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CBS News’ "60 Minutes" featured a report by Lesley Stahl on "thought identification" experiments at Carnegie Mellon. Stahl interviewed Tom Mitchell, chair of the Machine Learning Department, and Marcel Just, professor of psychology.
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Olympus "Show and Tell 7": Wednesday, January 21, 3:30-5pm, Lecture Hall, in the Collaborative Innovation Center. Reception to follow in Perlis Atrium, Newell-Simon Hall.
Frank Pfenning, Professor, Computer Science Department, will begin serving as associate dean for SCS graduate programs, effective Jan. 1, 2009.
Take the "Muddy Boots" Photo Tour of the School of Computer Science new buildings!
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See Photos from this year's Undergraduate Research Poster Session!
Computer science undergraduates presented their research posters including the mid-year poster presentations of the seniors working on their research theses.
NEW PUZZLE! to tickle the grey cells...... The Puzzle Toad brings you Puzzle No. 26: "Coffee".
You can also check out the other puzzles and solutions!
Faculty Interview!:
Ryan O'Donnell Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department. Full interview
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The Times of London’s “Times Online” reports that their story on Carnegie Mellon University’s Gigapan Camera System was the most widely read among the top 50 technology stories they covered in 2008. The Gigapan Camera System was developed by Associate Robotics Professor Illah Nourbakhsh and Randy Sargent, a project scientist at Carnegie Mellon’s Silicon Valley Campus in collaboration with scientists at NASA’s Ames Research Center. News release
The Jan. 4 episode of CBS News’ “60 Minutes” featured a report by Lesley Stahl on “thought identification” experiments at Carnegie Mellon. Stahl interviewed Tom Mitchell, chair of the Machine Learning Department, and Marcel Just, professor of psychology, regarding their work to develop computer algorithms that can interpret brain scans produced by functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI. News release and Post-Gazette video
Join some three dozen educators from high schools,
colleges and universities around the country and abroad as they attend a
two-day workshop to learn how to use the beta version of Alice 3, the
innovative programming environment that teaches students programming with
Alice and Java software while having fun creating 3D animations, stories and
video games. New Release. Visit the Alice website.
New podcast! Jennifer Mankoff, Associate Professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, discusses how computer scientists can help reduce energy use and address global climate change. Stepgreen, a Web site being developed by Mankoff and her colleagues, is providing people with advice and motivation for reducing their carbon footprint. Podcast and more information 
Tom M. Mitchell, Fredkin Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and head of the School of Computer Science’s Machine Learning Department, is one of four Carnegie Mellon professors named this year as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. News release 
Randy Pausch Continues to Inspire! The January issue of Pittsburgh Magazine names Randy Pausch as the Pittsburgher of the Year, “He lived an extraordinary life, and in dying he inspired others on how to live,” the magazine said in explaining its choice. News release Randy was also named the “Most Inspiring Person of 2008,” according to the editors of Beliefnet.com, a religion and spirituality Web site. “Pausch was selected because of his huge, far-reaching impact and because even after his death he continues to inspire legions of viewers,” the editors explained. News release 
Mellon Foundation Honors Panda3D, Alice Software. Carnegie Mellon University has received a $50,000 Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration (MATC) for its role in developing Panda3D and Alice, two open-source software tools that provide significant benefits to higher education and, in particular, to the arts and humanities.
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Carnegie Mellon Students Take Top Honors at OOPSLA! Software engineering PhD students, advised by assistant professor Jonathan Aldrich, were big winners this fall at the International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA) in Nashville. News release
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University at Buffalo (UB), State University of New York, are collaborating on a five-year, $4.7 million effort to advance public transportation for people with disabilities by bringing together computer science technology and the principles of universal design. The center’s principal investigator and co-director is Aaron Steinfeld, a systems scientist at Robotics Institute. News release
Carnegie Mellon team wins the recent Morgan Stanley Coding Competition! Students from top technology schools were invited to test their programming and analytical skills against their classmates and other schools across the U.S. The Morgan Stanley Coding Contest challenged students to complete a complex, real-world-style programming task in a strictly limited time. News Release
More than 1,000 area middle-school students demonstrated their problem-solving skills, creative thinking and teamwork as they pitted their customized robots against each other in the “Climate Connection” Challenge. The event is part of the FIRST LEGO League (FLL), an international program for 9- to 14-year-old children created in partnership between FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) and The LEGO Group. Read News Release and Post-Gazette article.