**Latest updates on Wean Hall flood and restoration of services: see announcements below**

Congratulations!! to Computer Science Professors Bob Harper (left) and Hui Zhang, elected to be ACM Fellows. Bob Harper's research interests are in programming languages, specifically type theory, logical frameworks, and meta-languages. Hui Zhang's research interests are in computer networks, specifically the scalability, robustness, dependability, security, and manageability of broadband access networks, enterprise networks, and the Internet. Read more

Kudos to Katia! Research Professor, Katia Sycara, RI, was elected as IEEE Fellow "for contributions to case based reasoning, multi-agent systems and semantic web services and standards". Dr Sycara was also recently awarded the Sixth Century Chair (part time) in Computing Science at the University of Aberdeen. Media Release

Good Work! Jia-Yu (Tim) Pan has won one of the five 'best student paper' awards at ICDM'05. Paper Title: ViVo: Visual Vocabulary Construction for Mining Biomedical Images. Full citation: Arnab Bhattacharya, Vebjorn Ljosa, Jia-Yu Pan, Mark Verardo, Hyunjeong Yang, Christos Faloutsos and Ambuj Singh.

...and More Good Work! Kanat Tangwongsan has been selected as one of the Runners-Up for the Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Award 2006, sponsored by Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs.

SCS Day 2006 is just around the corner! We are calling on members of the SCS community to help make SCS Day 2006 the best one yet. Opportunities abound: run a workshop, help with the art show, be part of the talent show; SCS-Day is what YOU make it! Simply send email to scsday at cs.cmu.edu

In addition to Google we have added a new CLUSTY site search!! Courtesy of Vivisimo you can now access and cluster the world's information for better search and discovery!

SCS Interview Series invites you to meet Brenna Argall, graduate student in the Robotics Institute, singer, pianist and member of the Pittsburgh Mendelssohn Choir here in Pittsburgh. Read full interview by CSD Juniors and web team members: Renee Nicole Rivas and Sana Yousuf.

Preparations are under way for the CS50 Anniversary Celebration & Alumni Reunion Weekend April 19-22, 2006

The Puzzle TOAD brings you the Wandering Toad ...the latest puzzle to tickle the grey cells. . . Also, check out the previous puzzles and their solutions, including solution to puzzle 16: The Hungry Lion.

Video Clips Meet 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

Be the first to test Phetch!! -- a Research Game from the creators of CAPTCHAs, The ESP Game and Peekaboom

SCS Interview Series Look Who's Talking!

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State of Computing in SCS
At 9:00am yesterday morning, Monday, December 5, 2005, a flood hit the SCS Computing Facilities machine room and network rooms (as well as other project-based machine rooms in the Wean 3600 corridor). From 9:00am until 12:30pm on Monday, water poured into the Wean Hall 3600 corridor from a break in an 8” pipe; the estimated flow rate was 1,000 gallons per minute.

This flood disabled the entire computing and network infrastructure by 9:30am yesterday. Water rose to 11” under the raised floor area for the entire machine room; it also flowed into the adjoining corridors.

As of 1:00pm, Tuesday, December 6, 2005 we have restored operation of the following services, using temporary power:

Network for SCS buildings (restored by 6:00pm Monday), including DNS, DHCP, and NTP;
AFS
Kerberos
Email: IMAP server, UX servers and the Exchange server
Windows domain services
Web servers
Printing
Jeeves
Oracle Calendar
VPN and iPass
Monolith

At this time the SCS Help Desk and Operations are still without power.

We are working around the clock to restore services. Please understand that our electrical and cabling infrastructure was severely damaged by this flood; much of it will need to be replaced. The timeline for full restoration of services has not been determined. Moreover, we expect further interruptions (intermittent) in the coming days or weeks, until more permanent replacements are put in place.

We will provide further updates periodically and we will keep the SCS Help Pages up to date with new developments: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~help

Please contact the SCS Help Desk with questions or concerns.

We thank you for your understanding.

Fall 2005/Spring 2006 Distinguished Lecture Series
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SCS Emigration Seminar
Roy Levin, Director, Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley
A Job in Industrial Research?, Abstract
Tuesday, Dec. 6, 12:00 p.m.- 1:30 p.m. , NSH 1305

HCII Seminar Series
John Riedl
Wednesday, Dec.7, 4:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m. , NSH 1305

Entertainment Technology Center Presents "Building Virtual Worlds"
Wednesday, Dec.7, 5 p.m., McConomy Auditorium, UC

Fall Term: Last Day of Classes

ML Seminar
Raymond J. Mooney, Professor
Learning for Semantic Parsing of Natural Language, Abstract
Monday, Dec.12, 10:00 a.m.- 11:00 a.m. , NSH 1305

VASC Seminar
Dr. R. Craig Coulter
Massively Scalable Computer Vision - The Next Great Challenge, Abstract
Monday, Dec.12, 3:30 p.m.- 4:45 p.m. , NSH 1507

POP Seminar
Patricia Johann
Parametric Polymorphism, Observational Equivalence, and Monadic Computation, Abstract
Wednesday, Dec.14, 3:30 p.m.- 5:00 p.m. , WeH 8220

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