Congratulations to Bill Scherlis, professor ISRI, the new Director of the Institute for Software Research International (ISRI)! Bill has been at Carnegie Mellon since 1980 (except for 6 years at DARPA) and has considerable experience in software engineering and programming language research, and in issues in government and public policy. Bill will be replacing Raj Reddy, Mozah Bint Nasser University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, who has headed ISRI since its founding, and created a unique organization in SCS, with its emphasis on research and education that relates directly to government and industrial practice.

The Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05) and the Seventeenth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (IAAI-05) will be held July 9-13, in Pittsburgh.

Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) July 6-8, Pittsburgh, PA. This symposium will bring together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners in human computer interaction, security, and privacy.

Entertainment Technology Center Conjures Up Benjamin Franklin's Ghost! People who wish to have a chat with Franklin's ghost will use a synthetic Interview invented by Scott Stevens, senior systems scientist HCII, and Michael Christel, senior systems scientist CSD. Press release

New Graduate Fellowships: Congratulations to David Gradley (MS/RI) and Matthew Wachs (PhD CS), who have been awarded National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowships!

SCS Interview Series: Meet Anastassia Ailamaki, assistant professor CSD, and Co-Founder of the Databases Group. Read about her Greek background, her passion for databases and teaching, her experience as a faculty member in SCS, and much more!! Full interview

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

Hat Problems!!... the LATEST PUZZLE to tickle the grey cells. . . Also, check out the previous puzzles and their solutions, including solution to puzzle 14.

SCS Interviews Look Who's Talking!

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Vivisimo, a Carnegie Mellon spin-off, celebrated its new Pittsburgh based corporate headquarters with a grand opening attended by Mayor Tom Murphy, Honorary French Consul Jean-Pierre Collet, Innovation Works CEO Rich Lunak, President Jared Cohon and other national, state and local dignitaries. Vivisimo creates innovative software to search and cluster the world's information. Vivisimo's CEO and Co-founder, Raul Valdes-Perez, is Adjunct Faculty, and former Senior Research Scientist, in CSD. Read more.

Principles of Robot Motion, a new textbook written by a team headed by Associate Professor of Robotics Howie Choset, was recently published by MIT Press. Press release

You can now request copies of the Women@SCS Computer Science Brochures. Contact: cfrieze AT cs.cmu.edu and indicate the level -- middle/HS level or college level brochure. You can also download a copy of the Computer Science poster which displays many of the diverse and exciting areas of Computer Science. Small version of poster

Fall 2004/Spring 2005 Distinguished Lecture Series
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ML Seminar
Alex Rojas , ML Masters Student
Conditional Density Estimation using Finite Mixture Models with an Application to Astrophysics, Abstract
Wednesday, July 6, 12:00 p.m.- 1:00 p.m., WeH 4623

Intel Research Pittsburgh Seminar
Ian Smith , Senior Researcher, Intel Research Seattle
Issues in Social Mobile Computing, Abstract
Wednesday, July 6, 10:30 a.m., 4720 Forbes Avenue, Suite 410 (CIC Building)

Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center Seminar
Dr. Tiffany Barnes, Dept. of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Technology in education: Data mining, distance education, and gaming to learn
Thursday, July 7, 3:00p.m-4:00p.m, NSH 1507

SEI Information Seminar
Bernard Cohen, Professor of Computing, Dept. of Computer Science, School of Informatics, City University, London
Triply Articulated Modeling in Complex Systems, Abstract
Thursday, July 7, 3:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m. , Jordan Auditorium Software Engineering Institute

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