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unusual facts about Carnegie Mellon



Astrobotic Technology

It was founded in 2008 by Carnegie Mellon professor Red Whittaker and his associates, with the goal of winning the Google Lunar X Prize.

Bernard Chazelle

He went on to claim important research positions at institutions such as Carnegie Mellon, Brown, NEC, Xerox PARC, and the Paris institutions École Normale Supérieure, École Polytechnique, and INRIA.

David Dodd Lee

He is also the editor of The Other Life, The Selected Poems of Herbert Scott, forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon in 2010.

Frank Sinatra School of the Arts

Students have also attended competitive pre-college summer arts programs at The Joffrey Ballet School, The Stella Adler Studio of Acting, Parsons The New School for Design, Fashion Institute of Technology, NYU's Tisch School of the Arts: New Studio on Broadway, and Carnegie Mellon's Musical Theater.

Lenore Blum

After visiting the City University of Hong Kong for a year, she moved to her current position at Carnegie Mellon in 1999.

Newell Simon Hall

Newell Simon Hall is in the northwestern part of the Carnegie Mellon campus named after the late Herbert A. Simon and Allen Newell.

Pittsburgh Playhouse

The joint venture between Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh Playhouse, and William Ball was dissolved when Ball moved the ACT to San Francisco.

Pittsburgh Science and Technology Academy

Sci-Tech officially opened to students in September 2009 after a pilot project by graduate students at Carnegie Mellon Heinz College.

Qi Lu

After attending a talk by Carnegie Mellon professor Edmund M. Clarke, Lu was invited to apply for a PhD at Carnegie Mellon.

Triple Sensation

Over $250,000 in scholarship prizes are available, with an ultimate prize of a $150,000 scholarship award to attend the theatrical training institution of the first prize winner's choice: a school such as Juilliard, Carnegie Mellon, Yale, England's Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, or Canada's National Theatre School.


see also

Alan Black

Alan W. Black, professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University

Alan W. Black

Black wrote the Festival Speech Synthesis System at Edinburgh, and continues to develop it at Carnegie Mellon.

Albert Corbett

Albert T. Corbett, associate research professor of human-computer interaction at Carnegie Mellon University

Almost Human: Making Robots Think

From June 15 to July 31 of 1997, Carnegie Mellon University deployed the robotic Nomad rover to traverse the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile.

Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology

In the 2011-12 Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Awards, Jason Vollen from CASE in collaboration with Alvaro Malo from University of Arizona and Dale Clifford from Carnegie Mellon University won a 2011-12 Creative Achievement Award on Emerging Materials Technologies with the realm or creative design thinking.

Collaborative Fusion

Prior to attending Carnegie Mellon, Kaplan graduated from the Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles.

Omer, a graduate of Detroit, Michigan's Wayne State University, previously worked at JPMorgan Chase before attending Carnegie Mellon's MBA program and subsequently co-founding Collaborative Fusion.

Costas Azariadis

His doctoral dissertation at Carnegie Mellon was advised by Edward C. Prescott and Robert Lucas.

Dragon Runner

It was designed at Carnegie Mellon University while the electronics and thermoplastic shell is developed and fabricated by Automatika, Inc.

GPS for the visually impaired

Loomis directed the project for over 20 years, in collaboration with Reginald Golledge (1937–2009), Professor of Geography at UCSB, and Roberta Klatzky, Professor of Psychology (now at Carnegie Mellon University).

Head fake

In his "Last Lecture," titled "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" (at Carnegie Mellon on September 18, 2007), Randy Pausch extensively refers to "head fakes" during his speech.

Joel Stern

He teaches at or has served on the faculties of several graduate business schools in America and abroad, including as a professor at Columbia University, Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business, The University of Chicago, the University of Cape Town, Singapore Management University and Old Dominion.

Jonathan M. Rothberg

After completing college at Carnegie Mellon, Jonathan went on to attend Yale University and earn a M.S., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in biology.

Kai-Fu Lee

Together with Alex Waibel, another Carnegie Mellon researcher, Lee edited Readings in Speech Recognition (1990, ISBN 1-55860-124-4).

Kiwibox

The first editors came from Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh, and included Sonni Abatta, now a lead news anchor at WOFL-TV in Orlando.

Lester Trimble

Encouraged by Schoenberg, who had seen some of his scores, Trimble entered the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University).

Michael Witbrock

Before joining Cycorp, he was a principal scientist at Terra Lycos, working on integrating statistical and knowledge-based approaches to understanding Web user behavior; he has also been associated with Just Systems Pittsburgh Research Center and the Informedia Digital Library at Carnegie Mellon.

OPS5

Charles Forgy, OPS5 User's Manual, Technical Report CMU-CS-81-135 (Carnegie Mellon University, 1981)

Ron Ponder

He has received several industry awards including the Smithsonian Award for Technology Excellence, the Carnegie Mellon Award for Innovative Technology and the Stevie Award for Technology Innovation.

Stephen Glicker

During that time, he also taught courses in interactive design, game design, 3D animation, and related tools at New York University, The New School, and Carnegie Mellon University.

The Rave-Ups

Early performances in Pittsburgh were at The Electric Banana, The Decade Lounge, functions at Carnegie Mellon, as well as regular gigs at Fat City in Swissvale.

Thomas Anantharaman

In 1985, Carnegie Mellon University graduate students Feng-hsiung Hsu, Anantharaman, Murray Campbell and Andreas Nowatzyk used spare chips they'd found to put together a chess-playing machine that they called ChipTest.

William Whittaker

Red Whittaker (William L. Whittaker), roboticist and research professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon University