University Unveils Plans for New Gates Center for Computer Science! Initial designs for the new Gates Center were introduced to the university community last week, revealing not one but two contemporary structures that will make up the new home for the School of Computer Science (SCS). Read more

Colloquium on Computer Science Pedagogy presents Andrew B. Williams, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Spelman College. Talk title: C.A.R.E.: Broadening Computer and Robotics Education and Participation for Women and HBCUs. Abstract Thursday, April 13, at noon in Newell-Simon Hall 1507

Special Industrial Presentation: Richard Rashid, Senior Vice President, Microsoft Research, Microsoft Corporation. Talk title: Betting on the Future, Wednesday, April 19, 1:00 p.m.- 2:30 p.m. NSH 3305. Host: Jeannette Wing, Professor and Department Head, CSD. All faculty, students, and staff are invited. Talk abstract.

CALD Renamed Machine Learning Department. The center, first established in 1997, thus becomes the nation’s first department of machine learning. Tom Mitchell, the center’s founding director, is the first head of the department. News release

Gil Taran and Mel Rosso-Llopart, faculty members in the Institute of Software Research International, traveled to Kazakhstan over spring break to conduct the first software engineering seminars there by a leading U.S. school. The visit was arranged by a Carnegie Mellon alum, Kanat Abirov (MSE ’04), who works in the IT department of the country’s leading bank, Kazakh Commerce Bank. Read more

Congratulations to Dave Culyba and Adam Wierman co-winners of this year's Carnegie Mellon Graduate Student Teaching Award. Read more

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50 Years of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon! Join us for the CS50 Anniversary Celebration & Alumni Reunion Weekend April 19-22, 2006

From the Alumni office: check out our Alumni Profiles page including Anita Jones, (left), J. Renato Iturriaga, Aparna Jaiya, Ian Davis and Steve Minton.

The Puzzle TOAD brings you ... Homework Scores...the latest puzzle to tickle the grey cells. . . Also, check out the previous puzzles and their solutions, including solution to puzzle 18: Spiders and a Fly.

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

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The Google Research Awards program recently granted $50,000 to fund a NEW 2006 Summer Workshop for CS High School Teachers: CS4HS -- Explorations in Computer Science, Friday, July 21 - Monday, July 24. The workshop will provide teaching modules showing that computer science is a broad and varied field. Online Registration now available!

EMC2 Workshop on Hardware and Software Verification Please join us in celebrating and honoring our colleague, teacher, advisor and friend, Edmund M. Clarke, Jr. on the occasion of his 60th birthday. A one-day workshop, April 22nd, will provide focus on his career-long fascination with, and multiple contributions to, model checking and automatic verification of computer hardware and software. Workshop information

Attention undergraduates! Check out the undergrad student site run by and for undergrads in csd.

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 2005/Spring 2006 Distinguished Lecture Series
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VASC Seminar
Aleix M. Martinez
The Secret Life of Linear Methods: Why linear methods work, do not, Abstract
Monday, April 10, 4:00 p.m.- 5:30 p.m. , NSH 3305

CyLab Seminar
Chas DiFatta , Chair, Middleware Diagnostics Advisory Group
The Case for Comprehensive Diagnostics, Abstract
Monday, April 11, 12:15 p.m., Distributed Education Center (DEC), Lobby Level Collaborative Innovation Center

HCII Seminar Series
Daniel Gloyd, Founder and Manager, Samsung's User Interface Group at the LA Design Lab
Abstract
Wednesday, April 12, 4:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m. , NSH 1305

ML Seminar
Katherine A. Heller , Research Student, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit
A Bayesian Approach to Information Retrieval Using Sets of Items, Abstract
Wednesday, April 12, 3:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m. , NSH 1305

Mobot: The $99 Mini Challenge and Clinic
Thursday, April 13, 12:30 p.m.- 2:00 p.m. , Race Course in Front of Wean Hall

Emigration Seminar
Anastassia Ailamaki, Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University
The Two-Body Problem
Thursday, April 13, 1:30 p.m., WeH 4625

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