarbon arrays.' Called zone casting, this technology could revolutionize the way industrial nanoelectronic components are made. The research findings are in press with the Journal of the American Chemical Society. |
13 August 2006 |
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Carnegie Mellon University robotics researchers, in conjunction with the Northeast Gas Association, the National Energy Technology Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy and NASA, have developed a remote-controlled, untethered, wireless prototype crawling robot, designed to inspect underground gas mains. |
13 August 2006 |
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Carnegie Mellon University robotics and life sciences researchers will demonstrate Zoë, an autonomous rover being groomed to seek and identify life in hostile environments. |
12 August 2006 |
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The Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University in collaboration with the Fire Department of New York is developing Hazmat: Hotzone, a simulation that uses videogame technology to train first responders about how to respond to hazardous materials emergencies. |
12 August 2006 |
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A study by Carnegie Mellon University researchers in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy has found that cell phones and other portable electronic devices, like laptops and game-playing devices, can pose dangers to the normal operation of critical electronics on airplanes. The study will be featured in an article appearing in the March issue of IEEE Spectrum. |
12 August 2006 |
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Carnegie Mellon University professors James H. Garrett Jr. and Jose M.F. Moura will head a new research center that will perform enabling research aimed at delivering cost-effective, sensor-based monitoring systems for a broad range of critical infrastructure applications. These monitoring systems could be used for decaying bridges, oil and gas pipelines, unstable electric power grids, leaking water distribution systems, and ensuring the security of a university campus. |
11 August 2006 |
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Eleven students and recent graduates of Carnegie Mellon University are spending 10 weeks in the Cook Islands, Palau, Micronesia and Sri Lanka to help government and nonprofit agencies develop computer systems that will allow them to better serve their citizens and maintain vital information. Students will leave for their host countries after spending several days at an orientation session in Hawaii. |
11 August 2006 |
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The distribution and movement of polychlorinated biphenyls in the environment has threatened scarce water supplies, ecosystems, tourism and the world's fragile fishing industry. In the three decades since PCB production and use were banned, sediments of many lakes and waterways continue to provide a source of these deadly toxins to the water and ultimately to fish and people. |
11 August 2006 |
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A sediment-capping mat developed by Carnegie Mellon engineers and CETCO (Arlington Heights, Ill.) soaks up dangerous PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) and could prevent their long-term release into waterways, according to the researchers, who are evaluating it in field trials in Washington, D.C.'s contaminated Anacostia River. |
10 August 2006 |
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Carnegie Mellon University researchers Granger Morgan, Jay Apt and Lester Lave will recommend to federal officials Thursday, in Washington, D.C., that carbon dioxide emissions from electric generation plants can be dramatically reduced and ultimately eliminated without damaging the economy. |
10 August 2006 |
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Through a clever experimental design, Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientists have validated decades of experiments to show how learning and memory may be encoded in a living animal. The research, published in the March issue of Neuron, identifies for the first time the specific neural connections that strengthen as an animal's brain responds to new experiences. |
10 August 2006 |
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Carnegie Mellon University has entered into a groundbreaking collaboration with Electronic Arts Inc that has the potential to revolutionize and reinvigorate computer science education in the U.S., from middle school through senior high and beyond. |
09 August 2006 |
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In research performed at the Department of Energy's Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., nuclear physicists, including a team from Carnegie Mellon University, have found that strange quarks do contribute to the structure of the proton. |
09 August 2006 |
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Want a tennis racket that propels balls faster than a race car or a sturdy ship hull that never rusts? Finding the recipes for such remarkable materials, called amorphous metals, should be easier using a new computational approach developed by Carnegie Mellon University physicist Michael Widom. |
09 August 2006 |
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Carnegie Mellon University's Rob A. Rutenbar is leading a national research team to develop a new, efficient silicon chip that may revolutionize the way humans communicate and have a significant impact on America's homeland security. |
08 August 2006 |
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In an intriguing and unusual study, researchers have found that people who have brain damage that impairs their emotional responses can, in certain situations, make better investment decisions than normal people. The paper was published in the June issue of Psychological Science and was co-authored by faculty at Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Iowa. |
08 August 2006 |
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Steadily increasing the length of a purified conducting polymer vastly improves its ability to conduct electricity, report researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, whose work appeared March 22 in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Their study of regioregular polythiophenes establishes benchmark properties for these materials that suggest how to optimize their use for a new generation of diverse materials, including solar panels, transistors in radio frequency identification tags, and light-weight, flexible, organic light-emitting displays. |
08 August 2006 |
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Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center in the School of Computer Science's Robotics Institute is unveiling a unique unmanned ground vehicle that offers new strength, mobility and autonomy features for the Army's effort to keep its troops out of harm's way. |
07 August 2006 |
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Carnegie Mellon University researcher Michael Bigrigg recently started a company that manufactures an innovative sensor to detect and mitigate temperature problems in computer hard drives. |
07 August 2006 |
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Researchers in the Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University have completed a study challenging a popular theory that claims bodily states can guide decision-making when conscious knowledge isn't available. The paper, written by doctoral student Tiago V. Maia and James L. McClelland, the Walter Van Dyke Bingham Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, will be published next week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. |
07 August 2006 |
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You walk into a room and spy a plate of gooey doughnuts dripping with chocolate frosting. But wait: You were saving your sweets allotment for a party later today. If it feels like one part of your brain is battling another, it probably is, according to a newly published study. |
06 August 2006 |
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Women who receive an educational or nutritional intervention following the completion of their treatment for breast cancer are less likely to be depressed and have a better quality of life than other breast cancer survivors, according to a study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and Emory University. |
06 August 2006 |
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'Our report indicates the time is right for America to begin a transition to ethanol derived from switchgrass,' said Scott Matthews, an assistant professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. A 25 percent hike in gas prices since December that's driven average U.S. gas prices to nearly $3 a gallon adds to the researchers' call for more ethanol derived from switchgrass, a perennial tall grass used as forage for livestock. The Carnegie Mellon findings were published in the May 1 issue of the American Chemical Society's Environmental Science and Technology journal. |
06 August 2006 |
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Carnegie Mellon University Professor Anthony D. Rollett has developed a new computational method that may help track the lifespan of U.S. Navy aircraft. |
05 August 2006 |
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Carnegie Mellon CyLab computer scientist Yang Cai is working with NASA's Earth-Sun System Technology Office, the Goddard Space Flight Center and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to develop new software for detecting and tracking toxic algae plaguing North American waters. |
05 August 2006 |
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Carnegie Mellon University chemical engineering researchers will show Senator Arlen Specter new high-tech equipment and new materials being developed to create more economical and purer drugs for use by physicians and consumers. |
05 August 2006 |
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Using functional magnetic resonance imaging scans, a team of scientists at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh have found differences in the activation and synchronization of brain networks between people with autism and those without it. These findings could yield strategies for treating autism, a mysterious brain disorder that impairs verbal and non-verbal communications and social interactions. The study will be published in the journal Neuroimage and will be available online November 29 at www.sciencedirect.com. |
04 August 2006 |
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The release of the transcripts of New York City emergency communications from the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks brought back the flood of emotions that Americans experienced during the worst attack in the nation's history. As a recent Carnegie Mellon University study demonstrates, intense emotions have a powerful effect on how Americans continue to perceive the risk of terrorism and their memories of 9/11. The study was published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. |
04 August 2006 |
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Carnegie Mellon University researchers today announced the creation of the Data Center Observatory, a dual-purpose facility that is both a working data center and a research vehicle for the study of data center automation and efficiency. The university held a DCO lab dedication today at its Collaborative Innovation Center (4720 Forbes Avenue) that included representatives from the university, American Power Conversion, local business leaders and select members of the news media. |
04 August 2006 |
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We live in a three-dimensional world but, for the most part, we see it in two dimensions. Discerning how objects and surfaces are juxtaposed in an image is second nature for people, but it's something that has long flummoxed computer vision systems. |
