See Project Olympus on WPXI's Our Region's Business
Lenore Blum and Olympus members interviewed on Our Regions's Business
with Bill Flanagan
Lenore Blum's interview (17.5 MB mp4 format, needs quicktime
on Windows)
Matt Humphrey and Betty Cheng's interview (17.1 MB mp4, needs quicktime)
Brian Wirtz and Paul
Ohodniki's interview (16.5 MB mp4, needs quicktime)
All three interviews (50.5 MB wmv format, needs Flip4Mac
on Machintosh)
See Project Olympus on KDKA-TV's The Sunday Business Page
Lenore Blum and Matt Humphrey interviewed by Jon Delano
News
October 15, 2009 - Carnegie Mellon Press Release
Dynamics’s Success Highlights Business Incubation Process at Carnegie Mellon
September 25, 2009 - Pittsburgh Business Times
Credit card fraud prevention start-up Dynamics lands $5.7M in funding
September 24, 2009 - Olympus Press Release
Project Olympus PROBE raises $5.7 Million in Series A Funding from Adams Capital
September 21, 2009 - Olympus Press Release
Project Olympus PROBE has been acquired by Google Inc.
September 16, 2009 - Reuters
Google Inc. Acquires Carnegie Mellon Spin-off ReCAPTCHA Inc.
August 18, 2009 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Priya Narasimhan's YinzCam released the first e-government iPhone app in Pittsburgh
June 29, 2009 - Nova Science Now - WQED
Luis von Ahn Featured on Nova Science Now
May 23, 2009 - New York Times
New Puzzles That Tell Humans From Machines
May 5, 2009 - Carnegie Mellon
Lenore Blum Honored. Professor Lenore Blum will recieve the Carnegie Science Center's 2009 Catalyst Award on May 8th at the Carnegie Music Hall
April 28, 2009 - Flow Ventures
Project Olympus: A University Incubator That Works
March 27, 2009 - Pittsburgh Ventures
Calling All Startup CEOs! | Pittsburgh Ventures
April 20, 2009 - Houston Business Journal
Carnegie Mellon wins Rice business plan competition. Dynamics Probe Featured
April 14, 2009 - NBC Today Show
Keepon on NBC’s Today Show
April 10, 2009 - Popular Science
Robots to Fight Autism
April 4, 2009 - Pittsburgh Tribune Review
Student entrepreneurs absorb sage advice at CMU event
April 1, 2009 - Pop City
Catch a BrainBuzz as Carnegie Mellon hosts the Young Inventors UnConference
April 1, 2009 - Pop City
Finally! Fooala puts restaurants and menus and ordering online
March 26, 2009 - Wall Street Journal
Angels Urge Congress To Fix Broken Wings
Catherine Mott, Olypmus advisory cabinet member, speaks to congress on angel investing.
March 18, 2009 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Big ideas meld into businesses
March 15, 2009 - Pittsburgh Tribune Review
Startups pitch for funding at CMU
Jeff Mullen of the Dynamics Probe wins McGinnis Venture Competition
March 11, 2009 - Pop City
ShipTogether.com cuts the cost of online shipping, greener too
March 2, 2009 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Robotics developer's Keepon helps autistic children
January 30, 2009 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Carnegie Science Awards announced.
Congratulations Professors Lenore Blum and Priya Narasimhan!
"Lenore Blum of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University received the Catalyst Award as a founding director of Project Olympus, which targets high-tech talent to help with economic growth in the region. She's also worked at CMU to achieve one of the highest percentages of women in a computer-science program worldwide".... "Emerging Female Science Award went to Priya Narasimhan of CMU"
December 24, 2008 - New York Times
He Put Movie Listings in an App
"Dr. von Ahn says there is no shortage of entrepreneurial students at Carnegie Mellon, which two years ago started a program called Project Olympus to help campus-based companies"
December 17, 2008 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Professor Priya Narasimhan and her students design equipment that senses football moves.
See the video
December 14, 2008 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
OlympusShow and Tell speaker, Harold D. Miller, makes the case that Pittsburgh remains a good place to be in the recession
Olympus Advisory member D. Raja talks about TiE Pittsburgh and entrepreneurship in the region. See YouTube video
November 23, 2008 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Olympus Advisory Cabinet Member Carl Kurlander featured
'Two Cities' delivers a tale of comebacks
November 3, 2008 - BusinessWeek.com
Luis von Ahn: The Pioneer of "Human Computation"
August 18, 2008 - WTAE-TV
Pittsburgh startup AskBright.com could be the next eBay.
