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This Issue: May 18, 1998

Please join us June 4-5 as the School of Computer Science honors our Dean, Raj Reddy, with a 60th birthday symposium, Inventing the Future: AI and CS in the 21st Century. A Turing Award-winning computer scientist, Reddy's work has had considerable impact on several fields, including artificial intelligence, speech technologies, language technologies, computer vision, digital libraries, computer systems and robotics. The symposium will feature some two-dozen speakers from academia and industry who are experts in these areas. Among them are:

  • Robert Kahn, father of the Internet, and Chairman, CEO and President, Corporation for National Research Initiatives, who will speak on the evolution of high-speed networking.

  • Michael Dertouzos, Director, Laboratory for Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, speaking on What Will Be for Techies, the problems they will tackle in the years ahead.

  • Tom Murrin, Dean, A.J. Palumbo School of Business Administration, Duquesne University, former deputy secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce and former president, Energy and Advanced Technology Group, Westinghouse Electric Corp., who will make Some Observations on the Extraordinary Contributions and Accomplishments of the Honoree.

  • Jaime Carbonell, Director, Carnegie Mellon Language Technologies Institute, speaking on Cybernauts and Synthetic Documents: A Glimpse Beyond the Web Page.

  • Nobel Laureate Herbert A. Simon, speaking on robotics' growing role in cognitive science.

  • Wayne Ward, Senior Research Computer Scientist, Carnegie Mellon, discussing Conversational Animated Agents: Interface to the Electronic World.

  • James Baker, Chairman and CEO, Dragon Systems, Inc., speaking on the future of speech recognition.

Reddy's contributions in speech recognition began in the '70s. The prototypes he and his colleagues developed have guided the field for two decades. He established Carnegie Mellon's world-famous Robotics Institute in 1980. Under his guidance it explored a wide array of scientific and engineering problems, including manipulation, vision, image processing manufacturing technology and autonomous vehicles.

Reddy is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and served as President of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. He is a member of President Clinton's Advisory Committee on Information Technology. In 1984, he was presented the Legion of Honor by President Francois Mitterrand of France for his work with Centre Mondial Informatique et Ressource Humaine, an organization that works to bring advanced technology to developing countries.

The symposium will be held in the McConomy Auditorium on the Carnegie Mellon campus. Contact raj-sym@cs.cmu.edu for details.

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