Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was formed in 1967 by the union of the Carnegie Institute of Technology and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research. The school is often referred to as CMU by students, staff, alumni, and locals. However, this p ...

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Carnegie Mellon's sports teams are called the Tartans. They participate in the University Athletic Association in NCAA Division III. Carnegie Mellon's marching and concert band is the Kiltie Band. The weekly student newspaper is The Tartan, published since 1906. There are many organizations on-campus, though they are far too numerous to list here. Some notable organizations include: Undergraduate Student Senate The goal of Student Senate is to represent the interests of the student body. Senate ...

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Carnegie Mellon's sports teams are called the Tartans. They participate in the University Athletic Association in NCAA Division III. Carnegie Mellon's marching and concert band is the Kiltie Band. The weekly student newspaper is The Tartan, published since 1906. There are many organizations on-campus, though they are far too numerous to list here. Some notable organizations include: Undergraduate Student Senate The goal of Student Senate is to represent the interests of the student body. Senate ...

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Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American painter, filmmaker, publisher, and a major figure in the Pop Art movement. Andy Warhol - Biography. Andy Warhol, born as Andrew Warhola, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to a working class immigrant family of Ruthenian ethnicity from northeast Slovakia. He showed early artistic talent and studied commercial art at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. In 1949 he moved to New York City and began a successful career in magazine illust ...

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Anonymizer, Inc. is an Internet privacy company, founded in 1995 by Lance Cottrell, author of the Mixmaster anonymous remailer. Anonymizer is the oldest and best known Internet privacy company. Anonymizer offers secure and anonymous services including: web proxying encrypted email services anti-spyware anti-phishing / anti-pharming enter ...

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Asperger syndrome (sometimes called Asperger's syndrome, AS, or the more common shorthand Asperger's), is characterized as one of the five pervasive developmental disorders, and is commonly referred to as a form of high-functioning autism. In very broad terms, individuals with Asperger's have normal or above average intellectual capacity, and atypical or less well developed social skills, often with emotional/social development or integration happening later than usual as a result. The term "Asperger's synd ...

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• Asperger syndrome - Narrow intense interests
• Asperger syndrome - Speech and language peculiarities
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• Asperger syndrome - Living with Asperger syndrome
• Asperger syndrome - Definitions and diagnostic criteria
• Asperger syndrome - Relationship to autism
• Asperger syndrome - Possible causes and origins
• Asperger syndrome - A gift and a curse
• Asperger syndrome - Speculation about recognized people who may have Asperger syndrome
• Asperger syndrome - Shift away from view as a disease
• Asperger syndrome - Criticisms and controversies
• Asperger syndrome - Asperger syndrome as a social construct
• Asperger syndrome - The extreme male brain theory
• Asperger syndrome - Culture

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Andrew William Mellon (March 24, 1855–August 27, 1937) was an American banker, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector and Secretary of the Treasury from March 4, 1921 until February 12, 1932. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of the banker and Judge Thomas Mellon and Sarah Jane Negley Mellon and brother of Richard B. Mellon. He was educated at the Western University of Pennsylvania ...

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Aron Ralston (born October 27, 1975) is an American who became famous in May 2003, for cutting off his own arm with a dull knife in order to free himself after becoming trapped by a boulder. Ralston was a student in mechanical engineering and French at Carnegie Mellon University, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He left his job (as a mechanical engineer) with Intel in 2002 to return to Colorado to do more hiking and climbing. While on a canyoneering trip in Blue John Canyon (near Moab, Utah), a boulder fell and pinned his right ...

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Allen Newell (March 19, 1927 - July 19, 1992) was a researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology at the RAND corporation and at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science. He contributed to the Information Processing Language (1956) and two of the earliest AI programs, the Logic Theory Machine (1956) and the General Problem Solver (1957) (with Herbert Simon). SOAR is an attempt to realize some of the considerations from Newell's plea for a unified theory of cognition, titled, “You can’t play twenty ...

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Aleph was an operating system kernel developed at the University of Rochester as part of their RIG project in 1975. Aleph used inter-process communications to move data between programs and the kernel, so applications could transparently access resources on any machine on the local area network (which at the time was a 3-Mbit/s experimental Xerox Ethernet). The project eventually petered out after several years due to rapid changes in the computer hardware market, but the ideas led to the creation of Accent at C ...

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Autism is classified as a neurodevelopmental disorder that manifests itself in markedly abnormal social interaction, communication ability, patterns of interests, and patterns of behavior. Although the specific etiology of autism is unknown, many researchers suspect that autism results from genetically mediated vulnerabilities to environmental triggers. And while there is disagreement about the magnitude, nature, and mechanisms for such environmental factors, researchers have found at least seven major genes prevalent among ind ...

