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Pittsburgh Technology Council
Since 1983, the Pittsburgh Technology Council has been the principal
point of connection for companies from four primary clusters of the
technology industry that are represented by a critical mass of
businesses in southwestern Pennsylvania including Information
Technology, Biomedical, Advanced Manufacturing/Materials and
Environmental Technology.
Pittsburgh Technology Council’s Career Center
The Pittsburgh Technology Council’s Career Center currently boasts more
than 1,400 open positions and hosted more than 7,500 positions in 2007.
For many students and recent graduates, this tool provides invaluable
connections to internship and job openings within southwestern
Pennsylvania. Regional companies use this resource to find basic
entry-level candidates, seasoned C-level professionals and everyone in
between. Candidates are encouraged to apply for positions through http://careers.pghtech.org and to post their resumes in our online resume database for recruiter viewing.
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is a joint effort of Carnegie
Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh together with
Westinghouse Electric Company. Established in 1986, PSC is supported by
several federal agencies, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and private
industry, and is a resource provider in the National Science Foundation
TeraGrid program.
Brownfields Center
The Carnegie Mellon Brownfields Center aims to improve the brownfield
revitalization process by enabling scholars of engineering, the social
sciences, economics and the arts to develop a comprehensive,
multi-level understanding of the challenges facing community leaders as
they seek to return brownfields to productive use.
Carnegie Mellon Green Design Institute
The Green Design Institute is a major interdisciplinary research effort
to make an impact on environmental quality through green design. The
central idea of the institute is to form partnerships with companies,
government agencies and foundations to develop pioneering design,
management, manufacturing, and regulatory processes that can improve
environmental quality and product quality while enhancing economic
development.
Center for Advanced Process Decision-Making
The Center for Advanced Process Decision-Making at Carnegie Mellon is
engaged in Process Systems Engineering research for the process
industries. The main areas of concentration include product design and
process synthesis, process optimization and control, modeling and
simulation, supply chain optimization, planning and scheduling,
information modeling, and microsystems.
Center for Applied Research in Engineering and Science
Robert Morris University has launched applied research activities in
science and engineering from its industrial grade laboratory facilities
in Moon Township campus. The state-of-the-art center's goal is to
provide RMU students hands on learning experience while offering
manufacturing and other technical services to area industries.
Center for Biologic Imaging
CBI is housed in the medical research facility of the University of
Pittsburgh Medical School in approximately 3,000 square feet of space.
This space has been designed as a dedicated, state of the art imaging
center, and has fully equipped microscopy suites, darkrooms, computer
labs, and wet and dry bench space for light and electron microscopic
preparations.
Center for Biomedical Informatics
The Center has a two-fold mission: 1) to promote research addressing
the use of information technology in health care and health education;
2) to promote the direct application of state-of-the-art information
technology to our ongoing programs of health care and education. The
Center was founded on the premises that there is widespread interest
and expertise in information technology at Pitt, UPMC, and throughout
the metropolitan area; that we all have a lot to learn from each other;
and that we all stand to benefit from working together. The Center
serves as a coordinating point for informatics activities and as a
catalyst of collaborative efforts.
Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
The Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical
Center (UPMC) works to prevent the development and use of biological
weapons, to catalyze advances in science and governance that diminish
the power of biological weapons as agents of mass lethality, and to
lessen the human suffering that would result if prevention fails.
Center for Biotechnology and Bioengineering
The faculty at this University of Pittsburgh facility utilize
cutting-edge, interdisciplinary methods to develop new technologies and
interventions that impact all areas of human health and welfare. Areas
of interest include drug discovery, drug delivery, gene therapy,
bioremediation, bioengineering, biocomputing, microbial engineering,
and rehabilitation sciences.
