Seth Goldstein, Associate Professor CSD, will co-present a class, lab and demonstrations of claytronics, the technology underlying Intel's work in Dynamic Physical Rendering (DPR), at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco, Sept. 26-28. News release

Officials from Sandia National Laboratories joined SCS Dean Randal E. Bryant to name Boris Sofman,graduate student in the Robotics Institute, as the first Sandia National Laboratories/Carnegie Mellon University Excellence in Computing Fellow. News release

Manuela Veloso, professor CSD, is spending her sabbatical year as one of 50 fellows at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Veloso was selected from a pool of more than 700 applicants for the highly competitive fellowship program, now in its sixth year. News release

Latanya Sweeney, associate professor CSD, technology and policy, will be inducted this fall as a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics. Sweeney, director and founder of the Data Privacy Lab, will be one of the few fellows who is not affiliated with a medical center or with a university that has a medical school. News release

Luis Von Ahn, Assistant Professor CSD, named a 2006 MacArthur Fellow for his work “at the intersection of cryptography, artificial intelligence and natural intelligence to address problems of profound theoretical and practical importance.” Carnegie Mellon news release and SCS news release.

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Congratulations to our 5 graduate Siebel Scholars! Michael Dille (MS - CSD), Michael Heilman (MS - LTI), Lucia de Lascurain Hinojosa (MS - MSE), Pradeepkumar Ravikumar (PhD - MLD), Adam Wierman (PhD - CSD). The Siebel Scholars program was established to recognize the most talented students at the world's leading graduate schools of business and computer science. Also see previous SCS Siebel Scholars.

Congratulations to our 4 Boeing Leadership Scholars for 2006/2007!!: Danielle Kramer, Sophomore, Benjamin Lofton, Sophomore, Kwasi Mensah, Junior, Allison Naaktgeboren, Junior. The award recognizes student initiative, leadership, quality, teamwork and academic commitment --- all of which are Boeing values. Also see previous SCS Boeing Scholarship awardees.

SCS Interview Series: Look Who's Talking! Meet professors, students and alumni from the School of Computer Science. Interviews by CSD undergraduates: Sana Yousuf and Renee Nicole Rivas.

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 ...Democracy...the latest puzzle to tickle the grey cells. . . Also, check out the previous puzzles and their solutions, including solution to puzzle 19: Homework Scores.

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

SCS Interview Series Look Who's Talking!

Silicon Valley Buzz from West Coast Campus

SCS Faculty Positions Available

**SCS Graduate Online Application Now Available**

NEW ******* Staff Recognition Awards ******** NEW
SCS Staff Recognition Awards are back. See nominatation guildelines to find out how to nominate someone you feel deserves an award for their work. Awards page

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
Distinguished Lecture Series Archive

Graphics Seminar
Jovan Popovic, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and CSAIL, MIT
Semantic Models of Shape, Abstract
Tuesday, Sept. 26, 1:00 p.m., NSH 1507

HCII Seminar Series
Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Carnegie Group Professor of Computer Science
Interctive Data Exploration with Diamond, Abstract
Wednesday, Sept. 27, 4:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m. , NSH 1305

CALD Seminar
Fei-Fei Li, Assistant Professor
Unsupervised Learning of Human Action Categories Using Spatial-Temporal Words, Abstract
Thursday, Sept. 28, 1:30 p.m.- 3:00 p.m. , WeH 4623

ISRI Seminar
The PhD Program in Computation, Organizations & Society
Supriya Singh, Professor, Sociology of Communications
The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Australia
Placing the Social and Cross-Cultural at the Centre of Security Design, Abstract
Thursday, Sept. 28, 12:00 p.m., NSH 1305

Graphics Seminar
Jim Rehg, Georgia Institute of Technology
Projector-Guided Painting, Abstract
Thursday, Sept. 28, 3:30 p.m., NSH 1507

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