Bill Scherlis, professor ISRI, is the new Director of the Institute for Software Research International (ISRI)! Bill has been at Carnegie Mellon since 1980 (except for 6 years at DARPA) and has considerable experience in software engineering and programming language research, and in issues in government and public policy. Bill will be replacing Raj Reddy, Mozah Bint Nasser University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, who has headed ISRI since its founding, and created a unique organization in SCS, with its emphasis on research and education that relates directly to government and industrial practice.

Congratulations to Raj Reddy, Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, who has been awarded the 2005 Honda Prize by the Honda Foundation! The foundation, advocates "Eco-Technology," a concept of technology that does not pursue efficiency and profits alone, but is geared toward harmony with the environment surrounding human activities.

Jure Leskovec, Ph.D. Student CALD, wins "Best Research Paper Award" at KDD'05 (The Eleventh ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining) for his paper "Graphs over time: densification laws, shrinking diameters and possible explanations," co-authored with Jon Kleinberg and Christos Faloutsos.

Carnegie Mellon University and BAE Systems, which recently completed its acquisition of United Defense, will hold a public demonstration of Gladiator, the first tactical unmanned ground vehicle being developed for the U.S. Marine Corps. The demonstration will take place at 11 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 4, at the BAE Systems plant, located on U.S. Route 119 near Connellsville, Pa.

SCS Interview Series: Meet Anastassia Ailamaki, Assistant Professor CSD, and Co-Founder of the Databases Group. Read about her Greek background, her passion for databases and teaching, her experience as a faculty member in SCS, and much more!! Full interview

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Hat Problems!!... the LATEST PUZZLE to tickle the grey cells. . . Also, check out the previous puzzles and their solutions, including solution to puzzle 14.

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Vivisimo, a Carnegie Mellon spin-off, Celebrates Fifth Anniversary! Vivísimo was built on unique Web search technology developed by Carnegie Mellon University researchers. Vivisimo’s key products are meta-search engines that quickly and automatically group clusters of information gathered from the Web for more easy access and understanding. Vivisimo's CEO and Co-founder, Raul Valdes-Perez, is Adjunct Faculty, and former Senior Research Scientist, in CSD. News release

You can now request copies of the Women@SCS Computer Science Brochures. Contact: cfrieze AT cs.cmu.edu and indicate the level -- middle/HS level or college level brochure. You can also download a copy of the Computer Science poster which displays many of the diverse and exciting areas of Computer Science. Small version of poster

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