Associate Professor Tuomas Sandholm is the 2003 recipient of the Computers and Thought Award, given every two years by the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) to an outstanding young scientist working in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). Press Release

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.

'Privacy appliances' seek to harness government snooping powers The Pentagon's plan to sniff out terrorists from a sea of personal data collected by the government, banks, airlines, credit card companies and other sources has been criticized as the most sweeping invasion of privacy in history. Computer Scientist, Latanya Sweeney, has developed an appliance that anonymizes medical data before the information is submitted to investigators looking for bioterrorism outbreaks. Wall Street Journal & Associated Press

Update on Robot Hyperion, operating in Chile’s Atacama Desert. Researchers exceeded expectations in the first phase of a three-year effort to develop and deploy a robotic system that may some day enable other rovers to search for life on Mars. The robot Hyperion, traveled farther and collected more data while operating autonomously than any planetary rover tested to date. Press Release

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.

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

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

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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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As you may have heard, Dr. Barbara Lazarus Carnegie Mellon's Associate Provost for Academic Affairs, passed away on Tuesday July 15th. A celebration of Barbara Lazarus' life and work will be held at the university in the fall.

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!

You can now Submit Photos and Post Captions to the ugrad Photo Album!! Check out the latest pics of the SCS 2003 Undergraduate Picnic!!
. . . have you seen the Undergrad student site run by and for cs undergraduates? . . . take a look!:
Find out what Professors really mean when they say . . . . ."The test scores were a little below my expectations"

Spring 2003 Distinguished Lecture Series
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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.

Summer RoboCamp 2003 starts July 7!!

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