Center for Bone Tissue Engineering
The Bone Tissue Engineering Center is a collaborative program among
Carnegie Mellon's College of Engineering, Mellon College of Science and
Robotics Institute, with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center,
the University of Pittsburgh, Children's Hospital and Duquesne
University. The center's mission is to develop technologies that will
translate into safe and effective clinical therapies. The bone and
cartilage clinical therapies will treat developmental deformities,
ablative injuries, degenerative changes, tendon and ligament healing,
hypoplastic fat and vascular insufficiencies. The center encourages the
transfer of developed technologies and treatments to enable new
biotechnology ventures providing jobs and regional economic development.
Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics
The Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics at Carnegie Mellon
University conducts research, demonstration, and teaching in building
performance and diagnostics. The faculty of CBPD possesses an
interdisciplinary and complementary combination of backgrounds. Its
expertise ranges from professional practice, to fundamental and applied
research in building physics, to advanced computer modeling and
simulation capabilities.
Center for Business, Technology and the Environment
The Center for Business, Technology and the Environment was founded to
foster interdisciplinary research in vital areas of economic
development.
Center for Clinical Pharmacology
Headed by Dr. Robert Branch, this center was established in January
1991 to enrich and expand pharmaceutical research at the University of
Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). An academic unit poised to promote
inter- disciplinary collaboration, the Center's mission is to
effectively translate advances in basic sciences to clinical medicine.
The fundamental premise of the concept of translational research is
that insights acquired in in vitro or animal model systems can be used
to develop hypotheses which can be tested in humans; conversely,
clinical observations in man can be used to generate hypotheses which
can be developed and tested in in vitro or animal model systems.
Combined, these two approaches promise to go a long way toward
improving our understanding of the basic physiological mechanisms
involved in response to drug therapy.
Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging
Our Center investigates high-level cognition such as language
comprehension, problem-solving, visual thinking, and executive
processes through the use of fMRI and related approaches. The general
research goal is to develop a unified theory of cognition that is
grounded in and accounts for brain activation in the cortex, at the
level of large scale neural networks that perform cognitive
computations. In other words, the goal is to explain how thought
emerges from brain function.
Center for Computational Sciences
The CCS at Duquesne University uses state of the art computer hardware
and software for the discovery of new medicines, industrial catalysts,
agrochemical, and other advanced engineering materials. The CCS will
continue to create new tools for computer-aided molecular design,
explore new areas of interdisciplinary research, and train a new
generation of scientists by applying these tools to key challenges in
medicine and industry.
CYLAB
Carnegie Mellon University has launched a security initiative designed
to protect all computer users from interference by cyber terrorists and
hackers. The interdisciplinary team that will make up CyLab includes
more than 50 researchers and 80 students from Carnegie Mellon's College
of Engineering, School of Computer Science, the H. John Heinz III
School of Public Policy and Management and the CERT Coordination
Center. The center, which is part of Carnegie Mellon's Software
Engineering Institute, is a federally funded research and development
center sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense. The CERT/CC also
partners with the Department of Homeland Security in the activities of
the US-CERT, a coordination point to prevent, protect from, and respond
to Internet attacks.
Center for Entertainment Technology
A computer science and fine arts research center at Carnegie Mellon
that strives to provide a new model of interactive entertainment by
incorporating technologies such as artificial intelligence, speech
recognition, virtual reality and advanced learning technologies.
Center for Machine Translation
Devoted to basic and applied research in all aspects of natural
language processing, with a primary focus on machine translation,
speech processing, and information retrieval. The Carnegie Mellon
center contains a unique mix of academic and industrial researchers
specializing in various aspects of computer science, artificial
intelligence and computational linguistics.
Center for Medical Robotics and Computer-Assisted Surgery
The three primary goals at this Carnegie Mellon center are: to perform
application-oriented research aimed at current clinical needs within
the medical system; to promote collaboration between physicians and
technical researchers within the robotics institute; and to raise
awareness and support for robotics and computer-assisted techniques
within medicine.
Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
CNBC is a joint project of Carnegie Mellon University and the
University of Pittsburgh. The CNBC is dedicated to the study of the
neural basis of cognitive processes, including learning and memory,
language and thought, perception, attention, and planning. The CNBC
will synthesize the disciplines of basic and clinical neuroscience,
cognitive psychology, and computer science, combining neurobiological,
behavioral, computational and brain imaging methods.
Center for Research on Health Care
Established to develop a nationally recognized program in health
services research Pittsburgh's University community. Our objectives are
to: Stimulate health services research by providing a center where
ideas can be transformed into feasible projects; Assemble
interdisciplinary research teams capable of conducting large-scale
studies in health services research; Establish a broad-based research
agenda; Train future leaders and investigators in health services
research; Educate the University community about issues relevant to
health services research; Promote communication and collaborative
relationships among departments, schools, and universities; Identify
resources and expertise that will contribute to the research programs;
and Provide consulting services to the University of Pittsburgh Medical
Center (UPMC) and other institutions.
Center for Silicon System Implementation
CSSI at Carnegie Mellon works to develop regularized silicon components
that are created in tandem with electronic design automation (EDA)
tools. The new technologies will yield silicon systems that can be
manufactured in bulk and are likely to provide the economical advantage
of first-pass success. CSSI's breadth of expertise spans the finer
details of design and manufacturing.
Center for Wireless and Broadband Networking
The Center for Wireless and Broadband Networking at Carnegie Mellon,
founded in 2001, builds on the university's established strengths in
interdisciplinary research, wired networks, wireless networks, and
optical devices and signal processing. The center's mission is to serve
industry by creating and disseminating knowledge about advanced
heterogeneous networks through research, teaching and technology
transfer. It also aims to serve Carnegie Mellon students by imparting
to them an integrated and penetrating understanding of wired, optical
and wireless networks and systems.
CERT Coordination Center
Operated by Carnegie Mellon, the CERT (Computer Emergency Response
Team) Coordination Center's goals are to work with the Internet
community to facilitate its response to computer security events
involving Internet hosts, to take proactive steps to raise the
community's awareness of computer security issues and to conduct
research targeted at improving the security of existing systems.
Combinatorial Chemistry Center
This University of Pittsburgh center increases the efficiency of
chemical discovery by allowing the chemist to prepare hundreds of
thousands of new compounds quickly and efficiently. Combinatory
chemistry is one of several technical advances composing a revolution
in organic synthesis, drug discovery, and material sciences.
Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship
The Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship is nationally
recognized as one of the top entrepreneurship centers in the country.
The center has been offering exceptional graduate, undergraduate and
continuing education programs since its inception in 1990.
Data Storage Systems Center
Considered to be the preeminent university-based research and education
program in magnetic and magneto-optic recording technology in the
United States. The Carnegie Mellon center's research plan is to use
aggressive system level technological goals and a systems research
approach to motivate knowledge and technology breakthroughs which
advance the state-of-the-art in data storage systems technologies.
Facial Nerve Center
The Facial Nerve Center of UPMC Health System, Pittsburgh, provides
multidisciplinary evaluation of and treatment for all types of facial
paralysis caused by injury or disease of the facial nerve or muscles.
Human Computer Interaction Institute
Studies how people design, implement and use interactive computer
systems, and how computers affect individuals, organizations and
society. Two primary goals of this Carnegie Mellon center are: to
create world-class computing technologies to serve the real needs of
people, and to teach others to do so as well.
Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
Located at Carnegie Mellon, this center specializes in botanical
history and all aspects of plant science. It houses extensive
collections of books, plant images, manuscripts and portraits which
provide reference materials for biologists, conservationists,
historians and the public at large.
Information Networking Institute
This Carnegie Mellon research center is concerned with the movement of
information over public and private networks to enable end-users to
conduct business and communicate interactively in multiple
media--voice, data, text, image and video.
Institute for Complex Engineered Systems
A strategic initiative at Carnegie Mellon for pursuing
multidisciplinary research on Complex Systems both within the College
of Engineering and across colleges at Carnegie Mellon. The ICES vision
is "to develop enabling technologies and systems that seamlessly
connect people with their physical and information environments."
