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April 2005 Issue

Feature Stories

Super Grads

Would you buy a wristwatch from Tony Soprano, pick a college on an anonymous tip, or eat at a restaurant cooked up by architects? Some young entrepreneurs from Carnegie Mellon are betting you would, and so far their bets have paid off.

QRIO Connection

Alumnus Todd Kozuki was part of an entourage from Sony that brought the company’s two-foot tall humanoid robot to campus. QRIO danced, talked and schmoozed through a 20-minute show. In the future a QRIO may be as common in the home as a television set is today, Kozuki says.

Building a Bridge

Sri Lanka native Bernardine Dias is founder and director of Carnegie Mellon’s TechBridgeWorld initiative, an effort to provide developing countries with technology needed to solve economic, social and environmental problems, such as a wireless network for early tsunami warnings.

Suspended Like Scales: Alumna Aids Tsunami Relief Effort

Alumna Sindya Narayanswamy, who spent eight days in Tamil Nadu, India, less than a month after the tsunami devastated the region, gives a personal account of her experiences interacting with villagers and rehabilitation workers.

Intel Inside

Intel Research Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon CyLab and the Software Engineering Institute’s Network Systems Survivability program, which includes the world famous CERT Coordination Center, are tenants in the new Collaborative Innovation Center, a hotbed for information technology research.

Celebrating Innovation

Carnegie Mellon’s Information Networking Institute celebrates 15 years of innovation and educational excellence.

Going Buggy

Mention the annual Spring Carnival Buggy Races to students and alumni and their faces light up brighter than a flashlight-holding flagger on the course during 6 a.m. freerolls.

Sports Geeks

Technology is not only changing the games we know, it’s the foundation for games in the future.

MLB Master Scheduler

Tepper School Professor Michael Trick won’t hit .300 this year, or any other year, but he has an extremely promising career in major league baseball.

STACKing the Odds Against Drug Abuse

Alumnus Chad Zimmerman, a member of the Tartans’ football team from 2000 to 2004, has launched STACK, a new fitness magazine designed to give high school athletes safe and legal training alternatives.

Ultimate Frisbee Champ

Freshman Tommy Hendrickson helped the U.S. junior squad to victory in the 2004 World Ultimate Frisbee Championships in Finland.

Women in Engineering

Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Burcu Akinci is living proof that women can love math and science, too.

Reconnect With Your Classmates

Touch base with old friends and make new ones, too, through Carnegie Mellon’s Online Alumni Community. And mark you calendar for Homecoming, Oct. 27-30, 2005.

Web Gems

See video clips of the visit to campus by Sony's humanoid robot named QRIO, Carnegie Mellon's "smart car" research, Professor Marcel Just's appearance on the NBC Nightly News, and of environmental experts Volker Hartkopf, Deborah Lange and Lester Lave on The Lehrer News Hour. (You must have Apple's Quicktime software to view the videos. To download the software visit https://www.apple.com/quicktime/download)

News Flash

Madsen, Stump, Pajewski Earn 2005 Education Awards

Carnegie Mellon will honor three esteemed faculty members for their dedication and achievements at the annual Education Awards ceremony at 4:30 p.

Move Over Hollywood . . .

Students to Create Feature Films in New Interdisciplinary Project CourseJonathan PottsForget low-budget filmmaking.

Greener by the Minute

Carnegie Mellon's official colors might be tartan plaid, but the university is growing greener by the minute.

Students Get Global Education at Youth Leadership Conference

Four Carnegie Mellon students recently played the part of world leaders trying to solve the problems facing society today.

Basketball Team Posts Record-Setting Season

March Madness doesn’t come around that often at Carnegie Mellon, where grade-point averages, test scores and classroom performance carry more clout than scoring, rebounding and shooting percentage.

Port Authority Pilots Voice-Activated, Dialogue System Developed by Carnegie Mellon Researchers

Using an automated telephone information system can be a major hassle for the young and old alike.

Qatar Foundation Hosts Inaugural Celebration for Carnegie Mellon's first International Branch Campus

The celebration began like many others at Carnegie Mellon as alumnus Patrick Regan (A’96) opened the festivities by playing the bagpipes dressed in a kilt and full Scottish regalia.

ECE Student Joins Alumnus at Saturday Light Brigade

Senior electrical and computer engineering major Matthew Theisz is applying his technical expertise, but it’s not as a software engineer or in the field of computer security.

Pioneer Marcel Just Discovers Secrets of Autism

Marcel Just is a pioneer in probing what has been for years the undiscovered country of human development: how humans understand language, perform mental tasks and form memories, and whether there is a source of thought and emotion—what people traditionally have called “the mind”—that is separate from the physiological brain.

Engineering the Family Car of the Future

In the future will we still drive our cars, or will our cars drive us? The latter may be closer to the truth, according to Carnegie Mellon researchers who are creating the new car of the future, equipped with wireless networks and Global Positioning Satellite technology to keep drivers and passengers safe and on time wherever they’re headed.

Chris Pearson Wins Two National Swimming Titles

Senior Chris Pearson won two national championships to lead the Carnegie Mellon men's swimming team to a 6th place finish at the NCAA Division III Championships at Hope College in Holland, Mich.

Carnegie Mellon, United Defense Team Up To Help USMC

When tanks first rolled across battlefields in World War I, they changed the face of military combat.

News Around Campus

Student Design Team Goes Postal…A three-year collaboration between the School of Design and the United States Postal Service offers renewed hope for enemies of instructional manuals.

Columns

Fertile Ground

Fertile Ground

Even in a declining job market, recruiters keep flocking to Carnegie Mellon, where they find students with great attitudes, terrific work ethics and an ability to work well with people from other disciplines.

The Last Word

The Last Word

A guest column from a member of the Carnegie Mellon family—alumnus, faculty member, student, or friend of the university.

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