NEW DISTINCTIONS...Mei Chen, Takeo Kanade, Dean Pomerleau, and Henry Rowley, have won the Best Paper Award of the NASA/Goddard Image Registration Workshop (IRW), held 20-21 November 1997 in Greenbelt, Maryland, for their work on "Anomaly Detection Through Registration." The paper will be published in the upcoming special issue on image registration of the journal, "Pattern Recognition."

HERBERT SIMON TEACHING AWARD...M. Satyanarayanan (Satya!) has been awarded the 1997/98 Herbert A. Simon Award for Excellence in Teaching, awarded in recognition of his excellence and dedication to teaching. The award was established in honor of Herbert Simon, scholar and teacher extraordinaire, who has consistently and reliably set a standard of excellence in both teaching and research in our university. Qualities worth emulating! Bravos to Satya from his colleagues, friends and (most importantly) students.

STAFF RECOGNITION AWARDS ARE NIGH...All SCS faculty, staff and students are invited to the 1998 School of Computer Science Staff Recognition Awards Ceremony on Friday, May 1. To be held in Rangos Hall, in the University Center, the reception will be held from 10:30-11:00 am, follwed by the awards ceremony at 11:00 am, at which time the recipient/s of the SCS Staff Recognition Award (SCSi) will be announced. We are delighted to announce this year's nominees:

---Chris Clune, CSD --Anita Connelly, Robotics --Alan Guisewite, Robotics ---Ricky Houghton, CSD ---John Kozar, Robotics ---Phyllis Lewis, CSD
---Bryan Maher, CSD ---Anandeep Pannu, Robotics ---Tom Pierce, LTI
---Wenfan Shi, Robotics ---Jim Skees, CSD ---Enrique Torrejon, LTI
---Dorothy Zabrowski, CS

Join us in honoring these outstanding members of our community and the recipients of the SCS Service Recognition Awards. As the award committee has noted, "this ceremony is one you won't want to miss!"

HIPNAV WINS NATIONAL AWARD...The UPMC Shadyside/Carnegie Mellon Orthopedic Research Team has won the National Hip Society's 1998 Otto Aufranc Award for the development and clinical trials of HipNav, the first computer-assisted surgical navigation tool designed to improve the success rate of total hip replacement surgery. The team, led by Dr. Anthony Digioia who heads the Center for Medical Robotics and Computer-Assisted Surgery, and Takeo Kanade, director of the Robotics Institute, received the award March 22 at the Hip Society's annual meeting in New Orleans. The award recognizes "innovative clinical or basic research resulting in important advances in the management of hip disorders." Using infrared sensors and a 3-D computerized imaging system, HipNav improves accuracy and reliability when implanting a replacement for the acetabulum (for those inquiring minds, the socket in the pelvis that holds the ball joint of the femur or upper leg bone). The team is walking tall!

SCS DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI LECTURE...Jim Mitchell, Sun Fellow and Vice President of Architecture & Technology, JavaSoft, joins us for a look into "Java Hot Spots" at the next Alumni lecture on Thursday, April 16 at 4:00 pm in Wean Hall 7500. Distinguished donuts at 3:45 outside the auditorium.

PROPOSALS...Martin C. Martin is "Breaking Out of the Black Box: A New Approach to Robotic Perception" at his robotics thesis proposal on Friday, April 10 at 2:00 pm in FRC 100. His committee includes Hans Moravec (Chair), Illah Nourbaksh, Simon Penny, and Peter Cariani (Neurobiologist, Eaton Peabody Laboratory for Auditory Physiology, Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary).

SCS INVITED TALKS...
**David Garlan recently presented "Software Architecture" as a distinguished lecturer at the Indiana University Computer Science Department.
**Randy Bryant was an invited speaker at the recent ETAPS: European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, held in Lisbon.

CAUSE FOR CELEBRATION...Join us in celebrating Takeo Kanade's well-deserved receipt of a University Professorship on Monday, April 13 from 3:00-5:00 in the Singleton Room, Roberts Hall. Now known to us as the U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, he will amaze us with his views of things still to come. A collective SCS congratulations Takeo!

SUMMER 1998 CAMPUS JOB FAIR...Looking for information that will help you find summer jobs on campus this summer? Want a headstart on anticipated positions for Fall 1998? Then this is the place for you. Taking place in the Rangos Ballroom, University Center on Wednesday, April 8, from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm, the Summer Job Fair offers an opportunity to meet with numerous campus employers and to drop off resumes. Job Listing Guides will also be available -- great tools for those with limited time. Check it out!

SPECIAL PROPOSAL...An intriguing second robotics thesis proposal awaits us when Martin C. Martin takes on yet another topic and examines "An Application of Limbless/Legless Locomotion and Telepresent Imaging to Gastrointestinal Endoscopy" on Friday, April 10 at 5:00 pm, FRC 100. Guided by his committee: Hans Moravec (Chair), Illah Nourbaksh, Simon Penny, and Peter Cariani, this promises to be a rare if not unsettling experience for all ;-) Copies of THIS abstract are only available from scstoday@cs.

MOBOTS ARE COMING...Friday, April 17 at a race course near you. The races begin at 12:00 noon, in front of Wean Hall. Be on hand to cheer your favorite team!

HOPPY HOLIDAYS...Enjoy the Easter/Passover week and get plenty of rest... Carnival Weekend begins Thursday, April 16.

WORDS FOR THOUGHT:

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8

**HCI SEMINAR: Alexander Repenning, University of Colorado-Boulder, "End-User Programmable Agents", 3:30 pm, Wean 5409.

THURSDAY, APRIL 9

**PURE AND APPLIED LOGIC COLLOQUIUM: Nicholas Asher, University of Texas, "The Logics of Conversation", 4:00 pm, Wean 5409.
**SDI SEMINAR: Peter Bramm, "Linux Virtual Filesystem", 12:00 pm, Wean 8220 **POP SEMINAR: Ofer Shtrichman, "Translation Validation for Synchronous Languages", 3:00 pm, Wean 4601.
**COMPUTER SYSTEMS SEMINAR: John Crawford, Intel Fellow and Director of Microprocessor Architecture, Intel Corporation, 2:00 pm, Singleton Room, Roberts Hall.

FRIDAY, APRIL 10

**ROBOTICS SEMINAR: Steve Scheding, "High Integrity Localization", 3:30 pm, Adamson Wing (Refreshments 3:15 pm).
**SPECIAL SEMINAR: Berthold Voecking, Heinz Nixdorf Institute and the University of Paderborn, "Exploiting Locality for Data Management in Systems of Limited Bandwidth", 3:30 pm, Wean 7220.

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