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The University Partnership of Pittsburgh is a joint economic development initiative between the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon, increasing coordination and the impact of the universities on the region’s economy. The University Partnership of Pittsburgh actively collaborates with and serves as a university liaison to a variety of economic development agencies in the region. The University Partnership of Pittsburgh provides university access and support for company attraction, faculty consulting and technology commercialization activities.

KIZs have helped 187 companies get started

5/12/2008 -

The state's Keystone Innovation Zone program is helping to build technology-based industries, according to testimony presented to the House Education Committee this month

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Carnegie Mellon Technique Accelerates Biological Image Analysis;

5/09/2008 -

The Lane Center for Computational Biology has discovered how computer vision systems can improve accruacy and lower the cost of biological screening. Key to the discovery has been their joint work with CMU's Machine Learning Department in belief propagation algorithms.