Event: Alan Taub, executive director of General Motors Research & Development and Mark S. Kamlet, Carnegie Mellon provost and senior vice president, will announce a joint, multi-year partnership to develop technologies that will revolutionize motor vehicles. The new initiative will be in addition to an existing GM-Carnegie Mellon Collaborative Research Laboratory established in 2000. GM was the premier sponsor of Carnegie Mellon's Tartan Racing team, which won the $2 million DARPA Urban Challenge robot race last year.

When: 1:00 p.m., Thursday, June 19, 2008.

Where: Lower level (outside of the Google office) of the Collaborative Innovation Center, 4720 Forbes Ave., on the Carnegie Mellon campus. Parking is available in the Collaborative Innovation Center's garage, which is accessible from the base of Junction Hollow via South Neville Street.

About General Motors: General Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM), the world's largest automaker, has been the annual global industry sales leader for 77 years. Founded in 1908, GM today employs about 266,000 people around the world. With global headquarters in Detroit, GM manufactures its cars and trucks in 35 countries. In 2007, nearly 9.37 million GM cars and trucks were sold globally under the following brands: Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, GM Daewoo, Holden, HUMMER, Opel, Pontiac, Saab, Saturn, Vauxhall and Wuling. GM's OnStar subsidiary is the industry leader in vehicle safety, security and information services. More information on GM can be found at www.gm.com.

About Carnegie Mellon: Carnegie Mellon is a private research university with a distinctive mix of programs in engineering, computer science, robotics, business, public policy, fine arts and the humanities. More than 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students receive an education characterized by its focus on creating and implementing solutions for real problems, interdisciplinary collaboration, and innovation. A small student-to-faculty ratio provides an opportunity for close interaction between students and professors. While technology is pervasive on its 144-acre Pittsburgh campus, Carnegie Mellon is also distinctive among leading research universities for the world-renowned programs in its College of Fine Arts. A global university, Carnegie Mellon has campuses in Silicon Valley, Calif., and Qatar, and programs in Asia, Australia and Europe. For more, see www.cmu.edu.