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Manuel
Blum, Bruce Nelson Professor of Computer Science, and Pradeep
Khosla, Dean of CIT, Dowd Professor of Engineering, and faculty
member in the Robotics Institute, have been elected to the National
Academy of Engineering (NAE). SCS
Press release, Carnegie
Mellon |
CMU online game will be
used to help teach computers to see.
Read more about Peekaboom |
| Jure
Leskovec wins "Best Research Paper Award" at KDD'05
(The Eleventh ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery
and Data Mining) for his paper "Graphs
over time: densification laws, shrinking diameters and possible explanations" |
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Raj
Reddy has been awarded the 2005 Honda Prize by the Honda Foundation.
This foundation, established in 1977 by the late Soichiro Honda, founder
of Honda Motor Co., Ltd., advocates "Eco-Technology," a
concept of technology that does not pursue efficiency and profits
alone, but is geared toward harmony with the environment surrounding
human activities. |
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Congratulations to Ziv
Bar-Joseph, (assistant professor, CSD and ML) recipient of an
NSF CAREER award for his proposal "Modelling Dynamic Systems
in the Cell." Ziv's research interests are in computational biology,
bioinformatics, and machine learning. His main focus is on analyzing
high throughput biological datasets. |
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Award for Tekkotsu
Project! At the conclusion of the
Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05)
Carnegie Mellon's Tekkotsu
Project received the Technical Innovation Award from the Robot
Competition and Exhibition. The award was for "visualization
for educational robotics". Ethan
Tira-Thompson, research programmer, CSD, accepted the award on
behalf of the Tekkotsu team. |
| COMPUTER
(The IEEE Computer Society Magazine) features article
on "Programmable Matter", by Seth
Goldstein, associate professor CSD, Jason
D. Campbell (Intel Research Pitsburgh), and Todd
C. Mowry (Intel Research Pittsburgh and associate professor, CSD.
The article explores how researchers are using nanoscale technology
to create microrobot ensembles for modeling 3D scenes. June 2005 (Vol
38, No. 6, pp 99-101) |
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Lenore
Blum, Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science, is being
honored in Washington, D.C., as a recipient of the Presidential
Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring
(PAESMEM). PAESMEM seeks to identify outstanding mentoring
efforts that enhance the participation of groups, including women,
minorities and persons with disabilities that are underrepresented
in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Press
release |
| Congratulations to senior
Jared Go, this year's winner of the Allen
Newell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research! ...and
to senior Scott D. Niekum, winner of the 2005
Alumni Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Computer Science! |
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WINNERS!! SCS RoboCup
Team Wins the RoboCup US Open in the AIBO league beating UPenn 2-1
in overtime. CMDash'05 will now prepare for the July International
RoboCup in Japan. Congratulations to the entire team for the USOpen
victory and to their fearless RoboCup advisor Professor Manuela
Veloso!! Live streaming provided by our ESM
project. Check it out and tune
in!! |
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Congratulations to John
Reynolds, Professor of Computer Science! In honor of his seventieth
birthday, the 21st Annual Conference on the Mathematical Foundations
of Programming Semantics, in Birmingham, England, will include a special
session on "The Essence of Programming: John Reynolds's contribution
to programming languages". |
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Graduating students left their MARK
in the NSH Atrium ! |
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CSD undergraduates,
faculty and staff will hold their annual picnic on Friday, April 22nd,
starting 4.30pm on the patio outside Wean Hall |
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Rich
Pattis, Associate Teaching Professor CSD, to be the new freshmen
adviser starting fall 2005. Rich takes over from Jim
Roberts who has served as freshmen adviser for many years, providing
crucial academic and personal support and encouragement, to all our
first year students. Jim will now be focusing his energies on teaching. |
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Peter
Lee has been elected to a three-year term (July 1, 2005-June 30,
2008) on the Computing Research Association
Board of Directors. Paraphrasing from Larry Snyder, Chair-elect of
CRA, "This election by peers is a strong acknowledgment
of his leadership ability and his colleagues' regard for his work
in the field." |
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Congratulations to
our three 2005 winners of Sloan Research Fellowships: Natassa
Ailamaki, Karl Crary
and Anupam Gupta.
