Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University | |
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founding | 1900 |
place | Pittsburgh , USA |
Students | 12,500 |
Employee | 1,440 |
University sports | University Athletic Association |
Networks | Association of American Universities |
Website | www.cmu.edu |
The Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania, United States.
It was created in 1967 by the merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (founded in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie ) and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research (founded in 1913 by brothers Andrew William and Richard Beatty Mellon ). It has around 12,500 students and 1,440 employees.
The CMU is a member of the Association of American Universities , an association of leading research-intensive North American universities that has existed since 1900. Carnegie Mellon University was named one of the 25 "New Ivies " by Newsweek .
The university is divided into seven independent universities, of which in particular the School of Computer Science , the Carnegie Institute of Technology and the College of Fine Arts have established themselves internationally as top universities . According to Forbes , Carnegie Mellon University graduates are among the highest paid in the United States.
The campus is five miles from downtown Pittsburgh in the Oakland neighborhood .
history
The capital with which the Carnegie Technical Schools were founded in Pittsburgh in 1900 came from the industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie wanted to open a trade school for the sons and daughters of the Pittsburgh workers. In 1912 the name was changed to Carnegie Institute of Technology . In 1967 it merged with the Mellon Institute and became Carnegie Mellon University .
organization
Today the university consists of the following branch institutes:
- Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science
- Carnegie Institute of Technology
- Carnegie Mellon College of Fine Arts
- 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 branches in Silicon Valley , Qatar and Adelaide .
The university is home to research centers such as the Software Engineering Institute .
The School of Computer Science contains a Machine Learning Department (formerly known as the Center for Automated Learning and Discovery ).
research
The AFS (Andrew Filesystem, named after the founder of the university) cluster file system was created at the Information Technology Center . The Tartan Team of 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 consists of students from all over the United States and 93 other countries. Tuition fees for the 2012/2013 academic year were over $ 46,000. According to a study by the College Board Examination Commission , the CMU was ranked 11th among the most expensive universities in the United States in 2008, even higher than any of the Ivy League universities .
Sports
The sports teams are the tartans . The college is a member of the University Athletic Association .
Personalities
The university has more than 86,500 alumni worldwide . These include Charles Erwin Wilson , former CEO of General Motors and US Secretary of Defense , hedge fund manager David Tepper and the forefather of the Java programming language , James Gosling .
Among the graduates are 18 Nobel Prize winners , 12 Turing Award winners, eight Oscar winners , 97 Emmy award winners , and 30 Tony Award winners.
Professors
- Manuel Blum (* 1938), computer scientist and Turing Prize winner
- Bernd Brügge , computer scientist, Full Professor of the Technical University of Munich , Board Member of the Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM)
- Edmund M. Clarke (* 1945), computer scientist and Turing Prize winner
- Clinton Davisson (1881–1958), physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- Scott E. Fahlman (* 1948), inventor of the emoticon
- Richard Florida (born 1957), author of The Rise Of The Creative Class (2002); taught at the CMU from 1987 to 2005
- Robert Floyd (1936–2001), Turing Prize winner
- Robert S. Kaplan (* 1940), co-founder of the balanced scorecard concept
- Walter Kohn (1923–2016), Nobel Prize Winner
