PROPOSALS...
**BELINDA THOM explores "Interactive, Customized Generation of Jazz Improvisation: Believable Music Companions" at her CS thesis proposal on Wednesday, October 22 at 10:00 am in Wean 4623. Her committee includes: Manuela Veloso (Chair), Roger Dannenberg, Tom Mitchell, Andrew Moore, and David Wessel (UC Berkeley).
**CRAIG DAMON tries out "Selective Enumeration" at his CS proposal on Monday, October 27 at 10:00 am in Wean 4623. His committee includes: Daniel Jackson (Co-Chair), Jeannette Wing (Co-Chair), Gary Miller and Rance Cleaveland (North Carolina State).

PDL JOB FAIR...The Parallel Data Lab "would like to introduce you to your data's managers." On Sunday, October 26, interested students are welcome to meet with representatives from CLARiion Array Development, Compaq, HP, Quantum, Seagate Technology, Storage Technology, Symbios Logic and Wind River to discuss career opportunities in information storage systems. The program is scheduled from 1:00-2:30 pm in the Singleton Room, Roberts Hall and includes a presentation by Garth Gibson on "Intelligent Storage", discussion, and beaucoup food. Serious applicants should submit their resumes to pdl-iss@cs by Thursday, October 23.

ROBERT SANSOM RETURNS...on Tuesday, October 28 for a Special SCS Seminar on the "Evolution of Network Infrastructures" at 4:30 pm in Wean 7500. Robert, Vice President of Architecture and a founder of FORE Systems, will also be present at a FORE Information Session at 6:30 pm tnat night in Wean 5409. Demonstrations of their current tools/systems, discussions, and pizza are all part of the offering.

SCS INVITED TALKS...Andrew Moore gave an invited talk, "Towards Commercial Reinforcement Learning", at the 3rd European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning last week in Rennes. He also presented "Locally Weighted Learning for Control" at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles.

ORACLE WANTS TO SEND YOU TO CANCUN...On Wednesday, October 29, Oracle is hosting an Information Session in the Schatz Dining Room at 6:00 pm. In addition to an overview of current research and career opportunities, be prepared for great food and registration for a Cancun raffle giveaway. Students in CS or related technical degrees (all levels) are welcome. Watch for details on the newsboards.

STUDENT IMAGES ON DISPLAY...Have your noticed the glorious 22-foot long color poster in the Wean 4600 hallway? These frames of animation of "generalized cylinders" were produced by the undergrads in 15-462, Computer Graphics 1, taught by Paul Heckbert. This is a small step toward beautifying Wean Hall and a giant reflection of our students' growing talents.

INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL '97: AFRICA...This year's international festival begins October 22 and runs through Sunday, October 26. The featured locale is Africa and the week promises a wide array for lectures, special events and related programs. Be sure to get a schedule!

YOUR PARENTS ARE COMING...so start cleaning up those dorm rooms and apartments! Family Weekend is scheduled for October 24-26, conveniently coinciding with the International Festival. The weekend includes presentations from faculty and staff from across campus, including a talk by Herbert Simon, Manuela Veloso, and Jim Tomayko. A complete schedule can be retrieved from the SCS Calendar of Events. The snows promise to hold off... :-)

IN THE NEWS...
**"CMU Teacher Wins Schock Prize in Math" was featured in the Sun Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, honoring Dana Scott's receipt of the Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy. The wonderful and illuminating article comes in anticipation of the award ceremony on Thursday, October 23 at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. Dana will personally receive his award from Sweden's Princess Christina and will be joined by his fellow award winners in the areas of mathematics, visual arts and music. Join us in congratulating Dana on this remarkable accomplishment.
**"'RoboCup' Soccer Match is a Challenge for Silicon Rookies" notes a special news report in the September 26 Science magazine. A quick recap of the championship and evaluations of the action make for a good summary. Copies are available from scstoday@cs.

WORDS FOR THOUGHT... WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22 **HCI SEMINAR: Chris Conners, CMU HCII Masters Student, "Locket: A Computing Applicance for the Storage, Manipulation, and Display of Digital Images", 3:30 pm, Wean 5409.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23
**SDI SEMINAR: Fred Douglis, AT&T, "Potential Benefits of Delta-encoding and Data Compression for HTTP", Noon, Wean 8220.
**COMPUTER SYSTEMS SEMINAR: Ron Brender, DEC, "Three Decades of BLISS: A Socio-Technical History", 4:00 pm, Wean 5409.
**PURE AND APPLIED LOGIC COLLOQUIUM: Tim Fernando, Department of Philosophy Visiting Faculty, "In Conjunction with Qualitative Probability", 4:00 pm, Wean 5409.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24
**ROBOTICS SEMINAR: Alonzo Kelly, "Mobile Robot Subsystems for Structured and Unstructured Environments", 4:00 pm, Adamson Wing.

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