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Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, to be Keynote Speaker at the SCS Diploma Ceremony, Sunday May 18! Bezos has an extensive background in applied computer science. He will be speaking at the SCS and the Tepper School of Business diploma ceremonies and will also be receiving an honorary degree. See Carnegie Mellon's commencement announcement and SCS news release. A social robot, Snackbot, being developed by Sara Kiesler and Jodi Forlizzi of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and Paul Rybski of the Robotics Institute is one of eight Human-Robot Interaction RFP proposals selected by Microsoft External Research to share $500,000 in funding. News release Congratulations to Henry DeYoung this year's winner of the Allen Newell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research. Henry's paper is titled "An Authorization Logic with Explicit Time" and his advisor is professor Frank Pfenning. Researchers from Lane Center for Computational Biology Develop Technique that Accelerates Biological Image Analysis; Will Improve Automated High-Throughput Screening Techniques! News release The 23rd International IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS 2008) will be held at Carnegie Mellon University on June 24--27, 2008. This event is co-located with the IEEE Symposium on Computer Security Foundations (CSF 2008), and with a series of workshops on June 21--23 and June 26. The LICS Symposium is an annual international forum on theoretical and practical topics in computer science that relate to logic in a broad sense. Registration and more information. More News in: Carnegie Mellon News Carnegie Mellon Today The Link magazine	Professor Randy Pausch has been included in TIME Magazine's 2008 list of the world's 100 most influential people. And his book, "The Last Lecture," co-written by Jeff Zaslow of the Wall Street Journal and based on Pausch's now-famous talk "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," is now a New York Times #1 bestseller. News release Pancreatic Cancer Group Names Research Grant for Randy Pausch, professor CSD, HCII, and Design. News release Watch ABC's special on Randy Pausch, an interview with Diane Sawyer: “The Last Lecture: A Love Story for Your Life”. Wall Street Journal feature on Randy Pausch Look HERE for more information on Randy Pausch The Henry L. Hillman Foundation has given Carnegie Mellon University a gift of $10 million for a research building in the university’s new computer science complex. News release New School of Computer Science Complex: Information and Blog. Check out and discuss the design for the new Gates Center for Computer Science. View Gates Webcam! SCS Interview Series: We present the interview we've all been waiting for!! Mark Stehlik, Teaching Professor and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education, CSD, talks to undergraduate interviewers Alissa Briggs (junior) and Linda Cai (sophomore). Full interview The Puzzle TOAD brings you ... Rational Creatures! .... the latest puzzle to tickle the grey cells. . . Also, check out the previous puzzles and their solutions, including solution to puzzle 24: Fair Shares SCS Faculty Positions Available Front Page Archive
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Carnegie Mellon Announces New Degree Fusing the Arts With Computer Science News release See some of our undergraduates and their posters as they present at Meeting of the Minds 2008 Check out the winners of the Dec/5, FreeCSD, MLD, SE, EGO: Sixth Annual Random Distance Run Photos from the 2008 CSD Undergraduate Picnic! Photos and winners from the 14TH ANNUAL MOBOT RACES: (MObile roBOT Races)	Distinguished Lecture Series Distinguished Lecture Series Archive SCS Student Seminar Series Robert J. Simmons, Computer Science Department Test The Program, Test The Abstraction, Make It Better, Prove It Right, Abstract Friday, May 9, 12:00 p.m., 4623 Wean Hall VASC Special Seminar Peter Tu and Xiaoming Liu , GE Global Research Discriminative Image Alignment, Abstract Friday, May 9, 3:00 p.m., 1305 Newell-Simon Hall CyLab Seminar Alvaro Cardenas, Post-Doc University of California at Berkeley Statistical Models for Intrusion Detection, Abstract Monday, May 12, 12:00 p.m., Distributed Education Center Lobby Level Collaborative Innovation Center ML/Google Seminar Jason Eisner, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University Weighted Deduction as a Programming Language, Abstract Monday, May 12, 4:30 p.m.- 5:30 p.m. , 1305 Newell-Simon Hall Full SCS Calendar Submit an event! Seminar Series CMU Calendar Academic Calendar
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