03 August 2006 |
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The emotional responses that guide much of human behavior have a tremendous impact on public policy and international affairs, prompting government officials to make decisions in response to a crisis, with little regard to the long-term consequences, according to a study by scholars at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. |
03 August 2006 |
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By exploiting an HIV protein that readily traverses cell membranes, Carnegie Mellon University scientists have developed a new way to introduce a gene-like molecule called a peptide nucleic acid directly into live mammalian cells, including human embryonic stem cells. The work, published online December 2 in Chemical Communications, http://www.rsc.org/is/journals/current/chemcomm/ccadvarts.htm, holds considerable promise in genetic engineering, diagnostics and therapeutics. |
03 August 2006 |
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For the first time, researchers have automatically grouped fluorescently tagged proteins from high-resolution images of cells. This technical feat opens a new way to identify disease proteins and drug targets by helping to show which proteins cluster together inside a cell. |
02 August 2006 |
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Important messages require accurate transmission. Big genes are especially challenging because they combine many coding segments (exons) that lie between long stretches of noncoding elements (introns). During processing, introns are snipped out and exons pasted together to form a template for proteins called messenger RNA. |
02 August 2006 |
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Scientists from Carnegie Mellon University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture have found that a rapid, environmentally friendly catalytic process involving Fe-TAML activators and hydrogen peroxide breaks down two types of estrogenic compounds. These natural and synthetic compounds can mimic or block the activities of hormones in wildlife and humans, which may disrupt the normal functions of the endocrine system and impair development. They could also contaminate drinking water. |
02 August 2006 |
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Carnegie Mellon University researchers Kris Noel Dahl and Mohammad F. Islam have made a new breakthrough for children suffering from an extremely rare disease that accelerates the aging process by about seven times the normal rate. |
01 August 2006 |
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Carnegie Mellon University President Jared L. Cohon recently showcased a new $172,000 rooftop garden and ongoing research designed to promote the benefits of stormwater management and energy conservation on the south roof of Hamerschlag Hall. |
01 August 2006 |
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Using a new computer model of galaxy formation, researchers have shown that growing black holes release a blast of energy that fundamentally regulates galaxy evolution and black hole growth itself. The model explains for the first time observed phenomena and promises to deliver deeper insights into our understanding of galaxy formation and the role of black holes throughout cosmic history, according to its creators. |
01 August 2006 |
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A team of Carnegie Mellon University Electrical and Computer Engineering researchers received funds for ongoing research from General Motors to continue smart car research that will revolutionize the way vehicles and drivers interact. |
31 July 2006 |
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An international team of Earth and space scientists will search for microbial life forms in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, 4,000 miles away. The Life in the Atacama science team will do this, in part, through the use of technology developed by the EventScope Project at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University. |
31 July 2006 |
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Carnegie Mellon University has sealed an agreement with Taiwanese officials establishing new research and educational outreach programs with the Industrial Technology Research Institute and National Chiao-Tung University in Hsinchu, a research-rich area south of Taipei. |
10 June 2006 |
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Three years after that day in September, the nation is still worried about terrorism. At the airports we're taking off our shoes, at work we're flashing our badges and at home we're creating emergency kits. But these measures seem inadequate against a mind-numbing array of potential threats. Because terrorists can pick targets anywhere, counterterrorism programs and technology must defend everywhere, from office buildings to airports to cargo ships to hospitals and to the Internet. |
20 April 2006 |
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Alexander Goncharov of the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory and colleagues have used extreme temperatures and pressures to make two durable compounds called noble metal nitrides; they are the first to succeed in making one of them, and the first to accurately determine the chemical formula of the other. |
20 April 2006 |
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The Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) and Carnegie Mellon University have developed a new computational modeling tool that could make the production of hydrogen cheaper as the United States seeks to expand its portfolio of alternative energy supplies. |
27 January 2005 |
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Want a tennis racket that propels balls faster than a race car or a sturdy ship hull that never rusts? Finding the recipes for such remarkable materials – called amorphous metals – should be easier using a new computational approach developed by Carnegie Mellon University physicist Michael Widom.
