SCS Distinguished Lecture Series Presents Kai-Fu Lee, President, Google Greater China, Vice President Engineering, Google, Inc. and CS PhD Alum '88. Talk title: "Google China – Can a Multinational Internet Company Succeed in China? Friday, Feb. 1st, 4:00 PM - University Center McConomy Auditorium (Also check here for details of Kai-Fu Lee' s Special Distinguished Presentation on Jan. 31, "Wisdom of Choice"). LIVE WEBCAST (uses Windows media player)

Researchers Receive $1.1 Million From Keck Foundation To Pursue New Breakthroughs in Learning How the Brain Works! Cognitive Neuroscience Professor Marcel Just (Director, Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging) and Computer Science Professor Tom M. Mitchell (Chair of the Machine Learning Department) have received a three-year grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation to pursue new breakthroughs in the science of brain imaging. Ultimately, this research could shed light on brain disease or conditions like autism, dyslexia or depression. News release

University Alliance (ARTSI) Works To Increase Robotics Education, Research at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Carnegie Mellon University and six other research universities have joined forces with eight historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in a collaborative project to promote robotics and computer science education for African-American students. News release

Robotics Institute is Big Winner in 2008 Carnegie Science Awards! The Robotics Institute is the winner of the Chairman’s Award in the 2008 Carnegie Science Awards, a recognition of the institute’s role in promoting science and technology in the region. The ETC won the award for information technology. News release

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The Puzzle TOAD brings you ...Fair Shares!... the latest puzzle to tickle the grey cells. . . Also, check out the previous puzzles and their solutions, including solution to puzzle 23: Celebrity Problem

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SCS Faculty Positions Available

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Project Olympus Connects SCS Students! ,
Please join us on Tues, Feb 5, 5:30-7 pm, 7500 WeH for a discussion describing the many entrepreneurial programs and opportunities available on campus for SCS students. Check here for more information on Project Olympus

Carnegie Mellon Hosts North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad, on Feb. 5, 2008. Competition Seeks High School Students Interested in Language, Math, Computers News release

New Courses for Spring 2008
16-421: Vision Sensors

11-411: Natural Language Processing
Special Topic

16-899: Topics in Robot Motion Planning

10-725: Optimization

15-296: Understanding and Challenging the Images of Computing
Special Topic: Units: 6 (mini)

Distinguished Lecture Series
Distinguished Lecture Series Archive

Joint CMU-Pitt Ph.D. Program in
Computational Biology Seminar
Ivet Bahar, Professor and John K. Vries Chair, Dept. of Computational Biology, UPitt School of Medicine
Supramolecular Machinery: Insights from Elastic Network Models, Abstract
Friday, Feb. 1, 11:00 a.m., Mauldin Auditorium (1305) Newell-Simon Hall

Robotics Seminar
Blake Hannaford, Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Washington
Surgery over the Internet, Abstract
Friday, Feb. 1, 3:30 p.m., Mauldin Auditoriuim 1305 Newell-Simon Hall

HCII Seminar Series
Martial Hebert, Professor, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Lecture, Abstract
Wed., Feb. 6, 4:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m. , 1305 Newell-Simon Hall

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