RECEPTION TO HONOR ANDREW MOORE...Andrew Moore, the first recipient of the A. Nico Habermann Chair in SCS, will be honored at a reception on Tuesday, January 19 from 3:30-5:00 pm in 4623 Wean Hall. Established in memory of Professor and first Dean of SCS, Nico Habermann, the chair is designed to support "rising stars" among our junior faculty...to support them as they begin building careers of distinction. Andrew is a most shining example. Members of Nico's family will be on hand to help in the celebration. All members of the SCS community are warmly welcomed.

THE END OF ONE ROAD...Join us in a farewell to Dean Pomerleau and Todd Jochem as they drive-off (autonomously and intelligently, of course) into the business arena. A reception will be held on Wednesday, January 20 from 3:30-5:00 pm in the 2nd floor, Smith Hall Common Area. All members of SCS are invited!

DAVID CLARK PRESENTS SCS DISTINGUISHED LECTURE...David Clark, Senior Research Scientist, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, presents "Controlling the Internet (Is it out of Control?)" at the next SCS Distinguished Lecture on Thursday, January 21 at 4:00 pm in Wean 7500. Distinguished donuts will be served at 3:45 pm. Dr. Clark will also present "Competition and Industry Structure in Local Access" at the Bell Atlantic Distinguished Lecture on Friday, January 22 at noon in the Connan Room, University Center.

RECENT PROPOSALS...
WILL UTHER proposed "Automated Acquisition of Hierarchical Decomposition Graphs for Continuous State Space Reinforcement Learning" at his CS thesis proposal on January 12. His committee included: Manuela Veloso (Chair), Jaime Carbonell, Andrew Moore, and Tom Dean (Brown University).

IN DEFENSE...
KAN DENG is at the "beginning of the end" with "OMEGA: On-line Memory-based General Purpose System Detector", his robotics thesis oral presentation on Friday, January 22 at 2:30 pm in Wean 4601. His committee includes: Andrew Moore (Chair), Dean Pomerleau, Scott Fahlman, and Christopher Atkeson (GaTech).
JOHN A. HANCOCK explores "Laser Intensity Based Obstacle Detection and Tracking" at his robotics thesis defense on Tuesday, January 26 at 1:00 pm in Wean 4623. His committee includes: Chuck Thorpe (Chair), Martial Hebert, Eric Krotkov (Cytometrics, Inc), and Edward Riseman (University of Massachusetts).
PATRICK S. ROWE offers "Adaptive Motion Planning for Autonomous Mass Excavation" at his robotics oral on Thursday, January 28 at 10:00 am in Wean 4623. His committee members are: Anthony Stentz (Chair), John Bares, Andrew Moore and Paul Lever (University of Arizona).

ECOMMERCE CHALLENGE...In preparation for the undergraduate "eCommerce Challenge", sponsored by Andersen Consulting for this coming weekend, GLOVER FERGUSON, Co-Director of Andersen's Worldwide eCommerce program, will present "eCommerce - Winning in the Electronic Economy" at 4:00 pm on Tuesday, January 19 in Wean Hall 7500. All are welcome.

SCS INVITED TALKS...Dave Touretzky was the inaugural speaker at Georgia Tech's new Cognitive Science Colloquium Series on January 15, where he spoke on "Incremental Learning in Animals and Robots." Dave was hosted in Atlanta by CS alum, and now Assistant Professor, Sven Koenig.

SCS STAR WATCH...Richard Stern was the featured harpsichordist at the Rodef Shalom Concert Series on Monday evening, January 18, where he performed as part of the group, Roy Sonne and the Ionian Chamber Players. Among his concert pieces was the Bach Triple Concerto BWV 1044 for harpsichord, flute, and violin, with Robert Langevin and Linda Lemon as co-soloists. Other works on the program included: the Bach E Major Concerto for Violin, the Beethoven Sonata in C Minor for Violin, and the Poulenc Sonata for Flute and Piano. Tra la!

SCS CAREER PLANNING...
LOCKHEED MARTIN: Information Session, Tuesday, January 19 at 7:00 pm, Hamerschlag Hall B131. Campus interviews are schedule for January 19-20.
IBM RESEARCH: Interviews for PhD candidates, Monday and Tuesday, January 25 and 26 in Wean 4113. Contact copetas@cs to schedule an appointment.
COMPAQ SYSTEMS RESEARCH CENTER: Interviewing PhDs for summer internships and research positions (graduate level) on Monday - Wednesday, February 1-3 in Wean Hall. Contact copetas@cs for an appointment.

IN THE SEI-NEWS..."COTS Integration: Plug and Pray?" by Barry Boehm and Chris Abts, appearing in Computer, January 1999, p. 137 notes, "The best source I know for COTS integration information is the CMU Software Engineering Institute's Web page on its COTS-Based Systems (CBS) initiative at /www.sei.cmu.edu/cbs/cbs_description.html." The SEI was also recently honored as the number one institution for publishing scholarly articles in the field of systems and software engineering (SSE), a distinction noted in the "Journal of Systems and Software", entitled "An assessment of systems and software engineering scholars and institutions (1993-1997) by R.L. Glass. Congratulations to our colleagues at the SEI.

BRRRRR...The heating system in Wean Hall will be shutdown on Tuesday, January 19 from 7:00 am to 5:00 pm, allowing Facilities Management Services "to repair leaks in multiple rooms. This will effect the airhandling units and perimeter heat." Jim Skees will be issuing wool socks and mittens to Wean residents beginning at 8:30 am :-)

WORDS FOR THOUGHT...
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20
**HCI SEMINAR: Rosalind W. Picard, MIT Media Lab, "Toward Interfaces that Recognize and Respond to Human Expression of Emotion", 3:30 pm in Wean 5409.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 22
**ROBOTICS SEMINAR: Mel Seigel, "Sereor for the People", 3:30 pm, Adamson Wing.

MONDAY, JANUARY 25
**SEMINAR ON AUTOMATED DEDUCTION: John Byrnes, Philosophy/CMU, "Proof Search and Normal Forms in Natural Deduction", 3:00 pm, Wean 8220.

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