 Jim Whitehurst, president and CEO of Red Hat Inc., will dedicate the Red Hat Computer Laboratory in the Gates Center and present a special talk about how Red Hat has built an S&P 500 business using open source as a business and organizational model. News release |
 Popular Science Chooses Andre Platzer for 2009 “Brilliant 10” List of Young Scientists! Andre Platzer. News release |
 Luis von Ahn, is one of 16 promising young scientists chosen by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation as a 2009 recipient of a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering. News release |
| The Colloquium on Computer Science Pedagogy encourages presentations and
discussions of teaching, learning, and technological issues related to
computer science education. All SCS/CMU and other University faculty and students are welcome. |
 A multidisciplinary team led by computer scientist Edmund M. Clarke has received a five-year, $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation's Expeditions in Computing program to create revolutionary computational tools that will advance science on a broad array of fronts, from discovering new cancer treatments to designing safer aircraft. News Release |
 Students from Carnegie Mellon and four historically black universities teamed up to take first place and win a special acknowledgment in the IJCAI 2009 Student Robotics Challenge. News brief |
 Carlos Guestrin, Finmeccanica Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Machine Learning in Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, has won a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). News release |
 CS4HS Summer Workshop (July 24-27) and JAVA (July 27 - August 2 )will bring Computer Science high school teachers to Carnegie Mellon. |
| Carlos Guestrin, Finmeccanica Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Machine Learning in Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, has won a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). News release |
 High school teachers from Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio and Western Maryland who want to tap the power of computing to help them teach students about science, mathematics and technology can gain valuable insights and materials during three four-day workshops that make up the ACTIVATE program offered for the first time this summer by the School of Computer Science. News releas |
 Venkatesan Guruswami will join the Computer Science Department faculty as an associate professor July 1. News release |
 Researchers at School of Computer Science have developed a new method for systematically identifying bugs in aircraft collision avoidance systems, high-speed train controls and other devices, collectively known as cyber-physical systems (CPS).
News Release. |
 NEW Faculty Interview!:
Peter Lee, Professor, and Head of Computer Science Department. Full interview |
 A two-member team of Philip Deets and Susannah Johnson of Grove City College won Grand Champion honors at the 2009 Carnegie Mellon University Spring Programming Contest hosted by the School of Computer Science.
News Release. |
 By student acclamation, this year's winner of the SCS Herb Simon Teaching Award is Klaus Sutner, Teaching Professor, CSD, and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs. Check out all winners of the SCS Herb Simon Teaching Award. |
 Ryan O’Donnell and Luis von Ahn are recipients of Sloan Research Fellowships for 2009. News Release |
 Lenore Blum Wins Carnegie Science Center Award
News Release |
| Carlos Guestrin is recipient of the 2009 IJCAI Computers and Thought Award.
This award is given every two years to "outstanding young scientists in artificial intelligence." |
 The Association for Computing Machinery has recognized Tuomas Sandholm, professor of computer science, as one of 44 new ACM Fellows. News release |
Guestrin to Hold Finmeccanica Chair
News Release |
 MacArthur Fellow Luis von Ahn's programs harness human abilities to solve large-scale, complex problems
Read BusinessWeek article |
Carlos Guestrin, assistant professor of machine learning and computer science, was named to Popular Science’s “Brilliant 10,” the magazine’s annual list of top young scientists.
News release |
 THE SCS DISTINGUISHED HOMECOMING LECTURE SERIES... proudly presents The Turing Award Lecture Edmund M. Clarke, FORE Systems University Professor of Computer Science and 2007 Turing Award Recipient.
Abstract |
Carlos Guestrin, assistant professor of machine learning and computer science, is the latest Carnegie Mellon faculty member to be named to Popular Science’s “Brilliant 10,” the magazine’s annual list of top young scientists.
News release |
 Jeannette M. Wing, President’s Professor of Computer Science, was honored by Gov. Ed Rendell and First Lady Judge Marjorie O. Rendell as one of seven Distinguished Daughters of Pennsylvania.
Read more |
 Tom Cortina (PI), Wanda Dann and Carol Frieze (co-PIs), have been awarded a $1.46 million 3-year NSF ITEST grant to run summer workshops in computing for high school STEM teachers in the Appalachian region including Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. Workshops will include Alice, Java and computational thinking. |
 Disney Launches Global Research & Development Labs With Carnegie Mellon And Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) News release |
| Congratulations to Avrim Blum, Professor CSD, and Tom Mitchell, Fredkin Professor of AI and Machine Learning, MLD, on winning the first "ICML/COLT 10- Year Best Paper" award for their paper: "Combining labeled and unlabeled data with co-training." |
 The 23rd International IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS 2008) will be held at Carnegie Mellon University on June 24--27, 2008. This event is co-located with the IEEE Symposium on Computer Security Foundations (CSF 2008). The LICS Symposium is an annual international forum on theoretical and practical topics in computer science that relate to logic in a broad sense. Registration and more information. |
Congratulations to our CSD faculty on their most recent awards!
