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Congratulations to our graduate stars!
From L to R: Dafna Shahaf and Chris Harrison received the 2010 Microsoft fellowships. Aruna Balakrishnan received the IBM PhD fellowship and the IBM Fran Allen fellowship. Read More |
Congratulations to our graduate stars!
Dafna Shahaf (Ph.D. student CSD) and Chris Harrison (Ph.D. student HCII) recipients of the highly competitive 2010 Microsoft fellowships! There were 176 nominations for these fellowships worldwide, and only 10 were granted!
Aruna Balakrishnan (Ph.D. student HCII) received the IBM PhD fellowship and the IBM Fran Allen fellowship given to just one of the IBM fellowship recipients each year.
Latest PUZZLE! to tickle the grey cells...... The Puzzle Toad brings you Puzzle No. 30: "Let there be light". You can also check out the other puzzles and solutions!
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Google Funds Three Carnegie Mellon Research ProjectsGoogle Inc. has announced the first-ever round of Google Focused Research Awards and Carnegie Mellon research teams received three of the 12 awards. Google has identified machine learning, privacy, use of mobile phones as data collection devices and energy efficient computing as four areas in which the company is deeply invested but where much remains to be studied. News Release
Entertainment Technology Center and Pitt Team Up To Create New Form of Interactive Theatre for KidsEntertainment Technology Center (ETC) and the University of Pittsburgh have teamed up in the Shakespeare-in-the-Schools (SITS) program to bring a new, interactive, touring theatre production titled “Darwin and the Kid” to area youth. News Release
Von Ahn To Receive 2010 Carnegie Science Center AwardLuis von Ahn, assistant professor of computer science, will receive the 2010 Carnegie Science Center Award for Information Technology and will be honored with other recipients at a May 7 ceremony at Carnegie Music Hall. News Release
Simons Postdoctoral FellowshipThe Simons Foundation has awarded Carnegie Mellon a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Theoretical Computer Science for the two-year period Fall 2010 through Summer 2012. Applicants must have received a PhD in the academic year immediately preceding the fellowship (i.e. 2009-2010). Postdoctoral Fellows will have opportunity to work with all members of the Algorithms and Complexity group at CMU.
Carnegie Mellon Releases Data on Haitian Creole To Hasten Development of Translation Tools In response to the humanitarian crisis in Haiti, scientists at Carnegie Mellon University’s Language Technologies Institute (LTI) have publicly released spoken and textual data they’ve compiled on Haitian Creole so that translation tools desperately needed by doctors, nurses and other relief workers on the earthquake-ravaged island can be rapidly developed. News Release
New day/time! Project Olympus Show and Tell!By popular demand, Project Olympus Show and Tell is back! --with a whole new cast, in a whole new place, at a whole new time: Wed, Feb 24th, 5:00-6:30 pm, Rashid Auditorium, Hillman Center for Next Generation Technologies, Reception Following @ 7th floor Atrium, Gates Center. Registration is advised and requested. More Information and Registration
Peter A. Steenkiste Elected IEEE Fellow The Board of Directors of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE), announced that effective 1 January 2010, Peter A. Steenkiste, professor CS and ECE, was elected an IEEE Fellow, with the accompanying citation: "for contributions to optimization and monitoring techniques for distributed communication systems". Congratulations Peter! News brief