Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science (SCS) is one of the world’s premier institutions for computer science research and education. SCS has seven academic units: the Computer Science Dept., the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, the Institute for Software Research, the Lane Center for Computational Biology, the Language Technologies Institute, the Machine Learning Dept., and the Robotics Institute.
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Lenore Blum To Speak at Turing Centenary Conference: Lenore Blum, professor of computer science, is an invited speaker at the Turing Centenary Conference, Computability in Europe 2012 (CiE 2012) conference at the University of Cambridge, June 18-23, one of a series of Alan Turing Year events.Blum will present her talk, “Alan Turing and the Other Theory of Computation,” June 22, the eve of what would have been Turing’s 100th birthday.
2012 Student Awards:
The Allen Newell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research goes to Hui Han Chin. Congratulations Hui Han and advisor Gary Miller!
The Alumni Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Computer Science goes to Nikhil Khadke. Congratulations Nikhil and advisor Priya Narasimhan!
The Alan J. Perlis
Student Teaching Awards go to
undergraduate student Adam Blank
and graduate student Wolfgang Richter.
Congratulations Wolfgang and Adam!
NEW Faculty Interview!
Meet Dr Khaled A. Harras Assistant Teaching Professor,
School of Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon Qatar
Latest PUZZLE! to tickle the grey cells...... The Puzzle Toad brings you Puzzle No. 37: "Zeroize Me". Check solution to Puzzle No. 36 along with other puzzles and their solutions!
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Microsoft Research Awards Faculty Fellowship To Carnegie Mellon Computer Scientist Emma Brunskill Emma Brunskill, assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, is one of seven recipients this year of a prestigious Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship, which recognizes pioneering young academic researchers working in key areas of computer science. News Brief
Carbonell Earns Highest Faculty Distinction at Carnegie Mellon Jaime Carbonell, Allen Newell Professor of Computer Science and director of the Language Technologies Institute in the School of Computer Science, has received the elite distinction of University Professor, the highest academic accolade a faculty member can achieve at Carnegie Mellon. News Brief
AIA Presents Honor Award for Gates and Hillman Centers Mack Scogin, architect of the Gates Center for Computer Science and Hillman Center for Future-Generation Technologies, on Friday will accept the 2012 American Institute of Architects (AIA) Honor Award for Architecture at the AIA National Convention and Design Exposition in Washington, D.C. News Brief
SCS Alum Charles Geschke Elected to American Philosophical Society Charles M. Geschke, co-founder of Adobe Systems Inc., is one of 30 distinguished men and women elected this spring to the American Philosophical Society, an honorary society whose members are drawn from a wide variety of academic disciplines. News Brief
Clarke, Veloso Featured at Turing 100 Celebration Edmund M. Clarke and Manuela Veloso, professors of computer science, are among the distinguished scientists invited to give talks at The Alan Turing Centenary Conference, June 22-24 in Manchester, England. The conference hosted by the University of Manchester celebrates Turing, one of the most influential computer scientists of all time, on what would have been his 100th birthday. News Brief
Social Security’s IT System Could Benefit By Joining the Cloud, Carnegie Mellon Scientist SaysIn House Testimony, Scherlis Says SSA System Needs To Look More Like Google’s
The Social Security Administration (SSA) should restructure its already massive information technology (IT) systems so they can be readily scaled up, much like the systems used by Google and Amazon, William L. Scherlis, professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, testified today before the House Ways and Means Committee’s Social Security subcommittee. News Release
Picking the Brains of Strangers Improves Efforts To Make Sense of Online Information Microsoft, Carnegie Mellon Researchers Explore Distributed SensemakingPeople who have already sifted through online information to make sense of a subject can help strangers facing similar tasks without ever directly communicating with them, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft Research have demonstrated. News Release
Revolutionary Technology Enables Objects To Know How They Are Being Touched Disney, CMU Researchers Envision ‘Smart Doorknobs’ and Gesture-controlled Smartphones
A doorknob that knows whether to lock or unlock based on how it is grasped, a smartphone that silences itself if the user holds a finger to her lips and a chair that adjusts room lighting based on recognizing if a user is reclining or leaning forward are among the many possible applications of Touché, a new sensing technique developed by a team at Disney Research, Pittsburgh, and Carnegie Mellon University. News Release
New Book Draws Lessons From Social Science To Guide Creation of Thriving Online Communities Evidence Derived From University Research at Carnegie Mellon, Michigan, MinnesotaOnline communities are among the most popular destinations on the Internet, but attempts to create social networking sites often meet with failure. In a new book, Carnegie Mellon University’s Robert E. Kraut and the University of Michigan’s Paul Resnick use evidence from the social sciences and their own research to suggest ways that organizers can effectively address major design challenges. News Release
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