Center for Computer and Communications Security (C3S) Awarded $35.5 Million Grant from Department of Defense. A Multidisciplinary team of CMU faculty, researchers, and students will be taking a leading role in war against cyberterror (PG article)

STUDENTS!! check out the Idea Foundry!! Get help to transform your business and new technology ideas into fundable, viable commercial businesses. Apply now for Spring 2003 Transformation Fellowships

Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective is a seminal new textbook by Randy Bryant, Head of CSD, and Dave O'Hallaron, Assoc Professor, CS and ECE. The thesis: you can become a better programmer by learning what is going on "under the hood" of a computer system. More Information
NSF Awards $9 Million to advance the new field of Computational Biolinguistics. . . . PI's Raj Reddy, CS, and Judith Klein-Seetharaman, UPitt Medical School and LTI, CMU, will head a collaboration of scientists and researchers. More Information Also see PG article
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Fall 2002 Distinguished Lecture Series

Author Presentation & Booksigning
Chip Walter , Science Writer and Future Trends Specialist
I'm Working on That: A Trek from Science Fiction to Science Fact, Abstract
Thursday, October 17th, 4:30 p.m., 7500 Wean Hall

Friday, October 18th, Mid-Semester Break; No Classes

RI Seminar
Greg Dudek, McGill University
Sensing for Robot Pose Estimation , Abstract
Friday, October 18th, 3:30 p.m., 1305 Newell-Simon Hall

Physics Colloquium
David Kestenbaum , Science Writer, National Public Radio
My Father Sees Muons in the Driveway or How to Explain Science to Everybody Else, Abstract
Monday, October 21st, 4:30 p.m., WeH 7500
Open to the campus community and public.

Thesis Proposal; Patrick Riley
Any-Team Coaching Through Agent Modeling, Abstract
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2:30 p.m., WeH 4623

SCS Distinguished Lecture Series
Dr. Robin R. Murphy, Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering & Cognitive and Neural Sciences, Department of Psychology, University of South Florida
Director, Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue
Thursday, October 24th, 4:00 p.m., WeH 7500

First Distinguished Nanotechnology Lecture
Dr. James S. Murday , Director, National Nanotechnology Coordinating Office
Head, Chemistry Division, Naval Research Laboratory
Nanotechnology and the Many Nanotechnology Initiatives, Abstract
Friday, October 25th, 11:30 p.m., Singleton Room, Roberts Hall
Hosted by the Center for Interdisciplinary Nanotechnology Research (CINR)

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