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  'Blueprint Brigade' Engineers Better Lives

  By John Casey | Wednesday, August 26, 2009 12:47 PM ET

  Engineers Without Borders projects are all funded by the engineers who take them on.
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  Computing to Save Lives

  By John Casey | Monday, July 6, 2009 3:07 PM ET

  A team sets a goal of cutting the infant mortality rate in an area of India in half by combining research with medical screening.
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  Smileys Say It All

  By Chaniga Vorasarun | Saturday, November 7, 2009 4:28 PM ET

  If you put it at the end of every sentence, it doesn't mean anything anymore.
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  Snackbot Is Programmed for Deliciousness

  By David Bois | Tuesday, October 20, 2009 9:00 AM ET

  Mention "vending machine" to this team of Carnegie Mellon designers, engineers and programmers, and they'll probably just laugh in your face.
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  Man, 22, found dead at Carnegie Mellon frat house

  By San Francisco Chronicle | Sunday, March 7, 2010 11:13 PM ET

  ...man who had been celebrating a friend's birthday by drinking and socializing was found dead Sunday in a Carnegie Mellon University fraternity house, police said. The 22-year-old man "likely drank too much" while celebrating Saturday night, police Detective...
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  Google Improves Its Translation Tool

  By The New York Times | Tuesday, March 9, 2010 1:33 AM ET

  ...particular subject area, said Alon Lavie, an associate research professor in the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Google’s efforts to expand beyond searching the Web have met with mixed success. Its digital books project has...
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  Toyota Woes Highlight Hi-Tech Car Pitfalls

  By CBS News | Friday, February 26, 2010 8:46 AM ET

  ... "You're looking for a needle in a haystack," said Raj Rajkumar, an electrical and computer engineering professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. "Those are very hard to reproduce. The problem happens and you go back and check and it's not there....
• Carnegie Mellon's Chris Hendrickson tracks water use

  By PhysOrg.com | Thursday, February 25, 2010 8:11 PM ET

  ...Carnegie Mellon University researchers are tracking how US industry uses scarce water resources. Just think, every time you feed Fido or flip a spoonful of sugar into your coffee cup, you use more than 300 gallons of water. Checking the amounts of water...
• McGinnis Venture Competition Launches New Companies on the Road to Success

  By PR Newswire | Tuesday, March 16, 2010 9:23 PM ET

  ...competition, in which they had only two minutes to make their proposals. Grand Prize Winner of the CleanTech track was Carnegie Mellon University's TransportCHAIN, a venture formed between Craig Gates (Tepper MSIA 2010), Jay Sizemore (Tepper MSIA 2010) and...

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