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unusual facts about Mellon


Gary Parr

’s investment in Morgan Stanley; the merger of Bank of New York and Mellon; the sale of Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette to Credit Suisse First Boston; Dean Witter Discover’s merger with Morgan Stanley; and Berkshire Hathaway’s acquisition of GEICO.


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.

Andrey Avinoff

Following World War II, the Mellon family asked to retrieve the collection, but this was refused.

Butterfly wings

Bullet with Butterfly Wings, a popular song by The Smashing Pumpkins and the lead single from their album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

Capital Disney

The final line up of presenters at closure was Adam Morris, known on air as The General, James Beckingham, Matt James, Val Mellon, Leigh Purves, Nigel Mitchell, Andrew Rendle, known as Radio Rendle, Adam O'Neill, Saffron Oddy and Sophie Bruce.

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.

Christopher Mellon

Christopher K. Mellon born 1957, son of Karl N. Mellon, the great-grandson of Gulf Oil co-founder William Larimer Mellon.

CIBC Mellon

CIBC Mellon's head office is in Toronto at 320 Bay Street in the historic Canada Permanent Trust Building.

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.

Diamond Shoal

Like many of Mellon's best horses, Glint of Gold was trained at Kingsclere in Hampshire by Ian Balding.

Dragon Runner

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

Eric James Mellon

His work is featured in several books about ceramics, notably Phil Rogers, Ash Glazes - Second Edition (A & C Black & University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003) and Paul Foster (Ed.,) Eric James Mellon: Ceramic Artist (University College Chichester, 2000).

Gerard ter Borch

1658, oil on canvas, 80 x 75 cm (31½ × 29 9/16 in.) in the Andrew W. Mellon Collection, was used on the cover of Marilyn Stokstad's second edition of Art History.

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).

Hadapsar

ADP, Sybase, IBM, TCS, Mphasis, Amdocs, Avaya, SAS, John Deere, Patni, Option One, Accenture, Exl, Zs, Aviva, Honeywell, BNY Mellon, Zensar and Synechron are IT companies based in Hadapsar.

Harry Humphry Mellon

Mellon retired from the Army in July 1986 and joined one of the largest Architectural, Engineering and Constructions firms in the nation, CRSS (Caudill Rowlett Scott Sirrine).

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.

Hospital Albert Schweitzer Haiti

Larry Mellon was inspired by the life and philosophy of Albert Schweitzer to dedicate his life and the Mellon family fortune to the creation, growth and maintaince of this hospital.

Jodi Magness

From 1990-92, Professor Magness was Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Syro-Palestinian Archaeology at the Center for Old World Archaeology and Art at Brown University.

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.

Joshua A. Fogel

He has also held a number of visiting professorships, including one year at the Research Institute in the Humanities of Kyoto University (1996-1997) and the two-year Mellon Visiting Professor in East Asian History at the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study (2001-2003) in Princeton, New Jersey, as well as shorter stints at the British Inter-University China Centre or BICC (2007), Kansai University in Osaka, Japan (2008), and Hebrew University in Jerusalem (summer 2014).

Kai-Fu Lee

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

Kidsguide

Such illustrators have included Mort Drucker (Mad Magazine), Jack Davis (The Zack Files, Marsupial Sue), David Catrow (Stand Tall Molly Lou Mellon) and Brian Biggs (illustrator for MOMA's children's web site).

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.

Kris Chetan Ramlu

He has also worked with international musicians Angaraag Mahanta (Papon), Sumeet Tappoo, Amit Choubey, Piush Pawar, Milind Sheorey, Narendra Salaskar and New Zealand musicians Tim Beals, Des Mellon, Jess Chambers, Andy Hummel, Jarrod Woods, James Wylie, Miles Crayford and Onomatopoeia (David Ward, Isaac Smith and Ian Downer).

Lester Trimble

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

Mellon Tytell

Mellon, along with her husband, the writer John Tytell, was integral in documenting and canonizing the members of the Beat Generation.

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.

Micky Mellon

Born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Mellon began his career in 1989 as a 17-year-old with Bristol City gaining promotion to the then First Division, then managed by Joe Jordan.

OPS5

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

Pleasant Colony

From 1982 to 1998, Pleasant Colony stood at Thomas Mellon Evans's historic Buckland Farm in Buckland, Virginia.

Qi Lu

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

Rhys Carpenter

In his retirement he held visiting professorships at the University of Pennsylvania (1960), was Andrew W. Mellon professor at the University of Pittsburgh (1961–62), and visiting scholar at the University of Washington (1963–64).

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.

Roy Petley

His works have been likened to those of John Constable, Edward Seago, and Campbell Mellon, British painters whose styles were influenced by the Barbizon School and Impressionism.

Saratoga Race Course

a 1-mile (8-furlong) turf track, known officially as the Mellon Turf Course in honor of the Mellon family, whose members include prominent thoroughbred owner/breeder Paul Mellon and his father Andrew Mellon, a former United States Treasury Secretary; and

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.

Steven Hyman

Dr. Hyman received his B.A. summa cum laude from Yale College; an M.A. from the University of Cambridge, which he attended as a Mellon fellow studying the history and philosophy of science; and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School.

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 Larimer Mellon, Sr.

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on June 1, 1868 to James Ross Mellon, eldest son of Judge Thomas Mellon, and Rachel Larimer Mellon, daughter of railroad and land baron William Larimer, Jr. He spent part of his childhood in the West with his uncle Andrew Mellon, who deeply influenced him.

William Whittaker

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


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