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HEADLINE: CMU leads research team in developing a robot with social skills
July 13, 2002, Saturday, BC cycle
SECTION: Business News; State and Regional
LENGTH: 770 words
BYLINE: By JUDY LIN, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: PITTSBURGH
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A six-foot-tall robot that has the courtesy to step aside for people, make hundreds of facial expressions, carry a conversation and ask for directions - is it any wonder the robot is female? GRACE - Graduate Robot Attending Conference - is the prototype of a team of top computer scientists and researchers, led by Carnegie Mellon University, that's being developed with basic human social skills, from the ability to interpret human gestures to standing in line.
The robot, a drum-shaped system with a digitally animated face that appears on a flat computer screen, is the only autonomous robot attempting to complete the mobile robot challenge at the American Association of Artificial Intelligence's national meeting later this month.
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CMU computer scientist Reid Simmons has been coordinating the GRACE team for the past year with help from the Naval Research Laboratory, Swarthmore College, Northwestern University and defense contractor Metrica, Inc. Test runs are planned in the next two weeks.
Headline: Amazing GRACE: Scientists give robot social skills
07/14/2002
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By JUDY LIN, Associated Press
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CMU computer scientist Reid Simmons has been coordinating the GRACE team for the past year with help from the Naval Research Laboratory, Swarthmore College, Northwestern University and defense contractor Metrica Inc. Test runs are planned in the next two weeks. ...
Headline: CMU researchers work to develop the first robot with social graces
07/14/2002
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By Judy Lin, The Associated Press
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CMU computer scientist Reid Simmons has been coordinating the GRACE team for the past year with help from the Naval Research Laboratory, Swarthmore College, Northwestern University and defense contractor Metrica, Inc. Test runs are planned in the next two weeks. ...
Date: July 08, 2002
Time: 11:00 PM - 11:35 PM
Program: Newscenter 5 Tonight
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GARICK ZIKAN, anchor:
New technology is helping people do their jobs and robots are now part of that trend. They're being used in some dangerous places. This little guy is going to go where few dare to, into the small cracks and crevices left behind after an earthquake, a hurricane, an explosion. (Clip of robot).
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Mr. BRUCE MAXWELL (Engineering Professor, Swarthmore College): Robots aren't limited like people are to just having eyes or--or touch or sound. We can put all sorts of sensors on the robot. ...
Headline: How Political Scientists Can Help Fight the War on Terrorism
July 19, 2002
Section: The Chronicle Review
Page: B10
By RICK VALELLY
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Since September 11, political scientists in my subfield, American politics, have spent considerable time and energy trying to assess what the events of that day and its aftermath "did" to American politics. Remarkably, it has not occurred to us that we might also have to modify how we do political science. ... We haven't asked whether the search for the meaning of September 11 has altered our intellectual priorities.
But we should. The seeds of a useful new direction in our discipline are in the recent revelations of intelligence and bureaucratic failure, and in the proposed reorganization of government around the new focus on homeland security.
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Rick Valelly is a professor of political science at Swarthmore College.
Headline: Jane G. Pepper | Pruning styles vary by clematis
07/12/2002
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By Jane G. Pepper
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If you read the experts on clematis, you are likely to become confused on the topic of pruning. But if you listen to Jeff Jabco, director of grounds at Swarthmore College and coordinator of horticulture at Scott Arboretum, things become clear.
Jabco is curator of the clematis collection at Scott and is also an avid home gardener. Should someone ask him when and how to prune a clematis, Jabco says, his first question would be whether it's a climbing or shrubby clematis.
If it's the latter, say Clematis erecta, integrifolia or x durandii, his pruning directions are simple: Cut it to the ground in the winter. The stems of the first two will die to the ground. C. x durandii is evergreen, but no matter; take those stems to the ground before mid-March. ...
Headline: Applause
07/15/2002
Section: Local
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Loring Pfeiffer, a 1998 Rocky Mountain High School graduate, earned a bachelor's degree in English literature with honors from Swarthmore College in Swarthmore , Pa.
