JIM MORRIS TO BE NEW SCS DEAN...Paul Christiano, Provost of Carnegie Mellon, has announced that Jim Morris, Herbert A. Simon Professor of Human Computer Interaction, has accepted the position of Dean of the School of Computer Science. His duties will commence on 1 July 1999. "Jim, who has served as Head of CSD since 1992, has successfully led the reshaping of the department...while making significant contributions to SCS as a whole. He led in the creation of the HCI Institute and as noted, clearly "understands SCS, its shining tradition, and the vision to which it must aspire as the School continues to chart the future for itself and for those many other leading institutions that look to SCS for leadership." Jim graduated from CMU in 1963 with a degree in Mathematics, followed by an MS in Management and PhD in Computer from MIT. He served on the faculty of Computer Science at Berkeley for five years, before joining the research staff at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. In 1982 he returned to our campus as founding director of the Information Technology Center, which organized and implemented the "revolutionary" Andrew system. He joined the CS faculty in 1987. Dr. Christiano added, "Jim inherits a legacy created by giants, including Dean Raj Reddy, whose incomparable leadership has helped to advance Carnegie Mellon in many ways...I wish to express my and President Cohon's profound appreciation for all that Raj has done to advance the stature and achievements of the University. We all look forward to Raj's continuing colleagueship." Thunderous applause from all of SCS!

KHOSLA RECEIVES GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE AWARD...Pradeep K. Khosla, Philip and Marsha Dowd Professor of Engineering and Robotics, and Director of the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems (ICES), has been named the recipient of the 1999 George Westinghouse Award for Education. Presented annually by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), this national award recognizes an individual's "outstanding contributions to education." Bravo!

PERRY RECEIVES IBM FELLOWSHIP...Perry Cheng has received an IBM Research Fellowship for the coming academic year. As noted by Bob Harper, "It's a richly deserved honor. Perry is an exceptionally talented scientist and an absolutely great person to work with. I'm honored to have had the opportunity to work with him." That says it all.

IN DEFENSE...
EUGENE FINK tackled "Automatic Representation Changes in Problem Solving" at his CS defense on Monday, May 10 at 1:00 pm in Wean 5409. Serving on his committee are: Herbert Simon (Co-Chair), Jaime Carbonell (Co-Chair), Manuela Veloso, and Richard Korf (University of California, Los Angeles).

PROPOSALS...
JEFFREY POLAKOW pondered "Intuitionistic Non-Commutative Linear Logic and Applications" at his CS thesis proposal on Wednesday, May 12 at 10:00 am in Wean 4601. His committee includes: Frank Penning (Chair), Robert Harper, John Reynolds, Dana Scott, and Dale Miller (Penn State).
ALEX FOESSEL constructs "Scene Modeling from motion-Free Radar Sensing" at his Robotics thesis proposal on Thursday, May 13 at 9:00 am in FRC 100. His committees includes: William Whittaker (Chair), John Bares, Hans Moravec.
LIAM PEDERSEN digs into "Robotic Rock Classification for Autonomous Geological Exploration" at his Robotics thesis proposal on Wednesday, May 19 at 10:00 am in FRC 100. His terrestrial committee includes: Martial Hebert (Chair), William Whittaker, Andrew Moore, Reid Simmons, and Eric Mjolsness (Jet Propulsion Laboratory).

SCS INVITED TALKS... Raj Reddy will be a featured speaker at "The Computer, The Academy, and the World: A Symposium on the Occasion of Andy van Dam's 60th Birthday." He will be joined by Henry Fuchs, Alan Kay, Ed Lazowska, David Salesin and others at this May 27-28 symposium at Brown University.

SPECIAL SEMINAR...Eric Horvitz, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research, discusses "Harnessing Representations of Uncertainty in Computational Systems and Interaction" on Wednesday, May 19 at 3:00 pm in Wean 5409.

BLACK FRIDAYS!...
CS pays hommage to its students May 13-14 in Wean 4623. May 13 includes AI and Theory at 10:00 am, followed by CS and PS at 1:00 pm. The full group meeting begins 10:00 am on May 14...with students festing in the CS Lounge Lounge starting at 9:30 am :-)
Robotics follows with their Black Friday on Monday, May 17. Contact scrow@cs for particulars.

PICK UP YOUR CAP/GOWN...Don't forget! Commencement regalia are now available at the McKenna/Peter/Wright Rooms in the University Center. Stop by at the following times:

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