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Mary Shaw has been named the recipient of the first Nancy Mead Award for Excellence in Software Engineering Education. Shaw will receive the award Wednesday night during the Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T), which is having its 23rd annual meeting this week at the University Center. News release
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Shaw Receives Inaugural Nancy Mead Award Mary Shaw, the Alan J. Perlis Professor of Computer Science in the School of Computer Science, has been named the recipient of the first Nancy Mead Award for Excellence in Software Engineering Education. Shaw will receive the award Wednesday night during the Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T), which is having its 23rd annual meeting this week at the University Center. News release
Efros Receives Finmeccanica ChairAlexei Efros, associate professor of robotics and computer science, has been awarded a three-year Finmeccanica Career Development Chair. Since 1989, the Italian conglomerate Finmeccanica has an endowed a chair to support outstanding young faculty members in the School of Computer Science. For the first time, however, the endowment is now supporting two simultaneous chairs – one filled by Efros and another that was filled last year by Carlos Guestrin, associate professor of machine learning and computer science. News brief
NSF Grant Boosts Carnegie Mellon Initiative To Commercialize Quality of Life TechnologiesAn already promising initiative to assist start-up firms that commercialize technologies associated with the Quality of Life Technology (QoLT) Center is now expanding thanks to a three-year, $1.5 million Innovation Award from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Division of Engineering Education and Centers. News release
HCII’s Harrison Uses Skin As Input Surface for Mobile DevicesChris Harrison, a third-year PhD student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, has worked with scientists at Microsoft Research to develop Skinput, a technology that turns the human body into a giant touchscreen. News release
Carnegie Mellon Will Test Ability of Embedded Sensors To Detect Onset of Dementia, Infirmity in Older AdultsUniversity researchers in the Quality of Life Technology Center (QoLTC) will embed wireless sensors in the residences of about 50 older adults who live alone to see if they can detect subtle changes in everyday activities that indicate the onset of dementia or physical infirmities. News release