Congratulations to our amazing teams on their performance in the RoboCup 2006 World Championship headed by CSD Professor Manuela Veloso!
CMDragons'06 small-size robot soccer team won the World Championship! Team: James Bruce (CS PhD student), Michael Licitra (research engineer), and Stefan Zickler (CS PhD student). CMDragons'06 scored a total of 53 goals and suffered 3 in the total of 6 games.
CMAssist'06, led by Paul Rybski (systems scientist RI), with Jeremy Stolarz (MSc RI student) and Kevin Yoon (MSc RI student) came in second place in the new RoboCup@Home event.
CMCast team of two bipedal robots successfully commentated multiple AIBO games. Team: PhD CS students Sonia Chernova, Colin McMillen, Douglas Vail, and Elisabeth Crawford, and RI PhD students Nick Armstrong-Crews and Maayan Roth. News release

Carnegie Mellon To Launch Center for Innovative Robotics. Initiative Seeks To Expand Robotics Community and Lower Development Costs With Gift From Microsoft News release

SCS vision researchers dominated the award ceremony at the recent 2006 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR06), a major international conference in the field of computer vision.
Henry Rowley, Shumeet Baluja, and Takeo Kanade received the Longuet-Higgins prize for "a contribution that has stood the test of time." (Henry and Shumeet were CSD Ph.D. students).
Derek Hoiem (RI Ph.D. student), Alexei Efros, and Martial Hebert received the best paper award.

CSD Professors Robert Harper, and Peter Lee, along with former students David Tarditi, Greg Morrisett, Perry Cheng, and Christopher Stone, received the 2006 Most Influential PLDI Paper award for their 1996 PLDI paper. PLDI (Programming Language Design and Implementation) is one of the two most prestigious conferences in programming languages.

Tesla Dedication in the Robotics Institute. Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) was possibly the greatest discoverer the world has known since Leonardo da Vinci, and yet one of the least recognized scientific discoverers in history. Presentation: Jeffrey Sellon, P.E., a Tesla expert, gave a talk after the dedication. News release

SCS Interview Series Look Who's Talking! Richard Pattis, Associate Teaching Professor CSD, talks about life as the new freshman advisor, writing Karel the Robot, his life as an undergraduate at Carnegie Mellon in the 1970's, and much more.... Read full interview by CSD undergraduates: Sana Yousuf and Renee Nicole Rivas

2006 Inductees Into Robot Hall of Fame® Five robots, ranging from an iconic female humanoid in a classic silent film to a ubiquitous industrial robot that helped make electronics inexpensive and commonplace, were recently inducted into Carnegie Mellon's Robot Hall of Fame® during a ceremony this June. News release Read review from PCmag.com.

Gates Center Information and Blog Check out and discuss the design for the new Gates Center for Computer Science. The Gates Center will be located in the Valley between the Purnell Center, Cyert Hall, Doherty Hall and Newell Simon Hall. Watch building developments through the Gates Webcam!

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.

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Silicon Valley Buzz from West Coast Campus

SCS Faculty Positions Available

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Lenore Blum, Professor CSD, and Carol Frieze, Director of Women@SCS, have "The Last Word" in latest edition of Carnegie Mellon Today.

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 exciting field. CS4HS is funded in part by a Google research award. Online Registration now available!

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

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19th Annual Conference on Learning Theory (COLT)
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June 22 to 25

23rd International Conference on Machine Learning
June 25-29

Watch out for PITTSBURGH GENIUS TV series which debuts July 3 at 7PM on Pittsburgh Community Television 21 (Comcast Cable Channel 21) The first episode features Professor Howie Choset of the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute who demonstrates his research on robotic snakes.

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