NEW AWARDS...Sebastian Thrun, Pradeep Khosla and Han Kiliccote have been awarded a contract under the DARPA Agent-Based Systems initiative to pursue research on secure and scalable distributed agent based systems (acronym BORG). The goal of this project is to build a large-scale, highly distributed computer architecture for distributed information gathering and reasoning.

PROPOSALS...NEIL HEFFERNAN remembers "Intelligent Tutoring Systems have Forgotten the Tutor: Adding a Cognitive Model of Human Tutors" at his CS proposal on Thursday, March 5 at 2:00 pm in Wean 4623. His well-tutored committee includes: Kenneth Koedinger (Co-Chair), John Anderson (Co-Anderson), Herbert Simon, and Kurt VanLehn (University of Pittsburgh).

JOINT SCS/ECE DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI LECTURE...Andreas Bechtolsheim, Vice President of Engineering, Gigabit Switching Group, Cisco Systems, examines "High Performacne Networking" at the next Distinguished Alumni Lecture - Gaschnig/Oakley Memorial Lecture on Thursday, March 12 at 4:00 pm in Wean 7500. Distinguished donuts at 3:45 pm outside the room.

NAE REGIONAL MEETING...On Thursday, March 5, Raj Reddy, Takeo Kanade and Robert White will host the regional meeting of the National Academy of Engineering. A special note of congratulations to Alfred Blumstein, Jonsson University Professor in the Heinz School, from his many colleagues and friends in SCS, on his recent induction into the Academy!

SPECIAL FACULTY SEMINAR...Christos Faloutsos, University of Maryland and Carnegie Mellon University, organizes his thoughts on "Indexing and Data Mining in Large Multimedia Databases" on Monday, March 9 at 10:00 am in Wean 4623.

EMIGRATION CONTINUES...Takeo Kanade tackles "How to Write a Proposal" at the next CS Emigration Course on Friday, March 6 from 1:00-3:00 pm in Wean 5409.

NEW CONFERENCE ROOM..."After a few years of lab duty, WeH 4603 has now been returned to service as a small conference room", notes Jim Skees. The room sports nine leather chairs, a large round table, and an overhead projector/ wall screen and can be "signed-out" in the CS Main Office.

FACILITIES UPDATES...
**The SCS Facilities PC Group now has Kerberized Telnet available for use when a telnet session is required. Kerberos encryption will be necessary when trying to connect to machines via telnet. The product, "Nifty Telnet" is available from: ftp://monolith.fac.cs.cmu.edu/freeware/niftytelnet...OR...if you have an SCS domain account, you can get it from: \\monolith\pc_dist\ freeware\kerberized telnet\nifty telnet. Check the ReadMe file for installation/usage guidelines.
**Effective March 1, the SCS Facilities PC Support Pages were moved from Monolith. The new location for these pages is: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/help/www/pc/index.html. Bookmark this location for future PC Support Information!
**Take note! PC-Related News Groups (ie, PC users) should subscribe to the following newsgroups: "cmu.cs.ibmpc.announce" (for announcements on seminars, service interruptions, new services, etc.) and "cmu.cs.ibmpc.forum" (question and answer forum).
**Filemaker No Longer Discounted at Computer Store: After March 6, Filemaker and HomePage will no longer be covered by the MESL. The impact? There will be no discounted prices after this date. Both packages will still be available at the Computer Store in shrink-wrapped version, but at a higher price. "So seriously consider licensing or upgrading these packages before the March 6 deadline." Direct questions to help+licenses@cs.cmu.edu.

HOT OFF THE PRESSES...
**THOMAS GROSS and DAVID O'HALLARON are i-Celebrating the publication of "iWarp: Anatomy of a Parallel Computing Systems", published in March 1998 by MIT Press. The 530 page book "describes the complete iWarp system, from instruction-level parallelism to final parallel applications. The authors present a range of issues that must be considered to get a real system into practice....[and] provide a start-to-finish history of the project." A must in all libraries. Details are available at www-mitpress.mit.edu.
**"Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia, PETER BRUSILOVSKY, A. Kobsa, and J. Vassileva has been published by Kluwer Academic Publishers (1998). As noted, "this is the first book on Adaptive Hypermedia ever published...a once small research direction that has turned into a brisk new area because of the Web." More information on the book is available at: //www.wkap.nl/book.htm/0-7923-4843-5.

COMING SOON TO A CONFERENCE ROOM NEAR YOU...Rick Rashid, Vice President of Research, Microsoft Corporation, is the scheduled CS Seminar speaker on March 19. Watch for details.

CALENDAR ALERTS:
**CS Open House for Admitted Graduate Students: March 20-21. Contact Martha Clarke at mwc@cs for particulars.
**RI Open House for Admitted Graduate Students: April 4-6. Contact Marce Zaragoza at mlz@cs for details.

WORDS FOR THOUGHT...
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4
**SPECIAL SEMINAR: Edward Brugel, Andersen Consulting, "The 21st Century and Satellite Communications", 12:00 noon, Wean 5409.
**HCI SEMINAR: Hiroshi Iishi, Tangible Media Group, MIT Media Laboratory, "Tangible Bits: Toward Seamless Interface Between People, Bit, & Atoms", 5:00 pm, Wean 7500 (note special room).

FRIDAY, MARCH 6
**ROBOTICS SEMINAR: Raja Chatila, LAAS-CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), Toulouse, France, "Autonomous Long Range Navigation for Planetary Rovers", 3:30 pm, Adamson Wing (Refreshments at 3:15 pm)

MONDAY, MARCH 9
**CULTURAL EXCHANGE SEMINAR: (Our own) John Reynolds, "Three Themes in the Development of Programming Languages", 3:30 pm, Wean 5409.

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