NEW HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS...ROB MILLER, with co-author BRAD MYERS, have won an outstanding paper award in the Promising New Tool Category, for their submission "Lightweight Structured Text Processing," at the USENIX 99 Annual Technical Conference, June 6-11.

SCS FAMILY ALBUM...XUDONG ZHAO (CS '96), along with co-authors Yatin Hoskote and Timothy Kam, have received the 1999 Best Paper Award at the 36th Annual Design Automation Conference (DAC99) for their work "Coverage Estimation for Symbolic Model Checking", held in New Orleans, June 22-25, 1999.

SCS INVITED TALKS...
REID SIMMONS (who will return to campus soon!) was an invited speaker at the Bar Ilan Symposium on the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (BISFAI) held June 23-25 in Tel Aviv, Israel, where he spoke on "Creating Reliable Autonomous Systems".

ANDREW'S LEAP...jumps into gear July 5 and runs through August 13. This SCS summer program for high school students offers students an opportunity to "leap" ahead academically through special classes, independent projects, and exposures to some of the excitement in our environment. For more details, see www.cs.cmu.edu/~leap or contact daz@cs.cmu.edu.

IN THE NEWS...Check out the July National Geographic, 18-page layout detailing "Mars on Earth." As noted on the titlepage, "light snow and the other-worldly glow of an Arctic summer night lend an alien aura to Haughton Crater on Canada's Devon Island. Deemed similar to craters on Mars, Haughton has become a proving ground for future missions to the red planet." Featured are several robotics staff and graduate students and the autonomous/ helicopter automation team and who made and will be making more journies to this locale.. Words do no justice to the images. Be sure to check out this article!

KABOOM, KABOOM...The university will officially observe the 4th of July on Monday, the 5th of July. All business offices will be closed. Normal business operations and class schedules resume Tuesday, July 6. So stay up "way" late on Sunday, since you have Monday off.

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