Carnegie Mellon University
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The Carnegie Mellon University (CMU ) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was created by the union of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (founded in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie ) 1967 and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research ( founded in 1917 by Richard Beatty Mellon ). It has about 7,500 students and 3,000 employees. Carnegie Mellon is a member of the Association of American Universities, an existing association of leading research-intensive since 1900, North American universities. The Carnegie Mellon University was named by Newsweek as one of the " New Ivies ".
The university is divided into seven independent colleges, of which in particular the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Institute of Technology and the College of Fine Arts have established internationally as an elite universities. According to Forbes include graduates of Carnegie Mellon University, the highest paid in the USA.
The campus of Carnegie Mellon is located five miles from downtown Pittsburgh in the Oakland neighborhood.
History
The capital, with the 1900 in Pittsburgh, the Carnegie Technical Schools were founded, came from the industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie wanted to open a vocational school for the sons and daughters of the Pittsburgh workers. 1912, the name was changed to the Carnegie Institute of Technology. 1967 closed one with the Mellon Institute together and became the Carnegie Mellon University.
Organization
The University now consists of the following branch institutions:
- Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science (one of the world's leading institutions in the field of computer science )
- Carnegie Institute of Technology ( the world leader in engineering)
- Carnegie Mellon College of Fine Arts (famous for his acting and design departments )
- Carnegie Mellon College of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Mellon College of Science
- David A. Tepper School of Business
- H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
The university has three branch offices in Silicon Valley, in Qatar and in Adelaide.
The university is home to renowned research centers, such as the Software Engineering Institute. At the School of Computer Science particularly the Robotics Institute and Machine Learning Department are (formerly known as the Center for Automated Learning and Discovery ) emphasize that were the world's first of its kind, respectively, and are currently considered to be leaders in their fields.
Research
At the Information Technology Center is the cluster file system, AFS ( Andrew File System, named after the founder of the university ) originated. The Tartan team from the Robotics Institute won the DARPA Urban Challenge 2007.
Students and teachers
The university has 5,200 undergraduate students, 3,200 graduate students, 1,048 faculty employees and 206 part-time employees. The student body is made up of students from across the United States and 93 other countries. The tuition fees are for the academic year 2012/2013 to over U.S. $ 46,000. According to a study of the Examination Board College Board, the CMU in 2008 was ranked 11 of the most expensive universities in the United States, higher still than all the universities of the Ivy League.
Sports
The sports teams at Carnegie Mellon University are the tartans. The university is a member of the University Athletic Association.
Famous people
The Carnegie Mellon University has more than 86,500 alumni worldwide. Among them are Charles Erwin Wilson, former CEO of General Motors and Secretary of Defense, the hedge fund manager David Tepper, and the father of the Java programming language, James Gosling.
Among the graduates are 18 Nobel Laureates, 12 Turing Award winners, eight Oscar winner, 97 Emmy Award winner, Tony Award winner and 30.
Professors
- Manuel Blum, computer scientist and Turing Award winners
- Bernd Bruegge, computer scientist, professor at the Technical University of Munich, Board Member of the Center for Digital Technology and Management ( CDTM )
- Edmund M. Clarke, computer scientist and Turing Award winners
- Clinton Davisson, physicist and Nobel laureate
- Scott E. Fahlman, inventor of the emoticon
- Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class ( 2002); taught from 1987 to 2005 at CMU
- Robert Floyd, Turing award winners
- Robert S. Kaplan, co-founder of the Balanced Scorecard concept
- Walter Kohn, Nobel Laureate
- Finn E. Kydland, economist and Nobel Prize winner
- Robert E. Lucas, economist and Nobel Prize winner
- Robert Lepper, sculptor
- Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Polymer Chemists
- Merton H. Miller, economist and Nobel Prize winner
- Tom Mitchell, computer scientist, founder of the Machine Learning Department
- Franco Modigliani, economist and Nobel Prize winner
- Allen Newell, computer scientists / mathematicians, Turing Award winners
- Randy Pausch, a computer
- Philip Pearlstein painter
- John Anthony Pople, mathematician and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (1998)
- Edward C. Prescott, an economist and Nobel Prize winner
- Raj Reddy, computer scientist and Turing Award winners
- Otto Stern, physicist and Nobel laureate
- Dana Scott, mathematician, computer scientist, philosopher and Turing Award winners
- Herbert Simon, social scientists, Nobel Prize winners and Turing Award winners
- Ivan Sutherland, computer scientist and Turing Award winners
Students
- Paul Allaire, CEO of Xerox
- René Auberjonois, actor
- Andreas von Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems
- Sara C. Bisel, archaeologist
- Stephen Bochco, writer and producer of TV series
- Mel Bochner, conceptualist
- Jonathan Borofsky, sculptor
- James Cromwell, actor
- Ted Danson, actor
- Jean -Pierre Danthine, economist
- Iris Dart, author
- Edward Feigenbaum, Turing award winner, father of expert systems
- Charles Geschke, co-founder of Adobe Systems
- Shafrira Goldwasser, computer scientist
- James Gosling, inventor of the Java programming language
- John Lewis Hall, Nobel Laureate (Physics)
- Charles A. Holt, economist
- Holly Hunter, actress and Oscar winner
- Joe Kennedy, Jr., a jazz musician and high school teachers
- Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems
- Jack Klugman, actor
- Judith Light, actress and winner of an Emmy Awards
- John Forbes Nash Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1994
- John Ousterhout, the inventor of the Tcl scripting language
- Ian Harding, actor ( Pretty Little Liars, Adventureland )
- George Peppard, actor
- Richard Rappaport, painter
- Judith Resnik, astronaut, who was killed in the crash of the space shuttle Challenger
- George A. Romero, director
- Laura San Giacomo, actress
- Stephen Schwartz, musical writer and composer
- Blair Underwood, actor
- Andy Warhol, a painter and major figure of the Pop Art movement
- Zachary Quinto, actor ( Heroes, Star Trek)
- Matt Bomer, actor ( White Collar, Magic Mike)