Alumnus Daniel Wilson’s first novel, “ROBOPOCALYPSE,” has been released. Wilson’s seventh book tells the story of a group of people trying to survive after technology has turned against them.
Read more: http://www.danielhwilson.com/

ICML 2011 Best Paper Award
Kevin Waugh, Brian Ziebart and Drew Bagnell for "Computational Rationalization: The Inverse Equilibrium Problem".

ICML 2011 Test of Time Award for the 10 Year Best Paper
John Lafferty, Andrew McCallum, and Fernando C. N. Pereira, "Conditional Random Fields: Probabilistic Models for Segmenting and Labeling Sequence Data".

SCS team won the best application paper award at PAKDD 2011
"Spectral Analysis for Billion Scale Graphs: Discoveries and Implementation" by U Kang, Brendan Meeder and Christos Faloutsos, PAKDD'11, Shenzhen China. The paper shows how to do accurate spectral analysis on large graphs using 'hadoop', and showed how to use the results for anomaly detection. PAKDD is one of the top data mining conferences.

Professor Avrim Blum awarded the Herbert A. Simon Award for Teaching Excellence in Computer Science at the SCS Diploma Ceremony. http://www.cmu.edu/homepage/computing/2011/spring/avrim-blum.shtml