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...than from working on the road crew,” said Gale Mosteller. “A clear incentive to learn the odds and play well.”In college Mosteller became even more interested in probability when he met a math professor, Edwin G. Olds, at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), where he earned his bachelor’s and master’s in mathematics. Mosteller later went on to receive his doctorate in mathematics from Princeton University.During his sophomore year at CMU, Mosteller encountered a question in one of his classes that would propel him towards...
...your hand at peace in the Middle East. In May Carnegie Mellon students won the University of Southern California's Public Diplomacy Contest for PeaceMaker, which challenges you to create a stable resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The game--where players pick which of the two countries they want to run--will be available for download at peacemakergame.com by year's end, for a price that has yet to be determined...
Less than 300 miles away, Robyn Gray is in the midst of cleaning 48 kitchenettes, dusting 90 conference rooms and scrubbing 40 glass doors at One Mellon Center, a financial building in downtown Pittsburgh, Pa. Although her work is equally grueling, Gray, 44, is paid well, compared with Cincinnati, Ohio, janitors like Jones. For working a 9:30 p.m.--to--6 a.m., 40-hr.-a-week schedule, she earns $12.52 an hour and gets health insurance, three weeks' vacation and three personal days a year. Her $26,000 annual salary has helped Gray and her husband--who works...
...They upended the belief that the Internet's main benefit to consumers would be lower prices. Instead, they suggested that greater value online came from consumers having access to a wider selection of products and services. The key for businesses hoping to capitalize on the long tail, says Carnegie Mellon's Michael D. Smith, one of the paper's authors, is to cater to "significant heterogeneity in taste." Even though a majority of us may like U2 on our MP3 players, for example, there are enough of us who enjoy string quartets or British ska to make it profitable...
...neighborhoods, they also lose something good. They lose reasons to do the right thing. "One of the things that keeps people straight is the fact that there are people who are important to them around. They don't want to embarrass themselves," says Alfred Blumstein, a criminologist at Carnegie Mellon. "As you disperse people into unfamiliar environments, without these people they care about, there is less control over them, and they could become more troublesome...