Described in an upcoming issue of Phys. Rev. B (September 1, 2004), this method already has been used to virtually generate recipes for more than 1,700 structures, many of which have never before been analyzed. The novel approach should prove valuable in guiding future bench testing and sparing countless hours of laboratory trial and error to generate amorphous metals. |
30 August 2004 |
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A powerful one-step, 'chain growth' method should make it easier to design and synthesize a variety of highly conductive polymers for different research and commercial applications, according to a presentation by the method's developer, Carnegie Mellon University chemist Richard McCullough. McCullough, dean of the Mellon College of Science and professor of chemistry, is reporting his research Tuesday, March 30, at the 227th annual meeting of the American Chemical Society in Anaheim, Calif. (POLY 360, Plaza B). |
30 March 2004 |
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Carnegie Mellon University's Yoed Rabin is leading an interdisciplinary research team in developing a new computerized tool to assist surgeons in planning cryosurgery, now being used to freeze undesired tissues in prostate cancer patients. |
26 March 2004 |
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Carnegie Mellon University and other Pittsburgh-area colleges and universities have created the Pittsburgh Consortium for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, an interdisciplinary, intercampus organization of scholars working in medieval, Renaissance and early modern studies throughout the western Pennsylvania region. |
12 March 2004 |
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The Carnegie Mellon Critter Temperature Sensor, which attaches to a user's desktop computer, is being deployed across campus to monitor the working environment of university computers, according to Michael Bigrigg, a project scientist for the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems |
01 March 2004 |
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Carnegie Mellon University has 'hired' Valerie, one of the world's first storytelling roboceptionists, to greet visitors and set the stage as they enter the computer science building on the university campus. |
18 February 2004 |
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Imagine a device that would enable an amazing $200-per-day production savings. Well, a Carnegie Mellon University mechanical engineering project class imagined just such a device and designed a product that could save time and money for Kennametal, Inc. customers. |
27 January 2004 |
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Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have used atomic force microscopy to shed light on molecular scale processes underlying the formation of insoluble plaques associated with Alzheimer's Disease. Results of this work suggest that AFM could lead to a better understanding of the disease process and help guide the search for new diagnostic and treatment approaches. The report will be published in the Jan. 23 issue of the Journal of Molecular Biology and appears online at www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions/journal/00222836. |
19 January 2004 |
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Researchers from Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh will receive $1.02 million over the next four years from the National Institutes of Health to create safer methods for using gene therapy in treating patients. |
21 December 2003 |
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Carnegie Mellon University robotics researcher Vladimir Brajovic has developed a tool that automatically improves the appearance of darkened or underexposed photographs by digitally adding light to dark areas. |
12 December 2003 |
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Carnegie Mellon University Civil Engineering students will test 13 novel mobile drum carts designed to help the Ambridge Area High School Band march into the music record book at the 2004 Rose Bowl Parade in Pasadena, Calif. |
28 November 2003 |
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Carnegie Mellon University is scheduled today to announce an integrated initiative designed to ensure safety for every computer log-on, including a broad range of home users to small businesses and large corporations. To achieve this goal, the university will combine its existing expertise and related research centers under one umbrella organization called Carnegie Mellon CyLab. |
12 November 2003 |
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Carnegie Mellon University professors Asim Smailagic and Dan Siewiorek with a team of talented students from the College of Engineering, the School of Computer Science and the Human Computer Interaction Institute have developed a new context aware mobile phone technology that can keep track of a multitude of everyday details in a person's life, the email sent, the phone calls made and the user's location. The phone also adapts to dynamically changing environmental and psychological conditions. |
02 November 2003 |
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Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Consortium, part of the Robotics Institute in the School of Computer Science, has been selected to be part of a team formed by General Dynamics Robotics Systems to negotiate toward a contract to develop an Autonomous Navigation System for unmanned and manned ground vehicles. |
28 October 2003 |
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The Department of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University has received a two-year, $50,000 grant from the Eli Lilly and Company Foundation to fund its Summer Undergraduate Research Internship Program, which brings undergraduate minority students to Carnegie Mellon to learn how to conduct biostatistical research. |
27 September 2003 |
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An autonomous, solar-powered robot and its advanced life-detection and geologic instruments, developed by Carnegie Mellon University researchers, have both exceeded expectations in the first phase of a three-year effort to develop and deploy a robotic system that may some day enable other rovers to search for life on Mars. |
15 September 2003 |
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People who are happy, relaxed or exhibit other positive emotions are less likely to catch colds than those who are unhappy or anxious, according to a study by Carnegie Mellon University Psychology Professor Sheldon Cohen that will be published in the upcoming edition of Psychosomatic Medicine, the journal of the American Psychosomatic Society. |
