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George White, distinguished career professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar and the founder of the Al Fikra competition, was awarded a Prestigious Appreciation Award for his contribution in creating a supportive environment for entrepreneurship in Qatar. White is the…
CMU-Q placed third in Enterprise Challenge Qatar 2015, a competition designed to develop the spirit of entrepreneurship in young people. Awais Shamim, Faran Farooq, Mounir Sheikh, Sherif Rizk and Ibrahim Soltan were on the team Price Takers, taking third place…
Carnegie Mellon offered a glimpse into the future of traffic safety at the International Traffic Medicine Association (ITMA) conference in Doha. A pioneer in the area of autonomous vehicles, Carnegie Mellon celebrated 30 years of self-driving car technology last year.…
John Hooker, T. Jerome Holleran Professor of Business Ethics and Social Responsibility at CMU, discussed the way cultural differences have helped shape the new economic order. Using different examples from around the world, Hooker outlined how cultural qualities inform business…
Wilfried Sieg, Patrick Suppes Professor of Philosophy at CMU, spoke to CMU-Q about the move from mathematical thinking to computing and back to thinking, an evolution which has uncovered a refined proof search procedure. This in turn has been used…
QInvest, Qatar's leading investment group, and Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q), signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to cooperate and coordinate in the fields of research and education. The MOU will offer QInvest the opportunity to make use of…
Dudley Reynolds, teaching professor of English, delivered the keynote address at the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) conference in Kuwait on November 7. Reynolds’ address considered the trends that are driving change in English teaching, including…
Divakaran Liginlal, teaching professor of information systems, led a workshop titled “Content Strategies for Arabic Ecommerce Websites,” which included the findings of an NPRP research study of over 3000 Arabic e-commerce websites. Liginlal and research collaborators Rizwan Ahmad and Robert…
His Excellency Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim Al Thani, Qatar’s Minister of Economy and Commerce, said that Qatar has made considerable strides in terms of promoting economic diversification and sustainable development. Speaking at CMU-Q, the minister shed light on the latest…
A team from CMU-Q took third place at YHack 2015, the annual Yale University Hackathon, on November 8, 2015. Team members Maher Khan, Musab Ahmed Popatia and Qasim Nadeem developed a group vacation planner during the 36-hour competition. The app,…
