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FRONT PAGE ARCHIVE 2003
Front Page Archive 2002,
2003,
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2008
Tales of Technology
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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awards grant to SCS to
fund new Women@IT Program, a program that aims to increase the number
of women in the PhD programs. “We
are moving against trends in society that have resulted in a ‘shrinking
pipeline’ of women in IT fields,” said Professor
Lenore Blum. “We
believe our program can and will be a model for other institutions
across the country and help reverse this trend.” Press
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Carnegie Mellon inducts four Robots into newly established
Robot Hall of Fame."Our
goal is to create a permanent, interactive exhibition involving robots
that will educate and entertain a wide variety of audiences",
said James H. Morris, Dean of SCS, who conceived the Hall of Fame.
Press Release |
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 Hui
Zhang, Associate Professor, CSD, awarded a $7.5 million National
Science Foundation grant to design a new communications infrastructure.
The goal is to provide high-speed, broadband Internet access to virtually
every U.S. home. Press
Release and Post-Gazette
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 Dean
James Morris to Step Down in 2004 Dear friends: I've decided
to step down from being Dean at the end of my five-year term next
June and return to research, teaching, and some new things. I've
enjoyed my time as Dean and appreciate the work you have done to
make SCS a great place for all of us.
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Contract from DARPA to develop Project "RADAR":
Reflective Agents with Distributed Adaptive Reasoning. Researchers
at SCS have received an initial $7 million from the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
as part of a five-year project to develop a software-based cognitive
personal assistant that will help people improve their productivity
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 Associate
Professor Tuomas
Sandholm is the 2003 recipient of the Computers
and Thought Award, given every two years by the International
Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
to an outstanding young scientist working in the field of artificial
intelligence (AI). Press
Release |
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 Groundhog
Robot Displays Mettle in Mine Groundhog, the first of several
robots that the Robotics Institute has developed since August in response
to the Quecreek Mine accident, is tested in Mathies Mine.
Post-Gazette Article
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 May
18th, 2003, SCS
Graduation Day
The first-ever RoboCup
American Open. Researchers and their soccer playing robots competed
April 30 to May 4. Honda's ASIMO, the world's
most advanced humanoid robot, will also be performing.
Events Schedule and News
Release
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 April
saw the first ever SCS alumni reunion!
SCS Alumni
Reunion Weekend |
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 March
featured CSD Head Randy
Bryant elected to the National
Academy of Engineering for "contributions to symbolic simulation
and logic verification". |
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 February
8 was the first
SCS-Day: around 500 SCS faculty, staff and students turned out
for a packed program of workshops and entertainment to celebrate the
diversity of talent and people on SCS. |
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 January
saw the Dedication of the Michael
Mauldin Auditorium. |
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