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Discuss “CMU receives $4 million grant for new nanotechnology building”

Governor Edward Rendell announced last month that $4 million in state redevelopment funds would be allocated for the construction of a 180,000-square-foot nanotechnology center at Carnegie Mellon.

The building, scheduled to open sometime in 2009, will establish Carnegie Mellon as a legitimate contender in the global nanotechnology race.

Nanotech revealed

Air travel. Television. These relatively recent technological developments have dramatically altered the way we do things. Or have they?

Marvin Minksy, renowned mathematician and computer scientist at MIT, wrote that air travel reduced travel time from days to merely hours.

In comparison, the railroad shortened travel times from weeks to days, which is a far more revolutionary contribution...

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