11 June 2003 |
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Carnegie Mellon University researchers, working with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and the U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration, will demonstrate a prototype, autonomous wheeled robot today as it explores and maps a 3,500-foot corridor of an abandoned coal mine near New Eagle in southwestern Pennsylvania. |
29 May 2003 |
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A team of electrical and computer engineering students are developing ways to use biometric authentication in today's ubiquitous personal digital assistants. Biometrics refers to the emerging field of technology devoted to identification of individuals using biological traits, such as fingerprints or retinal scanning. |
30 April 2003 |
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To survive and thrive in this century, business leaders need to hardwire new technologies into their playbooks to create enduring enterprises. Many factors, from the need to expand beyond national borders to the inexorable shift to intellectual capital, are driving change, but none is more important than the rise of the Internet and digital technologies. Like the steam engine or the assembly line, the Net and digital technologies have already become an advance with revolutionary consequences, most of which we have just begun to feel. |
19 April 2003 |
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Carnegie Mellon researchers Asim Smailagic and Dan Siewiorek with their students from Rapid Prototyping of Computer Systems class, will demonstrate a new wireless meeting space designed to save time and money for businesses. Dubbed project BARN, the interactive physical and digital workspace supports collaborative project teams by providing the digital equivalent of dedicated project rooms. These new 'smart rooms'can store important computer files, recognize meeting participants and provide unlimited security for sensitive research data. |
15 April 2003 |
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A team of Carnegie Mellon University and NASA scientists will travel to the Atacama Desert in northern Chile in April to conduct research that will help them develop and deploy a robot and instruments that may someday enable other robots to find life on Mars. |
10 April 2003 |
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Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a new system to improve the delivery of genes, which could have the potential cure for several genetically transmitted diseases. Under the direction of Prashant Kumta, a professor of materials science, engineering and biomedical engineering, researchers are creating nano-particles capable of delivering DNA-based therapies for potential use in a variety of cancers and several genetic diseases. |
31 March 2003 |
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Carnegie Mellon University scientists are creating molecularly engineered polymer brushes using a revolutionary catalytic polymerization procedure developed in their laboratory. These nanoscale brushes have numerous potential applications in a number of fields, including medicine, computers and environmental engineering, according to Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, professor of chemistry at Carnegie Mellon and director of the Center for Macromolecular Engineering at the Mellon College of Science. |
25 March 2003 |
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Carnegie Mellon scientists are working to develop a new diagnostic tool to improve the way nano-thin lubricants inside a computer hard drive assist in data storage. The electrical components inside most hard drives, the circuitry, shouldn't be trusted to last more than two years. But the interior platters, disks inside the drive that store data are typically made of aluminum, glass or ceramic coated with magnetic media, can store files for more than 10 years. |
18 March 2003 |
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Carnegie Mellon University researchers Andy Gellman, head of chemical engineering, and David Sholl, an assistant professor of chemical engineering, are developing new solid surfaces that will help drug makers separate 'left-handed' and 'right-handed' molecules. |
17 March 2003 |
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The research aims to make the vehicle of the future more aware of driver needs, traffic and weather conditions, and other external information using on-board sensors and wireless data networks. |
28 February 2003 |
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Helium Networks, Inc., a Pittsburgh-based mobile and wireless solutions company, announced today that it has signed an exclusive license to commercialize patented wireless LAN technologies and prototyped tools invented at Carnegie Mellon University. Wireless LANs, also known as 'Wi-Fi,' are labor intensive to design and optimize for network coverage and reliability. The tools and technologies from Carnegie Mellon reduce the cost of Wi-Fi design and ongoing maintenance by nearly 50 percent. |
26 February 2003 |
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Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Engineering and Public Policy received a $1.1 million grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to study the risks posed by weapons of terror and weapons of mass destruction. |
20 January 2003 |
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Carnegie Mellon University civil engineering students have teamed up with Gateway Engineers Inc. to create a template for assessing sanitary systems in Oakmont Borough. They will present their new template and sanitary systems research at an Oakmont Borough council meeting this evening. The student research is based on work done by Pittsburgh-based Gateway Engineers Inc. |
16 December 2002 |
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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon's microelectrical mechanical lab have received an initial $190,000 grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to create monitors that will reduce the cost of keeping respirator masks in top shape. |
12 November 2002 |
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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Brownfields Center will meet with engineers and business real estate specialists from Beirut, Lebanon, who plan to turn a vacant Mediterranean waterfront property into a $4 billion mixed-use commercial development. |
