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THE GASCHNIG/OAKLEY MEMORIAL LECTURE
A School of Computer Science Distinguished Lecture, Thursday, 2 April 2009 presents: BERNARD CHAZELLE Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University "THE ALGORITHMIC AGE", Abstract |
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THE GASCHNIG/OAKLEY MEMORIAL LECTURE A School of Computer Science Distinguished Lecture, presents: Bernard Chazelle, Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University "THE ALGORITHMIC AGE", Abstract Thursday, 2 April, 3:15 PM - Wean Hall 7500
ULS Journeys Lecture:
Take what you HAVE and make of it what you CAN: An Introspection.
Milton Fine, Chairman, FFC Capital. Lecture presented in partnership with Carnegie Mellon’s College of Fine Arts and School of Computer Science. Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 4:30pm.
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NEW Faculty Interview!:
Peter Lee, Professor, and Head of Computer Science Department. Full interview
Take the "Muddy Boots" Photo Tour of the School of Computer Science new buildings!
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Latest PUZZLE! to tickle the grey cells...... The Puzzle Toad brings you Puzzle No. 26: "Coffee".
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O’Hare Travelers ‘Explore Chicago’ Via GigaPan! The hundreds of thousands of travelers who pass through O’Hare International Airport every day – but don’t necessarily see anything else of Chicago – now can experience some of the Windy City’s famous sights through GigaPan imagery. Panoramas created with GigaPan, a technology developed by Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute and NASA, are featured on the new Explore Chicago web site. Read complete
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Scientific American Online tells how Red Whittaker launched his career developing robots to help with the cleanup of a meltdown at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Station near Harrisburg, Pa. that occurred on March 28, 1979. It was the worst accident in the history of nuclear power in the United States and it took 10 years to remediate. News Release. 
The National Society of Black Engineers sponsored "π-A-Professor". The event was celebrated late because March 14 fell during Spring Break. The lineup included Gregory Kesden, Mark Stehlik and Luis von Ahn of the School of Computer Science; Kurt Larsen of the Carnegie Institute of Technology; John Mackey of the Mellon College of Science; and Erik Theissen of the College of Humanities & Social Sciences. News Release. 
New Location-Sharing Application Available for Facebook! SCS researchers have developed a new location-sharing application for Facebook that features a unique user interface for determining when and where various friends can see the user’s location. Called Locaccino, a version for use with laptops is available for download at www.locaccino.org. A version for use with certain GPS-equipped cell phones is slated for release later this spring. For more information, listen to this podcast with Norman Sadeh, director of the Mobile Commerce Lab.
Project Olympus featured in Post-Gazette: "Big ideas meld into businesses". Fooala is one of the companies that will be featured in the 8th Show and Tell as evidence of the continuing success of Project Olympus, a Carnegie Mellon-based incubator for tech companies created by students and faculty. Project Olympus, the brainchild of computer science Professor Lenore Blum, was launched in January 2007 "to create a culture, climate and community that will enable talent and ideas to grow in the Pittsburgh region." Read full Post-Gazette article
Carnegie Mellon Algorithm Enables Chain of 10 Kidney Transplants! The chain of transplants from living donors, initiated by a Michigan man who donated a kidney to a stranger, is detailed in the March 12 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Computer science professor Tuomas Sandholm is a co-author of the journal article. The first generation of Carnegie Mellon’s kidney-matching algorithm was developed by Sandholm, Avrim Blum, professor of computer science, and graduate assistant David J. Abraham. More information and news release
HCI Students Help OutSystems Improve Design of Software Tools! A Santa Clara, Calif., software company is crediting a 2008 project by graduate students in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute with helping it enhance the user experience of its signature product. News release For more information see the OutSystems news release and the students’ project site.
TechBridgeWorld is organizing the 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, hosted by Carnegie Mellon Qatar in Doha, from April 17-19, 2009. ICTD2009 brings together the latest ideas on ICTs for development from both technical and social science perspectives. News release
Carnegie Mellon’s Manuela Veloso Wins Autonomous Agents Research Award! Manuela M. Veloso, a professor of computer science who studies how robots can learn, plan and work together to accomplish tasks, is the winner of the 2009 Autonomous Agents Research Award from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (ACM/SIGART).
News release Also check previous SCS ACM/SIGART recipients
Qatar Initiative Opens Doors!
Qatar Cloud Computing
Companies are reliant on computers and servers for networking, analyzing and storing data, but the cost for maintaining these machines is high. Enter "cloud computing" — a way for companies to leverage the web for their computing needs. And Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, along with IBM and two other universities in the area, is behind one of the first projects to bring cloud computing to the Middle East. Carnegie Mellon News release