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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 New Era in Support for Science Research
Two days ago, President Obama set the remarkably ambitious goal of spending 3% of the US gross domestic product on basic and applied science research. If achieved...
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Are There 20 Top-10 CS Departments?
I’m on board a Delta flight bound for Pittsburgh right now. My curiosity got the best of me and so I plunked down some money (too much, really) to try out the airline’s...
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CMU Places 12th in World, 3rd in North America, at ACM Programming Contest
The CMU team of Tom Conerly (CS sophomore), Celestine Lau (ECE senior), and Alan Pierce (CS sophomore) placed 12th overall, 3rd in North America, in the ACM International...
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A Bumper Crop of New PhD Students
This is CMU’s Spring Carnival weekend, the biggest annual student event of the year, traditionally the “real” homecoming for alumni. As a racing fan, I love watching...
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Dave Andersen
It is now well-known that power is a big problem for operating large data centers. Companies pay huge amounts of money for the energy to power and cool their server...
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SIGBOVIK Conference Approacheth
A quick special announcement of a conference being held on campus tomorrow: ACH SIGBOVIK 2009: April 5th, 1pm, Scaife 125 The Association for Computational Heresy...
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Travelogue: Reflections on the Future for Computing Researchers
OK, I admit it. During the past two weeks I got in a bit over my head, time-wise. But, I’ve gotten through it, and I’m feeling pretty satisfied with the results...
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Testifying on the NITRD Act
This morning I will be one of four witnesses testifying before the Committee on Science and Technology of the US House of Representatives. The purpose of the hearing...
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My Day at the Library of Congress
A contribution from Susan Graham, the Pehong Chen Professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley, and co-chair of the CCC Council: I
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The Mystic Arts of Emergency Informatics
Rescue Robots at the Cologne Germany Building Collapse I finished The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston just before the City Archives...
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What Makes a Top-10 CS Department?
I’ve just returned from a visit to KAIST, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, in Daejeon, South Korea. As far as “big government bets” go, KAIST...
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CMU Algorithm Enables Chain of 10 Kidney Transplants
Using an algorithm developed by a CMU computer science research team, a chain of 10 (and counting) kidney transplants has been made possible. The team consist of...
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CS Enrollments Are Up, According to Latest CRA Taulbee Report
The latest edition of the CRA Taulbee Report has just been released, and it confirms what we have been seeing in our CS application trends here at CMU and other...
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A Symposium on
Ed Lazowska and Peter Lee on November 4 proposed a brainstorming exercise to identify about a dozen game-changing advances in computing research over the past 20...
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A Transition
The Computing Research Association (CRA) is one of the most important advocacy organizations for computing research. It promotes the cause of computing research...
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Veloso Wins ACM SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award
The ACM SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award has been given to CMU Computer Science Professor Manuela Veloso. The award is given at the International Conference...
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Claytronics on Slashdot
The Claytronics Project has hit Slashdot (again) today. See the post by clicking here. Jason Campbell (Intel Research Pittsburgh) is quoted in the article, and...
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Is CS Enrollment on the Upswing?
We’ll have to wait for the new Taulbee Survey results to come out (any day now), but there are a few signs here and there that CS enrollments are on the upswing...
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