HEADLINE: Why Does Anyone Use A Payday Lender? Study Provides Answers
July 15, 2002
SECTION: Vol. 6; No. 28; Pg. 11
LENGTH: 629 words
DATELINE: MADISON, Wis.
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Why does anyone, especially a middle-class consumer, use the services of a payday lender? The Filene Research Institute has attempted to answer that question in a new
study, "The Economics of Payday Lending." Noting that as the 1990s debuted there were approximately 200 payday loan offices nationally. That number had surged to 10,000 by mid- 2001, indicating how quickly certain lenders have identified an opportunity.
Authored by Swarthmore College professor and fringe banking expert John P. Caskey, the study seeks to ask and answer a number of key questions with implications for credit union managers and boards.
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Caskey reported that consumers borrow from payday lenders because they believe that this is the best way to meet immediate cash needs of $100 to $500. "Many payday loan customers apparently do not have access to lower-cost credit from banks or credit unions, because they have already reached the limit of the credit available from these sources," offered Caskey.
HEADLINE: High marks for Penn State, F&M
July 13, 2002, Saturday
SECTION: NEWS, Pg. A-1
LENGTH: 662 words
BYLINE: Ed Klimuska
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Franklin & Marshall College is a hidden treasure. Penn State University is a real winner -- best value, best career services, highest academic standards, among other student-attracting qualities. So say the authors of a new book called "The Unofficial, Unbiased Insider's Guide to the Most Interesting 320 Colleges."
Published by Kaplan Inc./Simon Schuster, it is an 800-plus-page book that offers an inside view of college admissions and rates what the authors consider the brightest and best American colleges and universities.
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Highest academic standards: University of Pennsylvania, Swarthmore College and Carneige Mellon University. ...
ALUMNI
HEADLINE: OBITUARIES
July 11, 2002, Thursday
SECTION: Indian River County; Pg. A6
LENGTH: 1099 words
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Gordon Tapley
Gordon P. Tapley Sr., 85, of Vero Beach, died July 9, 2002, at the Indian River Memorial Hospital, Vero Beach, after a brief illness.
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He was the owner and chief executive officer of Arrow Container Corp. in New Jersey, prior to retirement. Before that he was an aeronautical engineer with Wright Patterson Corp. in Dayton, Ohio.
He attended the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia and was a graduate of Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pa.
Headline: Shoreline Pacific Appoints Katharine Winkler, Ph.D. Senior Vice President, Research
07/11/2002
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SAUSALITO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 11, 2002--Shoreline Pacific Ltd., today announced the appointment of Katharine Winkler, Ph.D. to the newly created position of Senior Vice President, Research.
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Dr. Winkler received her Ph.D. degree from Duke University for her cancer-related research carried out in Duke's Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology. As a graduate student, she was honored nationally with the University of Washington Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's first annual Harold M. Weintraub Award. She also was granted a National Science Foundation Fellowship, a Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Grant, and a James B. Duke Fellowship. She graduated with a B.A. in Biology from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania.
Headline: Shoreline Pacific Appoints Katharine Winkler, Ph.D. Senior Vice President, Research
7/11/2002 2:03:00 PM
SAUSALITO, Calif., Jul 11, 2002 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Shoreline Pacific Ltd., today announced the appointment of Katharine Winkler, Ph.D. to the newly created position of Senior Vice President, Research.
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She graduated with a B.A. in Biology from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. ...
HEADLINE: Cancel My NR!
July 17, 2002, Wednesday
SECTION: National Review Online; NR Comment
LENGTH: 451 words
BYLINE: By NRO Staff
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Elizabeth Jones, of Bethesda, Maryland, was sworn in as Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs on May 31, 2001. Previously, she served as Senior Advisor for Caspian Basin Energy Diplomacy after having been Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Department's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs (1998-2000). Ms. Jones was Ambassador to the Republic of Kazakhstan (1995-98) and Executive Assistant to Secretary of State Warren Christopher (1993-94). Her other Washington assignments include Deputy Director for Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and Iraq (1983-84), Lebanon Desk Officer (1981-83), and public affairs officer in the Near East and South Asia Bureau (1972-73).
