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 during a luncheon at the Governor’s Residence in Harrisburg. Wing, now serving as assistant director for the National Science Foundation’s Computer and Information Science and Engineering directorate, was cited for her work in trustworthy computing, formal methods, programming languages, concurrent and distributed systems and software engineering, as well as her vision to make “computational thinking” a common part of science and math education. News release

A recent topping-off ceremony commemorated placement of the final steel beam on the new School of Computer Science (SCS) Complex at Carnegie Mellon University.
"After years of planning and looking at a big hole in the ground, it has been exciting for us to watch the steel rising up and the building taking shape," said Randal E. Bryant, dean of Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science. "The reaction by everyone who has seen it has been 'wow!'  In particular, they've commented that it's a really big building, and all of those angles and overhangs are quite dramatic." News release

Congratulations to the 2008 Boeing Leadership Scholarships Awardees!: Andrew Krieger, Sophomore; Le Wei, Sophomore; Laura Abbott, Junior; Luis Ballesteros, Junior; Benson Tsai, Junior. The Boeing Scholarships were established in fall 2002 to recognize student initiative and leadership, teamwork, academic excellence and quality, and perseverance.

The Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) is featured in this month's Southwest Airlines’ Spirit magazine: "Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University work at the frontier of innovation. Their key ingredient: human understanding." Read article