But instead of buying goods, you're buying expert advice
July 16, 2008 - CNET news.com
ReCaptcha: Reusing your 'wasted' time online
July 2008 - Carnegie Mellon Today
Bright Idea: AskBright.com and project Olympus are featured in the Fence
June 27, 2008 - Chronicle of Higher Education
Sight for the Blind and Speech for the Deaf
Carnegie Mellon professor and BeaconSys PROBE team leader, Priya Narasimhan, turns cellphones into aids for the disabled. See also Being Independent for a Reasonable Price a short sidebar about Dan Rossi
June 24, 2008 - TechWeb TV
Ed Engler, General Partner with Pittsburgh Equity Partners, talks about the exciting opportunities associated with bringing promising startup companies the exposure they need to attract the attention of national Venture Capitalists
See YouTube video
June 18, 2008 - POP City
In search of elusive information? Turn to Pittsburgh startup AskBright.com
June 16, 2008 - Time Magazine
"Computer Literacy Tests: Are You Human?" discusses CAPTCHAs (Completely Automatic PublicTuring tests to tell Computers and Humans Apart) and the Carnegie Mellon team that invented them. See the post at time.com
May 28, 2008 - POP City
Dynamic Credit Card hopes to transform the plastic you carry, hiring
Dynamics LLC, a startup emerging from *Project Olympus*, is positioning itself to be the next-generation payment solution for a $4 trillion domestic industry
May 23, 2008 - Pittsburgh Business Times
Penguins seek cutting-edge arena ideas
See the KDKA Video (Search for Yinz Cam)
May 14, 2008
Luis von Ahn launches
Games with a Purpose
To see articles :
• in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette click here
• in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review click here
• in the BBC News click here
• in the in MSNBC news click here
May 9, 2008 - KDKA
CMU Students Develop 'Talking' Glove
May 8, 2008 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Priya Narasimhan's students develop assistive technologies for the hard of hearing! Glove converts sign language into sound
March 2, 2008 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Olympus Advisory member Carl Kurlander 's film, "My Tale of Two Cities,"
has been invited to screen at the Sonoma Valley Film Festival in April!
February 22, 2008 - Pittsburgh Business Times
Galvanizing entrepreneurs is goal for Innovation Works
February 21, 2008 - The Earth Times
Innovation Works Launches AlphaLab to Rapidly Grow Software-Related Companies by Providing Investment, Office Space, Expertise
December 25, 2007 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Matt Harbaugh (Innovation Works CIO and Olympus Advisory member) points
to
region's technology startup strength
December 14, 2007 - Pittsburgh Tribune Review
Student
innovation could be boon to economy
December 14, 2007 - CSDiary as told by Peter Lee
Project
Olympus Show-and-Tell
CSD professors, Lenore Blum and Manuel Blum, are keynote speakers at this year's Computing in the 21st Century conference in China and Korea!
October 28, 2007 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Talking
with Audrey Russo (President/CEO, PTC and Olympus Advisory Cabinet
member)
October 23, 2007 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Luis von Ahn named one of the nation's top young innovators by Smithsonian
magazine.
Hanging with a genius: Honored CMU professor loves 'CSI,' misses Guatemalan
food.
October 2, 2007 - BBC News
Spam weapon helps preserve books
September 10, 2007 - Pop City
Lenore Blum, featured in the first
Pop City Live!
See the Video
A panel of experts discuss how Pittsburgh can build on its unique assets
to become a hot city.
August 31, 2007 - Pittsburgh Business Times
UPMC, CMU
seeing benefits on Cooperation on Eye Research
August 15, 2007 - Technology Review
Luis von Ahn named one of this year’s top 35 innovators
under the age of 35
See
also the cmu News Release
August 8, 2007 - Pittsburgh Tribune Review
Luis von Ahn featured:
CMU whiz kid on front lines against hackers and spammers
July 30, 2007 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Advisory Cabinet member Jim Morris and others are hard at work on a
"Manifesto for a New Pittsburgh"
July 20, 2007 - Carnegie
Mellon Front Page
Lenore Blum featured:
Initiative to Keep Talent in Region
July 18, 2007 - Pop City
Project Olympus: Keeping CMU Grads in Pittsburgh
July 18, 2007 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Luis von Ahn featured:
Latest weapon against spam also enlists computer users to assist the Internet
Archive
July 8, 2007 - The Boston Globe
Matt Humphrey featured:
In today's workplace, younger job seekers hold the advantage
June 27, 2007 - The Wall Street Journal Online
Luis von Ahn featured:
Computer Scientists Pull a Tom Sawyer To Finish Grunt Work
June 25, 2007 - Tech Crunch
Matt Humphrey featured:
Slapvid: Peer to Peer Video in Your Browser
June 24, 2007 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Olympus Advisory Cabinet member Carl Kurlander says:
"Pittsburgh -- we can make it here"
WIRED Magazine, Issue 15.07
Luis von Ahn featured:
For Certain Tasks, the Cortex Still Beats the CPU
June 24, 2007 - KDKA TV: The Sunday Business Page
Interview with Lenore Blum and Matt Humphrey:
CMU's Project Olympus aims to keep young people in the region.
See the video
June 18, 2007 - Pittsburgh's Future
What Young Entrepreneurs Need from Pittsburgh
May 30, 2007 - Pop City
CMU's
Project Olympus aims to keep talent in Pittsburgh, increase investment
here
May 28, 2007 - Business Times
Retaining tech talent main goal for new Carnegie Mellon initiative
May 25, 2007 - USA Today
Interview with Professor Luis von Ahn:
Researchers
turn Web blather to books
April 7, 2007 - NY Times
Lenore Blum Featured:
Computer
Science Takes Steps to Bring Women to the Fold
January 7, 2007 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Interview with Olympus Advisory Cabinet member, Jacqueline Morby:
Talking
with: Jacqueline Morby / She's betting on tech's rise in the region
November 29, 2006 - Pop City
CMU's
Project Olympus awarded $400,000 Heinz Endowment Grant
November 6, 2006 - News
Release
Carnegie Mellon’s Project Olympus Receives Grant From Heinz Endowments
Incubator Lab Will Boost Economic Development in Western Pennsylvania
