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Carnegie Mellon tells 800 rejected applicants they're in, then out

Ben Leibowitz called up relatives to tell them he got into Carnegie Mellon University's prestigious graduate computer science program. He even went out to...

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Lunch and Learn     SEPT. 18—The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh will host its Lunch & Learn Series at 12:15 p.m. at the Downtown & Business...

Middle school students honored at Do the Write Thing Challenge dinner celebration

There were 122 middle school students recently honored at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center at the Do the Write Thing Challenge dinner celebration. Students...

Google VP to become new Carnegie Mellon dean

PITTSBURGH (AP) - A Google vice president will become the new dean of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science. The Pittsburgh school says in...

Community Calendar March 5

Conference MARCH 6—New Voices Pittsburgh will host its 6th annual Kinks, Locks & Twists: Environmental and Reproductive Justice Conference at Carnegie Mellon University, 5000...

CMU robot places 3rd in national competition

PITTSBURGH (AP) - A Carnegie Mellon University robot has placed third in a national competition sponsored by the Defense Department. Seventeen humanoid robots competed Friday...

Why do lottery players think they can defy odds?

It's the ultimate fantasy: Walk into a store, plunk down a dollar, and with nothing but luck — really extraordinary luck — you win...

Maybe not sci-fi, but robots readied for big tests

PENNSAUKEN, N.J. (AP) — The real world has not caught up yet with "Star Wars" and its talking, thinking robots, but some of the...

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Business Series DEC. 5—The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh will host its Business Series from 12:15-1:15 p.m. at the Downtown & Business location, 612 Smithfield St.,...

Can the Black community change the face of the music industry?

Jasiri X talks about grassroots activism in the Obama/Tea Party Era at Columbia College in Chicago. (Courtesy Photo Bakari Kitwana/Andrew Bryce Photography) Members of the Black intelligentsia let out a collective victory cry last week when hip-hop artist Lil Wayne lost a multi-million dollar endorsement deal with Mountain Dew as a result of lyrics comparing the beating of murdered teenager Emmett Till in 1955 to female genitalia.

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