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Archive: Front Page, Oct. 14, 2003

News and Events: Features:

SCS Distinguished Lecture Series
Dr. Alfred Z. Spector, Vice President of Services and Software, IBM Research
Decades of Distributed Computing, Abstract, Thursday, Oct. 16, 4:00 p.m., WeH 7500

SCS Researchers Receive $6 Million NSF Grant to Enhance Talking Computer Tutor that Helps to Improve Children’s Reading Skills The four-year grant will be used to improve and integrate speech and user modeling technologies in the Reading Tutor, which has been developed over more than a decade by Project LISTEN, led by research professor Jack Mostow. Press Release

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Announces Partnership with Carnegie Mellon’s CERT Coordination Center to create US-CERT, a coordination point for prevention, protection and response to cyber attacks across the Internet. Press Release

CSD Graduate Student, Luis von Ahn, taps brain's game skills. He wants to steal your brain. Not all of it, mind you. Von Ahn just wants a piece of your time so he can tap into your brain's cognitive powers. You'll never get your time back, but he promises the whole process will be painless, even pleasurable. Post-Gazette Story

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Meet new CSD Asssistant Professor, Christopher Olston, and find out why Carnegie Mellon was a pretty obvious choice for this 25 year old Californian. He's a poet with a Stanford PhD, into databases and rollerblading. Full Interview by Shilpa Desai, member of the undergrad web team

Video Clips Meet the Dean, Professors and Students from the School of Computer Science, Take a tour of SCS, Watch clips from the SCS-Day Talent Show 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!

The protocols of the elders of robotics 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

SCS Faculty Positions Available

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Congratulations Chang-Hsin Chang!, researcher programmer HCII, the winner of this year's Andy Award for Dedication!! Carnegie Mellon News

The Pittsburgh Savoyard's upcoming production of Gilbert & Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore includes many Members of the SCS community!! Check out Who!!
When: October 10-25
Where: Carnegie Free Library and Music Hall in Carnegie, PA, in the South Hills (not Oakland!)
Savoyards info: or call (412) 734-8476

You can now Submit Photos and Post Captions to the ugrad Photo Album!! (photo by Yuchun Wang)

. . . 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"

Fall 2003 Distinguished Lecture Series
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SCS Distinguished Lecture Series
Dr. Alfred Z. Spector , Vice President of Services and Software, IBM Research
Decades of Distributed Computing, Abstract
Thursday, Oct. 16, 4:00 p.m., WeH 7500

Mid-Semester Break
Friday, Oct. 17

Project Aura Special Seminar
Jakob E. Bardram and Henrik Bærbak Christensen
Pervasive Healthcare, Abstract
Friday, Oct. 17, 1:30 p.m.- 3:00 p.m. , WeH 8220

Opening Colloquium of the Digital Libraries Colloquium Series
Jerry Goldman , Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University, and Creator and Director of The OYEZ Project
To Undef Their Ears: The spoken word in a a multimedia world, Abstract
Friday, Oct. 17, 3:00 p.m., The Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
Presented by SIS, UPitt, co-sponsored by the Carnegie Mellon University Library System, The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, and SCS

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