HONORS...Lynn Tinsley, head of E&S Library, received the 1997 Leadership Award of the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Special Libraries Association (SLA). The award honors "her passionate advocacy on behalf of knowledge workers and her inspired mentoring of future information professionals." Lynn has also proven herself to be a consistently reliable, talented, and insightful friend of SCS these many years. A collective congratulations from all of SCS.

NEW FUNDING...Raul Valdes-Perez has received a 1-year, $100K exploratory grant from the National Science Foundation in computational biology to develop methods for "Detection of subtle spatio-temporal patterns in biological imaging using permutation methods".

SCS CAREER SEMINAR...Jim Buonocore, Manager, Solutions through Technology, Coopers & Lybrand Consulting, Inc. offers a look into "Why Corporate Systems are a Mess and How We Make Sense of Them: Data Warehousing and Decision Support" on Thursday, September 25 at 6:30 pm, Wean 5409. Refreshments will be served.

EMIGRATION CONTINUES...Glean new insights on "Technical Writing" at the next Emigration seminar on Friday, September 26 from 12:00-3:00 pm in Wean 5409. Roy Taylor, SCS Technical Writer, gently navigates you through the intricacies of successful technical prose :-)

TAKE TIME FOR TOC...The Carnegie Mellon Technical Opportunities Conference (TOC) is scheduled for Thursday, September 25 from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm in the Gymnasium and Rangos Hall, University Center. Approximately 160 technical recruitors will be on hand to answer questions, to provide overviews of opportunities within their companies, and to accept resumes. This is a great chance to see what awaits you! A valid CMU ID is required for admission. In preparation for this program, all day resume critiques are scheduled in the Career Center on Tuesday, September 23 in Warner Hall 19.

TOC FOLLOWED BY BOC...On Friday, September 26, the university is holding the Business Opportunities Conference at the University Center. Check with the Career Center for details.

FACULTY MEETINGS:
CS Faculty meet Wednesday, September 24 at 4:00 pm, Wean 4623/4615A.
HCII Faculty meet Wednesday, September 24 at noon in Wean 4623.

IN DEFENSE...
**MARCO ZAGHA has returned (!) for "Efficient Irregular Computation on High-Bandwidth Pipelined-Memory Multiprocessors." His CS thesis defense takes place Tuesday, September 23 at 1:30 pm in Wean 4615A, with a committee including: Guy Blelloch (Chair), Allan Fisher, David O'Hallaron, and Phillip Gibbons (Bell Labs).
**RICH CARUANAattempts "Multitask Learning" at his CS thesis oral on Tuesday, September 23 at 3:30 pm, Wean 5409. His committee includes: Tom Mitchell (Chair), Herbert Simon (Co-advisor), Dean Pomerleau, and Tom Dietterich (Oregon State).
**CHENG-HUA WANG pursues "Manufacturability-Driven Decomposition of Sheet Metal Products at his robotics oral on Thursday, September 25 at 3:30 pm in FRC 100. His committee includes: David Bourne (Chair), Michael Erdmann, Susan Finger, Robert Sturges, and Mark Cutkosky (Stanford).

WORDS FOR THOUGHT...
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23
*SPECIAL SEMINAR: Phillip B. Gibbons, Bell Laboratories, "Synopsis Data Structures for Massive Data Sets, 4;30 pm, Wean 8220.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24
*REINFORCEMENT LEARNING SEMINAR: Tom Dietterich, Oregon State University, "Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning", 12:00 noon, Wean 7220.

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