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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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A Transition
I’m writing today from Boston, having just wrapped up a week at the annual DARPA ISAT retreat at Woods Hole. It was really an exciting week, with lot of people...
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At last: *Useful* social networking
For the past two weeks I’ve had meetings in Washington DC. For various reasons, I decided to drive instead of fly. Well, on my Monday drive down to DC, I was nabbed...
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Carlos Guestrin Wins Presidential Early Career Award
Carlos Guestrin has just been given the highest honor bestowed by the US government for early-career scientists and engineers, the Presidential Early Career Award...
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Watch Luis von Ahn on Nova scienceNow
PBS has posted the video from its Nova ScienceNow segment on Luis von Ahn.
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Claytronics, Cars, and Princess Leia?
Like any research project at CMU Computer Science, the CMU-Intel Claytronics Project publishes lots of papers in research conferences and journals. The project...
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Luis von Ahn on PBS Nova scienceNow
The PBS show Nova scienceNow will have a feature on Luis von Ahn. The show will air for the first time tonight (9pm on WQED here in Pittsburgh). A preview of the...
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CIFellows Application Stats Posted
I’ve been pretty busy for the past couple of months, in part because of my involvement as the PI for the CCC’s Computing Innovation Fellows Project. The response...
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CIFellows Status Report
Less than six weeks ago we launched the Computing Innovation Fellows Project.
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Star Trek Tech
How much of the technology in Star Trek could become real some day? This was the question posed to a group of faculty members here at Carnegie Mellon Computer Science...
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Nico Habermann Wins ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award
The newly established ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award recognizes an educator who has “made significant contributions to, and impact on, the field of software...
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Chairing the CRA
Today I attended a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association, my first as its Chair. In case you don’t know, the CRA does a lot to...
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CMU CS Department to Move to Gates and Hillman Centers on August 3
I’ve been feeling pretty guilty about being off the blog for the past month. I do have some excuses, though. Of course, there were the usual paper and proposal...
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Autographs on the Kindle
Last Sunday’s NY Times had an amusing article about people going to book-signings and asking authors to autograph their Kindle ebook readers. Well, gee, I guess...
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CMU Commencement 2009 Caught on GigaPan
This past weekend was incredibly busy, not only with the launch of the CIFellows Project, but also with a full slate of CMU commencement activities. Jeffrey Baker...
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CIFellows Program for New Computing PhDs is Launched
An important opportunity for new computing-related PhDs has just been announced by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC). To apply, go to http://cifellows.org...
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CCC, CRA Launch New
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) and the Computing Research Association (CRA), with funding from the National Science Foundation, are pleased to announce...
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Back from Qatar
In a week it will be commencement weekend at Carnegie Mellon. The ceremony will hold special interest for the School of Computer Science, since Google CEO Eric...
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Randy Pausch:
In his Last Lecture, Randy Pausch explained that one of his childhood dreams was to be Star Trek’s Captain James T. Kirk. Well, J.J. Abrams, the director of the...
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Venkat Guruswami to Join CMU Faculty
I am truly pleased to announce that Venkatesan Guruswami will be joining the faculty of the Carnegie Mellon Computer Science Department, effective July 1, 2009....
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