JORDAN RECEIVES ROBERT DOHERTY PRIZE...A new and well-deserved honor! Angel Jordan, Joseph Keithley University Professor of ECE and Robotics, has been awarded the 1999 Robert Doherty Prize for Excellence in Education. The award acknowledges "members of the university community who have made substantial and sustained contributions to excellence in education...[recognizing] their contributions to the development, implementation, and evaluation of educational programs at all levels, and to the creation and maintenance of an environment that fosters excellence in education." In his many roles as professor, department head, dean, and provost...Angel has clearly been a class act. He will be formally recognized at a special Education Awards Program on Thursday, April 29 at 4:30 pm in Rangos Hall, where he will be joined by fellow award recipients: Jim Daniels, Professor of English, The Ryan Award for Meritorious Teaching; and Gloria Hill, Director of C-MAP, The Undergraduate Advising Award in Academic Advising and Mentoring.

NEW NSF HONORS...Seth Goldstein is the recipient of a National Science Foundation Early Career Development Program "CAREER" Award, for his project "Architecture and Compilers for Tiger Machines." CAREER awards, until recently known as Presidential Young Investigator awards, provide support to outstanding junior faculty members in their pursuit of "research and education of the highest quality...integral components in stimulating the discovery and learning process". Congratulations!

IN DEFENSE...HENRY ROWLEY looks into "Neural Network-Based Face Detection" at his CS thesis oral on Thursday, March 18 at 1:30 pm in Wean 4623. His neurally-rich committee includes: Takeo Kanade (Chair), Manuela Veloso, Shumeet Baluja (Lycos), Tomaso Poggio (MIT), and Dean Pomerleau (AssistWare Technology).

GASCHNIG/OAKLEY MEMORIAL LECTURE...STUART CARD, Xerox Research Fellow, and Manager of the User Interface Research Group at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), presents "Knowledge Crystallization" at the next SCS Distinguished Alumni Lecture on Thursday, March 18 at 4:00 pm in Wean 7500. Distinguished donuts will be served at 3:45 pm.

COMPUTERS ARE SOCIAL ACTORS...Clifford Nass, Associate Professor of Communication at Stanford University, presents, "Computers are Social Actors: The Second Generation" at a special HCI Seminar on Wednesday, March 17 at 5:00 pm in Wean 7500. Note the special time/location.

NEW PHD STUDENT OPEN HOUSE...Newly admitted CS PhD students will visit this weekend, March 19-20, follow on March 28-29 by the Robotics new student Open House. Contact rudich@cs.cmu.edu and scrow@ri.cmu.edu, respectively, for particulars.

FROM A DISTANCE...Martha Cheng, a PhD candidate in the H&SS Rhetoric Program, will present her paper, "Exploring Participant Behavior in Electronic, Educational Chatrooms", at the 19th ICDE World Conference on Open Learning and Distance Education: The New Educational Frontier - Teaching and Learning in a Networked World, June 20-24 in Vienna, Austria. Last summer, Martha conducted a discourse analysis of chatroom transcripts from two groups of Distance Education students enrolled in the Managing Software Development course (offered Fall 96 and Spring 97). Her new findings differed markedly from other research results in this area. Contact Martha for details.

ALUMS RETURN FOR ENTERPRISE JAVABEANS (EJB) DAY...Scott Dietzen (CS PhD), Chief Technology Officer, BEA WebXpress, and William Lee (ECE/CS), Chief Technology Officer, The Theory Center, return to campus for "Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB), hosted by the SEI on Monday, March 22 from 10:00 am to Noon in the SEI Auditorium. EJB is "a software component framework providing distributed transaction, security and naming services for Java-based distributed applications." The program will include demos and technical discussions.

ALSO...William Lee will be available after the program in Room 3000B for anyone interested in further discussions on EJB or wishing to explore career opportunities at The Theory Center. He will be in Wean 4113 from 2:00 pm on Monday, March 22...for those unable to make it to the SEI.

BELL ATLANTIC DISTINGUISHED LECTURE...Bernardo Huberman, Research Fellow, Xerox PARC, presents "Laws of the Web" on Tuesday, March 30 at 3:30 pm in the University Center, Rangos 3.

SPRING HAS SPRUNG...and students are heading north, east, south, and west in pursuit of relaxation and good times, punctuated by moderate amounts of studying. Spring Recess begins Monday, March 22 and continues through Friday, March 26. Normal class schedules resume Monday, March 29. University business offices will remain open, on normal schedule, throughout this period. Have a great and safe break!

MOBOT $99 MINI CHALLENGE/CLINIC IS JUST AROUND THE BEND...Rev your transistors! The "Challenge" is scheduled for Wednesday, March 31 at noon on the Mobot race course in front of Wean Hall. Members of the Mobot Committee will be on hand to assist potential and registered race participants with their mobots. The "Challenge" consists of two "partial course" competitions: 1) a slalom race on the flat part of the course, between the hills (gates 2-8), and 2) a decision race, starting at the first fork in the line and continuing to the end of the course (gates 9-14). The participants finishing the reduced course in the fastest time, for each event, receive the $99 cash prize. Stop by to see an early sampling of entries...before the Final Mobot Race on April 16!

THIS IS IT!...The deadline for Summer/Fall SURG proposals and Summer Fellowship proposals is Wednesday, March 17 at 5:00 pm! Applications must be handed in at the Undergraduate Research Symposium offices, Warner 428-429, by the close of the business day.

WORDS FOR THOUGHT:

THURSDAY, MARCH 18
SYSTEM DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION SEMINAR: Ken Birman, Cornell University, "Bimodal Multicast", Noon, Wean 8220.
CALD SEMINAR: Richard SCheines and Peter Spirtes, CMU/Philsophy Department, "The Mellon Blitz Project: Predicting and Causing Checking Account Attrition", 4:30 pm, Doherty 1112.

FRIDAY, MARCH 19
ROBOTICS SEMINAR: Bill Townsend, CEO, Barrett Technology, Inc, "Advanced Robot-Arm Design", 3:30 pm, Adamson Wing, Baker Hall.

MONDAY, MARCH 22
COMPUTER SYSTEMS SEMINAR: James Larus, Microsoft Research, "Whole Program Paths", 3:30 pm, Wean 5409.

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