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Alex John London [29] (Clara L. West Professor of Ethics and Philosophy), Director of the Center for Ethics and Policy [30] at Carnegie Mellon University, Elected Fellow of the Hastings Center; prominent bioethicist; Brian MacWhinney (Professor), leading language acquisition researcher and creator of CHILDES database
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The institution was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools. In 1912, it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology and began granting four-year degrees.
Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley opened in September 2002 under the name "Carnegie Mellon University - West Campus" to an original class of 56 students. James H. Morris , the Dean of the School of Computer Science at the Pittsburgh campus, helped establish the branch and served as the branch's first dean. [ 4 ]
The Tepper School of Business is the business school of Carnegie Mellon University. It is located in the university's 140-acre (0.57 km 2 ) campus in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania . The school offers degrees from the undergraduate through doctoral levels, in addition to executive education programs.
Carnegie Mellon University is home to a variety of unique traditions, some of which date back to the early days of its over 100-year history. Many of these traditions hearken to the university's strength in engineering, such as the buggy races and the mobots, while others are purely social in nature, such as Spring Carnival and The Fence.
CMU's Industrial Design program has historically ranked in the top 10 design schools in the U.S. in the annual Design Intelligence survey of architecture and design schools. In 2014 and 2015, LinkedIn ranked Carnegie Mellon's Design program as number one on their list: Best Undergraduate Universities for Designers.
Carnegie Mellon University's campus in Qatar was established in 2004. [4] It was the fourth U.S. higher education institution to establish a campus in Qatar. The establishment of the campuses was founded by Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, the mother of Qatar's current Emir Tamim bin Hamad al Thani.
In July 1965, Allen Newell, Herbert A. Simon, and Alan J. Perlis, in conjunction with the faculty from the Graduate School of Industrial Administration (GSIA, renamed Tepper School of Business in 2004), staff from the newly formed Computation Center, and key administrators created the Computer Science Department, one of the first such departments in the nation.