- Ed Clarke (recent Turing award winner) has been selected for the Herbrand Award, the top award in
automated deduction.
- Tuomas Sandholm has been elected as an AAAI Fellow.
- Alyosha Efros has received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
- Carlos Guestrin has been given an ONR Young Investigator Award. |
 See some of our students at the Meeting for the Minds 2008 |
 Congratulations to computer science sophomore Lawrence D. Jesper, one of three Carnegie Mellon University students to receive Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships to encourage their pursuit of careers in the natural sciences. News release |
 Edmund M. Clarke, professor of computer science and winner of the 2007 A.M. Turing Award, has been named a University Professor, the highest rank Carnegie Mellon University confers upon its faculty. News release |
| Bryant Lee, CSD graduate student, has developed a non-partisan Web site, VoteChooser.com, which helps voters find a presidential candidate whose views are most compatible with theirs. News release |
| Computer science Professor Edmund M. Clarke Wins A.M. Turing Award, Computing’s Highest Honor! The $250,000 prize is shared with two computer scientists from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Grenoble in France. The prize is in recognition of their pioneering work on an automated method for finding design errors in computer hardware and software. Congratulations Ed! News release |
 SCS Interview Series: We present the interview we've all been waiting for!! Mark Stehlik, Teaching Professor and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education, CSD, talks to undergraduate interviewers Alissa Briggs (junior) and Linda Cai (sophomore). Full interview |
| International Team Identifies 480 Genes That Control Human Cell Division: Research Led by Carnegie Mellon Scientists Used Computational Biology techniques to Find Many Genes Are Inactivated in Cancer Cells. News release |
| The SCS community is invited to attend the CSD Undergraduate Senior Thesis and Independent Study Poster Session: Wed., Dec. 12, 3:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m. , Perlis Atrium and WeH/NSH Walkway Newell-Simon Hall |
| Algorithm Identifies Top 100 Blogs for News: Versatile Method Also Helps in Designing Sensor Networks. Using a problem-solving method called the Cascades algorithm, Carlos Guestrin, assistant professor CSD and ML, and his students compiled a list of the best 100 blogs to read to find the biggest news on the Web as early as possible. News release |
| Congratulations to SCS faculty members! Randy Pausch, professor CSD, HCII, and Design, has been made an ACM Fellow, and Roy Maxion, Principal Systems Scientist, CSD, has been made an IEEE Fellow. SCS ACM fellows and the SCS IEEE Fellow |
 Congratulations Anastasia!! Anastasia Ailamaki, associate professor, CSD, is one of 20 scientists chosen for this year’s highly selective Nobel-sized Award: the European Young Investigator (EURYI) Awards. News release |
| New computer security threats posed by online multiplayer games and the potential for political dirty tricks on the Web are among the topics that electronic crime researchers will discuss at the second annual Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) eCrime Researchers Summit, Oct. 4–5 at the Holiday Inn Select University Center in Oakland. News release |
 Center for Computational Thinking Seminar
Golan Levin, Associate Professor of Electronic Time-Based Art, Carnegie Mellon University
Audiovision, Abstract Communication, Interactive Art, Abstract
Tuesday, Sept. 11, 3:00 p.m., 3305 Newell-Simon Hall |
| Luis von Ahn, Assistant Professor CSD, named one of this year’s top 35 innovators under the age of 35 by Technology Review magazine in recognition of his pioneering work in the field known as human computation. News release and Technology Review article |
 John Reynolds, professor CSD,
received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of London, Queen Mary & Westfield College. |
| Attention K-12 Teachers! Join us for the CS Unplugged Show at Carnegie Mellon, May 1, 2007. Open to all K-12 teachers in the Pittsburgh metro area. Details |
SCS Interview Series: Look
Who's Talking! Meet Sharon Burks, the Associate Department
Head of the Computer Science Department (CSD) and Assistant Dean for
Academic Affairs of the School of Computer Science (SCS). This inspirational
woman has been an integral part of Carnegie Mellon for 30 years. Full
interview |
| Congratulations to Manuel
Blum, Bruce Nelson Professor of Computer Science and Carnegie
Mellon University Professor, winner of this year's SCS
Herbert Simon Award for Teaching Excellence in Computer Science. |
| Microsoft, Carnegie Mellon Establish
Center for Computational Thinking! Initiative Seeks To Understand
New Approaches To Problem-Solving With Computing at Its Core. The
center was made possible through a three-year, $1.5 million grant
from Microsoft. (News
release) See Post-Gazette
feature! |
| School of Computer Science Fields Two
Teams In Regionals of ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest
News release |
Congratulations to our faculty!
