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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.
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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.
New Faculty Publication!
Tony Lattanze (Associate Teaching Professor, Institute for Software Research, SCS) just published his new software engineering book. "Architecting Software Intensive Systems: A Practitioners Guide" is available via the publisher and also is on Amazon.com
Take the "Muddy Boots" Photo Tour of the School of Computer Science new buildings!
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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 Association for Computing Machinery has recognized Tuomas Sandholm, professor of computer science, as one of 44 new ACM Fellows. Sandholm, director of the Agent-Mediated Electronic Marketplaces Laboratory, was cited for his contributions to combinatorial auctions and mechanism design. News release
Post-Gazette features Carnegie Mellon spinoff Carnegie Speech. The firm's software teaches non-native speakers clearer English. "People can learn a language at any age, but if a new language has a different writing system or more sounds than one's native language, learning the new language can be more difficult," said Dr. Maxine Eskenazi, Systems Scientist at the Language Technologies Institute, and inventor of the NativeAccent pinpointing technology and Carnegie Speech's chief technical officer.
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A Carnegie Mellon team of experts in computational biology and machine learning is among four finalists in the inaugural Elsevier Grand Challenge on Knowledge Enhancement in the Life Sciences, a contest designed to encourage development of tools dealing with the ever increasing amount of online life sciences information.
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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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