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NEWS ABOUT: Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University stories: 7 news summaries

 Lose Sleep, Catch a Cold 

Little sleep makes us vulnerable to colds

Jan 13, 09 4:06 AM CST
(Newser) - Mom was right: get a good night's sleep. Researchers have discovered a direct link between lack of sleep and vulnerability to disease, Reuters reports. Study volunteers who slept less than seven hours a night for just two weeks were three times more likely to come down with cold symptoms after... More »

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immune system • sleep deprivation • common cold • Carnegie Mellon University • cytokines • histamines

You Can't
Afford to Read
the Fine Print

Actually reading online privacy policies would cost $365B per year

Oct 12, 08 5:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - No one bothers to read websites' online privacy policies. But if Americans did—just once a year for each site they visit—it would take 200 hours per person, amounting to $365 billion worth of lost time, Ars Technica reports. That may all be theoretical, but the researchers behind the... More »

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study • Carnegie Mellon University • Internet privacy • privacy policy

Obituary

Last Lecturer Randy Pausch Dies of Cancer

Noted Carnegie Mellon prof inspired millions with fairwell lesson

Jul 25, 08 12:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon professor whose "last lecture" became an international phenomenon, succumbed in his long battle with cancer today, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. Pausch, 47, was a noted computer scientist before he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, but it was his final, inspirational address—now read by... More »

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cancer • obituary • Carnegie Mellon University • Randy Pausch

OPINION

In One Domain, Anyway,
Man Still Conquers Machine

CAPTCHAs, where humans distill words from squiggles, hold line in spam war

Jun 9, 08 4:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - Every web user has come across CAPTCHAs: wavy-lettered depiction of words you must retype as text. Most pay them no mind, but, Lev Grossman writes in Time, we should reflect upon completing one. They're one of the rare visible skirmishes in the largely invisible war between spammers and security programmers.... More »

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email • spam • Carnegie Mellon University • computer security • cybercrime • web email accounts • CAPTCHAs

Credit Crunch Extends to Student Loans

Investors balk on bonds key to students, museums, cities

Feb 13, 08 8:27 AM CST
(Newser) - A huge new group of borrowers—from students to museums to local governments—are about to find their credit drying up, as the subprime meltdown that has already cost banks $100 billion continues to spread, reports the Wall Street Journal.  In the last few days, investors have backed away... More »

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student loans • credit market • Carnegie Mellon University • borrowers • subprime crisis • college loans • student loan authorities

Carnegie Mellon Wins $2M in Robot Car Race

Only three of 11 cars finished the 60 miles in 6 hours allotted

Nov 4, 07 11:02 PM CST
(Newser) - A robot car built by Carnegie Mellon University and General Motors beat out ten others to win a race for self-driving vehicles, race officials announced today. The cars had 6 hours to complete a 60-mile course—including missions like parking and merging into traffic—in pursuit of a $2 million... More »

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California • Virginia Tech • General Motors • Stanford University • car race • driving • robotics • Carnegie Mellon University • DARPA • Urban Challenge

3D Pioneer Delivers Lecture of a Lifetime

Beloved prof evokes ovations, tears with inspiring farewell

Sep 22, 07 4:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - The "Last Lecture Series" is an academic task for some, but computer science prof Randy Pausch - who will live only 3 months with pancreatic cancer - took this talk to be literally his last, the Wall Street Journal reports. Yet he was exuberant as he showed photos of... More »

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higher education • virtual reality • Carnegie Mellon University • Randy Pausch • Last Lecture Series

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