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)
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 17, 2007 - CMU News Release
Social Networking Site Offers Arriving Freshman a New
Way to Connect:
SCS Grad Students Developed Site that Emphasizes Ideas, not Faces
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