Institute for NanoScience and Engineering
The Institute of NanoScience and Engineering is an integrated,
multidisciplinary organization that brings coherence to the
University's research efforts and resources in the fields of nanoscale
science and engineering. The Institute's vision is to solve large,
complex scientific and engineering challenges in this burgeoning field
by facilitating interdisciplinary teams drawn from the faculty in the
School of Engineering, Arts and Sciences and the Schools of Health
Sciences, and to educate the next generation of scientists through a
world-class integrated program of innovative knowledge generation.
Institute for Software Research International
The Institute for Software Research International (ISRI) at Carnegie
Mellon creates innovative solutions to the problems of practical,
large-scale, high-quality software-intensive systems for the new
millennium. The focus is on systems that exploit the growing
infrastructure for high performance, nearly ubiquitous computing and
communication, especially systems that the public depends on for
services provided through the electronic marketplace.
Machine Learning Department
Machine Learning is a scientific field addressing the question "How can
we program systems to automatically learn and to improve with
experience?" We study learning from many kinds of experience, such as
learning to predict which medical patients will respond to which
treatments, by analyzing experience captured in databases of online
medical records. We also study mobile robots that learn how to
successfully navigate based on experience they gather from sensors as
they roam their environment, and computer aids for scientific discovery
that combine initial scientific hypotheses with new experimental data
to automatically produce refined scientific hypotheses that better fit
observed data.
Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
The Carnegie Mellon Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
is dedicated to the understanding, control and optimization of
interface dominated materials properties. Specific attention is given
to the structure of grain boundary networks that determine the
performance of polycrystalline materials in practical applications.
Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies
Established at the University of Pittsburgh in 1988 and dedicated to
General Matthew B. Ridgway, the mission of the Ridgway Center is to
address, in innovative and exciting ways, the new security challenges
facing the United States and the international community. Located in
the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) and the
University Center for International Studies (UCIS), the Ridgway
Center's focus is on research, education and training, and outreach.
McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine
The MIRM of the University of Pittsburgh serves as a single base of
operations for the university's leading scientists and clinical faculty
working to develop tissue engineering, cellular therapies, biosurgery
and artificial and biohybrid organ devices. The Institute will devise
innovative clinical protocols as well as pursue rapid commercial
transfer of its technologies related to regenerative medicine.
Regenerative medicine is an emerging field that approaches the repair
or replacement of tissues and organs by incorporating the use of cells,
genes or other biological building blocks along with bioengineered
materials and technologies.
Medical Robotics and Information Technology for Medicine and Surgery
Carnegie Mellon's Medical Robotics and Information Technology for
Medicine and Surgery (MERITS) program combines regional strengths in
engineering, computer science, robotics, healthcare technology and
clinical programs at MERIT Centers around the region. Carnegie Mellon's
MERIT Technology Center pursues research and development in the areas
of medical robotics and computer-assisted surgery; bio-MEMS, machine
vision and medical imaging; bone tissue engineering; and robotics for
rehabilitation and assisted living. The Institute for Computer Assisted
Orthopaedic Surgery (ICAOS) at the Western Pennsylvania Hospital is
affiliated.
Microdynamic Systems Laboratory
Located within Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute, the laboratory
explores the limits of robotics in terms of speed, precision, dexterity
and miniaturization. This endeavor requires development of new sensing,
actuation and control technologies for agile robotic systems that can
be applied to a variety of situations.Microsoft Carnegie Mellon Center
for Computational ThinkingResearchers from Microsoft and Carnegie
Mellon team up to apply fundamental concepts of computer science to
topics such as individual privacy in today's computerized world,
electronic-commerce and imbedded medical devices.
National Robotics Engineering Consortium
The National Robotics Engineering Consortium develops and delivers
leading edge automation technology to industrial clients that will
dramatically improve their competitive position. NREC projects will
utilize advanced technologies from CMU’s Robotics Institute when
appropriate, but in all cases, will emphasize innovation while meeting
the client’s commercialization goals of functionality, cost, and
reliability.
