Randy Pausch, renowned computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, died this morning of complications from pancreatic cancer. He was 47 (b:10/23/60). Celebrated in his field for co-founding the pioneering Entertainment Technology Center and for creating the innovative educational software tool known as “Alice,” Pausch earned his greatest worldwide fame for his inspirational “Last Lecture.” News Release

July 24 through July 27, 2008
Third CS4HS Summer Wokshop 2008
CS4HS provides high school (and K-8) teachers with deas and resources to help them teach computer science principles to their students in a fun and relevant way. Carnegie Mellon Campus

July 27 through August 2, 2008
Summer Java Workshop 2008 for APCS Teachers
The Schoool of Computer Science will host a summer workshop for AP Computer Science high school teachers. Carnegie Mellon Campus

Adjunct Professor and Robotics Institute alumnus Henry Schneiderman and U.A.
and Helen Whitaker University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics Takeo Kanade have won the 2008 Longuet-Higgins Prize. The award is given annually at IEEE's Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition for prior work considered novel at the time of publication that continues to be influential and has stood the test of time. The paper, written 10 years ago, was cited as "a significant advance in object recognition through probabilistic modeling and multiple-view training, yielding a state-of-the-art face detection technique." News Release