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Ambassador Jones was born in Germany in 1948, while her parents were assigned there with the U.S. Foreign Service. She attended local high schools in Moscow, U.S.S.R., and West Berlin, Germany, while her parents were on diplomatic assignments there. She graduated from Swarthmore College in 1970 with a B.A. in history and in 1986 earned a Masters degree in international relations from Boston University's overseas program in Berlin.
HEADLINE: CELEBRATIONS - PATTON-POE ENGAGEMENT
July 14, 2002 Sunday Metro Edition
SECTION: EXTRA; Pg. 6
LENGTH: 124 words
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Donald W. Patton and Diane F. Patton of Roanoke, Virginia, are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Angela Cheri, to Matthew Thomas Poe, son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael T. Poe of Decatur, Illinois.
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Matt is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Poe of Seattle, Washington, and Mr. and Mrs. James Getzendanner of Forsyth, Illinois. He is a graduate of Swarthmore College, and is employed by SunTrust Bank in Atlanta, Georgia. ...
HEADLINE: IT'S THE BUSINESS; MOVERS & GROOVERS
July 12, 2002
SECTION: FINANCE; Pg. 44
LENGTH: 307 words
BYLINE: THE DEALER
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AMERICAN academic Kevin James began his higher education doing a BA (Hons) in Economics and Ancient History at somewhere called Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. At some stage in his career he ended up working for Britain's financial watchdog the FSA and a couple of years ago he produced a report for them alleging that we overpay by GBP 4billion a year for unit trusts.
But he has plainly not forgotten those heady days in Swarthmore's lecture halls. Now he has left the FSA and is "exploiting a brief window between employers" by producing another report entitled Waiting for Ariadne: A suggestion for reforming financial services regulation.
Waiting for Ariadne? What can he mean? Inside is a half page explanation. "Ariadne was the daughter of Minos, King of Crete, who used the labyrinth, built by Daedalus, to house his pet minotaur." The Dealer would like to tell you what it all means but he lost the will to live half way through the explanation. ...
HEADLINE: Charles Allan Herndon Jr., 78, pioneering WBAL-TV weatherman
July 13, 2002 Saturday FINAL Edition
SECTION: LOCAL, Pg. 4B
LENGTH: 872 words
BYLINE: Frederick N. Rasmussen
SOURCE: SUN STAFF
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Charles Allan Herndon Jr., a pioneering broadcaster whose evening weather forecasts were a fixture of 1950s and 1960s Baltimore television, has died of complications from Alzheimer's disease. Mr. Herndon died Tuesday at Oak Crest Care Center in Parkville. He was 78.
In a career that spanned more than 30 years in radio and television - and the law - Mr. Herndon was best known for the nightly weather appearances on WBAL-TV that were sponsored by the Atlantic Refining Co. For the broadcasts, he dressed in a tan-colored Atlantic service station attendant's uniform, bow tie and black-visored cap.
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He studied at Washington & Lee University but left after one semester to join the Army. He served in Europe as an interpreter and was discharged with the rank of staff sergeant in 1946. Mr. Herndon earned his bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College in 1949. ...
SPORTS
HEADLINE: At St. Mary's College, 1st-Year Coach Is Set To Live Out a Dream
July 14, 2002, Sunday, Final Edition
SECTION: SOUTHERN MARYLAND EXTRA; Pg. T11
LENGTH: 640 words
BYLINE: Angie Watts, Washington Post Staff Writer
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Herb Gainey has begun moving into his new office at St. Mary's College. He has recorded a new voice mail message and read dozens of congratulatory e-mails. He has begun his planning for the fall.
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Gainey, a native of Mechanicsville, served as an assistant coach at Leonardtown High School in 1995 and '96 and spent the past five years assisting former Seahawks coach Eric Wagner.
When Wagner resigned in April to take over the head position at Swarthmore College near Philadelphia, Gainey knew that despite his limited head coaching experience -- he has headed only travel teams -- St. Mary's offered a chance for more. ...