25 October 2002 |
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Carnegie Mellon University announces the international expansion of its Software Engineering Institute with the opening of an office at An der Welle 4 in central Frankfurt, Germany today. The opening is in response to strong European demand for the development of products based on quality software. The SEI-Europe, in partnership with its licensees, will provide the training, knowledge and research to support the development of quality software. |
15 October 2002 |
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A team of scientists led by Carnegie Mellon University's David Sholl and the University of Pittsburgh's Karl Johnson are discovering new materials that could lead to cheaper products and reduced emissions from power plants. |
11 October 2002 |
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An interdisciplinary scientific team from Carnegie Mellon University and Dickinson College will receive $3.5 million from the Pennsylvania Department of Health over the next four years to create a more exact way to identify cancer subtypes, leading to improved diagnosis and treatments. |
02 July 2002 |
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Published in Nature, the results were generated by Carnegie Mellon University astrophysicist Tiziana Di Matteo and her colleagues while at the Max Planck Institut fur Astrophysik in Germany. Di Matteo's collaborators include Volker Springel at Max-Planck Institut fur Astrophysik and Lars Hernquist at Harvard University. |
28 June 2002 |
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Carnegie Mellon University's Parallel Data L will showcase new approaches to computer security by tapping into concepts used in medieval castles. Inspired by so-called 'siege warfare' and a $4.5 million grant from the Department of Defense, Professor Greg Ganger is working on devices that would protect computer data even after intruders have hacked through traditional perimeters like firewalls. Ganger, director of the Parallel Data Lab, says these 'self-securing devices' will erect their own security perimeters and defend their own critical resources just the way distinct parts of medieval castles formed distinct protective barriers, such as moats, inner sanctums, and strategically placed guard towers. |
08 April 2002 |
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Carnegie Mellon University researchers have created a new tool that can help business and industry sort out the chaos created by the new technology called 'Wi-Fi.' For Internet mavens, 'Wi-Fi' - the technology known in engineering parlance as 802.11 - provides a new way to provide unprecedented mobility for Internet users. It allows users of laptop and handheld computers to freely move about while remaining connected to the Internet - at high speed. |
02 April 2002 |
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By studying images of the brain at work, Carnegie Mellon University scientists have concluded that we cannot converse on cell phones without distracting our brains from the task of driving. In findings reported in the journal NeuroImage, a team led by Carnegie Mellon Psychology Professor Marcel Just discovered that attending to a conversation significantly distracts the brain from processing complex visual information. |
21 January 2002 |
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Carnegie Mellon University researchers have created a test protocol that can be applied to help wastewater treatment plants at steel mills nationwide meet discharge regulations imposed by the Environmental Protection Agency. |
30 November 2001 |
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In response to the growing need for standards to evaluate companies providing information technology enabled outsourcing services, researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science have developed a methodology to rate outsourcing firms and have established a center to certify their capabilities. |
19 November 2001 |
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A prototype solar-powered robot with the potential to be self-sufficient for extended periods of time will be tested in the Canadian Arctic by Carnegie Mellon University researchers in July. The researchers will test a concept called Sun-Synchronous Navigation that may enable autonomous robots to obtain continuous solar power for long-term exploration of distant planets and moons. |
25 June 2001 |
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Carnegie Mellon University Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Gregory Rohrer and a handful of other interdisciplinary researchers are working on the materials research equivalent of the human genome project. Just like the human effort where researchers are trying to spell out the nucleotides that make up the DNA on all human chromosomes, Rohrer is trying to map out the best properties available to make airplanes stronger and nuclear power plants safer. |
24 June 2001 |
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PITTSBURGH‹Carnegie Mellon Professor Granger Morgan is leading an effort to develop better ways to advise Congress about current and future issues in science and technology. Approximately 100 Congressional staff members and leaders from the science and technology policy community will meet in Washington, D.C. to evaluate several proposed strategies. |
11 June 2001 |
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Chemical engineering researchers Andy Gellman and David Sholl are developing new solid surfaces that can be used to distinguish between the 'left-handed' and 'right-handed' versions of molecules that appear identical. Both researchers are developing surfaces that will help the pharmaceutical industry determine the molecular properties of drugs. |
24 April 2001 |
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Football fans tuning into this year's Super Bowl will be treated to a unique new view of the action during play backs. CBS Television will be presenting them using a new technology co-developed by the network and Carnegie Mellon University computer vision expert Takeo Kanade. |
26 January 2001 |
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'Eye Vision', as CBS calls it, involves shooting multiple video images of a dynamic event, such as a football game, from multiple cameras placed at different angles. The video streams from these cameras are combined by computer and the resulting images reach viewers in a format that will make them feel as if they are flying through the scenes they see. |
13 March 2000 |
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