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Archive: Front Page, Aug. 23, 2002

News Flash! In the News: A Summer of Robots
Welcome! to the newly designed SCS web site where we plan to feature News, Research, and People on the forefront of research and education here in the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science. We aim to be a destination and resource for the whole SCS community and the WWW.

3 Exciting New Features . . . .
Centers and Projects Page featuring the numerous Research Projects and Centers of the SCS Community . . . Faculty Page featuring thumbnail photos and research interests of our SCS faculty . . . Alan and Danny's Challenge featuring a mathematical puzzle to tickle the grey cells

Immigration Courses (IC) 2002 for Incoming Graduate Students: CSD, Robotics, LTI, ML, MSE / MSIT-SE and HCII Orientation
FAQs for Incoming Students: all the things you need to know to begin preparing for the fall in the CS PhD Program

Latanya Sweeney Launches DatAnon, a start-up that uses computer technology to protect private information in publicly released databases. see PG article



Can Grace the robot find her own way and win? A team of CMU grad students led by Reid Simmons have been racing to get Grace ready for the annual AAAI meeting to compete in the Robot Challenge. See PG article. (photo credit, Steve Mellon, PG)
UPDATE. Grace wins "human-robot interaction" award. Read more.

CMPACK'02 Kicks its way to victory in the Sony legged league at RoboCup 2002 in Fukuoka, Japan. The victorious "Pack" included: Manuela Veloso, Scott Lenser (Team Leader and 4th year CSD PhD), Doug Vail (1st year CSD PhD), Ashley Stroupe (4th year RI PhD), Maayan Roth (1st year RI PhD), and Sonia Chernova (SCS Junior Undergrad). Read more.

Robots Learn How To Be Human
"The most important component in a system often is the least understood. In robotics, this component is human-like intelligence, according to Takeo Kanade, IEEE Fellow and professor of computer science and robotics at Carnegie Mellon ..." (photo credit, NASA) Read more.

For all the news, see SCS-Today

 

Upcoming Event Calendar Highlights

ACM SIGCOMM 2002 The annual conference of the Special Interest Group on Data Communication will be broadcast live using End System Multicast, a research project initiated at CMU. Hui Zhang led the research team consisting of Yang-hua Chu, Tze Sing Eugene Ng and Sanjay Rao (CSD Ph.D students), Kay Sripanidkulchai (ECE
Ph.D student), Aditya Ganjam (CSD, Masters Student), Tian Lian
(CSD UnderGrad) and Vishal Soni (ECE, Masters Student).
Find out how to Tune in!

POP Seminar
Geoff Washburn, University of Pennsylvania
Type Inference in System I and Extensions for Sums, Abstract
Wednesday, August 28th, 3:30 p.m.- 5:00 p.m. , 8220 Wean Hall

New Fall Semester Courses
Computational Genomics and Molecular Biology
Professor: Dannie Durand
Probability & Statistics for Computer Science
Professor: John Lafferty
Digital Rights Management: Technology, Policy and Societal Issues
Professor: David Farber
Privacy and Anonymity in Data
Professor: Layanya Sweeney
Mobile Robot Development: Mine Mapping Robotics
Professors: Red Whittaker, Scott Thaher

For more details check SCS-Today

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