Bob Harper (Professor
CSD), Furio Honsell (Professor, University of Udine, Italy), and Gordon
Plotkin (Professor, University of Edinburgh, UK), won a Test-of-Time
Award for their LICS 1987 paper "A Framework for Defining Logics."
This award is given by the IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science
(LICS).
Christos
Faloutsos (Professor CSD), is recipient of the Research Contribution
Award in ICDM'06. The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
is one of the top data mining conferences. |
2006
US News and World Report rankings of Colleges and Universities:
| Computer Science (Ph.D.)
Rank # 1 |
5.0 = highest
Average assessment
score |
Carnegie Mellon University
|
5.0 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
5.0 |
| Stanford University (CA) |
5.0 |
| University of California–Berkeley |
5.0 |
|
| News
release: DOE awards five-year, $11 million Grant to Tackle Problem
of Data Storage For Next-Generation Supercomputers. The new
Petascale Data Storage Institute combines the talents of computer
scientists at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of California
at Santa Cruz and the University of Michigan with those of researchers
at the DOE’s Los Alamos, Sandia, Oak Ridge, Lawrence Berkeley
and Pacific Northwest national laboratories. Congratulations to the
Carnegie Mellon team: Garth
Gibson, Anastassia
Ailamaki, David
O'Hallaron, Greg Ganger,
and Bianca Schroeder!! |
| Computer Scientists Entice and Entertain
Programmers Worldwide With Exciting New Format for Programming Contest
at ICFP (International Conference
on Functional Programming)! This year's unique programming challenge
was developed by SCS's Principles of Programming
(POP) Research Group, ranked as the premiere programming languages
group in the nation in 2006 by U.S. News & World Report magazine.
News release |
| Jeannette
Wing, President's Professor of Computer Science and head of CSD,
is featured in July issue of IEEE Spectrum, where she talks about
software engineering, education, and computational thinking, Read
full Q&A in
IEEE Spectrum. |
| For information on our NEW 2006 Summer
Workshop for CS High School Teachers see CS4HS
-- Explorations in Computer Science |
| A knowledge of game theory, not the
specialized expertise of a human poker player, is at the heart of
the poker robot called GS1 developed by Tuomas
Sandholm, Professor CSD and director of Carnegie Mellon’s
Agent-Mediated Electronic Marketplaces Lab, and graduate student Andrew
Gilpin. Read News
release |
Carnegie Mellon
ties for #1 in Computer Science Graduate Programs according
to the 2007 US News and World Report rankings. Read full report
and rankings for specialty areas: US
News and World Report
Check the Top
Computer Science Programs: |
 Congratulations
to our amazing teams on their performance in the RoboCup
2006 World Championship headed by CSD Professor Manuela
Veloso!
News
release |
 Computer
Science Professor Peter
Lee has been named the university's new vice provost for research.
News release |
Congratulations
to our amazing teams on their performance in the RoboCup
2006 World Championship headed by CSD Professor Manuela
Veloso!
News
release |
Congratulations to our former students
and current faculty! David Tarditi, Greg Morrisett, Perry Cheng,
Christopher Stone, Robert Harper, and Peter Lee received the
2006 Most Influential PLDI Paper award for their 1996 PLDI paper,
"TIL: A Type-Directed Optimizing Compiler for ML." PLDI
(Programming Language Design and Implementation) is one of the two
most prestigious conferences in programming languages. |
| Jeannette Wing, President's Professor
of Computer Science and CS Department Head, and Bruce Maggs, Professor,
Computer Science Department, and Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department, have been elected Members at Large in the 2006
ACM General Elections. |
| Manuela
Veloso, Professor CSD, has been named the new Herbert Simon Professor
of Computer Science, for her tremendous contributions to the field
of artificial intelligence and to the School of Computer Science.
News release |
| Sunday, May 21st, Commencement
2006 Manuel Blum,
Bruce Nelson Professor of Computer Science in the Computer Science
Department, has been appointed as University Professor, the highest
rank any Carnegie Mellon faculty member can attain throughout the
entire university. |
Saturday, May 20th, SCS
College & University Honors Ceremony, 10:00 a.m., University
Center |
 Carnegie
Mellon Celebrated 50
Years of Computer Science Excellence during the recent CS50
Anniversary Celebration & Alumni Reunion Weekend |
CSD Undergraduate Picnic!
