Steven Rudich
Dr. Steven Rudich was awarded the Gödel Prize in 2007, along with Alexander Razborov, for proving that natural proofs, a large class of combinatorial arguments, were unlikely to answer many of the important problems in computational complexity theory. In addition to being a professor and scholar of computer science, Dr. Rudich is also an established magician and the editor of the Journal of Cryptology.

Margaret Reid-Miller
Dr. Margaret-Reid-Miller is a teaching professor in the School of Computer Science and actively involved in our Introductory Computing division within the college.

George Kantor
George Kantor is a Systems Scientist in the the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon. He uses mathematics to understand the physical behavior of a given system and then uses that understanding to create algorithms for control or estimation. He is a member of Center for the Foundations of Robotics (CFR), that encourages and facilitates fundamental robotics research, both theoretical and experimental. Participants are exploring basic issues in manipulation, mobile robotics, manufacturing, control, motion planning, graphics, and other topics.

David Touretzky
David Touretzky is a Research Professor in the Computer Science Department and the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon, and co-director of the graduate training program of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition. Dr. Touretzky and his students created the Chiara robot, which is now used to teach robotics to undergraduates at Carnegie Mellon and several other universities. In 2006 he was named a Distinguished Scientist by the Association for Computing Machinery. In his spare time Dr. Touretzky flies for the Volunteer Pilots Association.

Jonathan Coens
Jonathan Coens is completing his BS in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon and will begin his masters work this fall. In his senior honors thesis, Jonathan developed control algorithms for a robotic tentacle (or "high degree of freedom planar manipulator") that he built from digital servos. For his masters work he will be investigating algorithms to allow the Chiara robot to manipulate objects in 3D. Jonathan has played for Carnegie Mellon's baseball team all four years of his undergraduate term, and enjoys taking guitar lessons through the university's music department.fin

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