PITTSBURGH-Business Week Senior Writer and Carnegie Mellon alum Steve Hamm (HS'74), author of the new book "The Race For Perfect, The Quest To Design The Ultimate Personal Computer," will be visiting Carnegie Mellon, Thursday, Nov. 20, to take part in the CIT Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Research's annual Media Summit.

Hamm will join other summit participants to discuss the challenges of a changing newsroom as well as his new book from 11:30-1 pm, in the Singleton Room, Roberts Hall of Engineering. All SCS students, faculty and staff are invited to attend. Books will be available for purchase at the event.

Other Summit participants include Allan Dodds Frank, president of the Overseas Press Club and a correspondent for Bloomberg Broadcast News; Nitya Venkataraman ((HS'01), a producer of digital media for ABC News, and Michael Yablonski, editor and publisher of Pittsburgh Professional Magazine.
"This new media summit is designed to help the university community better understand how the media work in this constantly evolving news-gathering environment, and how we as researchers can help fill their story needs by sharing some of our leading-edge work," said panel moderator David A. Dzombak, the Walter J. Blenko, Sr. Professor of Environmental Engineering and faculty director of the Steinbrenner Institute.

Deborah Lange, executive director of the Steinbrenner Institute, said the summit is a great way for media to see some of our best university research, and discuss some of the most efficient ways for covering it.

The panel, which will be introduced by Carnegie Mellon Engineering Dean Pradeep K. Khosla, also will discuss how technology plays a role in building new flows of digital information in the ever-changing newsroom, which is now being called "information centers" by some media.