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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)

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.



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