* Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh was named after Carnegie, who founded the institution as the Carnegie Technical Schools. Carnegie Vanguard High School

The project was able to leap forward in design with the arrival of Harold McFarland, who had been researching 16-bit designs at Carnegie Mellon University.

Herbert Alexander Simon ( June 15, 1916 – February 9, 2001 ) was an American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and psychologist, and professor — most notably at Carnegie Mellon University — whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, cognitive science, computer science, public administration, economics, management, philosophy of science, sociology, and political science.

As a testament to his interdisciplinary approach, Simon was affiliated with such varied Carnegie Mellon departments as the School of Computer Science, Tepper School of Business, Departments of Philosophy, Social and Decision Sciences, and Psychology.

In accordance with his wishes, Pople's Nobel Medal was given to Carnegie Mellon University by his family on October 5, 2009.

The project at Carnegie Mellon ran from 1985 to 1994, ending in apparent failure with Mach 3. 0, which was finally a true microkernel.

A team led by Avie Tevanian, who had joined the company after working as one of the Mach kernel engineers at Carnegie Mellon University, was to develop the NeXTSTEP operating system.

It was the machine that made time-sharing common ; it looms large in hacker folklore because of its adoption in the 1970s by many university computing facilities and research labs, the most notable of which were MIT's AI Lab and Project MAC, Stanford's SAIL, Computer Center Corporation ( CCC ), and Carnegie Mellon University.

Tim Curry was originally scheduled to appear, but dropped out due to ill health and was replaced by Chris Andrew Mellon.

It stood as the record for a long time, until the first computer analysis, which was done at Carnegie Mellon University, in 1990, by David Applegate, Guy Jacobson, and Daniel Sleator.

The first recipient, in 1966, was Alan Perlis, of Carnegie Mellon University.

During the Kennedy administration, the White House Rose Garden was redesigned by Rachel Lambert Mellon.

Harding's Treasury Secretary, Andrew Mellon, ordered a study that claimed to demonstrate that as income tax rates were increased, money was driven underground or abroad.

Accuracy in Media has received a substantial amount of funding from Richard Mellon Scaife who paid Christopher W. Ruddy to investigate allegations that President Bill Clinton was connected to the suicide of Vincent Foster.

On April 9, 2008, Data was inducted into Carnegie Mellon University's Robot Hall of Fame during a ceremony at the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Carnegie Mellon predecessor institution, Carnegie Technical Schools, was founded in 1900 in Pittsburgh by the Scottish American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, who wrote the time-honored words " My heart is in the work ", when he donated the funds to create the institution.

In 2006, Carnegie Mellon Trustee Jill Gansman Kraus donated the-tall sculpture Walking to the Sky, which was placed the lawn facing Forbes Ave between the University Center and Warner Hall.

Carnegie Mellon was identified as the university " Rat " went to in the science fiction movie The Core, as well as the university that one of the astronauts attended in the film Deep Impact.

InterMezzo was started as part of the Coda file system project at Carnegie Mellon University and takes many design decisions from Coda.

The initial case that established the doctrine of standing, Frothingham v. Mellon, was a taxpayer standing case.

The project was started as ChipTest at Carnegie Mellon University by Feng-hsiung Hsu, followed by its successor, Deep Thought.

In 1983, he earned a Ph. D in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, and his doctoral thesis was titled " Algebraic Constraints ".

" In November 1851 Bache went to live with Mellon, who was then living in London, and in 1852 was given a contract by Addison, Hollier and Lucas to write light piano pieces ; he turned out these works in considerable numbers.

* The Ulster American Folk Park near Omagh includes the cottage where Thomas Mellon was born in 1813, before emigrating to Pennsylvania, in the United States when he was five.

Mellon was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on March 24, 1855.

Dana Stewart Scott ( born October 11, 1932 ) is the emeritus Hillman University Professor of Computer Science, Philosophy, and Mathematical Logic at Carnegie Mellon University ; he is now retired and lives in Berkeley, California.

Hans Moravec ( born November 30, 1948 in Austria ) is an adjunct faculty member at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University.

Jerome III " Jay " Apt, Ph. D. ( born April 28, 1949 in Massachusetts ) is an American astronaut and professor at Carnegie Mellon University.

Edward Fredkin ( born 1934 ) is a distinguished career professor at Carnegie Mellon University ( CMU ), a visiting professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) and an early pioneer of digital physics.

Dr. Witbrock was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, and has a Ph. D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.

Scott FahlmanScott Elliott Fahlman ( born March 21, 1948, in Medina, Ohio, U. S .) is a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University.

Richard Mellon Scaife ( born July 3, 1932 ) is an American billionaire.

U. S. Steel ( the world's first billion dollar corporation ), Heinz, General Motors, Koppers and ExxonMobil ( as Rockefeller's Standard Oil ) were born and nurtured by Mellon.

Phelps was born in New York, New York and earned a BFA in directing from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

* 3 February-Thomas Mellon, entrepreneur, lawyer, and judge, founder of Mellon Bank ( born 1813 ).

Hans Jack Berliner ( born Berlin, Germany, January 27, 1929 ), a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, is a former World Correspondence Chess Champion, from 1965 – 68.

* Christopher Mellon ( born 1958 ), U. S. former politician and businessman

* Micky Mellon ( born 1972 ), Scottish footballer

* Niall Mellon ( born 1967 ), Irish philanthropist

Don Michael Randel ( born December 9, 1940 ) is a prominent American musicologist, the fifth president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a member of the editorial board of Encyclopædia Britannica.

William G. Bowen ( born October 6, 1933 ) is President Emeritus of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation where he served as President from 1988 to 2006.

Mellon was born to farmers Andrew Mellon and Rebecca Wauchob on February 3, 1813, at Camp Hill Cottage, Lower Castletown, parish of Cappagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

* Thomas Alexander " Tom " Mellon, born June 26, 1844, married to Mary C. Caldwell, sister of Alexander Caldwell, U. S. Senator of Kansas ; father of Thomas Alexander Mellon II and Edward Purcell Mellon ;

* James Ross " Jim " Mellon, born January 14, 1846, married to Rachel Hughey Larimer, daughter of railroad and land baron William Larimer ; parents of William Larimer Mellon