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
At the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI), more than 500
faculty and staff, representing over 30 disciplines, work together
closely to improve the understanding of cancer and to develop new
lifesaving procedures in cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.
In the last five years, UPCI recruited more than 100 investigators and
laboratory personnel. Among these recruits are many internationally
respected physicians and scientists coming from prominent academic
research centers, including NCI, Harvard University, Memorial
Sloan-Kettering, Columbia University, and Imperial Cancer Research Fund
(the leading cancer research institute in the United Kingdom).
Pulmonary, Allergy, & Critical Care Medicine
The Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Medicine (PACCM)
includes specialists who are board certified in the fields of pulmonary
medicine, critical care medicine, and allergic disorders of the lung.
In addition to providing care for your illness, these doctors also
participate in the teaching and training of new physicians, and conduct
research in all types of lung disease and problems.
Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative
The Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative (PTEI) seeks to foster and
encourage the growth of a regional biotechnology industry rooted in
tissue engineering. PTEI sponsors research, providing educational
outreach programs and facilitating access to efficient technology
transfer systems. Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh are
among PTEI's supporting institutions.
Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center
Operated by the University of Pittsburgh, the RERC conducts research on methods to improve the safety of wheelchair users.
Robotics Institute
The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University was established in
1979 to conduct basic and applied research in robotics technologies
relevant to industrial and societal tasks. Seeking to combine the
practical and the theoretical, the Robotics Institute has diversified
its efforts and approaches to robotics science while retaining its
original goal of realizing the potential of the robotics field.
Companies can participate in the activities of the Robotics Institute
either by becoming an affiliate of one or more of the research
programs, or by sponsoring specific research projects of particular
interest to them.
Software Industry Center
Carnegie Mellon's SWIC, the first universty-based research center of
its kind in the nation, explores how the software industry will develop
and grow, and what ramifications it will have in business and public
policy. It examines a variety of issues that may affect established
modes of competition, including technical innovations, software
development practices, recruitment and retention of human capital, and
globalization.
Spray Systems Technology Center
Located at Carnegie Mellon, the center is committed to the study and
analysis of atomization of liquids, spray dynamics and spray systems.
Its overall objectives are to improve efficiency and minimize emission
of pollutants.
Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research (SEER)
The mission of the Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education
and Research (SEER) is to help to change the ways the Carnegie Mellon
community and the world thinks and acts about the environment, through
our educational and research methods and results, through the issues we
raise, and through the outcomes we produce. We intend to build upon our
collaborative strengths in science and technology (including
information technology), design, economics, and the social and policy
sciences, and to apply these capabilities to the principal
environmental problems of the 21st century.
STUDIO for Creative Inquiry
An interdepartmental unit of the College of Fine Arts, the STUDIO for
Creative Inquiry supports the creation of exploratory and
cross-disciplinary work in the arts. It supports artist residencies,
connects artists to the human and technical resources at Carnegie
Mellon and in Pittsburgh and insures presentation of the artists' work
by establishing community partnerships and developing public venues.
Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute
Located at UPMC, the institute's mission is to improve the clinical,
scientific, and social aspects of transplantation. To achieve these
goals, the Institute fosters a multidisciplinary environment that helps
bridge basic and clinical research with a world-class team of
transplant surgeons.
Center for Vaccine Research
Facility at the University of Pittsburgh which studies lethal diseases
that could be exploited for terrorism. The 330,000 square-foot
state-of-the-art center is located in Biomedical Science Tower 3 on
Pitt’s campus. The CRV houses both the Regional Biocontainment
Laboratory (RBL) and the CVR. It is the second facility of its kind to
open nationally.
Vision and Autonomous Systems Center
Part of Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute focusing on the areas of
computer vision, autonomous navigation, virtual reality, intelligent
manipulation, space robotics and related fields.
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