A Sloan Fellowship is a prestigious award intended to enhance the
careers of the very best young faculty members in specified fields
of science. Read
more about Sloan Research Fellowships |
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Congratulations
to Ed Clarke!!, Professor,
CSD, elected to the prestigious National
Academy of Engineering for contributions to the formal verification
of hardware and software correctness. Full
list of CS faculty members of the NAE. |
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SCS
Day 2005, is on its way!! -- Dean Randy Bryant and Associate Dean
Mark Stehlik to be Masters of Ceremonies for the SCS Day 2005 Talent
Show!! Karate Demonstration by Prof. Jeannette Wing and Prof. Peter
Lee, workshops and much more!! SCS Day 2005, in the UC, Saturday Feb.
19th. |
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Congratulations to
Raj Reddy, Professor of Computer
Science and Robotics, awarded the 2005
IJCAI Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award! The
award was established in 1979 to honor senior scientists in AI for
contributions and service to the field during their careers. Raj is
recognized for his outstanding service to the AI community as President
of AAAI, Conference Chair of IJCAI-79, and his leadership and promotion
of AI internationally. Read
more |
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Wall Street Journal
cites CSD Professor, Lenore
Blum, Faculty Advisor to Women@SCS,
in Sharon Begley's column "Harvard Chief's Words On Innate Differences
Lack Basis in Science". "...At a math institute where [Blum]
once served as deputy director, Mondays seemed to bring more than
their share of announcements of new theorems, the gold rings of mathematical
discovery. Prof. Blum, ....quickly figured out why. Male mathematicians
hanging out together on weekends wound up doing math, inspiring each
other in a way that produced breakthroughs. Women were rarely included
in these get-togethers; they weren't invited and felt awkward inviting
themselves." Read more in Wall Street Journal,
Jan. 28th, 2005 |
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Please welcome David
Andersen to CSD! David is a new Assistant Professor of
Computer Science. He got his Ph.D. from MIT in Computer Science in
December 2004 (handing in the final copy of his dissertation on December
29, 2004 to be precise) under the supervision of Hari Balakrishnan.
He did a minor in Computational Biology. |
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Congratulations to
Klaus Sutner, Teaching
Professor CSD, the new SCS Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education!
Klaus has been at Carnegie Mellon since 1995. This position
was previously held by Peter
Lee, who stepped down last September to concentrate on his research
and to pursue new efforts in computer science education. |
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Congratulations!! to
Edmund M. Clarke, Professor
CSD, elected to Fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic
Engineers (IEEE). Ed is recognized for contributions to model
checking methods for formal verification. All SCS
IEEE Fellows |
| David Murray,
senior CS and voice major, has a lead role in the CMU Opera, L'Italiana
In Algeri. His cast (it is double-cast) is performing Thursday
night, the 27th of January, and Saturday night, the 29th of January,
at 8pm. Come on out and support the production! |
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Congratulations!! to our CS undergraduates recognized
for their outstanding research by the Computing
Research Association: Suporn Pongnumkul
(advisor: Guy Blelloch), Jared
Go (advisor: James Kuffner), Shilpa
Desai (advisor: Lenore Blum), and Brendan
Juba (advisor: Manuel Blum) |
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Check out photos from
the the Fall 2004 CSD Faculty Retreat! |
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Congratulations!! to Peter
Lee, Professor CSD and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education,
recently selected to be an ACM
Fellow. Peter Lee is known for his service to the school and for
his research on applications of programming language theory, including
pioneering work on the FoxNet, run-time code generation, and proof-carrying
code. See list
of SCS ACM Fellows |
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Double Congratulations!! Jeannette
Wing, Professor and Head of CSD, is the new President's Professor
of Computer Science. This chair was established in 1997 by
Robert Mehrabian, President of Carnegie Mellon. News
release. Wing has also been appointed to Co-Chair
the Computer
Science and Telecommunications Board of the
National Academies.
Jeannette M. Wing,
Head of CSD and President's Professor of Computer
Science, tells why she is known as Dragon Lady in this interview
by Women@SCS. Wing is highly regarded for her outstanding
contributions in research, teaching, and administrative service
to the college.
Full interview |
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