Carnegie Mellon University

private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Carnegie Mellon University is a private university. Its headquarters are in Pittsburgh.[1]

It produces software.[1] It has 1.4k employees.[2]

Key Facts

  • Member of: Oak Ridge Associated Universities[3], ORCID, Inc.[4], Digital Library Federation[5], MetaArchive Cooperative[6], Consortium of Social Science Associations[7], ArXiv[8], Northeast University Semiconductor Network[9], DataCite[10], Association of American Universities[11], Association of American Colleges and Universities[12], American Council on Education[13], National Humanities Alliance[14], Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship[15], Coalition for Networked Information[16]
  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Pittsburgh[17]
  • Country: United States[18]
  • Instance of: research university[19], private not-for-profit educational institution[20]
  • Founder: Andrew Carnegie[21]
  • Headquarters location: Pittsburgh[22]
  • Postal code: 15213-3890[23]
  • Child organization or unit: Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley[24], Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar[25], Mellon College of Science, Carnegie Mellon University[26], Carnegie Mellon University Australia[27], Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation[28], Heinz College[29], Carnegie Mellon University Libraries[30]
  • Commons category: Carnegie Mellon University[31]
  • Industry: higher education[32]
  • Chairperson: Farnam Jahanian[33]
  • Has part(s): Heinz College[34], Tepper School of Business[35], Carnegie Mellon University Libraries[36]
  • Inception: January 1, 1900[37]
  • Mascot: Scotty the Scottie Dog[38]
  • Official website: https://cmu.edu[39]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Carnegie Mellon University[40]
  • Product or material produced: software[41]
  • Employees: 1440[42]
  • Ranking: 95[43], 91[44], 80[45], 68[46], 61[47], 62[48], 52[49], 51[50], 58[51], 55[52]

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Brands and Namesakes

Things named for Carnegie Mellon University include Andrew File System[53], a file system[54] and CMU Alumni Award[55], an award[56].

Why It Matters

Carnegie Mellon University has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[57] It is known by 106 alternative names across languages and contexts.[58]

Works attributed to it include Yippy[59], a website[60], founded in 2004[61]. Entities named for it include Andrew File System[53], a file system[54] and CMU Alumni Award[55], an award[56].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [18] ↑ . GRID. Retrieved . grid.ac. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. wikidata.org.
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  6. [22] ↑ . Global LEI Index. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [23] ↑ . Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. wikidata.org.
  8. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  16. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  19. [5] ↑ . clir.org. clir.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [6] ↑ . metaarchive.org. metaarchive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [7] ↑ . cossa.org. Retrieved . cossa.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [8] ↑ . web.archive.org. Retrieved . web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  30. [16] ↑ . web.archive.org. Retrieved . web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . National Software Reference Library. wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  41. [43] ↑ . shanghairanking.cn. Retrieved . shanghairanking.cn. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  42. [44] ↑ . shanghairanking.cn. Retrieved . shanghairanking.cn. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  43. [45] ↑ . shanghairanking.cn. Retrieved . shanghairanking.cn. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  50. [52] ↑ . shanghairanking.cn. Retrieved . shanghairanking.cn. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [59] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [53] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [55] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [60] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [61] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [54] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [56] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [57] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [58] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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