MOORE ACCEPTS HABERMANN CHAIR...Takeo Kanade and Jim Morris are delighted to announce the appointment of Andrew Moore, Assistant Professor of Robotics and Computer Science as the first recipient of the A. Nico Habermann Chair in the School of Computer Science. The appointment is for three years. Established in memory of SCS's first Dean and long time department head, Professor A. Nico Habermann, this chair is consistent with Nico's belief that faculty members "need support early in their careers, when they are trying to establish themselves. Accordingly, this Chair is awarded for a 3-year term to a junior faculty member of unusual promise in order to help the rising star to build a career of distinction." Praises and cudos from your many SCS colleagues and friends.

ZHANG APPOINTED FINMECCANICA PROFESSOR...Hui Zhang has been appointed the Finmeccanica Assistant Professor of Computer Science. Hui joins a distinguished list of CS faculty who have served in this position since its endowment in 1989, including Roberto Bisiani, Guy Blelloch, and Manuela Veloso. The chair recognizes outstanding teaching and research potential in junior faculty members. Hui notes that in addition to the funding, the distinction came, quite literally, "with a beautiful new chair." Bravissimo!

PHI BETA KAPPA INDUCTEES...Congratulations to the newest SCS inductees in Upsilon of Pennsylvania, the Carnegie Mellon Phi Beta Kappa Chapter, the nation's oldest and most distinguished academic honorary. CS undergraduates Anthony Dilello, Matthew Kraai, Jason Rennie, Patrick Riley, and Henry Verschell were honored and recognized at a special induction ceremony on October 20.

NEW AWARDS...Hui Zhang, together with researchers at Rice, the University of Virginia, and MCI, has been awarded a three year $1.2M National Science Foundation Special Project on resource management architecture and algorithms for the next generation Internet.

IN DEFENSE...
ARUP MUKHERJEE will be "Supporting Online Services in Environments Constrained by Communication" at his CS thesis defense on Wednesday, November 4 at 9:30 am in Wean 5409. His committee includes: Daniel Siewiorek (Chair), Adam Beguelin, James Morris, and Asim Smailagic (ICES).
DAYNE FREITAG explores "Machine Learning for Information Extraction in Informal Domains" at his CS oral on Wednesday, November 4 at 4:00 pm in Wean 4623. His learned committee includes: Tom Mitchell (Chair), Jaime Carbonell, David Evans, and Oren Etzioni (University of Washington).
LJUBOMIR PERKOVIC offers "Edge Coloring, Polyhedra and Probability" at this ACO thesis oral on Thursday, November 5 at 2:00 in Wean 4623. His colorful committee includes: Bruce Reed (Co-Chair, CNRS, Paris, France), Dana Scott (Co-Chair), Alan Frieze, Avrim Blum, and Jeong Han Kim (Microsoft).

PROPOSALS!...CHRISTOPHER STONE investigates "The Scalability of Typed Intermediate Languages" at his CS thesis proposal on Monday, November 9 at 4:00 pm in Wean 4601. Serving on his committee are: Robert Harper (Chair), Peter Lee, John Reynolds, and Jon Riecke (Lucent).

RICHARD CYERT REMEMBERED...A special memorial program to "celebrate the life and memory" of President Emeritus Richard M. Cyert, will be held Monday, November 9 at 1:30 pm in the McConomy Auditorium, University Center. As President of the university from 1972-1990, Dr. Cyert was an ardent and treasured supporter of SCS. After a six year bout with cancer, he passed away on October 7. Come by as the campus says farewell to a great man and for those of you who never met him, to learn what he believed and stood for. He was a valued part and shaper of all that is Carnegie Mellon...

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