FRONT PAGE ARCHIVE 2006
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2006
December 1st 5th 8th 14th		DAN! Four Decades of Innovation! A Symposium Honoring the remarkable accomplishments of Professor Dan Siewiorek (Director, HCII) on the occasion of his 60th Birthday will be held on Monday, Dec. 4, in the Singleton Room (Roberts Engineering Hall). Details
November 6th 14th 17th 20th 30th		Ananda Gunawardena (Guna), Associate Teaching Professor in CSD, has been awarded a Sri Lanka Foundation's 2006 exceptional achievement award.
October 8th 9th 13th 16th 20th 25th		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.
September 14th 22nd 29th		Congratulations to 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.”
August 1st 4th 14th 22nd 30th		V-Unit research project, designs, implements, and tests an adaptive Braille writing tutor for the Mathru School for the Blind in Bangalore, India. More information
July 3rd 12th 17th		Congratulations to our amazing teams on their performance in the RoboCup 2006 World Championship headed by CSD Professor Manuela Veloso!
June 5th 9th 12th 19th 27th		Coming soon! Tesla Dedication in the Robotics Institute. Jeffrey Sellon, P.E., a Tesla expert, will give a talk and answer questions after the dedication. Join us on Tuesday, June 20th, to learn about this exemplar scientist! Abstract
May 5th		2006 Inductees Into Robot Hall of Fame® Five robots will be inducted into Carnegie Mellon's Robot Hall of Fame® during a ceremony this June. News release
April 5th 7th 13rd 18th 20th 24th		50 Years of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon! Join us for the CS50 Anniversary Celebration & Alumni Reunion Weekend April 19-22, 2006
March 4th 7th 9th 15th 27th 29th		Carnegie Mellon University and Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) will announce a groundbreaking collaboration that can revolutionize how computer programming is taught in the U.S. With input from EA, Carnegie Mellon’s popular Alice programming software, currently used at 100 high schools and universities in the U.S., will reach new levels of visual excitement and usability. News release
February 3rd 10th 17th 20th 24th		Manuel Blum, Bruce Nelson Professor of Computer Science, and Pradeep Khosla, Dean of CIT, Dowd Professor of Engineering, and faculty member in the Robotics Institute, have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). For more on Professors Blum and Kosla read SCS Press release and Carnegie Mellon Press release
January 6th 13th 21th 25th		Andrew Moore, Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, has been named to head Google's new office in Pittsburgh! Read more

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