January 25, 2012
Mk Haley, associate executive producer at the Entertainment Technology Center, will be on a panel of creative industry leaders discussing Pittsburgh’s future at the intersection of art and technology. The Pittsburgh Technology Council event is from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the Carnegie Museum of Art.

January 25, 2012
Pop City reports that Careerimp, a former Project Olympus student PROBE and creator of the Resunate software, has taken control of the Regional Internship Center founded by the Coro Center.

January 11, 2012
Don Tapscott, co-author of the best-selling Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, will share his predictions for 2012 as a guest of The Innovators Forum at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, 17th, in Rashid Auditorium. Ramayya Krishnan, dean of the Heinz College, will lead the conversation and a book-signing session will follow the lecture.

January 10, 2012
PennEnvironment, a statewide environmental advocacy group, will be at the Electric Garage at 12:30 p.m. Thursday to release an analysis of the benefits of fuel-efficient cars written by the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Ben Brown, project scientist on the ChargeCar project housed in the former gas station on Forbes Avenue, and Aftyn Giles, City of Pittsburgh sustainability coordinator, will participate.

December 20, 2011
GlobalPittsburgh, formerly the Pittsburgh Council for International Visitors, honored the School of Computer Science’s Project Olympus at its annual awards dinner for Olympus’ role in hosting visiting delegations. Senior Business Adviser Kit Needham worked with GlobalPittsburgh to create entrepreneurial events for global visitors.

December 16, 2011
Carnegie Mellon students and the Snackbot robot are featured in a new Pittsburgh promo for ABC’s Good Morning America.

December 14, 2011
Project Olympus director Lenore Blum talks to the Financial Times about supporting student entrepreneurship in a story and video about Pittsburgh’s efforts to reinvent itself.

December 14, 2011
Add Mechatar to the list of hot holiday toys with a CMU pedigree. See Pop City’s story on how Pittsburgh’s Bossa Nova Robotics and Schell Games are combining robotic toys with online games.