Thursday April 27th, 4:30 p.m. Wean Hall Patio (rain location is NSH
Atrium) Food will be catered by Woody's Catering, Women@SCS will be
providing ice cream from Dave and Andy's, and entertainment will be
The Red Zone (bungy football), volleyball, and music by Steel City
DJ's. |
| Carnegie Mellon ties
for #1 in Computer Science Graduate Programs according to the
2007 US News and World Report rankings.
Read full report and rankings for specialty areas: US News and World
Report |
| Press
release Dean Bryant announces new SCS Award
named after Dana Scott,
Hillman University Professor of Computer Science, Philosophy, and
Mathematical Logic (Emeritus). The first recipient of the new award,
which recognizes sustained research, is John
C. Reynolds, Professor, CSD. Award ceremony: Thursday, April 6 |
| The SCS Distinguished
Dissertation Award is presented annually in recognition of
outstanding work by a graduate/s of the SCS doctoral programs. This
year's prize was jointly shared by Angela Demke Brown
(Advisor: Todd Mowry) and Sanjit A. Seshia
(Advisor: Randal Bryant). More
information |
 Congratulations!!
to Computer Science Professors Bob
Harper (left) and Hui
Zhang, elected to be ACM Fellows.
Read
more |
| It's time for the "ever-popular
and highly-demanded" SCS
Emigration Seminar! ALL SCS Ph.D. students
welcome to attend this presentation by Professor Jeannette
Wing, Head, Computer Science Department. Talk includes general
tips on the interview process, pre-interview preparation, the visit
itself and job talk, and post-interview follow-up. Friday, December
2, Newell-Simon Hall 1507 at 3:00 PM Abstract |
| Congratulations! to Kanat
Tangwongsan who has been selected as one of the Runners-Up
for the Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate
Award 2006, sponsored by Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs. |
| Congratulations! Michael
Erdmann, Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, has been
elected as IEEE Fellow
"for contributions to robotic manipulation and perception of
shape." Being named Fellow is the highest and most prestigious
honor bestowed of IEEE members. |
|
 A
special ceremony and reception will be held for Edmund
M. Clarke, Professor CSD and ECE, to honor his induction into
the National Academy of Engineering, and in recognition of his contributions
to the formal verification of hardware and software correctness. Please
join us as we honor Dr. Clarke's achievements on Friday, Nov. 11.
Reception starts 3.30pm, presentation at 4.00pm. in the Perlis Atrium,
Newell-Simon Hall. |
 Congratulations
to our scientists honored at the Stevens Lecture
on Software Development Methods! The 2005 Stevens Awards was
presented to Mary
Shaw, Professor CSD, for her work in software architecture and
software engineering education, and Jim Highsmith
(Adaptive Software Development), for his work promoting agile methods.
Professor David Garlan
received a Stevens Award Citation.
Press release |
 Congratulations
to Rich Pattis, Associate
Teaching Professor, CSD, recipient of the SIGCSE
Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education! |
 FriezeFest
2005 Scientists from around the world will visit Carnegie Mellon
to present their latest research at FriezeFest, a workshop to honor
and celebrate the career of Alan
Frieze, Professor Math and courtesy faculty CSD. FriezeFest 2005
marks Frieze's 60th birthday and will be held October 21-22, McConomy
Auditorium - UC. Carnegie
Mellon news and Post-Gazette
article |
 SCS
Interview Series introduces you to Alumni and married couple,
Yolanda Gil and Kevin Knight, who met here as PhD students in CSD,
now Research Associate Professors in the Department of Computer Science,
at USC. Read
full interview by SCS web team member Renee Rivas |
 Congratulations
to Michelle Goodstein!, PhD student, recently awarded the Clare
Boothe Luce Fellowship.
Gates Center Construction to begin
2006! Read
more |
 Doug
James, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, is
featured in the October issue of Popular Science as one of this year's
"Brilliant 10,"! Press
release |
 Jeannette
Wing, President's Professor of Computer Science and head of
CSD, and Manuela Veloso
Professor CSD, will be honored for their scientific innovations
by the Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania (WGF)
at the Women in Science event to be held at the Carnegie Science
Center. Read
more |
 Chris
Langmead, Assistant Professor CSD, has been selected
to receive a three years, $300K, Department of Energy Career Award
from the Mathematical, Information and Computational Sciences' funding
program. The title of Chris's proposed work is "Modeling Protein
Structures with Conditional Random Fields." |
 Lenore
Blum, Distinguished Career Professor CSD, interviewed on Channel
11's "Our Region's Business" and featured in Pgh Post-Gazette.
Blum talks about the breadth and depth of computer science and her
passion to inspire "young students, especially girls, to consider
careers in math and science". Read
more
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