- Finn E. Kydland (* 1943), economist and Nobel Prize winner
- Robert E. Lucas (* 1937), economist and Nobel Prize winner
- Robert Lepper , sculptor
- Krzysztof Matyjaszewski (* 1950), polymer chemist
- Merton H. Miller (1923-2000), economist and Nobel Prize winner
- Tom Mitchell , computer scientist, founder of the Machine Learning Department
- Franco Modigliani (1918–2003), economist and Nobel Prize winner
- Allen Newell (1927–1992), computer scientist / mathematician, Turing Prize winner
- Randy Pausch (1960–2008), computer scientist
- Philip Pearlstein (* 1924), painter
- John Anthony Pople (1925-2004), mathematician and Nobel Prize winner in chemistry (1998)
- Edward C. Prescott (* 1940), economist and Nobel Prize winner
- Raj Reddy (* 1937), computer scientist and Turing Prize winner
- Otto Stern (1888–1969), physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- Dana Scott (* 1932), mathematician, computer scientist, philosopher and Turing Prize winner
- Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001), social scientist, Nobel Prize winner and Turing Prize winner
- Ivan Sutherland (* 1938), computer scientist and Turing Prize winner
students
- Paul Allaire , CEO of Xerox
- René Auberjonois (1940–2019), actor
- Andreas von Bechtolsheim (* 1955), co-founder of Sun Microsystems
- Sara C. Bisel (1932–1996), archaeologist
- Steven Bochco (1943–2018), writer and producer of television series
- Mel Bochner (* 1940), conceptualist
- Matt Bomer (born 1977), actor
- Jonathan Borofsky (* 1942), sculptor
- Gretchen Corbett (born 1945), actress
- James Cromwell (born 1940), actor
- Ted Danson (born 1947), actor
- Jean-Pierre Danthine (* 1950), economist
- Iris Dart , author
- Edward Feigenbaum (* 1936), Turing Prize winner (computer science), father of expert systems
- Charles Geschke (* 1939), co-founder of Adobe Inc.
- James Gillogly (* 1946), computer scientist and cryptanalyst
- Shafrira Goldwasser (* 1958), computer scientist
- James Gosling (* 1955), inventor of the Java programming language
- Charles Haid , actor and director
- John Lewis Hall (* 1934), Nobel Prize Winner (Physics)
- Ian Harding (born 1986), actor
- Charles A. Holt (* 1948), economist
- Holly Hunter (born 1958), actress and Oscar winner
- Joe Kennedy, Jr. (1923-2004), jazz musician and university professor
- Vinod Khosla (* 1955), co-founder of Sun Microsystems
- Jack Klugman (1922–2012), actor
- Judith Light (* 1949), actress and Emmy Award winner
- John Forbes Nash Jr. (1928–2015), Nobel Prize Winner (Economics) 1994, Abel Prize (Mathematics) 2015
- Andreas Nick (politician) (* 1967), member of the German Bundestag
- Mark Nosbend , computer scientist
- John Ousterhout (* 1954), inventor of the scripting language Tcl
- Coté de Pablo (* 1979), actress
- George Peppard (1928–1994), actor
- Richard Rappaport (* 1944), painter
- Carl Benton Reid (1893–1973), actor
- Judith Resnik (1949-1986), an astronaut who in the crash of the space shuttle Challenger was killed
- George A. Romero (1940-2017), director
- Laura San Giacomo (born 1962), actress
- Stephen Schwartz (* 1948), musical writer and composer
- Blair Underwood (born 1964), actor
- Andy Warhol (1928–1987), painter and main figure in the Pop Art movement
- Zachary Quinto (born 1977), actor
See also
- H1ghlander , unmanned vehicle
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ National Historic Chemical Landmarks ( English ) Retrieved on December 17, 2014.
- ↑ Fast Facts - Carnegie Mellon University ( English ). Retrieved December 17, 2014.
- ↑ America's 25 New Elite Ivies . newsweek.com. Retrieved August 21, 2010.
- ↑ Rankings - Computer Science - Graduate Schools - Education - US News ( English ) US News. 2010. Retrieved September 15, 2010.
- ↑ Rankings - Engineering - Undergraduate - Education - US News ( English ) US News. 2010. Retrieved September 15, 2010.
- ↑ The Top 25 Drama Schools ( English ) Retrieved July 1, 2013.
- ↑ 25 College Diplomas With the Highest Pay ( English ) Retrieved July 1, 2013.
- ^ Division of Enrollment Services ( English ) CMU. 2013. Retrieved August 29, 2013.
- ↑ The Tartan Online: Tuition 11th highest ( English ) The Tartan. 2008. Retrieved November 17, 2008.
Coordinates: 40 ° 26 ′ 35 " N , 79 ° 56 ′ 36" W.