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Carnegie Mellon’s teams had another great year at RoboCup! The CMDragons finished second in the small-size league to a tough team from Thailand and the CMurfs team of Nao humanoids finished fourth in the standard platform league. RoboCup Singapore .
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Disney acquires social gaming startup Playdom, co-founded by CSD Ph.D. alum Chris Wang, for $763.2 million. Read more
Three robots from Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh, including two from the Quality of Life Technology Center, are among 10 “helpbots” featured in “Rise of the Helpful Machines” in the August issue of Popular Science.
Congratulations to CS rising junior Elise Gonzales a 2010 Eaton Multicultural Scholarship Program (EMSP) Award recipient!
SCS Alumni, Himanshu Jain, is the winner of the ACM Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award in Electronic Design Automation
Latest Faculty Interview: Meet Russell Schwartz the new Co-Director of the PhD Program in the Lane Center for Computational Biology. Full interview Check out the SCS Interview Series.
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NREC Developing Robots for Monitoring Offshore Oil and Gas Facilities The Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) and Shell Development Kashagan B.V., (SDK) are developing a human-sized, wheeled robot to perform simple inspection tasks of offshore oil and gas production facilities in the giant Kashagan field of the Caspian Sea. News Release. SDK News Release
Moira Burke Wins Google Fellowship Moira Burke, a PhD student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, is the recipient of a Google U.S./Canada Fellowship in Human Computer Interaction and is one of just 31 students worldwide recognized by the Google Fellowship program this year. News Release
Peter Lee to Direct Microsoft Research Redmond Peter Lee, former head of the Computer Science Department and a professor of computer science, will become managing director of Microsoft Research Redmond this fall. Lee had joined the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency last year to direct its new Transformational Convergence Technology Office. SCS News Release. Read also the Microsoft News Release
Faloutsos Wins ACM SIGKDD Innovation AwardChristos Faloutsos, professor of computer science, will receive the 2010 Innovation Award from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) at the KDD 2010 international conference in Washington, D.C., July 25-28 Faloutsos’ cross-disciplinary works on power-law graphs, fractal-based analysis, time series, multimedia and spatial indexing is among the most referenced in industry and academic publications. SCS News Release. Read also the ACM News Release
Carnegie Mellon Team Comes Up Aces at AAAI Computer Poker Competition A Carnegie Mellon University team headed by Tuomas Sandholm, professor of computer science, won the heads-up, no-limit bankroll category in the annual Computer Poker Competition at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence 2010 conference this week in Atlanta, Ga. The team included Sam Ganzfried, a PhD student in computer science, and Andrew Gilpin, an adjunct assistant professor of computer science who earned his PhD here last year. News Release
Carnegie Mellon Launches $7 Million Initiative Using Robots To Boost Science, Technology Majors A new four-year, $7 million educational initiative by Carnegie Mellon University will leverage students’ innate interest in robots and other forms of “hard fun” to increase U.S. enrollments in computer science and steer more young people into scientific and technological careers. Fostering Innovation through Robotics Exploration, sponsored by DARPA, is designed to reverse a significant national decline in the number of college students majoring in computer science, science, technology, engineering and mathematics. News Release
NSF Funds Multi-Disciplinary Privacy Study The National Science Foundation (NSF) has granted $2.7 million to three researchers in the School of Computer Science’s Institute for Software Research and the Heinz College for a five-year study on "Nudging Users Toward Privacy." Alessandro Acquisiti, associate professor of information technology and public policy in the Heinz College, Lorrie Cranor, associate professor of computer science and engineering and public policy, and Norman Sadeh, professor of computer science, will study, design, and test systems that anticipate, and sometimes even exploit, cognitive and behavioral biases that hamper users’ privacy and security decision making. News Release
Sheikh, Black Receive Honda Initiation Grants Yaser Sheikh, assistant research professor in the Robotics Institute, and Alan Black, associate professor in the Language Technologies Institute, are among five winners nationwide of 2010 Honda Initiation Grants. Honda R&D Americas and Honda Research Institute US, Inc., presented $50,000 grants to each of the winners in the competitive program at the HIG 2010 Symposium in Columbus, Ohio, July 8. News Brief