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• Autism - Gluten-free casein-free diet
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• Autism - Autistic adults
• Autism - Autistic savants
• Autism - Other pervasive developmental disorders
• Autism - Rett syndrome
• Autism - Childhood disintegrative disorder
• Autism - Pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified
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Allegheny County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of 2000, the population is 1,281,666. The county seat is Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The county forms the nucleus of the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area. Allegheny County Pennsylvania - History. Before it was settled by Europeans, the county was mostly wilderness and uninhabited except for wandering Indians such as the Iroquois, who were the largest tribe in the area. The Allegheny River, Mountains, and County get their name f ...

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Baruch College is one of the constituent colleges comprising the City University of New York. Established in 1919, the college sits on the former site of the Free Academy (now City College of New York), which was founded in 1847 and was the first institution of free public higher education in the United States. Originally the City College's School of Business and Civic Administration, the school was renamed in honor of Bernard Baruch, a noted statesman and financier. In 1968, Baruch became ...

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Andrew is an English male's personal name translation of the Greek meaning "manly". For its meanings, etymology, pronunciation, and translations, see Wiktionary. People commonly known solely by the given name Andrew include: Saint Andrew Andrew I of Hungary Andrew II of Hungary Andrew I of Britonia Prince Andrew, Duke of York Things commonly known as Andrew include: Andrew Project - Carnegie Mellon University computer project called "Andrew" Hurrican ...

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Andrew Carnegie (November 25, 1835 – August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American businessman and major philanthropist and the founder of the Carnegie Steel Company which later became U. S. Steel. He is known for having, later in his life, given away most of his riches to fund the establishment of many libraries, schools, and universities in America and worldwide. Andrew Carnegie - Formative influences. Andrew Carnegie - The Carnegie family in Scotland. Andrew Carneg ...

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• Andrew Carnegie - Postwar years 1865-1880: Carnegie the investor
• Andrew Carnegie - 1880-1890: Carnegie the scholar and activist
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• Andrew Carnegie - 1885-1900: Building an empire of steel
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• Andrew Carnegie - 1901-1915: Carnegie the philanthropist
• Andrew Carnegie - Later personal life
• Andrew Carnegie - Controversial aspects of Carnegie's life
• Andrew Carnegie - 1892: The Homestead strike
• Andrew Carnegie - Carnegie and the Johnstown Flood
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Buggy can refer to various types of carts: a dune buggy or swamp buggy; a kite buggy; a shopping cart (Southern American English); a form of baby transport also called a pushchair (British English) or stroller (American English); or a lightweight carriage, as in horse and buggy. Buggy is a common name for the Sweepstakes Races, a student run event much like a cross between soapbox derby and a relay race, practiced at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. Buggy the Clown is an antagonist ...

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The University of Pittsburgh is a state-related, doctoral/research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ranked among the most prestigious public universities in the country, it is frequently referred to simply as "Pitt". Originally founded by Hugh Henry Brackenridge as Pittsburgh Academy in 1787, the University of Pittsburgh is among a select group of universities and colleges founded in the 18th Century in the United States. It was renamed The Western University of Pennsylvania in 1819 and took its current name in 1908. In ...

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A wearable computer is a small portable computer that is designed to be worn on the body during use. In this wearable computers differ from PDAs, which are designed for hand-held use, although the distinction can sometimes be a blurry one. Wearable computers are usually either integrated into the user's clothing or can be attached to the body through some other means, like a wristband. They may also be integrated into everyday objects that are constantly worn on ...

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Doom (or DOOM)a is a 1993 computer game by id Software that is among the landmark titles in the first-person shooter genre. It is widely recognized for its pioneer use of immersive 3D graphics, networked multiplayer gaming, and the support for players to create custom expansions (WADs). Distributed as shareware, Doom was downloaded by an estimated 10 million people within two years, popularizing the mode of gameplay and spawning a gaming subculture; a ...

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• Doom - Continued legacy
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The Uncanny Valley is a principle of robotics concerning the emotional response of humans to robots and other non-human entities. It was theorized by Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori in 1970. The principle states that as a robot is made more humanlike in its appearance and motion, the emotional response from a human being to the robot will become increasingly positive and empathic, until a point is reached at which the response suddenly becomes strongly repulsive; as the appearance and motion are made to be indistinguishable to that of human being, the emotional response becomes positive ...

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• Uncanny Valley - Escape by design
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• Uncanny Valley - Uncanny Valley as an analogy outside AI

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