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Archive: Front Page, July 21, 2003

News and Events : Features:

Robocup 2003 results!
CMPack'03 - came in fourth place (out of 24 teams) in the RoboCup'03 four-legged Sony robot league
Team: Manuela Veloso, Douglas Vail, Sonia Chernova, Scott Lenser, Juan Fasola
CMDragons'03 - came in fourth place (out of 24 teams) in the RoboCup'03 small-size robot league
Team: Brett Browning, Manuela Veloso, James Bruce, Michael Bowling, Michael Sokolsky, Jennifer Lin
CMOwl'03 - made it to the quarter finals (out of 12 teams) of the RoboCup'03 coach soccer simulation
Team: Patrick Riley, Manuela Veloso

The Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble will premiere Roger Dannenberg's "The Watercourse Way" on Saturday, July 26th, at 7PM, at the Hazlett Theatre. Read more.

Andrew's Leap Through special classes and independent projects, students will be exposed to the frontiers of computer science. Program information

Summer RoboCamp 2003 At the camps, kids learn about the challenges, science, and excitement behind engineering robots more information Forget camp fires and sing-alongs, kids now interested in education. Kids today are building robots, boosting writing skills and becoming budding artists during the long days of summer. Tribune-Review story

36 high school students are honing their engineering and programming skills during an intensive robotics course called "RoboCamp-West."
"They keep us going. We are exhausted but very happy at the end of the day", said Mel Siegel, Carnegie Mellon senior research scientist and RoboCamp-West instructor. read more!

LTI Scientists work with the Wild Dolphin Project Alan W. Black, Tanja Schultz, and Robert Frederking examine ways in which speech technology can help in classifying dolphin recordings. more information

 

Fortune Magazine and salon.com feature Robocup and Manuela! If RoboCup is the first word you come up with when you think, 'Manuela Veloso', then you're not alone but there's much more!! Full Interview by Undergraduate Web Team Member Shilpa Desai

Scott Fahlman, Reid Simmons, Manuela Veloso and Pradeep Khosla will be named American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fellows at the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), being held August 9-15 in Acapulco, Mexico.

Contract from DARPA. Researchers at SCS have received an initial $7 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as part of a five-year project to develop a software-based cognitive personal assistant that will help people improve their productivity in the workplace.

Video Clips Meet Professors and Students from the School of Computer Science Get the Flash 6 plugin

Count the Candy and solve the LATEST PUZZLE to tickle the grey cells. . . Also, check out the previous puzzles and their solutions, including the solution to Empty the Bucket.

SCS Interviews Look Who's Talking!

"Why Can’t a PC be More Like a Car?" is the latest in Tales of Technology from the Post-Gazette column by James Morris, Dean, School of Computer Science. . Submit your own piece for Bits to Bots ...email webteam @ cs.cmu.edu

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Announcements: Calendar Highlights:

As you may have heard, Dr. Barbara Lazarus CMU's Associate Provost for Academic Affairs, passed away on Tuesday the 15th. Any and all graduate students who wish to attend are welcome at a memorial service to be held THIS THURSDAY, July 17th, at 3 PM at Temple Rodef Shalom (5th Avenue and Morewood Avenue).

Nominations for this year's Andy Awards are due July 18. (This is a correction of the earlier announced date.) The university-wide staff recognition program honors staff for innovation, enthusiasm, citizenship, dedication and "culture," a new category. More info and nomination forms

ISRI Welcomes 11 Women from South Africa to Complete their Masters Degrees!! Having initiated their program in Cape Town, the women will continue their graduate studies on campus for the next six months read more!

Spring 2003 Distinguished Lecture Series
Seminar Series

Andrew's Leap
For more info contact Charlotte at yano @ cs.cmu.edu
10:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. , NSH 3002
Program runs from June 30th through August 8th.

LTI Talk: Towards Communicating with Dolphins
Alan Black, Research Computer Scientist and Faculty, LTI
Monday, July 7, 2:00pm, NSH 1305

Summer RoboCamp 2003 starts July 7!!

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